Piranha Plant (SSBU)/Up tilt

Hitbox visualization showing Piranha Plant's up tilt.

Overview

Piranha Plant shakes its head quickly upward. The move comes out fairly fast, and lingers long without a late hit, which, when combined with the head intangibility, makes the move a potent anti-air. At very early percents, it is negative on hit, although can possibly lead into a grab if the opponent uses a slow option to attempt to hit Piranha Plant. At slightly higher percents, it can combo into itself, or forward tilt, and can combo into aerials at mid to high percents. At much higher percents, the sweetspot is able to kill, killing around the same percents as its up throw, without DI. It is also able to reach the lower platforms of Battlefield, making it a decent sharking tool occasionally.

However, this move is not without its flaws. As mentioned before, it is unsafe on hit at very early percents, which prevents it being able to be used effectively until it gains hit advantage. Secondly, it has somewhat high endlag, and lacks horizontal range especially below, making it risky to use if the opponent isn't approaching vertically. Another issue with the move is that the sourspot on the stem has priority over the head hitbox, which can lead to it being even less safe on hit, and make the move kill inconsistently too. It is best suited as an anti-air mostly, as a result.

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
0	0	0	7%	0		Standard	55	100	0		3.5	0x0b248e586b	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Punch		All	All
1	0	0	7%	0		Standard	55	100	0		3.5	0x0bbd8709d1	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Punch		All	All
2	0	0	7%	0		Standard	55	100	0		3.5	0x0bca803947	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Punch		All	All
3	0	0	9%	0		Standard	28	120	0		6.0	mouth	2.0	0.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Punch		All	All

Timing

Hitboxes	8-15
Interruptible	32
Animation length	55

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

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