Ike (SSBU)/Up special

Hitbox visualization showing Ike's up special, Aether.

Hitbox visualization showing Ike's up special, Aether, when falling.

Hitbox visualization showing Ike's up special, Aether, when landing.

Overview

Ike swings the sword upward, spins midair, and descends to the ground. This move makes it an effective out of shield option due to the super armor and KO potential prior to patch 8.0.0 buff to Aether. This move can also meteor opponents when Ike descends which can be used for gimps or last stock situations due to KOing the opponents first. Like every super armor move, this will be grabbed out of which can be situational for this move.

As a recovery, it only goes vertically, and due to Ike's predictable recovery, this makes it situational for recovering. He can be gimped from this, most notably with characters that have Counter due to redirecting the opponents hitbox and sending them almost horizontally which makes it useless for him to recover.

Update history

8.0.0

• The first hit has transcendent priority, improving its utility out of shield.
• The landing hit launches at a lower angle (60° → 50°) and has much more knockback scaling (115 → 155). This drastically improves the move's KO potential, KOing at around 115% from the center stage if all hits connect, and grants Ike a new KO setup from his neutral aerial near the edge at mid percents, regardless of said move's nerfs.

Hitboxes

Rising

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
Hit 1
0	0	0	6.0%	0		Standard	0	100	150		3.5	top	0.0	5.0	7.0 to 8.0	0.8×	0×	0%							Ike Hit		All	All
1	0	0	6.0%	0		Standard	0	100	150		1.5	top	0.0	3.0 to 7.0	15.0	0.8×	0×	0%							Ike Hit		All	All
2	0	0	6.0%	0		Standard	0	100	150		3.5	top	0.0	5.0	19.0 to 7.0	0.8×	0×	0%							Ike Hit		All	All
3	0	0	6.0%	0		Standard	0	100	145		3.5	top	0.0	13.5	7.0 to 8.0	0.8×	0×	0%							Ike Hit		All	All
4	0	0	6.0%	0		Standard	0	100	145		1.5	top	0.0	11.5 to 15.5	15.0	0.8×	0×	0%							Ike Hit		All	All
5	0	0	6.0%	0		Standard	0	100	140		3.5	top	0.0	13.5	19.0 to 7.0	0.8×	0×	0%							Ike Hit		All	All
Thrown Ragnell (clean hit)
0	0	0	2.0%	0		Bone-based	0	100	90		5.0	haver	0.0	4.0	0.0	1.5×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	2.0%	0		Bone-based	0	100	90		5.0	haver	0.0	10.0	0.0	1.5×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
Thrown Ragnell (late hit)
0	0	0	1.0%	0		Bone-based	0	100	40		5.0	haver	0.0	7.0	0.0	1.5×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	1.0%	0		Bone-based	0	100	40		5.0	haver	0.0	7.0	0.0	1.5×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
Apex hits
0	0	7	1.0%	0		Standard	0	100	50		9.0	top	0.0	16.0 to 8.0	14.0	0.5×	0×	0%							Kick		All	All

Falling

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
Early hit
0	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	120	30	0		6.5	sword	0.0	6.8	-1.0 to -12.0	0.5×	0×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	0	100	165		4.8	sword	0.0	6.8	-1.0 to -13.0	0.5×	0×	0%							Slash		All	All
Late hit
0	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	0	50	0		4.8	sword	0.0	6.8	-1.0	0.5×	0×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	0	100	150		4.8	sword	0.0	6.8	-1.0	0.5×	0×	0%							Slash		All	All

Landing

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
0	0	0	6.0%	0		Standard	70	155	0		10.0	top	0.0	6.0 to 11.0	11.8	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Ike Hit		All	All

Timing

The falling hit lasts as long as Ike continues falling. It sets his vertical speed to -6. The timings below are when he initiates and lands with the move at ground level.

The jump starts on frame 36, and the move enables ledge grabs from the front starting on frame 59. It cannot grab ledges from behind.

Attack

Super armor	5-36 (ground) 15-36 (air)
Hit 1	15-16
Hits 2-3	44-54 (rehit rate: 7)
Falling (early, late)	61, 62-70

Attack

Grounded

Aerial

Landing

Hitbox	1-4
Interruptible	37
Animation length	53

Parameters

Aerial height multiplier	0.95
Period before landing after jump	20 frames
Additional air acceleration multiplier	13
Ledge grab limit	5

Trivia

• Aether uses the universal 6 ledge grab limit rather than the 5 ledge grab limit coded in the move's parameters. This is not present in Chrom's Soaring Slash.