Pichu (SSBM)/Back aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Pikachu's back aerial.

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Overview

Similar to neutral air, but overall sees less use, due to generally worse frame data, hitboxes, and worse damage output, compared to an unstaled, clean-hit neutral air. Back aerial's primary value is its long duration hitbox and its use for specifically launching the opponent backwards. Notably, the effects of the clean and late hits of this move are identical, unlike neutral air. It has sex kick properties. Interestingly, similar to Pikachu, Pichu's ECB is displaced from its character model during the move, allowing for hitbox extensions through walls, such as a particular target near a wall on Pichu's Target Test.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			Clang	Rebound	Effect	G	A	Sound
Clean hit
0	0	9%	0		20	100	0	3.5154	15	0.0	0.0	0.0						Kick
1	0	9%	0		20	100	0	3.5154	4	0.0	0.0	0.0						Kick
2	0	9%	0		20	100	0	3.5154	16	0.0	-1.953	0.0						Kick
Late hit
0	0	9%	0		20	100	0	3.5154	15	0.0	0.0	0.0						Kick
1	0	9%	0		20	100	0	3.5154	4	0.0	0.0	0.0						Kick
2	0	9%	0		20	100	0	3.5154	16	0.0	-1.953	0.0						Kick

Timing

Initial autocancel	1-3
Clean hit	4-7
Late hit	8-37
Ending autocancel	50-
Animation length	59

Landing lag

Animation length	18
L-cancelled animation length	9

Normal

L-cancelled