Piranha Plant (SSBU)/Dash attack

Hitbox visualization showing Piranha Plant's dash attack.

Overview

Piranha Plant lunges forward with a 'dropkick', utilizing its pot/pipe to do so. Dash attack provides great use for Piranha Plant, as it is fast, covers a fair distance, and the high hitbox placement allows it to be used effectively as an anti-air. This makes it a good long-ranged punish tool for when Piranha Plant is not in range to hit with its lower ranged moves, and Ptooie is too slow. It also fares well in tech chases, as it has a second hitbox that hits low enough to hit knocked down opponents (although against certain opponents, it may whiff instead). It is also good at crossing up shields when done correctly, and can typically be safe on shield if crossed up, especially when accounting its extra shield damage and stun multipliers, although opponents with disjoints may be able to punish. While it does lack kill power, it is very good at resetting neutral or setting up an edgeguard. Overall, it is considered one of Piranha Plant's best moves, due to its fast speed, ability to be safe on shield, and its ability to punish when most other moves cannot.

Update history

4.0.0

• Dash attack launches at a lower angle (55° → 45°), improving its edgeguarding and KO potential.

Hitboxes

The scripts use a shieldstun multiplier function that takes in two hitbox IDs, but ID 0 is assigned to both. However, due to a glitch with shieldstun multipliers, it applies to the ID 1 hitbox regardless.

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	Shieldstun
Clean hit
0	0	0	10.0%	1.0		Forward	100	43	0		5.3	potc	-5.0	0.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All							1.3×
1	0	0	10.0%	1.0		Forward	100	43	0		4.0	top	0.0	11.0 to 5.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All							—
Late hit
0	0	0	7.0%	1.0		Forward	100	43	0		5.3	potc	-5.0	0.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All							1.3×
1	0	0	7.0%	1.0		Forward	100	43	0		4.0	top	0.0	11.0 to 5.0	-2.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All							—

Timing

Clean hit	7-9
Late hit	10-14
Interruptible	48
Animation length	57

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Interruptible

Piranha Plant's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 3 · inf) · Forward tilt (1 · 2) · 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 · Footstooled attack
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash