Ganondorf (SSBM)/Down aerial

Overview

The hitbox of Ganondorf's dair.

Ganondorf does a stomp attack, with an identical animation to Captain Falcon's down aerial. It does 22% damage, with an electric effect. The move is an extremely powerful meteor smash, being by far the most powerful meteor smash in the game (able to KO grounded opponents at under 100%), and the most powerful aerial attack in the game against an aerial opponent (against a grounded opponent, only a few non-meteor aerials such as Bowser's up aerial hit harder). It also has a very large hitbox to compliment the power - covering all of Ganondorf's body and some area around it, it is possible to meteor smash an opponent by hitting with Ganondorf's head. The attack is also fairly easy to land and surprisingly easy to recover from due to its low ending lag. Because of this, the move is considered the best meteor smash in Melee.

However, the move possesses transcendent priority, preventing it from cancelling out projectiles.

Unlike Captain Falcon's down aerial, it lacks the ability to nipple spike, meaning it is always a meteor smash regardless of what body part his opponent gets hit by.

Hitboxes

NTSC

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			Clang	Rebound	Effect	G	A	Sound
0	0	22%	0		50	100	0	6.6402	13	5.4684	1.5624	0.0						Burn
1	0	22%	0		50	100	0	5.859	12	4.2966	1.5624	0.0						Burn
2	0	22%	0		50	100	0	5.4684	4	0.0	1.5624	0.0						Burn

PAL

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			Clang	Rebound	Effect	G	A	Sound
0	0	21%	0		40	100	0	6.6402	13	5.4684	1.5624	0.0						Burn
1	0	21%	0		40	100	0	5.859	12	4.2966	1.5624	0.0						Burn
2	0	21%	0		40	100	0	5.4684	4	0.0	1.5624	0.0						Burn

Summary:

• -1% damage
• -10 base knockback

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-3
Hitboxes	16-20
Ending autocancel	36-
Interruptible	38
Animation length	44

Landing lag

Animation length	35
L-cancelled animation length	17

Normal

L-cancelled

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Autocancel

Interruptible

Similar moves

• Captain Falcon's down aerial

Ganondorf's moveset

Neutral attack · 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)
Edge attack (fast) · Edge getups (fast) · Edge attack (slow) · Edge getups (slow)
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special