Charizard (SSB4)/Neutral aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Charizard's neutral aerial.

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Overview

Somersaults to strike with its tail. Like forward tilt, its sweetspot is at the tip of Charizard's tail and has a flame effect. It has the second lowest amount of start-up lag out of Charizard's aerials, can auto-cancel with a short hop, and is tied with up aerial for having the lowest amount of landing lag out of Charizard's aerials. All of these traits make it a useful approach option. However, its average knockback growth makes it Charizard's most ineffective aerial in regard to KOing, as its sweetspot does not KO middleweights until 156% while near the left/right blast lines.

Update history

1.0.6

• Startup lag/duration (frames 8-28 → 9-25).
• Hitbox sizes (4u/4u/4u/4u/4u → 3.5u/3u/1.5u/3.5u).
  • However, these altered hitboxes give neutral aerial much more consistent range, with the sweetspot becoming drastically easier to land in particular.

1.1.4

• Damage (10% → 12%). Its knockback scaling was mostly compensated (90 → 78).
• Landing lag (22 frames → 20).

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			SDIx	H×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Type	Effect	G	A	Sound	Direct
0	0	12%	0		30	78	0	3.5	1006	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Burn
1	0	9%	0		30	78	0	3.0	1004	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Kick
2	0	9%	0		30	78	0	1.5	1005	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Kick
3	0	9%	0		30	78	0	3.5	1003	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Kick

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-3
Hitboxes	9-25
Ending autocancel	31-
Animation length	59

Landing lag

Animation length	20

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Autocancel

Interruptible

Charizard's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 3) · 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 (def · c1 · c2) · Side special (def · c1 · c2) · Up special (def · c1 · c2) · Down special (def · c1 · c2) · Final Smash