Kirby (SSB)/Down smash

Overview

Hitboxes of Kirby's down smash.

Kirby does a spinning split kick on the ground, covering both sides of him, doing 18% damage and pretty high horizontal knockback. It can be used to punish and edgeguard or gimp an opponent's recovery, though Kirby almost always has better options, with a forward smash being a much better horizontal KO option, and his aerials and down tilt being a better way to edgeguard from the edge. Additionally, it has some ending lag, meaning that if shielded, Kirby will be left rather vulnerable, especially to shield grabs.

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Hitboxes

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			Clang	Effect	G	A	Sound
Clean hit
0	0	18%	0		30	75	0	150	29	180	0	0					Kick
1	0	18%	0		30	75	0	150	24	180	0	0					Kick
2	0	18%	0		30	75	0	90	5	0	0	0					Kick
Late hit
0	0	10%	0		30	75	0	150	29	180	0	0					Kick
1	0	10%	0		30	75	0	150	24	180	0	0					Kick
2	0	10%	0		30	75	0	90	5	0	0	0					Kick

Timing

Feet intangible	7-26
Clean hit	7-10
Late hit	11-26
Animation length	55

Hitboxes

Feet

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Vulnerable

Intangible

Kirby's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 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 · Forward throw · Back throw
Forward roll · Back roll · 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 · Up special · Down special