Luigi (SSBU)/Side special

This article is about the hitbox visualization in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. For the move itself, see Green Missile.

Hitbox visualization showing Luigi's side special, Green Missile.

Hitbox visualization showing Luigi's side special, Green Missile, when it misfires.

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Overview

Green Missile is by far Luigi's most situational move. The hitbox covers his neck, face and upper torso, but does not completely cover his head, making the move easy to intercept, especially with disjointed attacks. Due to his low airspeed, Luigi will often have to use it when trying to recover, making his recovery somewhat predictable. It can be charged and, at full charge, it travels at a long distance and deals high damage and knockback.

By using a smash input, it gains a bit of charge by default.

The move has a 10% chance of misfiring. This makes the move faster and stronger, and the hitbox covers more of Luigi's torso. However, it does not give any height, making it easy to get stuck under the stage after its use.

Above a certain speed, it has a 50% of getting Luigi stuck into a wall. The minimum speed is very low and possible to reach with a smash input. When inside the wall, Luigi is completely vulnerable for 91 frames (just above a second and a half).

Update History

2.0.0

Green Missile has one less frame of ending lag.

Hitboxes

Without a misfire, the move's true base damage is specified in its parameters, and ranges from 6% to 21% based on charge. More specifically, its base damage is equal to 6 + 15 * (charge frames / 90). A smash input causes the move to start off with 20 charge frames.

ID	Part	Rehit rate	Damage	SD	Angle type	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			H×	SDI×	T%	Sound	Hit bits	Hit part
Regular
0	0	0	10.0%	4.0	Speed-based	30	80	0	4.8	neck	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.2×	1.0×	0%	Burn	No floor	All
Misfire
0	0	0	25.0%	4.0	Speed-based	20	100	0	5.5	neck	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.2×	1.0×	0%	Burn	No floor	All

Timing

Missile

The move allows Luigi to land starting from frame 35 onward, skipping its remaining active frames in the process; when used on flat ground, Luigi usually lands on frame 55, allowing it to be interrupted on frame 95. Likewise, it skips to frame 61 upon hitting an opponent, or a wall if Luigi does not get stuck on it. Jostling is also disabled from frame 22 onward.

Charges between	17-18
Intangibility	18-22
Hitboxes	22-60
Interruptible (grounded)	100
Interruptible (aerial)	80
Animation length (grounded)	99
Animation length (aerial)	84

Grounded
Aerial
Luigi

Wall stick

Animation length	91

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)
Lag time	Charge interval	Hitbox	Vulnerable	Intangible	Interruptible

Parameters

Horizontal speed multiplier on startup	0.8
Friction during startup and charge	0.02
Gravity during startup and charge	0.05
Total charge time	90 frames
Starting charge with smash input	20 frames
Maximum hold time before automatic cancel	150 frames
Misfire chance	10%
Base damage	6% to 21%
Initial horizontal speed on release	1.4 to 2.65 (normal) 3 (misfired)
Initial vertical speed on release	0.4 to 0.8 (normal) 0.34 (misfired)
Minimum horizontal speed for wall stick	1.8
Wall stick chance	50%
Gravity on release	0.008
Fall speed on release	1.2
Friction on ending	0.07
Gravity on ending	0.1