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Between ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', Lightning Kick was nerfed in terms of knockback when sourspotted. While a sweetspotted Lightning Kick is still one of the strongest forward and back aerials, its base knockback is decreased. The knockback growth/scaling however, remains the same and can still KO characters under 100%. It also has significantly increased landing lag and can not be auto canceled after a short hop. | Between ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', Lightning Kick was nerfed in terms of knockback when sourspotted. While a sweetspotted Lightning Kick is still one of the strongest forward and back aerials, its base knockback is decreased. The knockback growth/scaling however, remains the same and can still KO characters under 100%. It also has significantly increased landing lag and can not be auto canceled after a short hop. | ||
Animation wise, Zelda has different animations for both which also delay their startup; for the forward version, Zelda performs a forward back spin kick ending in a turn, while with the backwards version Zelda twists her body somewhat then kicks behind her while leaning away from her kicking-direction more; both versions also involve her arms being positioned differently as well as her hands being less open. | Animation wise in ''Smash 4'', Zelda has different animations for both which also delay their startup; for the forward version, Zelda performs a forward back spin kick ending in a turn, while with the backwards version Zelda twists her body somewhat then kicks behind her while leaning away from her kicking-direction more; both versions also involve her arms being positioned differently as well as her hands being less open. | ||
The Lightning Kick is very similar to [[Captain Falcon]]'s forward aerial, the [[Knee Smash]], as both are effective aerials that deal very powerful horizontal knockback with electric damage when sweetspotted, while being exceedingly weak with no special effects when sourspotted. However, the Lightning Kick hasn't reached the same level of notoriety as the Knee Smash, where the latter was more effective and prolific in competitive play for ''Melee''. The main reason for this was that the knee was notably easier to sweetspot, as sweetspotting it only required landing the initial hitbox as opposed to landing a specifically spaced hitbox in the attack, and combined with Falcon's high mobility and great combo ability, it has seen much more utilization. Zelda's poor tournament viability and general lack of internet notoriety compared to Captain Falcon also hindered the Lightning Kick from receiving as much attention as the Knee Smash. | The Lightning Kick is very similar to [[Captain Falcon]]'s forward aerial, the [[Knee Smash]], as both are effective aerials that deal very powerful horizontal knockback with electric damage when sweetspotted, while being exceedingly weak with no special effects when sourspotted. However, the Lightning Kick hasn't reached the same level of notoriety as the Knee Smash, where the latter was more effective and prolific in competitive play for ''Melee''. The main reason for this was that the knee was notably easier to sweetspot, as sweetspotting it only required landing the initial hitbox as opposed to landing a specifically spaced hitbox in the attack, and combined with Falcon's high mobility and great combo ability, it has seen much more utilization. Zelda's poor tournament viability and general lack of internet notoriety compared to Captain Falcon also hindered the Lightning Kick from receiving as much attention as the Knee Smash. | ||