Hydrant "Hit points" vary

[ptrk83]

The hydrant's HP seems to change each round. Some rounds I can bare it right away and it goes flying.. Other times I need to bair and then forward tilt... All unstale... not sure why this is happening.. Anyone know?

 

[Splice]

Maybe it's the part of the hydrant you are hitting or the height that the hit is connecting?
It would suck if it's randomg @_@

 

[CCCM89]

you have to hit the sweetspot of the b-air.

 

[ptrk83]

^ no. I know how to hit it with the sweet spot. Sometimes it just doesn't break.

 

[Bumbler]

I was under the impression that you can only break the hydrant with a "fresh" bair (105% damage), so if you hit the opponent player with a bair then it loses it's extra damage and won't 1-shot the hydrant until it resets to fresh status. This is why it doesn't work in training mode, because move always do 100% damage in training

 

[AGES]

Varying hydrant HP would make sense, but I don't think I fully believe it yet, in the Japanese tech video it seems like this guy has full control over it http://youtu.be/H62WUC2eHPo?t=4m23s

I can't read Japanese, but at some point there it says 11.8%. Weird :/

 

[C_I_N]

I was under the impression that you can only break the hydrant with a "fresh" bair (105% damage), so if you hit the opponent player with a bair then it loses it's extra damage and won't 1-shot the hydrant until it resets to fresh status. This is why it doesn't work in training mode, because move always do 100% damage in training

I believe this is right, sweet spot unstale does the damage needed to 1 shot.

 

[Zage]

I believe this is right, sweet spot unstale does the damage needed to 1 shot.

Derp, didn't read the post. Yeah this seems to be the case.

 

[Nintendan]

As a quick BTW, fresh dairing the hydrant won't stale it, so you can drop as many hydrants and knock them away as long as you don't hit anyone with your dair.