Luigi (SSBU)/Side special

Hitbox visualization showing Luigi's side special, Green Missile.

Hitbox visualization showing Luigi's side special, Green Missile, when it misfires.

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Overview

Green Missile is by far Luigi's most situational move. The hitbox covers his neck, face and upper torso, but does not completely cover his head, making the move easy to intercept, especially with disjointed attacks. Due to his poor air speed, Luigi will often have to use it when trying to recover, making his recovery somewhat predictable. It can be charged and, at full charge, it travels at a long distance and deals high damage and knockback.

By using a smash input, it gains a bit of charge by default.

The move has a 10% chance of misfiring. This makes the move faster and stronger, and the hitbox covers more of Luigi's torso. However, it does not give any height, making it easy to get stuck under the stage after its use.

Above a certain speed, it has a 50% of getting Luigi stuck into a wall. The minimum speed is very low and possible to reach with a smash input. When inside the wall, Luigi is completely vulnerable for 91 frames (just above a second and a half).

Update History

2.0.0

• Green Missile has one less frame of ending lag.

Hitboxes

Without a misfire, the move's true base damage is specified in its parameters, and ranges from 6% to 21% based on charge. More specifically, its base damage is equal to 6 + 15 * (charge frames / 90). A smash input causes the move to start off with 20 charge frames.

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
Regular (early)
0	0	0	10.0%	4.0		Speed-based	30	80	0		4.8	neck	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.2×	1.0×	0%							Fire		No floor	All
Regular (late)
0	0	0	10.0%	4.0		Speed-based	30	80	0		4.8	neck	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.2×	1.0×	0%							Fire		All	All
Misfire (early)
0	0	0	25.0%	4.0		Speed-based	20	100	0		5.5	neck	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.2×	1.0×	0%							Fire		No floor	All
Misfire (late)
0	0	0	25.0%	4.0		Speed-based	20	100	0		5.5	neck	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.2×	1.0×	0%							Fire		All	All

Timing

Missile

The move allows Luigi to land starting from frame 31 onward, skipping its remaining active frames in the process; when used on flat ground, Luigi usually lands on frame 55, allowing it to be interrupted on frame 95. Likewise, it skips to frame 61 upon hitting an opponent, or a wall if Luigi does not get stuck on it. Jostling is also disabled from frame 22 onward.

Charges between	17-18
Intangibility	18-22
Hitboxes (regular; early, late)	22-24, 25-60
Hitboxes (misfire; early, late)	22-27, 28-60
Interruptible (grounded)	100
Interruptible (aerial)	80
Animation length (grounded)	99
Animation length (aerial)	84

Grounded, regular
Aerial, regular
Grounded, misfire
Aerial, misfire
Luigi

Wall stick

Animation length	91

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Charge interval

Hitbox

Vulnerable

Intangible

Interruptible

Parameters

Horizontal speed multiplier on startup	0.8
Friction during startup and charge	0.02
Gravity during startup and charge	0.05
Total charge time	90 frames
Starting charge with smash input	20 frames
Maximum hold time before automatic cancel	150 frames
Misfire chance	10%
Base damage	6% to 21%
Initial horizontal speed on release	1.4 to 2.65 (normal) 3 (misfired)
Initial vertical speed on release	0.4 to 0.8 (normal) 0.34 (misfired)
Minimum horizontal speed for wall stick	1.8
Wall stick chance	50%
Gravity on release	0.008
Fall speed on release	1.2
Friction on ending	0.07
Gravity on ending	0.1

Trivia

• The scripts for the regular version of the move have a ledge grab window for both sides set to activate from frame 39 onward. However, for unknown reasons, it does not actually take effect in-game.

Luigi'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
Down taunt