Terry (SSBU)/Up smash

Hitbox visualization showing Terry's up smash.

Overview

Terry performs Wild Upper from the Fatal Fury series. The motion used is commonly seen from characters such as Ryu in many fighting games. The move is fairly strong, dealing high damage with a stronger late hit to better combat aerial opponents. Curiously, the early hit is only active for a single frame, designed to hit grounded opponents. Up smash has a fairly large, disjointed, forgiving hitbox, coupled with surprisingly long hitbox activity. This allows it to serve as a niche platform pressure option on some stages.

Up smash is quite odd, particularly with its smash attack charge hold frame being a single frame before the hitbox. Thanks to this, a Terry player can hold the charge and let the move loose instantly, on reaction. Prior to the move being released, Terry crouches quite low, giving him an excellent hurtbox shift to avoid hits. Overall, this gives Terry very strong anti-air game should the player anticipate a jump-in.

Being frame 10, up smash also serves as a fairly decent out of shield option. In this case, the early hit will often connect, which has slightly worse kill power. Regardless, it's still very strong and will KO at reasonable percentages. It's a bit overshadowed by Rising Tackle, however, which has frame 5 intangibility with a command input (which can be facilitated through shield tilting or COIL).

Despite its strengths, like all moves, up smash does have issues. It's a bit on the laggy side, typical of a smash attack, which makes it very punishable. Terry's arm also stays out for a bit longer than what would be desired, leaving him with a hurtbox extension that makes him easier to hit once the move is over. It also tends to just lose to disjointed aerials, such as Marth's forward aerial.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Rehit rate	Damage	SD	Angle type	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			H×	SDI×	T%	Sound	Hit bits	Hit part
Early hit
0	0	0	16.0%	0	Standard	32	89	0	5.0	top	0.0	12.0	8.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%	Terry Punch	All	All
Clean hit
0	0	0	18.0%	0	Standard	32	83	0	5.0	top	0.0	21.0	5.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%	Terry Punch	All	All