Mechanics¶
Term | Also called | Meaning | See |
|---|---|---|---|
Straight Lunge | SL, neutral B (Little Mac), nb | Little Mac’s charging punch. Damage-based armor while charging | |
Damage-based armor | SL armor, heavy armor | Takes the damage but no knockback from hits at or below a damage threshold | |
Short hop attack | SH attack, short hop aerial (jump + attack) | Aerial done by pressing jump and attack together. Deals | |
Stale moves | staling, stale-move negation, SMN, repetition effect | Moves deal less damage the more often and more recently they’ve connected | |
Stale queue | staleness queue | The last | |
Fresh | freshness bonus, unstaled | A move not in the stale queue. It deals | |
Reductor | stale reductor, reduction factor | How much each stale queue slot reduces a move’s damage | |
Sweetspot / sourspot | sweet spot, sour spot, strong hit / weak hit | The strongest and weakest hitboxes of the same move | |
Freeze frames | hitlag, hitstop | Frames where both characters freeze when a hit connects | |
Perfect shield | parry, PS | Releasing shield just as a hit lands. It still stales the attacker’s move | |
Rage | — | Extra knockback a character deals at high percent. A Training Mode toggle sits next to Stale Moves | |
Pummel | grab attack, pummel refresh | An attack on a grabbed opponent. Each pummel takes a stale queue slot, which makes it the easiest way to refresh moves | |
Refresh | unstale, freshen, refreshing the queue | Pushing a stale move back in the queue by landing other moves | |
Rapid jab | flurry attack, neutral infinite, jab infinite | A looping string of weak jab hits, ending in a finisher | |
Battering item | melee item | Items you swing, eg Beam Sword or Home-Run Bat. Swinging one is the only item attack that stales |
Move shorthand¶
Shorthand | Move |
|---|---|
| Neutral attack |
| Forward / Up / Down Tilt |
| Forward / Up / Down Smash |
| Neutral / Forward / Back / Up / Down Air |
| Z Air (tether aerial) |
| Dash Attack |
| Neutral / Side / Up / Down Special |
| Forward / Back / Up / Down Throw |