• Welcome to Smashboards, the world's largest Super Smash Brothers community! Over 250,000 Smash Bros. fans from around the world have come to discuss these great games in over 19 million posts!

    You are currently viewing our boards as a visitor. Click here to sign up right now and start on your path in the Smash community!

Question on fair and bair hitboxes...and RAR'ing with MK...?

Rh1thmz

Smash Journeyman
Joined
Aug 22, 2008
Messages
316
Location
Kalamazoo, Michigan
I was using DK and G&W casually (obviously using RAR's frequently), and I realized that I never considered trying to RAR with Meta Knight. This led to this question...

Which hitbox is longer/bigger, the bair's hitbox, or the fair's hitbox? The bair looks longer, but I'm just not positive.

I was thinking that if the bair's hitbox is larger than the fair's, then it might be beneficial sometimes to use a RAR'ed bair instead of a fair in certain situations. It would be hard to pressure with RAR'ed bairs, but I believe that if the bair's hitbox is larger, it could find its uses.

Overall, I was also wondering what your guys' opinions on the usefulness of RARing with MK are (these opinions could be affected/changed if we figure out/know which hitbox is larger, obviously).

On a side note, the bair's 3 slashes take longer to complete than the fair's slashes, which might help with airdodgers...? I'm just throwing out ideas that I've had for a while.

I'm sorry if the answer to the former of my two questions has already been answered in some thread, but I couldn't find anything regarding hitboxes here with a quick search. I'm also sorry if RARing is already a common practice amongst some MK's, but I have watched a reasonable amount of MK vids, and I don't really see anyone RARing at all, so I wanted to delve deeper into this topic.

Discuss, please.
 

Crizthakidd

Smash Champion
Joined
Oct 1, 2007
Messages
2,619
Location
NJ
lol i havnt used RAR since toon link. well i do it with rob a lot but like withought even notincing it.

im thinking RAR MKs bair woudlnt be too cool. like u know u have it in case u need to rar off stage and kill at 135% with bair but i guess thats it.

oh yea use it to get the good side of Dair like the gimping one incase ur facing the wrong way
 

Affinity

Smash Hero
Joined
May 27, 2006
Messages
6,876
Location
Wichita, KS
NNID
Affinity2412
A RAR B-air can sometimes be good for freshening your other moves. However, its slower and can be SDId out of much easier than F-air.
 
Top Bottom