

Purple lines are regular hit angles, while green ones are bunt angles. This image shows a rough sketch of what his angles are. Combine this with a double jump or a fast fall, and you can bunt out of your special and smash the ball very quickly. You can go straight vertically up or down, or diagonally up-left/up-right. The angles you can release at are a bit different when you bunt. If you hold the Bunt button while in the tornado animation, the ball will be bunted when it is released instead of hit. You can use this to fake out people who try to predict the timing of the release. This will make you stay in the tornado animation for a second longer before releasing the ball, and add a bit more speed to it. You can also delay the ball release by holding the Swing button when you activate the special.

This gives you six different trajectories to send the ball that you can choose, and launches very quickly. You can send it horizontally in front or behind you, or diagonally up/down in front or behind you. While you're in this spin, you can hold a direction to send the ball to. When he uses it, he flies into a tornado-looking spin (see the picture above).

Raptor can use his special out of a regular hit or a smash hit.
