Mario (SSBB)/Forward aerial

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Hitbox visualization showing Mario's forward aerial.

Overview

Mario winds his arm up, then performs a delayed overhead clobber with his fist. The main and only use of this move is for edgeguarding, as it is practically useless otherwise: it has 26 frames of landing lag and doesn't autocancel in a short hop, leading to the move being -22 on shield at best. In addition, the move is weak enough to where it will never lead to an on-stage KO.

Despite its best use for being edgeguarding, even this is not recommended. The move's sweet spot doesn't come out until frame 17 and lasts for a measly 3 frames (half the move's active frames). In addition, the move's duration is an entire second, making it risky to use and punishable if it whiffs. Landing the sweet spot doesn't reward Mario all that much either, due to the aforementioned weakness, leading to it being unable to kill until over 100% when meteor cancelling is taken into consideration.

Despite the move being considered terrible by many, it still sees occasional use by Mario players in Brawl, due to his overall terrible KO power.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			SDIx	H×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Type	Effect	G	A	Sound	Direct
Early hit
0	0	12%	0		30	80	0	3.0	47	-3.2	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Punch
Clean hit
0	0	13%	0		20	75	0	4.0	46	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Punch
1	0	13%	0		20	75	0	4.6	47	-3.2	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Punch
Late hit
0	0	10%	0		20	80	0	4.0	46	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Punch
1	0	10%	0		20	80	0	4.6	47	-3.2	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Punch

Timing

Initial autocancel	1-2
Early hit	16
Clean hit	17-19
Late hit	20-21
Ending autocancel	43-
Interruptible	60
Animation length	74

Landing lag

Animation length	26

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Autocancel

Interruptible

Trivia

• This move is a single frame off of being able to autocancel in a short hop.

Mario's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 3) · 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 (fast) · Edge getups (fast) · Edge attack (slow) · Edge getups (slow)
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash