Dr. Mario (SSB4)/Forward aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Dr. Mario's forward aerial.

Overview

Dr. Mario readies a fist, then brings it down. Unlike Mario's forward aerial, this one trades a meteor for a strong horizontally launching hitbox, and is one of his most potent kill moves. While slow with a fair amount of landing lag, the high power makes it quite useful. The early and late hits of the move are considerably weaker than the mid hit, however, so precision is necessary for maximum effectiveness. Some of Dr. Mario's moves, such as down tilt and most notably down throw can combo into this move as a kill confirm. The move also performs well in edgeguarding, as while it does not send the opponent downwards, it is made up for by its very strong kill power, making it almost equally as effective. However, due to his poor recovery, using forward aerial at even small depths can result in an SD, due to the high amount of endlag the move has.

Update history

1.0.4

• Forward aerial has increased knockback scaling: 85 (early/late)/95 (clean) → 95/102.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			SDIx	H×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Type	Effect	G	A	Sound	Direct
Early hit
0	0	10%	0		30	95	0	3.0	22	3.2	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Kick
Clean hit
0	0	15%	0		30	102	0	4.0	21	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Kick
1	0	15%	0		30	102	0	4.6	22	3.2	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Kick
Late hit
0	0	9%	0		20	95	0	4.0	21	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Kick
1	0	9%	0		20	95	0	4.0	22	3.2	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Kick
The damage values are untouched before being affected by Dr. Mario's 1.12x damage multiplier.

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-2
Early hit	16
Clean hit	17-20
Late hit	21
Ending autocancel	43-
Interruptible	60
Animation length	74

Landing lag

Animation length	28

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Autocancel

Interruptible

Dr. Mario's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 3) · 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