Bayonetta (SSBU)/Up aerial

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Hitbox visualization showing Bayonetta's up aerial.

Hitbox visualization showing Bayonetta's up aerial when extended.

Hitbox visualization showing Bayonetta's up aerial Bullet Arts.

Overview

A bicycle kick. It is based on the kick launcher in Bayonetta. The Bullet Arts version of this move has her fire her guns, whilst she performs a modified version of the aú aberto, one of many cartwheeling kicks in capoeira. While this version deals less damage, it provides excellent coverage that covers wide areas around her, making it useful for edge-guarding and dealing additional damage. While it is decently fast for an up aerial (frame 9), its hitbox starts behind her, which can make it slower than it seems. However, one can perform a reverse aerial rush to take advantage of this, allowing multiple up aerials to combo into each other, potentially ending with a back aerial. Overall, up aerial has high utility, as it can initiate combos into specials if canceled early, and can also KO when close to the top blast line, although Bayonetta has to perform extremely high ladder combos for it to KO.

Hitboxes

Attack

ID	Part	Rehit rate	Damage	SD	Angle	Angle type	BK	KS	FKV	Set weight	Radius	Bone	Offset			H×	SDI×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Effect	Type	G	A	Sound	Direct	Hit bits	Hit part	Blockable	Reflectable	Absorbable	Flinchless	No GFX	Heedless
0	0	0	7.5%	0		Standard	40	80	0		5.5	kneer	6.0	1.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
1	0	0	7.5%	0		Standard	40	80	0		4.2	kneer	2.5	1.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
2	0	0	7.5%	0		Standard	40	80	0		3.0	kneer	-1.0	1.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All

Bullet Arts extension

Bayonetta first shoots two simultaneous bullets from her left arm and leg guns, then shoots two other simultaneous bullets from her right arm and leg guns.

ID	Part	Rehit rate	Damage	SD	Angle	Angle type	BK	KS	FKV	Set weight	Radius	Bone	Offset			H×	SDI×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Effect	Type	G	A	Sound	Direct	Hit bits	Hit part	Blockable	Reflectable	Absorbable	Flinchless	No GFX	Heedless
Leg hitbox
0	0	0	3.0%	0		Standard	75	80	0		3.8	kneel	4.5	1.0	0.0	1.0×	1.0×	0%							Kick		All	All
Bullet Arts (left arm)
0	1	0	0.5%	0		Standard	10	100	0		2.5	handl	2.0 to 6.0	2.0	0.0 to 0.4	0.0×	0.0×	0%							Bayonetta Hit 01		All	All
1	1	0	0.5%	0		Standard	0	0	0		2.5	handl	2.0 to 58.0	2.0 to 1.2	0.0 to -6.0	0.0×	0.0×	0%							Bayonetta Hit 01		All	All
Bullet Arts (left leg)
2	1	0	0.5%	0		Standard	10	100	0		2.5	footl	0.0 to 4.0	0.0 to -0.2	0.0 to 0.5	0.0×	0.0×	0%							Bayonetta Hit 01		All	All
2	1	0	0.5%	0		Standard	0	0	0		2.5	footl	0.0 to 50.0	0.0 to -8.0	0.0 to 13.0	0.0×	0.0×	0%							Bayonetta Hit 01		All	All
Bullet Arts (right arm)
0	1	0	0.5%	0		Standard	10	100	0		2.5	handr	2.0 to 6.0	3.0	0.5	0.0×	0.0×	0%							Bayonetta Hit 01		All	All
1	1	0	0.5%	0		Standard	0	0	0		2.5	handr	2.0 to 52.0	3.0	0.5	0.0×	0.0×	0%							Bayonetta Hit 01		All	All
Bullet Arts (right leg)
2	1	0	0.5%	0		Standard	10	100	0		2.5	footr	0.0 to 4.0	0.5	0.5 to 0.0	0.0×	0.0×	0%							Bayonetta Hit 01		All	All
2	1	0	0.5%	0		Standard	0	0	0		2.5	footr	0.0 to 50.0	0.5 to 0.0	0.5 to -6.5	0.0×	0.0×	0%							Bayonetta Hit 01		All	All

Timing

Attack

Initial autocancel	1-2
Hitboxes	9-18
Bullet Arts window	20
Ending autocancel	26-
Interruptible	30
Animation length	47

Bullet Arts extension

By holding the button, the extended portion can be executed up to 4 times in one use, for a total of 44 frames added to the move. Unlike with Bayonetta's neutral aerial, the bullet shots are accurate to the visuals from her guns, and follow their own timings instead of being synced with each loop. The leg hitbox remains consistently active throughout, but can only hit once.

Leg hitbox	1-11
Bullet Arts (left arm and leg)	1, 8
Bullet Arts (right arm and leg)	4, 11
Animation length	11

Leg hitbox
Bullet Arts

Landing lag

Interruptible	9 (without Bullet Arts) 17 (with Bullet Arts)
Animation length	23 (without Bullet Arts) 45 (with Bullet Arts)

Without Bullet Arts
With Bullet Arts

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Loop point

State change

Autocancel

Interruptible

Trivia

• The Bullet Arts from Bayonetta's leg guns have the same ID for both their flinching and flinchless hitboxes, causing the latter to completely override the former due to being the latest one read in the move's scripts. As a result, only the Bullet Arts from Bayonetta's arm guns can cause opponents to flinch.

Bayonetta's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2 · 3 · inf) · Forward tilt (1 · 2 · 3) · Up tilt · Down tilt · Dash attack · Forward smash · Up smash · Down smash
Neutral aerial · Forward aerial (1 · 2 · 3) · Back aerial · Up aerial · Down aerial
Grab · Pummel · Forward throw · Back throw · Up throw · Down throw
Forward roll · Back roll · Spot dodge · Air dodge · Techs
Floor attack (front) · Floor getups (front) · Floor attack (back) · Floor getups (back) · Floor attack (trip) · Floor getups (trip)
Edge attack · Edge getups
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash