Piranha Plant (SSBU)/Forward tilt/Hit 1

Hitbox visualization showing Piranha Plant's first hit of forward tilt.

Overview

Piranha Plant delivers a bite forwards. It comes out on frame 7, and its main purpose is to link into the second hit. It has very low (but not set) knockback and 2 frames of teeth intangibility during the active frames, giving it minor disjoint. It possesses less endlag over the second hit, and thus is safer on shield. However, it falls short due to jab having better frame data and reward over forward tilt, as well as forward tilt being somewhat unreliable as the first hit can fail to connect into the second. It does however serve as a great mix up tool on shield, which when combined with jabs 1, 2 and 3, can make Plant's actions on shield ambiguous. The range is relatively short, making it difficult to use as a spacing tool. It can be used as a slightly longer ranged punish tool when jab is unable to reach. It transitions to the second hit on frame 12 at quickest.

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
0	0	0	5.5%	0		Standard	20	20	0		6.3	top	0.0	7.5	12.0	1.3×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All

Timing

Hitboxes	7-8
Earliest continuable frame	12
Teeth intangible	7-8
Interruptible	28
Animation length	46

Teeth

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Vulnerable

Intangible

Earliest continuable point

Interruptible

Piranha Plant's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 3 · inf) · Forward tilt (1 · 2) · 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 · Footstooled attack
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash