Marth (SSBU)/Side special

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Hitbox Visual Table

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Up
Side
Down

Overview

Dancing Blade can be used to end combos. It is also tied with the fastest neutral air for Marth's third fastest out of shield option, however his fastest option is his up special dolphin slash (which, if whiffed, makes Marth highly vulnerable and so is not always the right answer). His second fastest option is the fastest up air, which is only one frame faster, and in any case grounded out of shield options never impose the additional difficulty of buffering the fastest aerial. The down-angle ender provides the most damage. The true draw to Dancing Blade, however, is its potential to kill early. Delay the straight-angle fourth hit for the greatest likelihood of killing, but do not expect results instantly. The nature of rage and directional influence make finding consistent setups difficult. Therefore, it is advisable to start with a low amount of delay, and try to simply make the straight-angle fourth hit land regardless of whether the tipper hits. If one finds the straight-angle fourth hit whiffs even at the fastest timings, switch to using only upward-angled variations. Although, at this point, one is likely also fishing for kills, in which case please consider using forward tilt as a grounded alternative.

At the ledge, another setup is purposely using only the first three hits, and baiting an air dodge towards the stage and up-smashing on reaction. Theoretically, this works at any point where the straight-angled final hit of Dancing Blade might kill, but this requires an unrealistic amount of conditioning to assume an opponent might air dodge towards Marth at a location on stage besides the corner.

When edgeguarding, Marth can use Dolphin Slash to look for stage spikes. Using a single hit of Dancing Blade to attack a wall-riding recoverer accomplishes both the purpose of making sure you're facing the right way (recalling that an improperly oriented Dolphin Slash provides very little room for error when recovering) and the purpose of mixing up your opponent's tech input timing, which can cause them to instead buffer an air dodge which can lock your opponents out of being able to recover.

This same single hit of Dancing Blade towards the stage, when not used to attack your opponents offstage, is a way of turning Marth around so he is positioned well to use back air, which is a move that catches many recoverers of many heights since back air's active hitbox moves parallel with Marth rather than not at all (as is the case with neutral air) or antiparallel (as is the case with forward air).

Without mixing up solely the timing of the Dolphin Slash (which can result in Marth dangerously misplacing himself above the ledge), his recovery timing can be predictable. Therefore, notice Marth can use a single hit of Dancing Blade to delay the decay of his aerial momentum. This can provide a mix-up against opponents such as Steve or Sephiroth, whose edgeguards often involve placing a large vertical hitbox at or just off the ledge.

This reduction of aerial momentum prevents Marth from threatening a large amount of space using any fullshotting techniques, since these techniques often make use of maintaining lateral momentum. Therefore, if already on stage, please consider only using the grounded version of Dancing Blade.

Warning: It is tempting to try to use Marth's Dancing Blade in the sense of a https://streetfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Rekkaken. Consider the opponent's potential decision-making process. Any hit of Dancing Blade is at best -16 on shield, which is slower than almost every grab and certainly slower than any out of shield option. Therefore, Marth cannot perform anything that beats shielding that cannot be reacted to. So, the only move that is safe enough to follow up any non-terminal hit of Dancing Blade is the subsequent hit, of which there are only so many. The basic reason this article opens with describing Dancing Blade as a move for ending combos or as an out of shield option is because it is difficult to use in neutral. Therefore, please avoid using Dancing Blade in neutral.

Hitboxes

First Hit

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
First Hit
0	0	0	2.5%	0		Standard	25	30	0		6.5	top	0.0	9.0	13.0	0.5×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	25	30	0		5.5	top	0.0	9.0	16.0	0.5×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
2	0	0	2.5%	0		Standard	25	30	0		6.5	top	0.0	9.0	8.0	0.5×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
It uses weight-independent knockback.

Second Hits

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
Angled High
0	0	0	2.5%	0		Standard	30	30	0		4.5	top	0.0	6.0 to 16.0	12.5	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	30	30	0		3.0	top	0.0	6.0 to 18.0	16.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
2	0	0	2.5%	0		Standard	30	30	0		4.5	top	0.0	9.0	8.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
Angled Straight
0	0	0	2.5%	1.0		Standard	30	25	0		6.5	top	0.0	9.0	13.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	3.0%	1.0		Standard	30	25	0		5.5	top	0.0	9.0	18.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Marth Hit		All	All
2	0	0	2.5%	1.0		Standard	30	25	0		4.5	top	0.0	9.0	8.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
Both variants use weight-independent knockback.

Third Hits

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
Angled High
0	0	0	3.0%	1.0		Standard	30	55	0		4.5	top	0.0	6.0 to 15.0	9.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	4.0%	1.0		Standard	55	30	0		3.0	top	0.0	6.0 to 16.0	12.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Marth Hit		All	All
2	0	0	3.0%	1.0		Standard	55	50	0		4.5	top	0.0	9.0 to 11.0	3.5	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
Angled Straight
0	0	0	3.0%	1.0		Standard	55	30	0		6.5	top	0.0	9.0 to 11.0	12.5	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	4.0%	1		Standard	55	30	0		5.5	top	0.0	9.0 to 11.5	16.5	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Marth Hit		All	All
2	0	0	3.0%	1.0		Standard	55	30	0		5.5	top	0.0	9.0	8.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
Angled Low
0	0	0	3.0%	1.0		Standard	40	30	0		4.8	top	0.0	5.6 to 7.0	14.0 to 10.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	4.0%	1.0		Standard	40	30	0		3.0	top	0.0	4.0 to 7.0	19.0 to 10.0	0.7×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
All variants use weight-independent knockback.

Fourth Hits

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
Angled High
0	0	0	5.0%	1.0		Standard	85	40	0		4.5	top	0.0	6.0 to 21.0	10.5	1.0×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	7.0%	1.0		Standard	80	40	0		3.0	top	0.0	6.0 to 21.0	15.0	1.0×	0.8×	0%							Marth Hit		All	All
2	0	0	5.0%	1.0		Standard	85	40	0		4.0	top	0.0	21.0 to 24.0	11.0 to 4.0	1.0×	0.8×	0%							Slash		All	All
3	0	0	7.0%	1.0		Standard	80	40	0		3.0	top	0.0	23.0 to 27.0	14.0 to 4.0	1.0×	0.8×	0%							Marth Hit		All	All
Angled Straight
0	0	0	4.0%	1.0		Standard	74	103	0		8.0	top	0.0	9.0	11.7	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	6.0%	5.0		Standard	85	125	0		7.0	top	0.0	9.0	15.5	1.5×	1.0×	0%							Marth Hit		All	All
2	0	0	4.0%	5		Standard	74	103	0		7.0	top	0.0	9.0	5.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
Angled Low (Multihits, 4 iterations)
0	0	0	2.0%	1.0		Standard	2	20	0		5.0	top	0.0	6.0	11.0	0.5×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	2.0%	1.0		Standard	2	20	0		5.0	top	0.0	6.0	16.0	0.5×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
2	0	0	2.0%	0.0		Standard	2	20	0		5.0	top	0.0	6.0	6.0	0.5×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
Angled Low (Final Hit)
0	0	0	4.0%	1.0		Standard	57	90	0		5.0	top	0.0	7.0	11.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	5.0%	1.0		Standard	60	90	0		5.0	top	0.0	8.0	18.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Marth Hit		All	All
2	0	0	4.0%	0		Standard	57	90	0		4.5	top	0.0	5.0	5.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All

Timing

Hit 1

Hitboxes	9-11
Earliest continuable	12
Interruptible grounded	39
Interruptible aerial	29

Grounded

Aerial

Hit 2

Neutral hitboxes	5-7
Neutral earliest continuable	8
Neutral interruptible	38
Up	4-6
Up earliest continuable	8
Up interruptible	38

Neutral

Up

Hit 3

Neutral hitboxes	4-6
Neutral earliest continuable	7
Neutral interruptible	43
Up hitboxes	5-7
Up earliest continuable	8
Up interruptible	43
Down hitboxes	5-7
Down earliest contiuable	8
Down interruptible	44

Neutral

Up

Down

Hit 4

Neutral hitboxes	7-9
Neutral interruptible	58
Up hitboxes	6-10
Up interruptible	44
Down hitboxes	7/10/13/16/19-21
Down interruptible	71

Neutral

Up

Down

Trivia

• Despite being a straight angled attack in-game, the 2nd straight hit is referred to as AttackS2Lw in the game's scripts.

Marth's moveset

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