Palutena (SSBU)/Neutral aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Palutena's neutral aerial.

Overview

Palutena (Nairo) performing three neutral aerials and a back aerial on Chrom (Shoyo James).

Also known as Omnidirectional Circle (四方の環), Palutena telekinetically spins her staff while it is adjacent to her right arm. It has the lowest amount of startup lag in her moveset, coming out on frame 5.

Being one of her combo starters, it is notorious for its ability to effectively combo into itself and into other aerials, being capable of comboing into itself at low percentages until four times and its importance to Palutena's gameplan thanks to its low ending and landing lag, making it very spammable.

It also can easily set up as an edge-guard when fast fallen, and due to its high knockback scaling, it has enough knockback to KO middleweights at around 150% on the edge of Final Destination. All of these traits combined make it one of her best moves and is arguably one of the best moves in the game due to its effectiveness. Auto-cancels in a full hop.

Update History

2.0.0

• Reduced hitlag on neutral air, allowing it to execute faster.

7.0.0

• Neutral aerial's last hit deals less knockback (30 base/180 scaling → 35/155). While this slightly improves its combo potential at low percents, it more drastically hinders its KO potential at high percents.
• Neutral aerial's last hit has a smaller hitbox against aerial opponents (11.5u → 9.8u).
• Neutral aerial's penultimate hit inflicts 13 less frames of hitstun, worsening the move's drag-down setups and removing its infinites against certain opponents on platforms (such as Ridley).

Hitboxes

For the late multihits, the scripts only specify hitstun modifiers for the ID 0 and 1 hitboxes, but due to a glitch, they also apply to the ID 2 and 3 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	Hitstun
Multihits (early)
0	0	4	1.4%	1.0		Standard	0	100	0		4.2	stick	0.0	5.2	0.0	0.5×	0.3×	0%							Magic		All	All							—
1	0	4	1.4%	1.0		Standard	0	100	0		4.2	stick	0.0	-5.4	0.0	0.5×	0.3×	0%							Magic		All	All							—
2	0	4	1.4%	1.0		Standard	0	100	65		4.2	stick	0.0	5.2	0.0	0.5×	0.3×	0%							Magic		All	All							—
3	0	4	1.4%	1.0		Standard	0	100	80		4.2	stick	0.0	-5.4	0.0	0.5×	0.3×	0%							Magic		All	All							—
Multihits (mid)
0	0	4	1.4%	1.0		Standard	0	100	0		4.2	stick	0.0	5.2	0.0	0.5×	0.3×	0%							Magic		All	All							—
1	0	4	1.4%	1.0		Standard	0	100	0		4.2	stick	0.0	-5.4	0.0	0.5×	0.3×	0%							Magic		All	All							—
2	0	4	1.4%	1.0		Standard	0	100	65		4.2	stick	0.0	5.2	0.0	0.5×	0.3×	0%							Magic		All	All							—
3	0	4	1.4%	1.0		Standard	0	100	65		4.2	stick	0.0	-5.4	0.0	0.5×	0.3×	0%							Magic		All	All							—
Multihits (late)
0	0	4	1.4%	1.0		Standard	0	100	65		4.2	stick	0.0	5.2	0.0	0.5×	0.0×	0%							Magic		All	All							-13 frames
1	0	4	1.4%	1.0		Standard	0	100	65		4.2	stick	0.0	-5.4	0.0	0.5×	0.0×	0%							Magic		All	All							-13 frames
2	0	4	1.4%	1.0		Standard	0	100	65		4.2	stick	0.0	5.2	0.0	0.5×	0.3×	0%							Magic		All	All							—
3	0	4	1.4%	1.0		Standard	0	100	65		4.2	stick	0.0	-5.4	0.0	0.5×	0.3×	0%							Magic		All	All							—
Final hit
0	0	0	5.1%	3.0		Forward	35	155	0		9.8	stick	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.5×	1.0×	0%							Magic		All	All							—
1	0	0	5.1%	3.0		Forward	35	155	0		11.5	stick	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.5×	1.0×	0%							Magic		All	All							—

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-3
Multihits	5-6, 7-23, 24-27 (rehit rate: 4)
Final hit	29-30
Ending autocancel	40-
Interruptible	52
Animation length	64

Landing lag

Interruptible	13
Animation length	19

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Autocancel

Interruptible

Palutena'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