Byleth (SSBU)/Up special

Byleth Up Special Hitbox Visualizations.
Grounded	Aerial

Overview

Byleth whips the Sword of the Creator upward, acting as a tether recovery similar to Joker's Grappling Hook in function. It can also attach to walls and allow Byleth to jump off, up to three times consecutively without landing. If it connects with an opponent, Byleth latches onto the opponent before footstooling them, dealing damage based on how far away the opponent was; if their percentage is at least 50% when they are footstooled, it becomes an untechable meteor smash. This footstool has only one frame of ending lag, allowing Byleth to immediately follow up with any of his aerials or special moves, with combos into moves such as neutral aerial (though this particular combo is only effective against Donkey Kong), back aerial, and reverse-inputted side special. Against grounded opponents, the move first launches them up with the sword to allow Byleth to latch onto them. When activated in the air, it instantly cancels all of Byleth's knockback, which can improve his survivability.

Update History

11.0.0

• It has increased base knockback at high percents (0 → 14), allowing to KO earlier. This also removes the dead zone, in which the opponent did not have to tech the spike on stage, increasing the moves utility when used around 50%.
• It has faster startup (frame 11 → 9 (grounded), 12 → 10 (aerial)) (FAF 49 → 47).

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	Rehit rate
Launcher (grounded only)
0	0	0	1%	0		Standard	0	100	30		6.5	top	0.0	8.5	8.0	1.4×	0.0×	0%							Slash		All	All							7
Early grab
0	0	0	0.01%	0		Standard	0	100	30		5.5	throw	2.0	-1.0	-1.0	0.0×	0.0×	0%							Slash		All	All							3
1	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	40	100	0		4.5	throw	2.0	-1.0	-1.0	1.0×	0.0×	0%							Slash		All	All							0
Mid grab
0	0	0	0.01%	0		Standard	0	100	30		5.5	throw	0.0	2.0 to -4.0	0.75 to -1.5	0.0×	0.0×	0%							Slash		All	All							2
1	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	40	100	0		2.0	throw	0.0	2.0 to -4.0	0.75 to -1.5	1.0×	0.0×	0%							Slash		All	All							0
Late grab
0	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	40	100	0		5.5	throw	0.0	2.0 to -4.0	0.75 to -1.5	1.0×	0.0×	0%							Slash		All	All							0
1	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	40	100	0		2.0	throw	0.0	2.0 to -4.0	0.75 to -1.5	1.0×	0.0×	0%							Slash		All	All							0
Latest grab
0	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	40	100	0		5.5	throw	0.0	5.5 to -6.0	2.0 to -2.0	1.0×	0.0×	0%							Slash		All	All							0
1	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	40	100	0		2.0	throw	0.0	8.0 to -4.0	3.0 to -1.5	1.0×	0.0×	0%							Slash		All	All							0

Throws

These throws have their damage increased depending on the distance between Byleth and their opponent at the moment the grab connects. They deal the most damage when the opponent is far from Byleth.

Kind	ID	Damage	Angle	Angle type	BK	KS	FKV	H×	Effect	Type	Sound
Grounded opponent
Throw	0	6.5%		Forward	85	40	0	0.0×			None
Aerial opponent (low damage)
Throw	1	6.5%		Forward	65	65	0	0.0×			None
Aerial opponent (high damage)
Throw	2	6.5%		Forward	14	110	0	0.0×			None

Timing

Attack

Sword of the Creator uses hitboxes that act as grabs. as such, it cannot grab shielding opponents.

Launcher (grounded only)	9
Grab (early, mid, late, latest)	10-11, 12, 13, 14-17
Interruptible	47
Animation length	64

Grounded

Aerial

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Interruptible

Byleth'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
Floor attack (front) · Floor attack (back) · Floor attack (trip) · Edge attack
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash