Piranha Plant (SSBU)/Down tilt

Hitbox visualization showing Piranha Plant's down tilt.

Overview

Piranha Plant performs a low leaf swipe, then retreats back into its pot/pipe. It is a decent combo starter due to its angle and low endlag, linking an instant dash attack at 0%, neutral or forward aerials at low percents, and just forward aerial at mid to even high percents on bigger characters. With incorrect DI, it can even potentially lead into an up aerial for a kill. However, the move falls short in numerous areas. Firstly, it is Piranha Plant's slowest tilt, at frame 9. Combined with its low range, it makes it somewhat risky to use in close-combat situations, as it could get out-framed. Secondly, its damage is quite low, doing at max 7% at its tip, doing less damage than its down throw, which links into the same aerials down tilt does, although down tilt has a significantly longer combo window and is much less susceptible to DI. It can also hit most ledge hangs with its tip, and for characters where the tip isn't required to hit, down tilt can combo into itself or have a wider percent-range into aerials. It is incapable of killing at realistic percents.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Rehit rate	Damage	SD	Angle	Angle type	BK	KS	FKV	Set weight	Radius	Bone	Offset			H×	SDI×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Effect	Type	G	A	Sound	Direct	Hit bits	Hit part	Blockable	Reflectable	Absorbable	Flinchless	No GFX	Heedless
0	0	0	6%	0		Standard	55	85	0		3.0	top	0.0	4.0	5.5	1.0×	1.0×	40%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	6%	0		Standard	55	85	0		3.0	top	0.0	3.4	9.5	1.0×	1.0×	40%							Slash		All	All
2	0	0	7%	0		Standard	55	85	0		3.0	top	0.0	2.8	13.0	1.0×	1.0×	40%							Slash		All	All
3	0	0	7%	0		Standard	28	85	0		3.0	top	0.0	2.0	17.0	1.0×	1.0×	40%							Slash		All	All

Timing

Hitboxes	9-10
Interruptible	29
Animation length	39

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Interruptible

Trivia

• Despite launching upwards, Piranha Plant's down tilt has a trip chance of 40%, which can never be achieved in-game.

Piranha Plant's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 3 · inf) · Forward tilt (1 · 2) · 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 · Footstooled attack
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash