Lucina (SSBU)/Neutral aerial

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Hitbox visualization showing Lucina's neutral aerial.

Overview

Lucina's Neutral Aerial is one of her fastest aerials and a very fast move overall (out at frame 6).

It is also one of her most versatile moves, with excellent shield safety (hits are -4 and -3 on shield respectively), but also great KO potential compared to the rest of her kit (killing a midweight like Chrom around 100% at Battlefield's ledge) ; on top of that, if hit while falling, the first hit can confirm into a forward tilt and even a forward smash at all percents, which might be her best kill confirm overall.

However, this move can be a bit unreliable in some situations, most importantly when used while rising from a full hop opponents can fall out of hit (get hit by the first hit but not the second one). Less importantly, the hitboxes behind lucina hit pretty high up, making it almost impossible to hit a grounded opponent with them, making the move less useful out of shield (specifially against crossups) than it may seem.

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
Hit 1
0	0	0	4.275%	0		Standard	45	50	0		3.8	sword1	1.0	-1.3	1.6	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	4.275%	0		Standard	45	50	0		4.0	armr	-1.5	1.0	-1.5	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
2	0	0	4.275%	0		Standard	35	50	0		3.3	sword1	1.0	-1.3	7.2	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
Hit 2
0	0	0	8.55%	0		Standard	55	95	0		3.8	sword1	1.2	-1.1	1.5	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
1	0	0	8.55%	0		Standard	55	95	0		4.0	armr	-2.0	1.0	-1.6	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All
2	0	0	8.55%	0		Standard	55	95	0		3.4	sword1	0.8	-1.1	7.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Slash		All	All

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1
Hit 1	6-7
Hit 2	15-21
Ending autocancel	47-
Interruptible	50
Animation length	49

Landing lag

Interruptible	8
Animation length	27

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Autocancel

Interruptible

Lucina'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
Forward roll · Back roll · Spot dodge · Air dodge · Techs
Floor attack (front) · Floor getups (front) · Floor attack (back) · Floor getups (back) · Floor attack (trip) · Floor getups (trip)
Edge attack · Edge getups
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash