Captain Falcon (SSBU)/Forward aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Captain Falcon's forward aerial.

Overview

Captain Falcon performs the infamous Knee Smash. While the sweetspot only lasts one frame, it's immensely powerful when it hits. Because of its sheer power, it deals high shield damage, makes a great edgeguarding tool, combo finisher, and punishes airdodges if the player reads it correctly or whiffed aerial moves. The move can be comboed into from the first hit of his neutral aerial, his up aerial, and down aerial. The sourspot also has a purpose in edgeguards because of its sex kick properties. The sourspot can also be used to start tech chases due to its semi-spike angle. Outside of its one frame sweetspot, the move is not without its drawbacks. The move has high endlag, however this is remedied by the moves high shield-stun. Similar to other of Captain Falcon's moves, it has a rather small hitbox without any meaningful disjoint.

Update History

3.1.0

• The sweetspot is larger (3.0u → 3.75u).

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	22.0%	0		Forward	30	81	0		3.75	legl	4.4	-0.2 to 0.3	-1.0	1.2×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
1	0	0	6.0%	0		Forward	35	80	0		3.0	top	0.0	6.0	0.0	1.2×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
Late hit
0	0	0	3.0%	0		Forward	35	80	0		4.7	legl	4.4	-0.2	-1.0	1.0×	1.0×	20%							Kick		All	All
1	0	0	3.0%	0		Forward	35	80	0		3.0	top	0.0	6.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	20%							Kick		All	All

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-4
Clean hit	14
Late hit	15-30
Ending autocancel	42-
Interruptible	46
Animation length	59

Landing lag

Interruptible	19
Animation length	29

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Autocancel

Interruptible

Trivia

The move has Special Zoom parameters defined for a sweetspotted hit, in a similar vein to Falcon Punch. However, the Special Zoom is never applied in-game, so the data goes unused. The parameters correspond to the following:

Parameter	Forward aerial	Falcon Punch
Duration	50 frames	40 frames
Slowdown magnitude	3	2
Zoom rate	3.5	4.5
Time before zoom	3 frames
Camera offsets	[8, -1.5]	[0, 0]
Background duration (non-1v1)	30 frames

Captain Falcon's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 3 · inf) · 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