Meta Knight (SSBB)/Down aerial

Overview

The hitbox of Meta Knight's dair

Meta Knight does a quick horizontal slash below him, doing 7%-9% damage and hits on frame 4. Like his up aerial, the move has transcendent priority, extremely little start-up lag but has a bit more ending lag but has very little regardless, making this move hard to punish. With its semi-spike trajectory and decent knockback, it is one of the best edgeguarding moves in the game. It does great against opponents with poor horizontal recovery like Ike and Link.

This move is very effective when used for air camping, being difficult for opponents to break through, and useful for spacing in conjunction with his forward aerial. There are ways to combat this though, such as Pikachu's up aerial.

Overall, an excellent move that is reliable and not difficult to use in Meta Knight's metagame.

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Hitboxes

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			SDIx	H×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Type	Effect	G	A	Sound	Direct
0	0	7%	0		30	105	0	9.0E-5	0	0.0	-0.00010666666666667	-6.6666666666667E-5	1.0x	1.0x	0%
1	0	7%	0		30	105	0	8.6666666666667E-5	0	0.0	-0.00010666666666667	6.6666666666667E-5	1.0x	1.0x	0%
2	0	9%	0		15	105	0	9.0E-5	0	0.0	-5.6666666666667E-5	-0.00016666666666667	1.0x	1.0x	0%
3	0	9%	0		15	105	0	9.0E-5	0	0.0	-5.6666666666667E-5	0.00016666666666667	1.0x	1.0x	0%

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-3
Hitboxes	4-5
Ending autocancel	24-
Animation length	25

Landing lag

Animation length	15

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Autocancel