Captain Falcon (SSBU)/Up special

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Captain Falcon Up Special Hitbox Visualizations
Grounded	Aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Captain Falcon's up special, Falcon Dive, after it connects.

Overview

Captain Falcon begins to dive diagonally upward after a short delay, as Captain Falcon's main recovery move. The move's grab hitbox begins on frame 14, allowing it to be used as an out of shield option. Captain Falcon will be put into helpless immediately after, but will be able to drift forward decently fast, allowing for some surprisingly long high recoveries, usually as a recovery mix-up. However, if Captain Falcon happens to grab an opponent during his upward movement, he will launch the opponent with an explosion (usually toward the stage), and will not be put into helpless. The move is great as a late percent KO move, especially near the ledge. At certain percentages, the move will eventually become untechable and slightly dangerous to challenge.

However, the move is not without its weaknesses. The overall recovery portion of the move is average, and it has no damaging hitbox but only a grab hitbox, meaning any meaningful disjoint can easy hit the move without risking being grabbed. Furthermore, despite an endlag reduction buff, it is still possible to Tech Check the move. As an out of shield option, because Captain Falcon is put into helpless, the move is relatively easy to punish after a whiff.

Update History

11.0.0

• Falcon Dive's throw has significantly less ending lag (FAF 55 → 24), making it considerably harder to Tech Check Falcon's recovery.

Hitboxes, grabboxes and throw

ID	Radius	Bone	Offset			G	A
Early grab
0	5.0	top	0.0	13.0	7.0
1	5.5	top	0.0	8.8	13.7
Late grab
0	5.0	top	0.0	15.0	6.0
1	5.0	top	0.0	11.0	6.0

ID	Part	Rehit rate	Damage	SD	Angle	Angle type	BK	KS	FKV	Set weight	Radius	Bone	Offset			H×	SDI×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Effect	Type	G	A	Sound	Direct	Hit bits	Hit part	Blockable	Reflectable	Absorbable	Flinchless	No GFX	Heedless
Hit 1
0	0	0	5.0%	0		Forward	50	100	0		9.6	rot	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							None		All	All

Kind	ID	Damage	Angle	Angle type	BK	KS	FKV	H×	Effect	Type	Sound
Throw
Throw	0	13.0%		Forward	85	62	0	0.0×			Fire
Break	0	8.0%		Forward	100	10	0	0.0×			Kick

Timing

Rising

The move enables ledge grabs from the front starting on frame 20, and from behind starting on frame 37. Captain Falcon can also fast fall as early as frame 50.

To B-reverse the move, the control stick has to be held backward on frame 14.

Optional reverse	14
Early grab	14
Late grab	15-30
Animation length	66

Throw

The throw portion enables ledge grabs from the front starting on frame 61.

Hitbox	2-3
Throw release	17
Interruptible	40
Animation length	71

Landing

Interruptible	25
Animation length	35

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

State change

Grab

Interruptible

Parameters

Horizontal speed multiplier	1.1 (grounded) 0.95 (aerial)
Horizontal speed limit	6
Gravity	0.103
Stick sensitivity to reverse	0.25
Helplessness air speed multiplier	0.7
Helplessness landing lag	24 frames

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 · Pummel · Forward throw · Back throw · Up throw · Down throw
Floor attack (front) · Floor attack (back) · Floor attack (trip) · Edge attack
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash