Palutena (SSB4)/Up smash

Hitbox visualization showing Palutena's up smash.

Overview

After a small delay, Palutena uses her staff to conjure a huge, light blue beam of vaporizing light from the ground, firing it into the air. This attack has the highest vertical range of any non-projectile up smash in the game, let alone the entire series, as well as trascendent priority, but its horizontal range is low to compensate, requiring the opponent to be on the beam's range to actually get hit, and its vertical range is limited to the beam's whitest part. It also has fairly high ending lag, though it is her smash attack with the least ending lag.

This attack has three hitboxes: one at the base, another one at the middle, and a last one at the tip, which is the smallest hitbox. The lower the hitbox, the stronger it is; it is very powerful when sweetspotted at the base, KOing at 102%. It is useful for edgeguarding due to its range, and works very well after ledge trumping the opponent.

This attack originates from Kid Icarus: Uprising, where one of her strongest attacks is what she calls the "Glam Blaster", a tall, giant beam of vaporizing light with the power to disintegrate anyone on contact.

Update history

1.0.4

• Its hitboxes last for 3 more frames: 18-23 → 18-26.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Rehit rate	Damage	SD	Angle		BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			SDIx	H×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Type	Effect	G	A	Sound	Direct	Hit bits	Blockable	Reflectable	Absorbable	Piercing	Heedless	No GFX	Flinchless	Stretch
0	0	0	16%	0		Forwards	53	84	0	4.5	0	0.0	20.0	9.7	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Magic		63								0.0	4.0	9.7
1	0	0	12%	0		Forwards	55	85	0	2.5	0	0.0	48.0	9.7	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Magic		63								0.0	4.0	9.7
2	0	0	9%	0		Forwards	55	87	0	2.5	0	0.0	65.0	9.7	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Magic		63								0.0	4.0	9.7

Timing

Charges between	12-13
Hitboxes	18-26
Interruptible	68
Animation length	74

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Charge interval

Hitbox

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 (def · c1 · c2) · Side special (def · c1 · c2) · Up special (def · c1 · c2) · Down special (def · c1 · c2) · Final Smash