Kirby (SSB)/Forward aerial

Overview

Hitboxes of Kirby's fair.

Kirby uses his two feet to drill forward for 8 hits, doing 2% damage per kick and 6% damage on the 8th hit for a total of 20% damage. It's a viable edgeguarding move with decent knockback (though back aerial and down aerial are better), and can combo well, as well as being a quick and easy-to-use damage racker due to the large amount of hits. However, like other drills, the move can be DI'd out of. While it can be DI'd out however, a Kirby can trick his opponent by only using the first 2/3 hits, allowing easy combos to forward smash and up tilt (such as up tilt x2 weak forward air, up tilt, weak forward air, f-smash vs. Falcon at 0, a combo seen in multiple training mode combo videos). This is however difficult to do. Some of the moves that can go with this move include a forward smash, an up tilt, and a down aerial.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			Clang	Effect	G	A	Sound
Hits 1-7 (loop)
0	0	2%	0		0	100	30	190	0	0	150	220					Kick
1	0	2%	0		0	100	30	180	0	0	150	100					Kick
Hit 8
0	0	6%	0		10	120	0	190	0	0	150	220					Kick
1	0	6%	0		10	120	0	180	0	0	150	100					Kick
Landing hit
0	0	3%	0		0	100	80	150	0	0	150	220					Kick
1	0	3%	0		0	100	80	135	0	0	150	100					Kick

Timing

Initial autocancel	1-7
Hits	8-9, 11-12, 14-15, 17-18, 20-21, 23-24, 26-27, 28
Ending autocancel	29-
Animation length	39

Landing lag

Hitbox	1-3
Animation length	30
L-cancelled animation length	4

Normal

L-cancelled

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Autocancel

Kirby'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 · Forward throw · Back throw
Forward roll · Back roll · Techs
Floor attack (front) · Floor getups (front) · Floor attack (back) · Floor getups (back)
Edge attack (fast) · Edge getups (fast) · Edge attack (slow) · Edge getups (slow)
Neutral special · Up special · Down special