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How does priority work in this game?

Silk

Smash Apprentice
Joined
Jul 28, 2003
Messages
102
When browsing the boards here I notice a few posts talking the "priority" of certain moves and the such, and I'm wondering if the priority in this game functions differently then Melee's?

I get confused because of this section:

It is a common misconception that attacks are given priority independent of the damage they deal - for example, many people consider Captain Falcon's Raptor Boost to have "low priority". However, such attacks simply seem to have "high" or "low" priority relative to the favorability of their hitboxes - attacks with small or late hitboxes often appear to get "out-prioritised" by other attacks, when, in reality, the wielders of these hitboxes are often hit by their opponents' before they are able to connect with them.

Characters' whole movesets are also often described as having "good" or "bad" priority. Again, this is technically incorrect, because, with the exception of transcendent priority, priority itself is not an independent value.


So are moves assigned individual priority in this game or is it duplicate to Melee's?

If it is, are there any moves with transcendent priority in this game?
 

dch111

Smash Journeyman
Joined
Jun 12, 2009
Messages
472
Same as Melee's. There is only one class of transcendent priority in this game and that is invincibility. For example, the first few frames of Jigglypuff's Rest makes her invincible. Other characters, or parts of their hitboxes, are invincible at certain times of certain moves. To see them all, you can download the hitbox cheat file or hitbox savestates which should be available in the index. The blue hitboxes are invincible.
 

Silk

Smash Apprentice
Joined
Jul 28, 2003
Messages
102
Same as Melee's. There is only one class of transcendent priority in this game and that is invincibility. For example, the first few frames of Jigglypuff's Rest makes her invincible. Other characters, or parts of their hitboxes, are invincible at certain times of certain moves. To see them all, you can download the hitbox cheat file or hitbox savestates which should be available in the index. The blue hitboxes are invincible.
Thanks that was informative
 
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