Pichu (SSBM)/Neutral aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Pichu's neutral aerial.

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Overview

Pichu's neutral aerial is a cornerstone of its gameplan, representing one of Pichu's key benefits over Pikachu, and is easily among the best neutral aerials in the game, along with Mr. Game & Watch's. Frequent use of this move is mandatory to be 'successful' with Pichu, as a number of its other moves are somewhat if not entirely outclassed by it in most cases (though stale move negation must be considered).

Similar to Pikachu's version, except Pichu's has one less frame of landing lag when L-canceled, and possesses a much smaller damageable hit box. Overall, Pichu's neutral air is an excellent move, being able to combo into itself, and be combo'd into at many percents, it edgeguards well, especially given that Pichu can afford to go deep offstage to hit with another, and can KO. In some match ups, the move can also notably set up a convenient jab reset scenario on-stage, at certain percents.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			Clang	Rebound	Effect	G	A	Sound
Clean hit
0	0	12%	0		18	100	0	3.991932	39	0.33201	0.0	0.0						Kick
1	0	12%	0		18	100	0	3.991932	33	0.33201	0.0	0.0						Kick
2	0	12%	0		18	100	0	4.6872	15	0.0	0.0	0.0						Kick
Late hit
0	0	9%	0		0	100	0	3.991932	39	0.33201	0.0	0.0						Kick
1	0	9%	0		0	100	0	3.991932	33	0.33201	0.0	0.0						Kick
2	0	9%	0		0	100	0	4.6872	15	0.0	0.0	0.0						Kick

Timing

Initial autocancel	1-2
Clean hit	3-10
Late hit	11-28
Ending autocancel	35-
Animation length	39

Landing lag

Animation length	12
L-cancelled animation length	6

Normal

L-cancelled

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Autocancel

Pichu's moveset

Neutral attack · 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)
Edge attack (fast) · Edge getups (fast) · Edge attack (slow) · Edge getups (slow)
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special