Lucas (SSBU)/Down aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Lucas's down aerial.

Overview

Lucas performs 4 PSI-infused foot pokes downwards. The move's final hit is a moderately powerful meteor smash. Its decently-sized hitboxes and high duration make the move useful to use off stage. Combined with the disjoint of the move, this makes it reliable at catching a number or characters during their recovery. Down aerial is also able to drag grounded opponents off stage thanks to its autolink angle. Thanks to changes to grounded meteor smashes, down aerial can also start combos reliably and even link into itself multiple times as detailed below.

D-air Loops

D-air Loops is a technique that can be performed by chaining together Lucas's down aerial on grounded opponents and when performed properly, will provide high damage output, lead to kill confirms (such as his Forward Smash, Forward Aerial, and Up Aerial depending on the percentage), and cannot be SDI'ed out of. It can be performed on the majority of the cast.

How to perform

Opponents will need to be around mid-high percentages (this is dependent on a character's weight) and the terrain needs to be flat for this technique to work. Repeatedly short hop d-air while moving left or right to follow opponents.

Update History

2.0.0

• Down aerial has gained the electric effect.
  • This means Yellow Pikmin are now invulnerable to the move.

Hitboxes

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
Hits 1-3
0	0	0	3.5%	0		Standard	42	10	0		4.2	top	0.0	-4.0	0.3	0.66×	1.0×	0%							Magic		All	All
1	0	0	3.5%	0		Standard	0	100	20		3.2	top	0.0	1.0	0.3	0.66×	1.0×	0%							Magic		All	All
Hit 4
0	0	0	5.0%	0		Standard	10	110	0		5.5	top	0.0	-4.0	0.3	0.66×	1.0×	0%							Magic		All	All
1	0	0	5.0%	0		Forward	10	130	0		3.5	top	0.0	1.0	0.3	0.66×	1.0×	0%							Magic		All	All

Timing

Attack

Hits 1-3	10-12, 18-20, 26-28
Hit 4	34-35
Ending autocancel	47-
Interruptible	57
Animation length	60

Landing lag

Interruptible	17
Animation length	26

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Autocancel

Interruptible

Lucas'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 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