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Angling

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This article is about tilt and smash attack angling. For the shielding technique, see Shield angling.
Luigi using his forward smash in various angles.

Angling (officially known as shifting) is the ability for a character to alter the direction of a forward tilt or forward smash. For example, angling a punch attack up will generally cause the character to punch diagonally upwards instead of straight forward, while angling it down will tend to cause the character to punch diagonally downwards. Additionally, some attacks will deal slightly altered damage amounts when angled, with attacks typically dealing 1-2% more damage when angled up and 1% less damage when angled down. Starting in Super Smash Bros. 4 it became common for angled attacks to have no damage difference to the non-angled attacks, along with some angled attacks starting to deal more damage when angled down. On the whole, attacks can only be angled if they are a straight punch, kick, or similar strike; attacks that cover vertical ground (such as an overhead sword slash) have no purpose for angling.

Angling attacks downwards can aid in striking short or crouching characters such as Pikachu or Kirby in cases where the regular attack would miss just overhead, but most attacks deal slightly less damage when angled down as mentioned previously. Angling upwards is useful for intercepting aerial characters and often comes with the aforementioned slight damage bonus, but the aforementioned short characters will be even more able to avoid it. Angling can also help with edgeguarding; Ganondorf's and Falco's forward tilts in Super Smash Bros. Melee are prime examples of forward tilts that are more useful at guarding the area around the edge when angled down.

To angle a forward tilt, the player must hold the control stick diagonally up or down when inputting the tilt. Angling forward smashes works differently, and depends on the game. In Melee, angling smash attacks is somewhat difficult; the player has to hold the direction of the C-Stick or control stick at a precise angle between forward and diagonally while inputting the forward smash (which the GameCube controller's control sticks have no indentation for, making it even more difficult). Holding the sticks diagonally up or diagonally down inputs an up smash or down smash instead of an angled forward smash (unlike with tilts). From Super Smash Bros. Brawl onward, the player can angle forward smashes by holding up/down immediately after initiating it (or while charging the smash), making it significantly easier and simpler to do. Using the Wii Remote, it is impossible to angle a forward tilt upwards without an input earlier for the same reason as an up tilt (due to lack of a control stick); however, it is possible to execute a downwards forward tilt by crouching first and using a forward tilt while getting up.

Attacks that can be angled generally have three possible angles: up, side (or neutral), and down. In the original Super Smash Bros. and Melee, some attacks have up to 5 angles, though in Melee every mid-up or mid-down angle is nearly identical to another angle.

List of attacks that can be angled

Character Super Smash Bros. Super Smash Bros. Melee Super Smash Bros. Brawl Super Smash Bros. 4 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Tilt Smash Tilt Smash Tilt Smash Tilt Smash Tilt Smash
Banjo & Kazooie Yes No
Bayonetta No No No Yes
Bowser 3 Angles No Yes No Yes No Yes No
Bowser Jr. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Byleth No Yes
Captain Falcon 5 Angles 3 Angles 5 Angles 3 Angles Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Charizard No No Yes No Yes No
Corrin No Yes No Yes
Daisy No Yes[n 1]
Dark Samus Yes Yes
Diddy Kong Yes No Yes No Yes No
Donkey Kong 3 Angles 3 Angles 3 Angles No Yes No Yes No Yes No
Dr. Mario 3 Angles 3 Angles Yes Yes Yes Yes
Duck Hunt Yes No Yes No
Falco 5 Angles No Yes No Yes No Yes No
Fox 5 Angles No 5 Angles No Yes No Yes No Yes No
Ganondorf 5 Angles 3 Angles No Yes No Yes No No
Greninja Yes No Yes No
Ice Climbers 5 Angles No Yes No Yes No
Ike Yes No Yes No Yes No
Incineroar Yes No
Ivysaur No Yes No Yes
Jigglypuff 3 Angles No 3 Angles No Yes No Yes No Yes No
Joker Yes No
Kazuya[n 2] No[n 3] No
King K. Rool Yes Yes
Kirby 3 Angles No 3 Angles 3 Angles Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Little Mac No Yes[n 4] No Yes[n 4]
Lucario Yes No Yes No Yes No
Lucas Yes No Yes No Yes No
Lucina[n 5] No No No No
Luigi 3 Angles 5 Angles 3 Angles[n 6] 3 Angles Yes[n 7] Yes[n 8] Yes Yes Yes Yes
Mario 3 Angles 5 Angles 3 Angles[n 6] 3 Angles Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Marth[n 5] No No No No No No No No
Mewtwo Yes No Yes No Yes Yes
Mii Brawler Yes Yes Yes Yes
Min Min[n 9] Yes Yes
Ness 3 Angles No 5 Angles No Yes No Yes No Yes No
Pac-Man Yes No Yes No
Peach No No No No No No No Yes[n 1]
Pikachu 3 Angles No 3 Angles No Yes No Yes No Yes No
R.O.B. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Richter[n 10] No Yes
Ridley Yes No
Rosalina No Yes No Yes
Samus 5 Angles 5 Angles 5 Angles 5 Angles Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sephiroth Yes No
Shulk No Yes No Yes
Simon[n 10] No Yes
Sonic No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Squirtle No Yes Yes Yes
Wario Yes No Yes No Yes No
Wolf Yes No Yes No
Yoshi 3 Angles 3 Angles 5 Angles 3 Angles Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Zelda 5 Angles No Yes No Yes No Yes No
Zero Suit Samus Yes No Yes No Yes Yes

Notes

  1. ^ a b In Ultimate, the weapon used for Peach and Daisy's forward smash depends on the angle. Angling forward (no angle) uses the golf club, which has longer reach; angling upward uses the frying pan, which deals more damage; and angling downward uses the tennis racket, which is a semi-spike.
  2. ^ While Kazuya has no angleable normals, he can angle his neutral special.
  3. ^ Scripts for angled versions of this tilt do exist in the game, but they are inaccessible due to Kazuya's command input tilts
  4. ^ a b Little Mac's forward smash becomes different types of attacks when angled. Angling forward (no angle) is a straight punch, angling up is an uppercut with more vertical knockback, and angling down is a body hook that deals low knockback but high damage and shield damage.
  5. ^ a b In Ultimate, Marth and Lucina can angle their neutral special; this also applies to Kirby when copying their neutral special.
  6. ^ a b In Melee, Mario and Luigi's forward tilts deal very weak set knockback at the Sakurai angle when angled down.
  7. ^ In Brawl, Luigi's forward tilt deals no knockback when angled down.
  8. ^ In Brawl, Luigi's forward smash has additional IASA frames when angled up, making it more difficult to punish. The move also does higher damage (and therefore knockback), making the move's already very strong knockback scaling especially immense.
  9. ^ Min Min can also angle her held jab, and her angleable attacks can also be angled when performed with the special button. However, Kirby cannot angle his neutral special when copying her.
  10. ^ a b Simon and Richter can angle their forward aerial and back aerial attacks as well.
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