Clairen's UAir swings through the z-axis#314

Seeing this post on reddit got me curious about why Clairen’s UAir isn’t an arc of roughly constant radius (as one would expect of swinging a sword in a plane). The side hitboxes are much closer to her than the length of her sword. Looking into it, her uair actually swings across the z-axis, but the hitboxes are of the sword projected directly onto the xy-plane.

Frames 16-19 are attached shown in comments below (I can only attach two pictures)

I think this is why the move feels so unintuitive? To be sure, I also checked the interactions with other characters. The sword clearly isn’t even hitting them despite the hitboxes registering. I think THIS is why it feels like the move shouldn’t have side hitboxes, or at least shouldn’t have side tippers.

edit: added a couple videos

Frame 16

Frame 17

Frame 18

Frame 19

Frames 18 and 19 before and after tippering the Loxodont

Frame 19 of the tipper hitting the Loxodont

Yeah side hitboxes are fine imo, but the side tipper is wild lol

I agree. You can keep the side hitboxes, but the tipper should only be at the top of the move. It would be so much more intuitive.