Editing Cloud (SSB4)/Up aerial

{{ArticleIcons|ssb4=y}}
[[File:CloudUpAir.gif|thumb|300px|Hitbox visualization showing Cloud's up aerial.]]

==Overview==
Cloud leans down, then pushes the Buster Sword directly above him. A moderately strong aerial, it can reliably KO middleweights at around 135% from {{SSB4|Battlefield}}'s top platform.

Despite its average startup and average landing lag, this attack has long horizontal range, deceptive vertical range, low ending lag, long duration and autocancels immediately after all hitboxes are removed. These traits make it a phenomenal anti-air and a pivotal aspect of Cloud's neutral game. Its clean hit serves as an excellent pressure tool and a good combo starter, as landing with it can lead into up tilt, neutral aerial, another up aerial, [[Cross Slash]], and even [[Finishing Touch]]. Autocancelling it, on the other hand, is great for denying landings and allows it to combo into itself at least twice. The long-lasting late hit is also a reliable combo extender, having just enough hit advantage to reset and continue combos, and especially shines on outlasting [[air dodge]]s without requiring particularly accurate predictions.

Its numerous positive traits and lack of serious drawbacks make it a feared, all-purpose move that is widely considered the best up aerial in the game.

==Hitboxes==
{{SSB4HitboxTableHeader|special=y}}
{{HitboxTableTitle|Clean hit|42}}
{{SSB4SpecialHitboxTableRow
|id=0
|damage=12%
|sd=0
|angle=82
|bk=42
|ks=80
|fkv=0
|r=4.7
|bn=25
|xpos=0.0
|ypos=15.0
|zpos=0.0
|trip=0
|type=Sword
|effect=Normal
|ff=1.2
|clang=t
|slvl=M
|sfx=Cloud hit
}}
{{SSB4SpecialHitboxTableRow
|id=1
|damage=12%
|sd=0
|angle=82
|bk=42
|ks=80
|fkv=0
|r=4.7
|bn=25
|xpos=0.0
|ypos=9.0
|zpos=0.0
|trip=0
|type=Sword
|effect=Normal
|ff=1.2
|clang=t
|slvl=M
|sfx=Cloud hit
}}
{{SSB4SpecialHitboxTableRow
|id=2
|damage=12%
|sd=0
|angle=82
|bk=42
|ks=80
|fkv=0
|r=4.7
|bn=25
|xpos=0.0
|ypos=3.0
|zpos=0.0
|trip=0
|type=Sword
|effect=Normal
|ff=1.2
|clang=t
|slvl=M
|sfx=Cloud hit
}}
{{HitboxTableTitle|Late hit|42}}
{{SSB4SpecialHitboxTableRow
|id=0
|damage=8.5%
|sd=0
|angle=82
|bk=42
|ks=80
|fkv=0
|r=3
|bn=25
|xpos=0.0
|ypos=15.0
|zpos=0.0
|trip=0
|type=Sword
|effect=Normal
|ff=1.0
|clang=t
|slvl=S
|sfx=Cloud hit
}}
{{SSB4SpecialHitboxTableRow
|id=1
|damage=8.5%
|sd=0
|angle=82
|bk=42
|ks=80
|fkv=0
|r=3
|bn=25
|xpos=0.0
|ypos=9.0
|zpos=0.0
|trip=0
|type=Sword
|effect=Normal
|ff=1.0
|clang=t
|slvl=S
|sfx=Cloud hit
}}
{{SSB4SpecialHitboxTableRow
|id=2
|damage=8.5%
|sd=0
|angle=82
|bk=42
|ks=80
|fkv=0
|r=3
|bn=25
|xpos=0.0
|ypos=3.0
|zpos=0.0
|trip=0
|type=Sword
|effect=Normal
|ff=1.0
|clang=t
|slvl=S
|sfx=Cloud hit
}}
|}

==Timing==
===Attack===
{|class="wikitable"
!Initial autocancel
|1
|-
!Clean hit
|7-9
|-
!Late hit
|10-25
|-
!Ending autocancel
|26
|-
!Interruptible
|45
|-
!Animation length
|67
|}

{{FrameStripStart}}
{{FrameStrip|t=Lag|c=6}}{{FrameStrip|t=Hitbox|c=3|e=HitboxChangeS}}{{FrameStrip|t=Hitbox|c=16|s=HitboxChangeE}}{{FrameStrip|t=Lag|c=19}}{{FrameStrip|t=Interruptible|c=23}}
|-
{{FrameStrip|t=Autocancel|c=1}}{{FrameStrip|t=Blank|c=24}}{{FrameStrip|t=Autocancel|c=42}}
{{FrameStripEnd}}

===Landing lag===
{|class="wikitable"
!Animation length
|15
|}

{{FrameStripStart}}
{{FrameStrip|t=Lag|c=15}}
{{FrameStripEnd}}
{{FrameIconLegend|lag=y|hitbox=y|hitboxchange=y|autocancel=y|interruptible=y}}

==Trivia==
*The immediate auto-canceling of this move is a coding error caused by the wrong type of timing function being used. In the move's scripts, the hitboxes are deleted on frame 26, then a timer with a count of 18 is placed in the next line for the auto-cancel window. However, this is an asynchronous timer, which enables the auto-cancel on frame 18, rather than a synchronous timer, which would enable it 18 frames after the hitboxes are deleted (on frame 44). As a result, the auto-cancel is instead enabled on frame 26, as the line is still read after the timer for deleting the hitboxes.
**A very similar error can be seen with Cloud's {{mvsub|Cloud|SSB4|down aerial}}, as well as {{SSB4|Sonic}}'s {{mvsub|Sonic|SSB4|up aerial}}.
**As this error was not addressed in any updates, it remains unknown whether the move's instant auto-canceling property was intentional or not. However, it was [[Cloud (SSBU)/Up aerial|eventually fixed in ''Ultimate'']], where the move's auto-cancel properly uses an asynchronous timer on frame 32 (in addition to the hitboxes ending earlier, on frame 24).

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[[Category:Cloud (SSB4)]]
[[Category:Up aerials (SSB4)]]
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