Tornado Semi-Spiking?

[Drexel]

Hey guys!

I've been working with my Dr. Mario and my playing skill with him has increased drastically over the past few weeks but I need a bit of help with some information on a rather unlikely incident. So I was battling on For Glory and edgeguarding an offstage foe. I approach him with the Dr. Tornado and I am not quite sure how I did this but I somehow clipped him right enough to cause him to fall downwards in a spike manner but not KO him outright. He couldn't recover after that but I was rather curious as to how this happened.

I then went to test it out against a cpu level 9 to see if I could pull it off again. I did manage to do it a few times out of many but I can't quite seem to know exactly why or how to pull that off. Does anybody have more experience with this and on how to do it? Is it a legitimate thing or is it something that should be ignored?

 

[Dobbston]

The edge of the tornado will hit your opponent downwards if they get hit while right under it; it's the same part of the tornado that occasionally quickly hits the opponent upward if they just get clipped by the tornado.

 

[The 0ne]

So it's different from Luigi's tornado spike?

 

[Eight_SixtyFour]

So it's different from Luigi's tornado spike?

It's less consistent. The hitbox seems to be so close to the middle of Doc that you will probably get the regular hit.

Credit goes to Astro for the gif below.

https://gfycat.com/DishonestHonorableGalah

 

[Kwam$tack$]

still trying to perfect this one myself. its hard to sweet spot it