U-tilt

[Kyu Puff]

U-tilt is one of the best and flashiest IC combo starters.

Pros

• long duration
• counters some aerial games (esp. Sheik and Peach)
• perfect comboing knockback
• comes out quickly

Cons

• less range than u-smash
• SDI-able

Combos

u-tilt -> grab
u-tilt -> d-smash
u-tilt -> b-air

Consistent and effective. The first two apply to fastfallers, b-air applies to almost anyone. Read their DI to see which move is appropriate.

u-tilt -> u-tilt -> whatever

Awesome, but anyone will probably escape the second u-tilt with SDI.

u-tilt -> b-air -> wave d-smash

Death combo on fastfallers. Possible 0-death on spacies. All of these moves do ~20+%, and if both d-smashes land, any fastfaller is essentially dead. It is indeed escapable, and thus not completely reliable.

Other

U-tilt is also a good set-up for u-air combos, f-air to jab reset, and so on. Chu uses u-tilt sometimes, mostly as a grab set-up, against people who jump a lot, but often his choice for aerial punishment is u-air.


Yeah... u-tilt...

 

[pockyD]

the tiny tiny hitbox really nerfs this move; you have to have a really precise read on your opponent to be able to use it effectively

 

[INSANE CARZY GUY]

if they are on the ground you have to be close as a backwards grab for it to work very well ,but if someone grabs someone use up till and it will rank up damage faster than chu dat could do with chain throws (it may depend on graber and grabe for it to work right)

 

[Kyu Puff]

The hitbox is small, but horizontal momentum from a wavedash and the 6-frame delay slightly increase the horizontal range (virtually).

U-tilt is not as solid as jab, d-smash or anything else as an approach, but it's a valuable mix-up that can work for you beautifully.

A useless trick:

d-throw -> u-tilt -> belay on tall/medium-weight characters

(Belay to cancel the u-tilt halfway through.) Cool-looking, weaker alternative to d-throw -> u-smash.

 

[INSANE CARZY GUY]

i wish i used up till more but i control the match and my brother doesn,t get the choise to go offese

 

[Finch]

wd utilt is a really fun combo starter on a campy fox. Spamming it leads to getting punished though, and whiffing it leaves you open for forever.

 

[Roman.]

how's the priority?

 

[MikeHaggarTHAKJB]

it has good priority above it. pretty sure it can beat fox's dair coming from above, and many other arial approaches

 

[Vts]

its amazing priority, it stopped falcon's spike and falco's spike so far from what i've noticed.

so pretty good great for people who like to try to stomp u.

 

[Kyu Puff]

The hitbox (disjointed) extends around and above the head. Range is the deciding factor in priority, along with speed (which goes hand in hand with vulnerability). It has disjointed, vertical range, and the area with the hitbox has great priority. The area below the hitbox is vulnerable, though, and priority is moot if a move hits you there.

U Tilt

Total: 49
Hit: 8-9, 11-12, 14-15, 17-18, 20-21,
23-24, 26
IASA: 42

The hitbox comes out on frame 8, and essentially lasts through frame 21. Pretty good. :D

Yesterday I learned that it can block some projectiles. Off the top of my head I know Link's boomerang (straight throw) and Samus' missiles (if they're not too low), I'll look into others though.

 

[pockyD]

it has priority, but once again, due to the tiny hitbox, it is largely impractical

how often will people be coming at you from directly above? and in these cases, you might even be better off meeting them halfway with a uair

if they come at you diagonally (which by far the most common case), they will hit you anyway; they may or may not take like 2% from the utilt =\

it's just a mixup that's extremely situational; if you get good use out of a utilt once a game, i'd be pretty satisfied

 

[WooICYU]

A curious question here, do you think it's possible to start a tech chase by dthrow-utilt?

 

[Kyu Puff]

Generally u-tilt puts them at a better height to combo than to techchase. Floatier characters can jump out before hitting the ground, and you're probably better off grabbing fastfallers before they hit the ground.

D-throw u-tilt is fun, but stay away from it unless you want to look cool. Most people will be mashing to escape and DI a chaingrab. If you u-tilt after d-throw, they'll probably end up unintentionally SDI'ing out of it.

Some options from d-throw -> u-tilt... belay (on big characters like Marth, Peach, Mewtwo that aren't too heavy), regrab (fastfallers), b-air, f-air, and probably plenty more. Again, any d-throw -> u-tilt will probably be escaped because people tend to SDI from a grab.

On a side note, you do have some techchasing options on fastfallers from a grab. D-throw and b-throw (solo Popo), d-throw -> f-air -> jab/shield, and b-throw -> ice block -> chase are all solid.

 

[ArcNatural]

How about during a d-sync dthrow to uptilt? If Nana uptilts you have plenty of options with Popo right after it.

Although I'm sure just doing a cg is better, it's always fun to have some flashy moves.

 

[WooICYU]

I have an off relation question also, is it possible to cg using the pivot desynch to lead up to grabs?

 

[*P*L*U*R*]

XD Mixing up chaingrabs is hilarious.

On a fast faller, you can Dthrow Iceblock mallet hitbox->regrab -> Dthrow Dair -> Dthrow Utilt -> Dthrow fair -> jab -> regrab

IC has so many options.

 

[PB&J]

i love the u tilt and anybody who thinks its not good is a fool....i **** with this move and this thread just made me want to use it more

 

[INSANE CARZY GUY]

its a great move but when you about up air or bair well its not as useful but thats ICs for uber powered in one place no one can do a thing about it but uber weak in one place to be the chain throw kqueening (king/queen)

 

[Kyu Puff]

U-tilt is also a nice shield pressuring move. The shieldstun is awesome in comparison to its lag. Usually if you d-smash, grab, or desynch afterwards you can catch them dropping their shield.

 

[choknater]

Choknaterz Sexual Combo:

Dash grab (so nana is kinda in front so it can combo)
Popo dthrow
Nana utilt
Belay

Works on fast fallers, heavies, big characters

Can DI out of utilt, just make sure all the hits connect so nana's utilt pops them up

then show off baby (more damage/knockback than uair too good)

just watch the lag afterwards hehe

 

[PB&J]

that combo is beast

 

[INSANE CARZY GUY]

very nice very nice quick question to see our knowledge f ICs where does up tilt hit more at forwards or backwards and how many times does it hit I know but its just a test 1.(sdarwkcab) 2.(xis)

 

[byron]

U-tilt Is God!!!

 

[Sleepy]

I don't remember if this was possible or practical. But I remember doing this on marth before, Dthrow WD (check distance short or long) and utilt, then continue into another utilt until marth starts getting high enough % to get launched in the air.

 

[INSANE CARZY GUY]

yeah that could happen