Ness (SSBB)/Down aerial

Hitbox visualization showing Ness's down aerial.

Overview

Ness performs a stomp attack below him. The move has a decent amount of startup, somewhat high ending lag, and some landing lag (the highest out of all his aerials) so this can be a risky move to use. On the other hand, it auto-cancels the entire time there is no hitbox, which is a step above most other aerials. The down aerial functions as Ness' meteor smash to edgeguard and has very high base knockback making it a powerful tool off stage especially against characters who have poor meteor cancel windows such as Wolf, but has low knockback scaling, so it cannot KO until 200% on grounded opponents. It also has a late hit which sends opponents at the Sakurai angle and deals less damage but it still has high base knockback and it KOs grounded opponents earlier.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			SDIx	H×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Type	Effect	G	A	Sound	Direct
Clean hit
0	0	12%	0		90	70	0	6.5424	16	0.8	0.8	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Punch
Late hit
0	0	9%	0		90	70	0	6.5424	16	0.8	0.8	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Punch

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-19
Clean hit	20-23
Late hit	24-28
Ending autocancel	29-
Animation length	59

Landing lag

Animation length	28

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Autocancel

Ness's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 3) · 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 (fast) · Edge getups (fast) · Edge attack (slow) · Edge getups (slow)
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash