Little Mac (SSBU)/Down aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Little Mac's down aerial.

Overview

Little Mac throws a weak palm thrust downwards. Like all of little macs aerials, it's inept in almost every typical offensive use for a down air. While it has a meteor smash hitbox, the hitbox is pitifully weak and acts as a sour-spot, with the meteor spike almost never landing KO's unless the opponent is footstooled immediately after or has a poor recovery. It can lock floor opponents in niche situations however.

Despite this, the move has a solid place in Mac's kit due to it being able to help little mac's recovery, if down air is interrupted with Rising Uppercut, Little Mac gains slightly more horizontal distance, giving Mac a tiny boost to his horizontal recovery. This is reasonably easy to do, as the moves interruptible window is fairly long. However, this only applies if Little Mac is facing towards the ledge. While the distance Little Mac gains may seem negligible and pointless, Little Mac has a notoriously bad recovery, and even just a little distance can be the difference between recovering and failing to do so. Despite the move being niche and ineffective as an actual attack, this move is crucial to makes recovery, giving it a solid place in Mac's arsenal.

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
0	0	0	5.0%	0		Standard	0	80	0		3.0	armr	-1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Punch		All	All
1	0	0	4.0%	0		Standard	0	80	0		3.5	armr	3.0	0.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Punch		All	All
2	0	0	4.0%	0		Standard	0	80	0		2.0	shoulderr	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Punch		All	All

Timing

Attack

Hitboxes	7-10
Ending autocancel	25-
Interruptible	28
Animation length	49

Landing lag

Interruptible	19
Animation length	25

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Autocancel

Interruptible

Little Mac'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
Forward roll · Back roll · Spot dodge · Air dodge · Techs
Floor attack (front) · Floor getups (front) · Floor attack (back) · Floor getups (back) · Floor attack (trip) · Floor getups (trip)
Edge attack · Edge getups
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash