What's Falco's Best Move? 

No knee is cooler

roy fully charged neutral b the coolest, literal explosion sword

Hmm, I can see the argument there yeah! Might have been worth it to include, I'd probably put it in solid given the fact that you can do shine grabs, laser grabs etc

This is kinda long so my apologies lol... First, the move is safe on shield if spaced properly against most characters. It's -14 on shield, which makes it impossible for most characters to punish with a wavedash out of shield (Fox wavedash is 13 frames + shine = 14 frames). This means the character in shield has to have an aerial with enough range/speed to be able to cover the distance, and they have to be facing the right direction too. Might be possible with Puff/Marth/Falcon but actually isn't possible for most characters in the game. In terms of why I think it's so good, the move is incredibly strong against characters who have "poor" recoveries (think characters like Marth/Shiek/Luigi/Doc/Ganon/Falcon etc). Against those characters, it's a reliable way to knock them off stage to then set up a relatively easy edgeguard. That utility alone is really valuable imo as it's one of the few moves able to do that safely. Rather than forcing a risky kill setup, you can safely throw out laser f-tilt and get a kill with a little more work, but a lot less risk. Most "safe" moves don't knock the opponent directly off stage, usually they knock the opponent up, or up & away, with the exception of back air and nair (which can be less safe than f-tilt). F-tilt is really the only grounded move in Falco's entire kit that serves this purpose. Forward smash is the only move that comes close, and it has almost triple the startup lag, more end lag, is much harder to space away from shield, and doesn't combo off of laser unless the opponent is in the air. Meanwhile d-smash has a whopping 39 frames of lag (more than double what f-tilt has in terms of endlag) which also makes it the riskiest option so far. This alone makes f-tilt very valuable and highly underrated, but there's also a lot of other value in f-tilt near the edge, as it can be used to set up gimps (back-throw into f-tilt for example) and cover common recovery options like spacie side-b. I can see why people would think it's not great, but once you start using it regularly it's actually so so powerful.

Damn I know this is old but I love the thought you put into this. Back when Lord was on The Reads with Scar and Toph they asked him what he thought falco's best move was, and he blurted out f-tilt. He got memed for it, and later recanted, but honestly it is a great move. Serves a solid purpose. Great analysis