Meta Knight (SSBB)/Down tilt

Hitbox visualization showing Meta Knight's down tilt.

Overview

Meta Knight thrusts his sword along the ground in front of himself, dealing extremely low knockback that hits opponents towards the ground. It has a 30% chance of tripping the opponent, and when it does so, it can easily follow up into a grab, down smash, SHFFed forward aerial, or Mach Tornado. The move also has very fast startup, and deceptive range, being even longer than Marth's down tilt. It also has very quick interruptibility and can be used to pseudo-crawl, which allows it to chain into itself repeatedly until it trips the opponent, which is when one of the aforementioned followups can be utilized. It can also be used against opponents recovering near the edge to force them back offstage, especially against fastfallers, who it can also gimp and lead into a down aerial followed by a Shuttle Loop stage spike, or a variation of down aerials and up aerials. Overall, a useful move at lower percentages, though at high percentages it always knocks the opponent too far away to follow up reliably.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			SDIx	H×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Type	Effect	G	A	Sound	Direct
0	0	4%	0		15	88	0	3.0	Root	0.0	2.0	20.0	1.0x	1.0x	30%							Slash
1	0	5%	0		11	88	0	4.0	Root	0.0	3.0	14.2	1.0x	1.0x	30%							Slash
2	0	6%	0		6	88	0	4.0	Root	0.0	4.0	8.0	1.0x	1.0x	30%							Slash
3	0	7%	0		6	88	0	4.0	Root	0.0	5.0	2.0	1.0x	1.0x	30%							Slash

Timing

Hitbox	3-4
Interruptible	16
Animation length	25

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Hitbox

Interruptible

Gallery

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  Interrupting the move by shielding on the earliest possible IASA frame.

Meta Knight's moveset

Neutral attack · Forward tilt (1 · 2 · 3) · Up tilt · Down tilt · Dash attack · Forward smash · Up smash · Down smash
Neutral aerial · Forward aerial · Back aerial · Up aerial · Down aerial · Glide attack
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 (fast) · Edge getups (fast) · Edge attack (slow) · Edge getups (slow)
Neutral special · Side special · Up special · Down special · Final Smash