Pikachu (SSB)/Up aerial

Overview

The hitbox of Pikachu's up aerial.

Pikachu swings its tail upwards, dealing 10% damage and low knockback, sending opponents horizontally. Considered the best aerial in Smash 64 along with Captain Falcon's up aerial, as it is a incredible comboing move with a giant disjointed hitbox that can also deal very high shield stun. As it can cover Pikachu with a relatively safe range, players can space with this move and use it to stop opponent's approaches. The move can be used in a variety of combos such as a chain of up aerials that can also go offstage to edgeguard effectively (and is easy to recover from due to Pikachu's incredible recovery distance), can be used in a short hop and followed up by an up smash into a Thunder as a Thunderspike combo at moderate percentages, and can be followed up by more of Pikachu's versatile and disjointed aerials such as back aerial and down aerial, both of which can combo into another up aerial at lower percentages, or finish an edgeguard at moderate to higher percentages.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			Clang	Effect	G	A	Sound
0	0	10%	0		10	100	0	90	29	0	0	0					Kick
1	0	10%	0		10	100	0	140	29	96	150	-50					Kick

Timing

Attack

Auto-cancel	1-33
Hitboxes	3-10
Animation length	33

Landing lag

Animation length	4
L-cancelled animation length	4

Normal
L-cancelled

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Autocancel

Pikachu'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 · Forward throw · Back throw
Forward roll · Back roll · 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 · Up special · Down special