Mario up+a? glitch?

[Pose]

So I'm playing Mario and whatever against my friend's fox, right. So I roll behind him and use up+a and it hits him (with Mario's cap to his neck) but he doesn't flinch or even move for that matter. Is this something common that I overlooked or is this not supposed to happen? It was on FD.


-Sorry for not mentioning, it was a smash a

 

[Pyrostormer]

It was a phantom.

 

[mood4food77]

i hate those things...especially withi powerful moves

 

[Pose]

Phantom? I'm guessing that's when a move is executed and connects but doesnt affect your target?

 

[Pine]

was the fox at low damage....cuz marios up smash has like not good knockback and at low damage especially on a fox he wont leave the ground....

just a thought

 

[Elen]

It's called a phantom hit. It happens when you hit someone with outer-most part of your hitbox. It does exactly half the damage it normally would and causes no knockback. Phantoms can happen with any move, with any character, except for grabs. Hope that helps ^.^

 

[wakerofthewinds]

Wow, phantoms are news to me. i've never heard of them.

 

[Eggz]

Thats because your from Oregon.

The only 2 explanations have already been given.

A: Fox was crouch canceling your usmash at a low percent
B: The game registered half of the damage and no knockback because you didn't completely connect hitboxes. AKA you got a phantom hit.

 

[Pine]

eggz thanks for saying what we all did in more formal terms

 

[Silent Wolf]

I'm sure he did it to make a joke about Oregon.
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