Falco (SSB4)/Up special/Default

Hitbox visualization showing Falco's Fire Bird.

Overview

Falco performs the Fire Bird, cloaking himself in fire, before launching off in any direction. It is a very poor recovery move, having long startup, small and weak hitboxes, and when compared to Fox's Fire Fox, it travels noticeably less distance. Due to these traits, Falco becomes very susceptible to gimping, and combined with his side special also being an easily telegraphed recovery move, Falco's recovery is quite weak.

Fire Bird can be mixed up somewhat, via altering angles slightly or b-reversing the move to shift momentum during the start, thus being able to possibly dodge attacks. Fire Bird as an attack is very weak, with poorly connecting multi-hits and a final hit that has very weak knockback growth, and thus is generally never used as an attack.

Hitboxes

Looping hit hits up to 7 times.

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			SDIx	H×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Type	Effect	G	A	Sound	Direct
Charge (hits 1-7)
0	0	2%	0		40	40	0	6.0	0	0.0	8.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Burn
Attack (hit 1 (clean))
0	0	3%	0		30	50	0	4.0	3	4.2	-3.1	-1.5	0.8x	1.0x	0%							Burn
Attack (hit 1 (late) + hits 2-7)
0	0	2%	0		30	50	0	4.0	3	4.2	-3.1	-1.5	0.8x	1.0x	0%							Burn
Attack (hit 8)
0	0	2%	0		70	90	0	10.0	3	4.2	-3.1	-1.5	0.8x	1.0x	0%							Kick

Timing

Looping hits (Charge)	20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32
Hit 1 (Attack)	43-46
Looping hits (Attack)	47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59
Final hit	61
Animation length	90

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Falco's moveset

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