Zelda (SSBU)/Pummel

Hitbox visualization showing Zelda's pummel.

Overview

While levitating the opponent, Zelda clenches her fist to inflict a pulse of weak magic. It is a fast attack that can be used repeatedly on grabbed opponents. Each pummel will inflict small damage and occupy a spot in the staleness queue, improving the KO potential of other moves, but at the risk of giving the opponent more time to mash out of the grab before a throw is performed. The higher the opponent's percent, the more mashing it will require for them to escape the grab. Among all pummels, Zelda's is rather average in damage.

All of Zelda's throws have slow startup and distinct animations and are thus reactable. Therefore, forgoing pummels and throwing immediately for a DI mixup is generally ineffective. For the most part, maximizing the number of safe pummels before a throw is preferred, and can make the difference in Zelda's throws (namely back throw and up throw) KOing. For down throw specifically, however, pummeling can be detrimental around mid percents. The pummels' cumulative damage and their strengthening of down throw if it was stale can prevent it from KO confirming into a Lightning Kick.

Since Zelda can combine her throws into Phantom Slash for combos, pummel also serves as a way to stall and adjust the timing properly (namely for forward throw, which has high KO potential with Phantom, but requires a specific timing).

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	1.3%	0		Forward	0	100	30		5.0	top	0.0	11.0	8.0	2.1×	1.0×	0%							Magic		All	All

Timing

Hitbox	2
Interruptible	8
Animation length	24

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Interruptible

Zelda's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 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 · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash