Pikabunz
Smash Hero
Quick Attack Cancel > Nair Combo
First of all, thanks to ESAM for bringing this up to me. QAC>Nair is considered a true combo. Basically, just get them to a high enough percent, make sure QA isn't too stale, use QA1 only, and it should combo! Why is this important? It gives us a fast, unpredictable, long ranged kill move at high percents!
Some factors on making this combo work:
1. Weight and percent of opponent
2. Freshness of QA
3. Which QA you hit with - QA1 or QA2
4. What frame of QA you hit with
You need QA to do at least 22 frames of hitstun for Nair to be guaranteed. Obviously the amount of hitstun you do depends on the percent and weight of the opponent. The higher the percent, the more hitstun QA will do. The heavier the opponent the more percent is required to do more hitstun.
Freshness of QA is also important. Just try to keep QA as fresh as possible. Just staling it once increases the percent requirement by about 10% to get that 22 frame hitstun.
Which QA you hit with matters too. QA1 is stronger and has more hitstun than QA2. Looking at the data below, you can see that with QA1 you only need to get MK to 105% to get 22 frames of hitstun. With QA2, you need to get to at least 153% just to get 22 frames of hitstun and this is with a fresh QA. With a stale QA and heavier opponent, the percent is going to be much higher, so it's important that you use QA1C for the combo.
One more factor is what frame of QA you hit with. This isn't really too important, but I'll explain it anyways. QA's hitbox last for 4 frames and how much hitstun you need for the combo to work depends on what frame of QA you hit with. If you hit with the 4th frame of QA, you only need 22 frames of hitstun and hitting with the 3rd frame of QA you need 23 frames of hitstun. The first 2 frames of QA's hitbox don't matter cause you won't be in range afterwards anyways for Nair to connect. As long as you space your QA far enough you will always hit with the 4th frame and only need the 22 frame hitstun, so don't worry too much about this if you don't understand it.
Percent+Hitstun on Metaknight with Fresh QA1
105% - 119%: 22 frames of hitstun
120% - 135%: 23 frames of hitstun
136% - 150%: 24 frames of hitstun
Percent+Hitstun on Metaknight with Fresh QA2
133% - 152%: 21 frames of hitstun
153% - ???: 22 frames of hitstun
I'll update this later with percents for other characters. I'll get a vid too if it's needed. Oh, and this work with Uair too.
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