Kirby (SSBM)/Back aerial

Overview

Hitbox of Kirby's bair.

Kirby does a backwards drop kick with a relatively long-lasting hitbox and decent knockback, making it one of Kirby's best moves to use. This move is very useful for edgeguarding and it can be used to perform the Fence of Pain (a pseudo version of Jigglypuff's Wall of Pain) on opponents for a guaranteed gimp if done correctly. The Fence of Pain can be extremely useful for using it on characters with poor horizontal recovery, for example Roy or Falco. However, it is less effective against characters with better horizontal recoveries, and against characters like Jigglypuff, it is near ineffective.

Hitboxes

NTSC

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			Clang	Rebound	Effect	G	A	Sound
Clean
0	0	14%	0		10	100	0	6.319908	0	0.0	4.991868	-7.983864						Kick
1	0	14%	0		10	100	0	5.987898	0	0.0	4.991868	-3.327912						Kick
Late
0	0	10%	0		0	100	0	5.0778	0	0.0	4.991868	-7.983864						Kick
1	0	10%	0		0	100	0	4.2966	0	0.0	4.991868	-3.327912						Kick

PAL

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			Clang	Rebound	Effect	G	A	Sound
Clean
0	0	14%	0		10	100	0	6.319908	0	0.0	4.991868	-8.9838						Kick
1	0	14%	0		10	100	0	5.987898	0	0.0	4.991868	-3.327912						Kick
Late
0	0	10%	0		0	100	0	5.0778	0	0.0	4.991868	-8.9838						Kick
1	0	10%	0		0	100	0	4.2966	0	0.0	4.991868	-3.327912						Kick

Summary

• The foot hitboxes have been re-positioned (z offset: -8.176 → -9.2) giving the move more range.

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-5
Clean hit	6-8
Late hit	9-20
Ending autocancel	28-
Interruptible	36
Animation length	43

Landing lag

Animation length	15
L-cancelled animation length	7

Normal

L-cancelled

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Autocancel

Interruptible

Kirby'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) · Edge attack (fast) · Edge attack (slow)
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special