There are nine types of weapons in Kid Icarus: Uprising, with twelve unique weapons in each type: staffs, bows, clubs, orbitars, blades, claws, palms, cannons, and arms. Each of these weapon types has its own special characteristics and move sets, and each individual weapon has abilities unique to it. Weapons can be acquired in many different ways:
Earn them over the course of the single-player campaign, finding them hidden within treasure boxes.
Unlock them by accomplishing objectives in the Treasure Hunt.
Purchase them from the Arms Altar with hearts.
Use Weapon Fusion to create a weapon using others in your inventory
Through StreetPass, receive Weapon Gems and spend hearts to convert them to actual weapons.
Spend hearts to combine two Weapon Gems into a new weapon.
Be awarded a new weapon through the multiplayer mode.
Weapon Fusion
By taking two weapons to the Arms Altar in the Solo mode, you are able to fuse them together to create a new weapon. At first, a number of combinations may not be available, but as you play through the campaign and unlock Zodiac weapons or accomplish certain objectives in the Treasure Hunt, new possible Weapon Fusions become available.
Weapon Fusion not only creates a new weapon, it also transfers some of the two base weapons’ unique modifiers to the end product. In this way, through careful fusion of weapons, players can determine what special modifiers they want passed on to the new weapons they craft . This chapter includes charts on what combinations of weapons are required to achieve specific results, all organized by the types of weapons.
Another type of Weapon Fusion is available through the StreetPass feature of the game. Weapon Gems, created by players, can be fused together. To do this, you must spend hearts. This can get quite expensive, depending on the quality of the Weapon Gems.
Blades
Weapon Name
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Description
First Blade
Entrusted to Pit, this blade is just one of a new breed of armaments that combine close-quarters combat with ranged proficiency. The First Blade is well balanced in usability and strength, making it the perfect beginner’s weapon.
Burst Blade
While the Burst Blade has lower attack power and has the shortest range of any blade, it also fires multiple bullets at once, giving it a wide attack. Its ranged attacks have a strong potential of nullifying incoming fire.
Viper Blade
A blade said to have been forged from the scales of a thousand venomous serpents. It’s one of the few weapons that inflicts poison damage. Users of this blade should soothe its dark, nightly rattlings with gentle caresses.
Crusader Blade
The horizontal stock crossing the barrel is packed with a substance that generates this weapon’s wide-ranged shots. These shots have the strong potential for nullifying enemy fire, and the weapon’s weight makes its melee attacks powerful.
Royal Blade
Once the heirloom of a royal house, this blade has since been worn by time and neglect. Its most powerful shots are those used during a backward dash, making the Royal Blade perfect for a hit-and-run strategy.
Optical Blade
Despite its lightness, the extreme heat this glow-in-the-dark blade generates has the ability to cut even through steel. It also has the longest range of any blade and has charged shots that grow in power slightly at long distances.
Samurai Blade
The Samurai Blade is a powerful copy of a legendary sword whose curved blade was devastating in close combat. While this blade improves quickness, it has weaker ranged shots and takes time to charge.
Bullet Blade
This old-school weapon uses magic to fire a hail of explosive steel bullets. The Bullet Blade doesn’t have much in the way of homing ability or melee attacks, but its shots are just as strong over long distances as up close.
Aquarius Blade
The Zodiac weapon bearing the sign of Aquarius. It uses extreme pressure to change water into an impossibly sharp edge. Its charged shot pushes enemies back as it damages them, and its melee attack can freeze foes.
Aurum Blade
The Aurum mimic every aspect of the worlds they conquer, from creatures to vehicles to weapons. Dyntos crafted the Aurum Blade by reversing this process. It charges quickly and fires shots with a high homing ability.
Palutena Blade
The rare example of a weapon ordered by Palutena. While its charged shots have a strong potential of nullifying enemy fire and its continuous-fire dash shots travel fast, they aren’t very strong. However, its dash shots have great range.
Gaol Blade
A blade forged from the same cursed material as Dark Lord Gaol’s armor. While it has the most powerful ranged attacks of any blade and its charged shot has a strong homing ability, these attacks move slowly.
Staffs
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Description
Insight Staff
Staffs have long attack ranges with shots that generally get stronger the farther they travel. They’re weak in melee combat, however. The Insight Staff is a well-balanced choice for learning this type of weapon.
Orb Staff
The Orb Staff’s jewel raises its melee power. Its shot strength doesn’t vary much, making it effective at any range. And while these shots lack in damage, distance, and knock-back ability, their large size makes hitting foes a breeze.
Rose Staff
The Rose Staff is the product of a desire to combine beauty and lethality. The brambles it fires have exceptional attack power but travel slowly. On the plus side, this weapon charges fast, compared to other staffs.
Knuckle Staff
The brutish Knuckle Staff sets itself apart from other staffs by excelling at melee attacks. While its shots still pack a punch, they lack range, lose power as they travel, and charge slowly—so make sure to aim carefully!
Ancient Staff
The Ancient Staff is a cold and mysterious weapon made by a dead civilization. Its charged shots hang in midair and can paralyze any enemies they strike. This makes the weapon a great fit for defensive play.
Lancer Staff
A staff modeled after an infamous spear said to have slain thousands. It charges quickly, and its shots, although slow moving, are most damaging at close range. Its melee attack is also better than most staffs.
Flintlock Staff
This weapon excels at taking out foes from afar. Its shots increase in power as they fly at blinding speeds, making it a solid weapon for users with good aim. However, its melee attack is among the weakest of any weapon.
Somewhat Staff
Not only is this weapon closer in form and function to a blade than a staff, but it’s actually a living creature! Despite its mysterious nature, the Somewhat Staff still retains its weapon type’s movement restrictions.
Scorpio Staff
The Zodiac weapon bearing the sign of Scorpio. Its high-speed shots often inject a poison that does damage over time, with a duration and probability based on attack type. While it has a short firing range, it boosts its user’s speed.
Laser Staff
The firing range of the Laser Staff is among the longest of any weapon. While it’s slow to charge, enemies don’t react to the staff’s continuous fire, allowing users to silently roast foes from a massively long distance!
Dark Pit Staff
Staff used by Dark Pit when he hides in Chapter 6. The staff’s charged shot does four times the damage at its longest range as it does up close. Continuous fire is also powerful but lacks size and range.
Thanatos Staff
Modeled after Thanatos, this staff features a magic scarf wrapped around a piece of bone. Its continuous fire produces a stream of bats, and its backward-dash charged shot conjures a giant skull that hovers in the air.
Claws
Weapon Name
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Description
Tiger Claws
Claws are melee-specialized weapons that fire talons. They improve speed more than any other weapon, useful since they tend to have a short attack range. With a balanced set of qualities, the Tiger Claws’ usefulness in battle speaks for itself.
Wolf Claws
These wolf-themed claws set foes they strike on fire, dealing additional damage. Unfortunately, this flame ability limits the weapons’ range. Their charged dash shot has a homing ability, something rare among claws.
Bear Claws
These claws are like a bear’s, with melee attacks among the most devastating of any weapon. Their ranged shots are strong but have a short reach. If you can get up close, your foes won’t know what hit them.
Brawler Claws
Not only do these claws grant faster movement than any other weapon, they make you look like the king of the ring! While their other attributes aren’t as cool as their speed boost, you can’t deny the coolness of two-fist punching action.
Stealth Claws
Forged in darkness and wrapped in the bandages of mummies, these claws are nearly invisible, so the targets of its fast fire may find it hard to find out exactly who is shooting. The claws do have a lower melee power, however.
Hedgehog Claws
Inspired by hedgehogs, these claws charge quickly and provide a large speed boost to users. While they lack homing ability and have a low attack power, their rapid fire shoots a ceaseless barrage of projectiles.
Raptor Claws
Claws that let wielders go all 65 million BC on enemies. They feature strong melee and ranged attacks, although they have a slow charge time. Wounds received from these claws are so brutal, they often refuse to heal.
Artillery Claws
These macho-looking claws aren’t well suited to melee and have almost no homing ability. But where they shine is their shots that have a range comparable to blades, lose no power over distance, and move super fast.
Cancer Claws
The Zodiac weapon bearing the sign of Cancer. Their melee attack packs a mighty wallop, and their charged shots can temporarily hover near enemies. They also give users a speed boost during continuous-fire attacks.
Beam Claws
The Beam Claws feature an extremely long attack range, comparable to that of bows. Their shots travel fast and don’t lessen in strength over distance. However, they possess a weak homing ability and have a lower attack power.
Viridi Claws
Claws that are as beautiful and deadly as Viridi herself. Their shots feature a strong homing ability and can maintain continuous fire for long periods. Charged shots fired by the Viridi Claws paralyze foes one-third of the time.
Pandora Claws
These claws are based on the spirit form of Pandora. Their backward-dash charged shot creates a barrier that offers good defense in Together mode. Their third melee strike can knock enemies into the air. Try using a backward-dash attack as foes fall.
Bows
Weapon Name
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Description
Fortune Bow
Bows fire fast homing shots, making them well suited to medium- and long-range attacks. Their shots are small, slightly increasing in damage over long ranges. The Fortune Bow was designed to be a well-balanced version of this weapon.
Silver Bow
Prototype of a bow designed by Palutena, it’s the only weapon of its type whose shot power is higher at close range. Also features a relatively high firing range and homing ability, making it a solid choice for skilled users.
Meteor Bow
The shots fired by this weapon have the longest range of any bow. While its charged shots are large and travel fast, they don’t have much homing ability or power. Compensate for this with its heavy homing continuous fire.
Divine Bow
A bow made from the wood of a sacred tree. Its fearsome energy is kept in check by the bow’s many seals. Its charged shots have a strong potential of nullifying enemy fire. It also charges quickly and has a high homing ability.
Darkness Bow
The Darkness Bow is shrouded in mystery. Its ranged attacks are powerful, and it even excels as a melee weapon. However, it comes up short in terms of homing ability and charge time.
Crystal Bow
A bow carved from crystal taken from a forest near the home of the gods. It has high overall attack power, and fires fairly large projectiles. However, it has a short firing range, giving it a narrow sweet spot for attacks.
Angel Bow
Based on the god of love, the Angel Bow fires shots that relentlessly pursue their targets. However, they travel slowly and are not particularly powerful. Multiplayer opponents can easily dodge its shots when attacked head-on.
Hawkeye Bow
Why get close to foes when you can snipe from afar? This bow’s high-speed shots have a long range and have the strong potential to nullify incoming fire. However, its melee damage is weak, and it takes quite some time to charge.
Sagittarius Bow
The Zodiac weapon bearing the sign of Sagittarius. Its shots can pierce through multiple opponents, making it a great choice when outnumbered. Though it takes a long time to charge, it makes up for it in high damage and shot speed.
Aurum Bow
A bow created using Aurum technology. Rare among bows, its continuous-fire dash attack unleashes a barrage of multiple shots. Though it has good range and great homing ability, its low attack power makes it better at a distance.
Palutena Bow
Painstakingly crafted by Palutena herself, this bow’s shots gain speed the farther they travel. Though its standing shots are weak, its dash shots are mighty. So keep moving, and don’t leave yourself open to counterattacks!
Phosphora Bow
A bow crafted from Phosphora’s scarf. Its charged shots tend to hit enemies, even when fired aimlessly. Although it lacks in power, its shots have the ability to paralyze foes. As a bonus, those who use it are graced with lightning-quick speed.
Palms
Weapon Name
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Description
Violet Palm
Palms are equipped on the wielder’s arm like a tattoo, drawing upon the user’s own vitality to fire a barrage of homing shots. The Violet Palm is an average example of this weapon type, with great rapid fire but basic range.
Burning Palm
Shots fired from the Burning Palm set enemies on fire, dealing extra damage. It has the strongest melee attack of any palm, although it features a long charge time and short firing range. And after the battle, it makes a mean BBQ.
Needle Palm
This palm fires needles that burrow into targets. They travel fast but have little homing ability. There isn’t much difference in range between charged shots and continuous fire, so no need to think too hard about gauging your distance.
Midnight Palm
The Midnight Palm is geared toward defense, with ranged attacks that have a strong potential of nullifying incoming fire. It has powerful but slow shots. Its backward-dash charged shot crushes foes with a gigantic moon.
Cursed Palm
A nefarious palm imbued with foul magic. It fires powerful cursed shots that travel slowly and lose strength over time, yet still relentlessly pursue their targets. And the Cursed Palm’s melee attack is devastating in its own right.
Cutter Palm
The Cutter Palm fires light rings that slice through foes. While powerful, it takes long to charge and its continuous fire lacks good homing. Despite these flaws, you can’t go wrong with its homing backward-dash charged shot.
Pudgy Palm
This palm weapon shoots fancy, balloon-like shots. It has a short charge time and a strong overall homing ability. Its backward-dash charged shot can overwhelm almost any shot and is handy against enemy attacks in Together mode.
Ninja Palm
A weapon with the soul of a dark assassin. It has a short charge time, fires fast-moving shots, and boosts speed and agility. It even excels at melee attacks! On the other hand, it lacks in power, range, and homing.
Virgo Palm
The Zodiac weapon bearing the sign of Virgo. Features the longest firing range of any palm, and its shots grow in size as they travel. While lacking in power and homing ability, its backward-dash charged shot creates a useful defensive wall.
Aurum Palm
Produced with Aurum technology, the Aurum Palm has almost no homing ability, making careful aim a must. Its high energy output means it charges fast, allowing users to fire off charged shots at a rate of one per second.
Viridi Palm
Created by and requiring total devotion to Viridi, this palm excels at landing consecutive hits, with the damage it deals depending on where it strikes the target. Shooting from a distance will help improve its accuracy.
Great Reaper Palm
The Great Reaper Palm uses the power of the Great Reaper to summon Reapettes that hound targets. It takes a while to charge, but unique among weapons, its attacks have the power to halve the foe’s maximum health.
Clubs
Weapon Name
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Description
Ore Club
Clubs are unique weapons ideal for dealing huge amounts of damage. Their gigantic long-range charged shots can even pass through walls! The Ore Club is fashioned from minerals that were mined on the mountain of the gods.
Babel Club
Designed to look like the tower that incurred the wrath of the heavens, this club has the longest charge time of any weapon. Its charged shots kick up a violent storm that delivers consecutive strikes, so try to make sure all of them hit.
Skyscaper Club
A club with a rather modern look. Its charged shots deal massive damage up close and decrease in power the farther they travel. The Skyscraper Club decreases the user’s speed more than most clubs.
Atlas Club
Unlike most clubs, the Atlas Club allows users to run quickly while using it. Its shots don’t pass through obstacles, but its dash attacks travel fast with a high homing ability. A club that handles more like other weapon types.
Earthmaul Club
The Earthmaul Club has a longer reach than any other weapon, its charged shot traveling up to 126 m. This is roughly three times the range of the First Blade. Its backward-dash charged shot reflects off walls.
Ogre Club
The club used by Dark Pit in his battle with Pit beneath the temple in Chapter 6. Though its charged shots are slow and easily dodged, this superbrutal club has the most powerful melee attack of any weapon.
Halo Club
This lightweight club shoots halos for its ammunition. Unlike other clubs, the Halo Club’s charged shots can paralyze opponents. However, it has a low attack power and is particularly ill suited for melee attacks.
Black Club
While the mysterious Black Club’s attack power and homing ability are high, its charge time and shot speed are slow. And not only do its charged shots cancel out enemy fire, they look really cool doing it too!
Capricorn Club
The Zodiac weapon bearing the sign of Capricorn. Its spiraling charged shots lack range, do less damage as they travel, and don’t cancel out other shots. However, these shots do move fast and have a superfast charge time.
Aurum Club
This club has charged shots that have limited range and lack homing but are large, making it harder for targets to avoid them. It can also shoot through obstacles, and its shots have a strong potential for nullifying incoming fire.
Hewdraw Club
This club fires blade blasts and flame breath like the beast himself. Its charged shots have an extremely long range and high homing ability but are somewhat lacking in damage. Its melee attack also packs a mighty punch!
Magnus Club
Designed to look like Magnus’s sword, this club is at the top of its class in melee power and even boosts the speed of its user! Its shots barely have any range, making it the rare weapon exclusively suited to close combat.
Cannons
Weapon Name
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Description
EZ Cannon
Cannons fire powerful shots one at a time. Bristling with energy, their volatile volleys explode on impact. The EZ Cannon is a standard version of this armament. While balanced in most respects, its bouncing shots do have a strong homing ability.
Ball Cannon
Inspired by the weapons seen on pirate ships, the Ball Cannon shoots iron balls with devastating power. Its continuous fire creates a hail of smaller spheres sure to turn any scurvy dog into swiss cheese.
Predator Cannon
This cannon raises movement speed and has the strongest melee attack of its weapon type. Upon exploding, its shots deal repeated damage, and its backward-dash charged shot fires an arcing shell that descends on the foe.
Poseidon Cannon
Imbued with just a fraction of the sea god’s strength, the Poseidon Cannon fires rippling, water-like shots that entangle enemies and smash them with the force of a flood. Its rapid fire blasts enemies with a veritable divine water cannon.
Fireworks Cannon
A cannon inspired by the tubes used to launch fireworks. It features a strong homing ability, fast charge, wide explosions, and the ability to knock enemies into the air. On the downside, its attacks lack in power and range.
Rail Cannon
The Rail Cannon fires small rounds at high speeds with the greatest range of any cannon, and it has continuous fire that unleashes projectiles in very tight clusters. It’s a solid choice for those accurate enough to pick off enemies from afar.
Dynamo Cannon
The Dynamo Cannon fires charged shots that detonate at the end of their range or upon impact, causing damage in a small radius. Many of the cannon’s attacks also paralyze foes.
Doom Cannon
A cannon that brings ruin to its victims. The shots are slow to charge, and slow-moving as well, but after impact, they deal ongoing damage in an expanding, devastating area!
Leo Cannon
The Zodiac weapon bearing the sign of Leo. Shoots incendiary bombs that can send enemies flying, then explode behind them for extra damage. This attack can be difficult to land, making the Leo Cannon tricky to use.
Sonic Cannon
The bursts from this weapon cut foes to shreds. Its continuous fire covers a vast area, eventually zeroing in on targets with its homing ability. Its long range and expanding charged shots make it great for distance fighting.
Twinbellows Cannon
Inspired by the most dreaded mutt in the Underworld. Fires a flame stream that roasts nearby foes. Its backward-dash charged shot creates explosions that detonate near the area they’re fired, making them great for close combat.
Cragalanche Cannon
A cannon made from pieces of Cragalanche. The rocks it fires have massive destructive power. But, being rocks, they lack speed and their explosions are relatively small.
Orbitars
Weapon Name
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Standard Orbitars
Orbitars are pairs of weapons that fire shots as they hover above their wielder’s shoulders, allowing for wholly unimpeded movement. And what the small Standard Orbitars lack in punch they make up for in all-around quality.
Guardian Orbitars
These orbitars specialize in defense, for their charged shot raises a shield that has a strong potential of nullifying incoming fire. After throwing up this shield, users should switch to continuous fire as their main method of attack.
Shock Orbitars
These orbitars gather their energy from the flaps of Pit’s wings, releasing electric projectiles that disperse on impact. Their speed and range are nothing spectacular, but their charged shots have a high homing ability.
Eyetrack Orbitars
These orbitars were once sealed inside a cursed royal tomb. Their homing ability is among the best of any weapon, making them very easy to use. However, they lack in terms of attack power and charge time.
Fairy Orbitars
Tired of pixies asking you to listen? Try these spritely orbitars on for size! They charge quickly, allowing for consecutive charged shots. Their greatest feature is the ability to confuse enemies.
Paw Pad Orbitars
The Paw Pad Orbitars are too cute, aren’t they? They have a short charge time, and shots bounce about like an excited kitten. Shield yourself with the backward-dash charged shot, or circle around enemies using continuous fire.
Jetstream Orbitars
Charged shots fired from these orbitars may lack any sort of homing, but when they do hit—watch out! They’re strong, though generally lose strength the farther they travel. Try knocking foes into the air with charged shots!
Boom Orbitars
These burly-looking orbitars fire small bullets that really pack a wallop! Top among orbitars in melee and ranged attack power, they lack any sort of homing ability and slow the user down considerably during continuous fire.
Gemini Orbitars
The Zodiac weapon bearing the sign of Gemini. The standard charged shots they fire travel straight, then break suddenly toward their target. This makes the wielder of such orbitars extremely hard to predict in Together mode.
Aurum Orbitars
These orbitars were built by literally combining members of the Aurum forces. Their continuous fire unleashes a narrow beam that is limited in range but travels so fast that targets have little time to dodge.
Centurion Orbitars
Modeled after Palutena’s rank-and-file soldiers, these orbitars fire shots that arc like arrows in flight and are powerful at close range. Their backward-dash charged shots fire centurion-knight shields, and their continuous fire has a long range.
Arlon Orbitars
Inspired by Arlon the Serene. But unlike Arlon, this weapon is far from invisible in combat, featuring the longest range of any of the orbitars. Its continuous fire unleashes a stream of the chakrams used by Arlon.
Arms
Weapon Name
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Description
Crusher Arm
Arms have the smallest reach of any weapon type, putting wielders at a disadvantage in long-range combat. Yet they also have incredible dash and melee attacks. The Crusher Arm is the standard model of this type of weapon.
Compact Arm
An arm designed to be both small and light, it gives the highest movement speed of any arm, though this comes at the cost of lower melee power. Handling more like other weapons, the Compact Arm is great at midrange.
Electroshock Arm
An arm that fires bursts of electricity. Its charged shots expand as they travel, dealing a quick round of damage and inflicting paralysis. And its melee strikes send the foe flying backward, so get in there quick with your combos!
Volcano Arm
The Volcano Arm uses geothermal energy for ranged and melee attacks that can set foes ablaze. Though limited in distance and long on charge time, it’s a good pick for close-quarters combat.
Drill Arm
Designed to look like an excavation tool, the Drill Arm plows through enemies with its charged shot, which does ongoing damage. The powerful attack has great homing ability.
Bomber Arm
The rapid burning fists this weapon fires swerve sharply toward the foe. Though its continuous fire is weak, its charged shots are not, and it charges more quickly than any other arm. However, its range is among the shortest of any weapon.
Bowl Arm
This weapon was designed to look like a decorative bowl and curiously fires off bowls and toys. While it seems like the Bowl Arm would be a fragile sort of weapon, it actually has potent charged shots.
End-All Arm
The End-All Arm is the be-all arm for malicious decimation. Though it takes a long time to charge, its continuous fire is deadly, particularly when fired during a side dash. However, it does slow the user’s movement somewhat.
Taurus Arm
The Zodiac weapon bearing the sign of Taurus. The two horns deal the most melee damage of any arm. While its ranged attacks are big and powerful, they have weak homing ability and limited range.
Upperdash Arm
The Upperdash Arm is outfitted with a disc-shaped device that fires ring shots. Its backward-dash charged shot can lift foes into the air. While its regular melee attacks are weak, its melee dash attack deals massive damage.
Kraken Arm
Fashioned after the Galactic Sea’s greatest monster, this weapon fires slow shots that feature large, hooking homing trajectories. It also features a strong melee attack and midrange performance.
Phoenix Arm
Modeled after the Phoenix, this arm features a unique continuous fire that travels twice as far as its charged shots. The charged shots set foes ablaze, while its continuous-fire attack launches blade feathers.
