Recently I've been toying around with a little thing I noticed back in Brawl:
Jump off-stage and then bank the boomerang off the ledge so that it will fly behind Link and then off-screen.
Right now I've just been trying to master the timing so that it rebounds at the angles I want.
Although it's (obviously) situational I feel like the windbox would be something useful for interrupting recovery attempts from the opponent if they're at ledge height or lower.
In practicing it this morning I was able to get the boomerang to rebound and travel off-screen:
A) Perfectly Horizontally
B) Diagonally Downwards (~20-30 degree angle from horizontal)
C) Diagonally Upwards (~20 degree angle above horizontal)
Those angle measurements are just eyeball approximations of course, but the angle is notable.
You can also bank it down below or up above the stage at angles of ~80-90 degrees for upwards rebound direction and ~80-100 degrees for downwards rebound direction (in this case, angles >90 (obviously) cause the boomerang to continue forward slightly in the direction thrown).
For the steeper rebound angles the boomerang does return though, the steep upwards I don't think is useful at all, while the steep downwards might be useful if you wanted to pull the opponent back up for an aerial or something.
Of course the thicker the ledge the easier it is to do this, I found:
- Battlefield's ledge was quite unforgiving, quite hard to bank the boomerang horizontally without it sliding under the stage.
- Fairly consistent results on FD, Town and City, and Smashville ("consistent" meaning I was able to bank the boomerang as I desired fairly frequently)
- Consistency on Omega stages varies depending on the FD design, those with walls (all the way down to the lower blast zone) are obviously easy because you can just throw it anywhere at the wall for it to rebound.
- I found Omega Isle Delfino to be pretty nice for banking the boomerang at desired angles, it's ledge is pretty thick. I have yet to try it on vanilla Isle Delfino although I doubt it will be practical to attempt given the thinness of the base platform/ledge.
So yeah just a thing, let me know what you think~