Falco's up-air

[FalconOwnage]

This move is very confusing.
Like Fox's up-air, it has 2 hits.
But when you get both hits, the enemy goes nowhere:
3:02 in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uHvwkpmXcg
Is there an explanation for this?

 

[Ersijo]

Yeah, fox's is better... You wanna hit with the last hit of the up air and at the tip of the hitbox (his foot)

 

[FalconOwnage]

But in the video, Westballz got both hits (you can tell by the sound of the move), so how come Samus went nowhere?

 

[djmath]

smash di probs, sourspot hitbox, samus jank

 

[Kadano]

http://www.ssbwiki.com/Falco_(SSBM)/Up_aerial

Added in the hitbox table for you. It’s just as @ Ersijo wrote; you need to hit with the foot, not the body. Whether you get the first hit or not does not directly affect the second hit hitbox you connect with.

 

[Nuttre]

I personally love this move, it feels like a better PAL sheik uair, and it is so stylish. It's a shame that the hitbox is so jank.

 

[Dubs_]

I personally love this move, it feels like a better PAL sheik uair, and it is so stylish. It's a shame that the hitbox is so jank.

Yea, definitely. It's got plenty of niche uses for combo-ing at lower percentages. In particular, Zhu uses it a lot to reset opponents when they're trapped on a platform, and he used to mix in u-air -> shine during his pillars.
To me, it's ambiguous as to when it's better to u-air as opposed to d-air, as Falco is usually put in favorable situations either way. However, I absolutely love chaining in a u-air when I take an opponent up to a platform.

 

[SomethingRaven]

I also love falco's u-air. Those 2 hits boxs in the video are the weaker ones but if you can connect the tip of falcos foot on the second hitbox it'll send them in a weird direction either to the right or left. It also isn't very hard to follow up on so I use it a good bit.

 

[mattmog12]

Yea, definitely. It's got plenty of niche uses for combo-ing at lower percentages. In particular, Zhu uses it a lot to reset opponents when they're trapped on a platform, and he used to mix in u-air -> shine during his pillars.
To me, it's ambiguous as to when it's better to u-air as opposed to d-air, as Falco is usually put in favorable situations either way. However, I absolutely love chaining in a u-air when I take an opponent up to a platform.

In my experience (at least against a fox), pillaring with short hop dair --> shine stops working at about 50%. At this percent, if you want to extend the combo past an easy bair from here you need to go for either a short hop uair or weak hit bair into another shine/uptilt. This and up airs under platforms are about all i find use for unless i hit a floatie with a shine and need to kill off the top. But the short hop upair at like 50% is SO smooth and you win the swag battle right there if you can follow up after.