Sheik (SSB4)/Forward aerial

Overview

Sheik leans forward and slashes in front of her. Her forward air is notably one of Sheik's most commonly used moves in high level play. It is very safe to use thanks to its great range, low starting, ending and landing lag (which is even lower when it auto-cancels). Due to all of these, it can can combo into itself multiple times, a neutral aerial, or Bouncing Fish to rack up damage and edgeguard offstage opponents. It deals more damage when hit with the sweetspot, dealing 5% instead of 4.3%.

Sheik's forward aerial had it's damage lowered in game updates. Patch 1.1.0 made it's sourspot override it's sweetspot. However, it's reduced damage allows it to combo into itself even better.

Timing

Attack

Hitboxes	5-7
Autocancel	1-4 , 11>
Animation length	34

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Autocancel

Sheik's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · inf) · Forward tilt · Up tilt · Down tilt · Dash attack · Forward smash · Up smash · Down smash
Neutral aerial · Forward aerial · Back aerial · Up aerial · Down aerial
Grab · Pummel · Forward throw · Back throw · Up throw · Down throw
Forward roll · Back roll · Spot dodge · Air dodge · Techs
Floor attack (front) · Floor getups (front) · Floor attack (back) · Floor getups (back) · Floor attack (trip) · Floor getups (trip)
Edge attack · Edge getups
Neutral special (def · c1 · c2) · Side special (def · c1 · c2) · Up special (def · c1 · c2) · Down special (def · c1 · c2) · Final Smash