Sonic's Dair Spike?

[MdrnDayMercutio]

List of all spikes in brawl

The thread maker is convinced the dair can spike. I've tested this in 1/4 speed in training and can't manage to make it do it. If anyone could be sure if it does or doesn't spike it'd be one of you.

Yay or Nay?

 

[phosphorus]

it's not. I quite sure of it. if it was, it'd be a lot easier for me to kill people as Sonic. the short hop off the edge down air > jump cancel > up b would make Sonic a monster.

E: unless it has a sweet spot I don't know about.

 

[MdrnDayMercutio]

I've tested it as much as I can. I've tried to sweet spot it in seceral ways. Even slowed down training and practiced nailing it on a jumping CPU so that while still stalled, just as his flings his leg out to start the downward momentum the toe strucks DK's head. Still nothing.

I'm assuming it definatly isn't but, the fact that that guy is so sure to have told me and another poster that we are definatly wrong has me second guessing myself.

 

[TwinkleToes]

He's ********. Sonic's dair has two different sends, one is at a very high angle (and thus almost useless as a killing tool) and the other has a very low send, similar to your down throw but with considerable more knock-back.

That thread creator is ignoring me, but I've used dair hundreds of times in all kinds of situations and never gotten a spike out of it.

 

[MdrnDayMercutio]

Well it's been fixed. And I now no I'm not just missing a spike. I've never seen this downward angle though... Is it only if you hit at a special angle or something?

 

[FrostByte]

It's when you hit with the starting animation of the dair. You'll hear 2 different sounds, the second is kinda choppy. Hitting with the end of the dair produces the first sound only.

 

[ithrowthings]

Not a spike.

 

[thecatinthehat]

It says it's a spike on Smash-wiki too.
I saw this mentioned twice yesterday.

 

[Tenki]

Speaking of spikes, there's something I noticed when I tried to find spikes for different characters. If you hit a grounded character with a spike/meteor, you'll see an impact graphic facing upwards from the ground, especially on things like Sandbag.

Granted, that's common knowledge ( I think )

but I noticed that I'd see it sometimes when hitting people with the first hit on Sonic's F-tilt.

F-tilt = spike..?

It could be... but then the placement to get it to work is probably much harder to get than d-tilt spikes that sword users like Link (not sure if he still has it) and Ike have.

It could just be a downward spike for the sake of getting the second hit of the horse kick to work, but it's an interesting effect to note anyway ._.;

 

[Napilopez]

hmmm... Dair to footstool = spike?

=P