Ike (SSBU)/Neutral aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Ike's neutral aerial.

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Overview

Ike does a downward arcing slash underneath himself.

For ike standards, this move is decently quick (frame 10) whit the move covering both sides whit a big hitbox (so big that they nerfed the hitboxes of the late hit in patch 8.0.0) but probably the biggest streinght of the move is his low landing lag (only 9 frames) this gives the move a lot of combo potential (especialy on platforms) while also leading into kill comfirms like neutral aerial into up aerial, back aerial or up special.

However this move has a few minor flaws, while it's fast for Ike standards, it's also slow for neutral aerial standards, this means that the move is not a very good out of shield option, also while the move has low landing lag, it also has high endlag (60 total frames) making it close to useless rising.

In patch 8.0.0 this move was nerfed, i already said the fact that they made the hitboxes of the late hit smaller, but his knockback was also increased, meaning it's not as good for combos (but still solid) this was more of a trade of though, because this gives it back some of his smash 4 kill power.

Overall, this is a great move, while not one of the best neutral aerials in the game, it's still in contention for ike's best move

Update History

8.0.0

• The move has much more knockback scaling (105 → 130). This removes its previous KO setups, but restores most of its standalone KO power from Smash 4.
• The late hit has smaller hitboxes (4u → 3u).

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
Clean hit
0	0	0	7.5%	0		Standard	35	130	0		4.0	sword	0.0	10.2	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Ike Hit		All	All
1	0	0	7.5%	0		Standard	35	130	0		4.0	sword	0.0	7.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Ike Hit		All	All
2	0	0	7.5%	0		Standard	35	130	0		4.0	sword	0.0	5.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Ike Hit		All	All
Late hit
0	0	0	6.0%	0		Standard	35	130	0		3.0	sword	0.0	10.2	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Ike Hit		All	All
1	0	0	6.0%	0		Standard	35	130	0		3.0	sword	0.0	7.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Ike Hit		All	All
2	0	0	6.0%	0		Standard	35	130	0		3.0	sword	0.0	5.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Ike Hit		All	All

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-2
Clean hit	10-14
Late hit	15-22
Ending autocancel	50-
Interruptible	60
Animation length	68

Landing lag

Interruptible	9
Animation length	26

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Autocancel

Interruptible

Ike'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 · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash