Does D-Air beat MK's Up-B?

[HeroMystic]

Let me just first say that this MK was bad. The player who was playing MK isn't a very good one. He complains about my projectile spamming and how I do it too much, and then we had a match where I threw no projectiles at all, and I -still- won with 2 stock out of 3 left.

With that in mind, during one of our fights, he tried to set up a shuttle loop by doing a U-throw. I decided not to DI away from it and just did D-air, and suddenly the D-air worked.

I don't use Link against MK much, so I'm curious if this always works, or if it was due to the player's suckiness?

 

[ArdeS]

I'm 90% sure that Link's Dair beats MK's UpB. It's a great move.

 

[sasook]

Dunno really, but the dair has insane priority. Only a few moves can go through it, like Olimar's upsmash, and MAYBE ranged attacks, like ZSS's upsmash/upb.

 

[4Serial]

i dunno why people are always saying the d-air has insane priority
i always have some really bull**** moves beating it like pit's u-air.
I wouldn't risk going off the edge purposely and trying to d-air MK, because the hitbox of the move is pathetic, and if he gets you from the side with a reverse shuttle loop or something, you're pretty much screwed.

 

[sasook]

i dunno why people are always saying the d-air has insane priority
i always have some really bull**** moves beating it like pit's u-air.
I wouldn't risk going off the edge purposely and trying to d-air MK, because the hitbox of the move is pathetic, and if he gets you from the side with a reverse shuttle loop or something, you're pretty much screwed.

Oh, guess I was wrong then. But no one mentioned anything about edgeguarding with the dair.

 

[•Col•]

Oh, guess I was wrong then. But no one mentioned anything about edgeguarding with the dair.

Yes they have... That's one thing about the dair now, you can jump off the stage with it for edgeguarding and still recover...

 

[sasook]

Yes they have... That's one thing about the dair now, you can jump off the stage with it for edgeguarding and still recover...

I meant in this particular topic, no one has brought up 'jumping off the edge to use dair' before 4Serial, so it was kind of random.

 

[Link_hero_Tubs]

to answer the question .. yes dair beats shuttleloop but only if he flies up into it. if he get hit its cuz he got u from the side and .. well you prolly deserved it for missing the legendary dair. and yes dair does insane priority, sometimes it takes a lil timing but for the most part its one of the moves that link was blessed with to keep him from being a total piece of crap

 

[HeroMystic]

So basically D-air beats Metaknight's Up-B but only from the bottom. Hmmm... I guess it's not very reliable against reverse shuttle loops then. Better stick to air dodging.

 

[4Serial]

also, you can never be too sure of it, but mk's up+b is really fast, and link's d-air comes out semi slow.....

 

[Deva]

let me put it like this, MK ***** Link. Spam Dair and you sometimes win o_0