Ivysaur (SSBB)/Down aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Ivysaur's down aerial.

Overview[edit]

Ivysaur turns upside down and shoots a blast of gas out of his bulb, the move is relatevly easy to land due to his frame 11 startup and huge hitbox (bigger than what the animation suggests), it also serves as Ivysaur's only Meteor smash which makes it seem useful for edgeguarding, and it also stalls ivysaur in the air a bit, somewhat making it a recovery tool.

However, the move is very flawed, as it has 63 total frames (which is 51 frames of endlag) and gives Ivysaur no air drift until frame 52 (which is when the move autocancels), additionally, it has 28 frames of landing lag, making it -47 on shield at best (because of the air stall making ivysaur land later, even when the move is done as low as possible), lastly, the Meteor smash hitbox is very small and not even very strong, not KOing Luigi while he is grabbing the ledge until over 165% (assuming that he is Meteor cancelling), these things make Ivysaur's down air one of if not the worst Meteor smash in all of Brawl.