Snake (SSBU)/Up aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Snake's up aerial.

Overview

Snake performs an upwards dropkick. It deals strong vertical knockback and is a reliable KO move at high percentages, especially if converted into from Snake's explosives, while it also possesses fast startup for its power, coming out on frame 10. Additionally, it has great disjointed reach, as its hitboxes extend much higher than Snake's feet, and the move has a long duration, similarily to his back aerial. Unlike several of Snake's other aerials, it auto-cancels in a short hop, making it safer to use as a rising aerial than Snake's other aerial attacks, and it even shifts his hurtbox, enabling him to avoid certain attacks that would have otherwise hit him.

The move also has decent combo potential when used as a landing aerial. It can combo into up tilt at low percentages with its clean hit, can combo into up tilt with its late hit at mid percentages, and can combo into a reverse aerial rush sweetspotted back aerial at mid to high percentages if done in a short hop fast fall, the latter of which can act as a possible KO confirm near the side blast zones (although this is rather niche).

It does have a few shortcomings. Like many of Snake's other moves, it has high ending lag, which can make it unsafe if whiffed or when not not used as a falling aerial. Along with this, despite its decent utility for combos when used as a landing aerial, the move can be difficult to land on grounded opponents due to the hitboxes being placed highly above Snake's legs. This can make it somewhat inconsistent for confirms, particularly on smaller characters.

Overall, Snake's up aerial is an attack with great utility and relatively few downsides compared to Snake's other aerials.

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
Clean hit
0	0	0	14.0%	0		Standard	65	72	0		4.0	top	0.0	15.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
1	0	0	14.0%	0		Standard	65	72	0		4.0	top	0.0	18.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
2	0	0	14.0%	0		Standard	65	72	0		4.0	top	0.0	21.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
Late hit
0	0	0	10.0%	0		Standard	10	95	0		4.0	top	0.0	15.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
1	0	0	10.0%	0		Standard	10	95	0		4.0	top	0.0	18.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
2	0	0	10.0%	0		Standard	10	95	0		4.0	top	0.0	21.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-4
Clean hit	10-12
Late hit	13-23
Ending autocancel	36-
Interruptible	48
Animation length	57

Landing lag

Interruptible	16
Animation length	31

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Autocancel

Interruptible

Snake's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 3) · 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
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash
Up taunt · Side taunt · Down taunt