Captain Falcon (SSB)/Back aerial

Overview

Hitboxes of Captain Falcon's back aerial.

Captain Falcon extents his fist behind him, doing 16% damage and reasonable knockback. It is the strongest back aerial in the game. A pretty safe move to use with its decent range, as it is good for edgeguarding and can space well. While it has somewhat high landing lag, this issue can be neglected via Z-cancelling. It is also pretty good to use in combos, being able to combo into another back aerial, a reverse back aerial, or a down aerial (for a variation of the Ken Combo) at low to moderate percentages. A down aerial used on a grounded opponent can also combo into it at percentages around 140%, which is usually enough to KO.

When Captain Falcon hits an opponent with this move in the NTSC version of Smash 64, it produces a hard "Ping!" cartoon sound, while his other aerials produces a regular cartoon sound.

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Captain Falcon's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 3 · inf) · 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
Floor attack (front) · Floor attack (back) · Edge attack (fast) · Edge attack (slow)
Neutral special · Up special · Down special