Niktia missle hitbox: a speculation thread

[Ebonyks]

A picture from the dojo today appears to show the Nikita missile in action today

http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/gamemode/various/images/various19/various19_071217h-l.jpg

It's difficult to tell from that picture, but the hit box of the explosion looks absolutely massive. Do you fellow smashers believe that's the animation for an exploding target, or the actual missile? If it's the missile, it could have significant implications for the design of snake's character in brawl

[icethatclimbs]

hopefully that is mostly the explosion and not that target

[Cereal Rabbit]

Maybe the explosion is big, but the hitbox is Samus Missle sized.

[Archenyte]

i think it's the explosion, but the missile is still pretty small and you need the missile to hit them for it to explode so it wouldn't make a very big difference in 1vs1

[=Snake=]

The Nikita has a speed delay on it allowing an easier rate of maneuverability, if you control its direction the missile slows its thrust to a gentle crawl, but as you allow the missile to move in an unassisted straight line its speed increases. A slow missile probably does about as much damage as Samus's arm rocket, but I'd say a missile fired in a straight line with little to no assistance by the player would result in an explosion rivaling the bob-omb.

[Pyr0]

If its the explosion, we could just shoot the Nikita missle at the ground or a platform (to maximize the spheare-shaped blast radius.

So we get a nice Area of damage attack.

Im confident to say that the Nikita will play a nice part in mastering Snake.