stale moves

[darf nate]

Do moves only stale if you land them or do they stale if you miss and just swing at the air... im woundering because playing jigglypuff you tend to throw a lot of fair's and bair's that don't land... do these moves not landing contribute to the staleness of them or does it only decrease its knockback if you land it.

 

[Metalbro]

It only stales if you hit.

 

[Ghostbone]

More specifically, it only stales if you hit a hurtbox (so shields don't count, but destructible terrain does)

Which applies to wind hitboxes as well, even though they don't do damage. (which is why G&W can repeatedly up-air the smashville balloon to unstale his other moves)

 

[-LzR-]

And even if you hit 9000 hurtboxes with one move it only stales once per use.