Marth (SSBU)/Side special

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Hitbox Visual Table

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Up
Side
Down

Overview

Dancing Blade can be used as a standard combo ender. It should be avoided in neutral as it is very unsafe on shield, with most opponents having enough time to dash forward and grab before Marth can jump. His safest option if a non-ending hit does hit a shield is to continue using Dancing Blade, delaying hits in hope that the opponent drops their shield. It is Marth's third fastest out-of-shield option, tied with neutral aerial. It is slightly easier to perform than up aerial (second fastest by 1 frame) and doesn't leave him as vulnerable as whiffing his fastest out-of-shield, up special.

The down-angle ender provides the most damage. The side-angle ender sweetspot can KO very early on, being able to KO several characters below 70% at ledge (30-50% earlier than the non-sweetspot hits). The side-angle ender's sweetspot can be hard to hit as it has lower priority than the weaker hits, requiring the attack to be delayed for the highest chance of hitting the sweetspot. Because of various other factors such as rage and directional influence, hitting the sweetspot is inconsistent and it is best to plan around a non-sweetspot hitting instead. Forward tilt is a good, grounded alternative if the side-angle ender's sweetspot is too difficult to land.

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At the ledge, another setup is purposely using only the first three hits, and baiting an air dodge towards the stage and up-smashing on reaction. Theoretically, this works at any point where the straight-angled final hit of Dancing Blade might kill, but this requires an unrealistic amount of conditioning to assume an opponent might air dodge towards Marth at a location on stage besides the corner.

When edgeguarding, Marth can use Dolphin Slash to look for stage spikes. Using a single hit of Dancing Blade to attack a wall-riding recoverer accomplishes both the purpose of making sure you're facing the right way (recalling that an improperly oriented Dolphin Slash provides very little room for error when recovering) and the purpose of mixing up your opponent's tech input timing, which can cause them to instead buffer an air dodge which can lock your opponents out of being able to recover.

This same single hit of Dancing Blade towards the stage, when not used to attack your opponents offstage, is a way of turning Marth around so he is positioned well to use back air, which is a move that catches many recoverers of many heights since back air's active hitbox moves parallel with Marth rather than not at all (as is the case with neutral air) or antiparallel (as is the case with forward air).

Without mixing up solely the timing of the Dolphin Slash (which can result in Marth dangerously misplacing himself above the ledge), his recovery timing can be predictable. Therefore, notice Marth can use a single hit of Dancing Blade to delay the decay of his aerial momentum. This can provide a mix-up against opponents such as Steve or Sephiroth, whose edgeguards often involve placing a large vertical hitbox at or just off the ledge.

This reduction of aerial momentum prevents Marth from threatening a large amount of space using any fullshotting techniques, since these techniques often make use of maintaining lateral momentum. Therefore, if already on stage, please consider only using the grounded version of Dancing Blade.

Hitboxes

First Hit

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
First Hit
0	0	0	2.5%	0		Standard	25	30	0		6.5	top	0.0	9.0	13.0	0.5×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	25	30	0		5.5	top	0.0	9.0	16.0	0.5×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
2	0	0	2.5%	0		Standard	25	30	0		6.5	top	0.0	9.0	8.0	0.5×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
It uses weight-independent knockback.

Second Hits

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
Angled High
0	0	0	2.5%	0		Standard	30	30	0		4.5	top	0.0	6.0 to 16.0	12.5	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	30	30	0		3.0	top	0.0	6.0 to 18.0	16.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
2	0	0	2.5%	0		Standard	30	30	0		4.5	top	0.0	9.0	8.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
Angled Straight
0	0	0	2.5%	1.0		Standard	30	25	0		6.5	top	0.0	9.0	13.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	3.0%	1.0		Standard	30	25	0		5.5	top	0.0	9.0	18.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Marth Hit		All	All
2	0	0	2.5%	1.0		Standard	30	25	0		4.5	top	0.0	9.0	8.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
Both variants use weight-independent knockback.

Third Hits

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
Angled High
0	0	0	3.0%	1.0		Standard	30	55	0		4.5	top	0.0	6.0 to 15.0	9.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	4.0%	1.0		Standard	55	30	0		3.0	top	0.0	6.0 to 16.0	12.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Marth Hit		All	All
2	0	0	3.0%	1.0		Standard	55	50	0		4.5	top	0.0	9.0 to 11.0	3.5	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
Angled Straight
0	0	0	3.0%	1.0		Standard	55	30	0		6.5	top	0.0	9.0 to 11.0	12.5	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	4.0%	1		Standard	55	30	0		5.5	top	0.0	9.0 to 11.5	16.5	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Marth Hit		All	All
2	0	0	3.0%	1.0		Standard	55	30	0		5.5	top	0.0	9.0	8.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
Angled Low
0	0	0	3.0%	1.0		Standard	40	30	0		4.8	top	0.0	5.6 to 7.0	14.0 to 10.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	4.0%	1.0		Standard	40	30	0		3.0	top	0.0	4.0 to 7.0	19.0 to 10.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
All variants use weight-independent knockback.

Fourth Hits

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
Angled High
0	0	0	5.0%	1.0		Standard	85	40	0		4.5	top	0.0	6.0 to 21.0	10.5	1.0×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	7.0%	1.0		Standard	80	40	0		3.0	top	0.0	6.0 to 21.0	15.0	1.0×	0.8×	0%							Marth Hit		All	All
2	0	0	5.0%	1.0		Standard	85	40	0		4.0	top	0.0	21.0 to 24.0	11.0 to 4.0	1.0×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
3	0	0	7.0%	1.0		Standard	80	40	0		3.0	top	0.0	23.0 to 27.0	14.0 to 4.0	1.0×	0.8×	0%							Marth Hit		All	All
Angled Straight
0	0	0	4.0%	1.0		Standard	74	103	0		8.0	top	0.0	9.0	11.7	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	6.0%	5.0		Standard	85	125	0		7.0	top	0.0	9.0	15.5	1.5×	1.0×	0%							Marth Hit		All	All
2	0	0	4.0%	5		Standard	74	103	0		7.0	top	0.0	9.0	5.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
Angled Low (Multihits, 4 iterations)
0	0	0	2.0%	1.0		Standard	2	20	0		5.0	top	0.0	6.0	11.0	0.5×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	2.0%	1.0		Standard	2	20	0		5.0	top	0.0	6.0	16.0	0.5×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
2	0	0	2.0%	0.0		Standard	2	20	0		5.0	top	0.0	6.0	6.0	0.5×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
Angled Low (Final Hit)
0	0	0	4.0%	1.0		Standard	57	90	0		5.0	top	0.0	7.0	11.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	5.0%	1.0		Standard	60	90	0		5.0	top	0.0	8.0	18.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Marth Hit		All	All
2	0	0	4.0%	0		Standard	57	90	0		4.5	top	0.0	5.0	5.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All

Timing

Hit 1

Hitboxes	9-11
Earliest continuable	12
Interruptible grounded	39
Interruptible aerial	29

Grounded

Aerial

Hit 2

Neutral hitboxes	5-7
Neutral earliest continuable	8
Neutral interruptible	38
Up	4-6
Up earliest continuable	8
Up interruptible	38

Neutral

Up

Hit 3

Neutral hitboxes	4-6
Neutral earliest continuable	7
Neutral interruptible	43
Up hitboxes	5-7
Up earliest continuable	8
Up interruptible	43
Down hitboxes	5-7
Down earliest contiuable	8
Down interruptible	44

Neutral

Up

Down

Hit 4

Neutral hitboxes	7-9
Neutral interruptible	58
Up hitboxes	6-10
Up interruptible	44
Down hitboxes	7/10/13/16/19-21
Down interruptible	71

Neutral

Up

Down

Trivia

• Despite being a straight angled attack in-game, the 2nd straight hit is referred to as AttackS2Lw in the game's scripts.

Marth's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2) · 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