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King K. Rool (SSBU)/Down smash

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Hitbox visualization showing King K. Rool's down smash.

Overview

A belly flop, emphasising K. Rool's huge weight and armor. King K. Rool's down smash is among his most notorious attacks, for its Belly Super Armor and hurtbox shift specifically making grabs miss. This is because K. Rool's hurtbox shifts above grab hitboxes as soon as frame 4. While it deals less knockback than forward smash, it remains a monumentally powerful attack, ending stocks as early as 80%. Due to this, K. Rool's down smash is largely considered to be one of the best down smashes in the game.

Down smash is one of the most difficult moves to challenge on startup in the game, due to the aforementioned hurtbox shift and Belly Super Armor. Low attacks and regular grabs simply miss, regular and high reaching attacks tend to hit the armor. The only feasible way to challenge the move is to attack from above, where K. Rool completely lacks any armor.

Unlike many of K. Rool's attacks being designed to be difficult to challenge but with high endlag, down smash is quite well-defended even after the initial slam is over. It has a small quake hitbox just outside of the body slam's range, much like down tilt's. This quake gives sizable frame advantage on hit, but generally not enough for solid followups outside of forward tilt. However, if shielded, this quake hitbox doesn't have much shieldstun, leaving K. Rool dangerously open regardless. Down smash typically isn't used outside of reads and hard punishes, however. This is because the move is quite slow, with Belly Super Armor not switching on until frame 11, and the hitbox coming out frame 22. It has an enormous FAF as well of 64, although this is the middle ground in terms of K. Rool's smash attack FAFs. On top of this, in situations where down smash can be done for free early stock (such as shield breaks or highly punishable moves are used), forward smash angled upwards would KO much earlier.

In addition, if Belly Super Armor is damaged, K. Rool becomes very vulnerable. It has 14 active armor frames in total, which is enough for at least some heavy hitting attacks to hit it, especially considering how the move is used. As a result, many armor breaks occur from down smash misuse.

Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to grab K. Rool out of down smash even when he has began the belly flop. This is commonly seen with tether grabs such as Samus', or large pivot grabs such as Greninja's. Command grabs such as, humourously, K. Rool's Blunderbuss Vacuum can also force him out of it.

Hitboxes

ID Part Rehit rate Damage SD Angle Angle type BK KS FKV Set weight Radius Bone Offset SDI× T% Clang Rebound Effect Type G A Sound Direct Hit bits Hit part Blockable Reflectable Absorbable Flinchless No GFX Heedless
Early
0 0 0 18% 10   Standard 65 80 0   6.0 top 0.0 7.5 10.5 to -4.5 1.0× 1.0× 0%               Kick   All All            
Late
0 0 0 18% 10   Standard 65 80 0   6.0 top 0.0 5.0 10.5 to -4.5 1.0× 1.0× 0%               Kick   All All            
Quake
0 0 0 4.0% 0   Standard 80 30 0   11.0 top 0.0 9.0 23.5 to -13.5 1.0× 1.0× 0%               Kick   All All            

Timing

Charges between 1-2
Belly Super Armor 8-21
Early hit 22
Late hit 23
Quake 24-25
Interruptible 64
Animation length 76
Hitboxes                                                                                                                                                         
Belly Super Armor                                                                                                                                                         
Legend (1 square = 1 frame)
 
Lag time
  
Charge interval
 
Hitbox
 
Vulnerable
 
Armour
 
Interruptible