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Press the A button real fast....some floaty characters can easily get out of his rapid jab, luigi and yoshi for example, they can even interrupt it with an nair, so sometimes is just better to go for jab 1 then grab or tilt
Ground spacing with Dtilt, Ftilt, and jab. Dtilt is overall the safest and most rewarding, but it only works on the ground, so if your opponent is airborne for whatever reason i.e. Link doing a dash attack or Fox jumping to do a Bair, it's not going to work. Ftilt covers good horizontal range, can be angled to anti-air or "anti-crouch" or start a lock after someone misses a tech. The only issue with Ftilt is its low knockback at low percents. Perfect pivoting either of these will allow Falco to quickly retreat or advance with them. Jab works well, but because of how it was transitioned from Brawl to Smash 4, it's not as safe; +5 total frames to jab 1, +7 frames to jab 2, and +2 to +4 frames between jab 2 to rapid jab's transition more or less destroys Falco against characters who have frame 5 or below moves like Luigi's Nair or Captain Falcon's jab where they can hit through you if you hesitate between doing a jab mix-up or full jab combo.
Aside from Falco Phase, Down Smash, and maybe Up Smash - both involving his legs being partially invincible -, Falco doesn't have anything that's intangible. With moves that have hurtboxes and hitboxes, so basically anything that doesn't involve a weapon or is not specified like Falco's Side Smash being transcendent or Down Smash having partial intangibility frames, it's normal for the recovery part of a move to be hit as it no longer has an active hitbox. The only issue if for whatever reason, the hurtbox is lagging behind the animation or is stretched out for some reason like in the case of Samus's Ftilt or Marth and Lucina's Shield Breaker.
Fair is just slightly disjointed while Fair's landing hit doesn't even match the animation - it's probably his aerial Fair hitbox in length, but looks longer because of Falco's landing position.
Shaya
pretty much covered most of it, but I think his most important is his bair.
Patch 1.1.1 made jab 1 into pre-1.1.1 Dtilt, it's -10 like a spaced pre-1.1.1 Dtilt and now, Dtilt is even better on shield; it's -5 instead of -9. Also, hilariously, Dair is -7 after shield drop. You're never going to land that in neutral, but it's kind of stupid how it's as safe as Ftilt. Incidentally, this makes Dair on shield safer at below 50% which is when it starts being -7 on-hit; at 0%, Dair is -24. As for Uair and Bair which were safe-ish on-shield, Uair is -1, clean Bair is +1, and late Bair is -2. Have fun, everyone.
Some setups, not sure if gaurenteed.
Shaya
brought up a good point about offstage. I think falco has a very good edgeguard game and perfecting it would be rly beneficial. Ive had Sourpot dair to nair work before and kamikaze gimp characters like fox. I feel theres more than can be improved here.
tibs7
it means empty jump bair
What Gamegenie said. Also, I think battleaxe is a empty full hop... I don't know why these terms exist and I'm sure tomahawks and battleaxes aren't supposed to be thrown in arcs like that and "full hops" make no sense since we can only hop or jump in Smash... Empty hops and empty jumps are much simpler. RAR is also an unnecessary term. If I tell you to Bair someone, I don't need to tell you that you need to Bair someone... Unless you're playing as a character with multiple hitboxes on their Bair like Sheik, it's common sense that you will figure out that you need to somehow face away to do a back-hitting move. Pivot Bair would be fine compared to RAR (reverse aerial rush) Bair. I don't know where that "rush" comes from and "aerial" becomes redundant.
I actually do this for edgeguarding and ive caught a lot of people with it. Theyll either airdodge the laser and be in position for my offense with fair,nair or dair, or they can get hit and jump which becomes like a 50/50 if i predict theyll jump.
Its more a mix up. When u short hop u could go for the bair or land and short hop again or dash grab or pivot slide dtilt if what im thinking is right.
It is decent. Though I am not too sure how it affects his neutral but you can grab during the slide which does offer mixups. I got it from this video from McDareth at around the 3 minute mark he uses Falco and you can see that he travels a bit with the pivot.
Its a good mixup but, i think its better to go for the guaranteed % always...Adding to the cause, i once saw a video dont remember who, its was on a stage with plataform, smashvill i think, he did and Fthrow and then full hoped into laser, his opponent landed in the plataform and the laser hit him causing a jablock effect, then falco upsmashed or something, cool mixupTried to find some uses for fthrow on stage. I think we can set up for great damage with it.
Example I tried on Sonic. Starting at 36% no rage fthrow will cause a tumble state, I believe this a forced tech situation if they di down like u would for dthrow. I would walk up and strong dtilt at the exact time theyre supposed to tech. if they miss the tech i can combo dilt to uair fair and depending %,di, stage position i think this could kill. If they tech in place I THINK you can mash ur 2 frame start up jab and catch them. if they tech away, depending stage position u can catch them with a walk up tilt,laser or reflector. If they tech behind again i think u can catch them if the dtilt is positioned for a tipper.
Why do this over u throw uair/bair? When I was testing with sonic uthrow uair is all i could rly get at the percent. With fthrow if what i said above is correct ur options are covered and u can still get the same damage if not better if they miss a tech.
Also fthrow/dthrow would make an interest di mixup if they expect an fthrow but you dthrow into reverse uairs
All theory right now
