Item Descriptions

Assist Trophy

• Category: Helping
• Origin: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Description: Grab this to call on one of various characters to help you in a fight!

Back Shield

• Category: Gear
• Origin: Kid Icarus: Uprising
• Description: This shield protects your back from various attacks. It’ll break, however, if it takes too much damage.

Banana Peel

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Super Mario Kart
• Description: A classic comedy staple: step on one of these, and you’ll fall on your rump. It never gets old!

Beam Sword

• Category: Battering
• Origin: Super Smash Bros.
• Description: This replaces your side attacks and has the farthest reach of any melee weapon! The blade gets longer when you use stronger attacks.

Beehive

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Animal Crossing
• Description: A swarm of bees emerges, mobbing a fighter and dealing damage to that fighter bit by bit.

Beetle

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
• Description: Throw the beetle in any direction to send it flying. It’ll grab opponents and drag them upward. The more damage they’ve taken, the more difficult it’ll be to escape. You can also reflect a thrown beetle by attacking it before it hits you.

Blast Box

• Category: Exploding
• Origin: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Description: Watch out—if you hit this with a fire attack, it’ll explode!

Bob-omb

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Super Mario Bros. 2
• Description: Despite their size, these bombs pack a serious punch. Left alone, they’ll start wandering around, too…

Bombchu

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Description: These little fellas run along walls, ceilings, and the ground. They’ll explode when they hit someone or when their fuse runs out.

Boomerang

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Super Mario Bros. 3
• Description: It goes all the way out and then comes back, even if it hits an enemy along the way. If you catch it, its power increases.

Boss Galaga

• Category: Throwing
Origin: Galaga
• Description: When used, it flies around briefly and then shines a beam on an opponent before whisking that opponent into the air.

Bullet Bill

• Category: Transforming
• Origin: Super Mario Bros.
• Description: Use this to turn into a Bullet Bill and charge through enemies! You can even choose your launch direction!

Bumper

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Super Smash Bros.
• Description: A bumper can be placed in the air or on the ground. Anyone who touches it will be bounced like a pinball.

Bunny Hood

• Category: Transforming
• Origin: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Description: Put this on to boost your speed and make great jumps. What long ears it has! Will the power of the wild spring forth?

Containers

• Category: Carrying
• Origin: Varies by item
• Description: Attack these or throw them to get at the items inside. Or you can throw them at the enemy!

Cucco

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Description: Cuccos wander around the stage, minding their own business. If you’re heartless enough to attack one, you deserve what’s coming to you.

Daybreak

• Category: Combining
• Origin: Kid Icarus: Uprising
• Description: Construct this huge weapon by collecting its three parts, and then use its powerful beam attack!

Deku Nuts

• Category Throwing
• Origin: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Description: These nuts explode on impact. The explosion dazes fighters on the ground and launches those who are airborne.

Dragoon Parts

• Category: Combining
• Origin: Kirby Air Ride
• Description: Collect all three parts of the Dragoon, and then aim carefully and launch a deadly attack!

Drill

• Category: Shooting
• Origin: Kid Icarus: Uprising
• Description: Fire this to send a drill bit shooting into an enemy, pushing that enemy across the stage for repeated damage. Then you can throw the base!

Fairy Bottle

• Category: Recovery
• Origin: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Description: This item will heal only a fighter who has taken more than 100% damage. Don’t throw it at an enemy with damage that high!

Fire Bar

• Category: Battering
• Origin: Super Mario Bros.
• Description: This weapon is made of fireballs. It’ll get shorter the more hits you land with it.

Fire Flower

• Category: Shooting
• Origin: Super Mario Bros.
• Description: Hold this out and unleash a bath of fire on your foes. There’s only so much fire, though, so don’t waste it.

Food

• Category: Recovery
• Origin: Varies by item
• Description: Eat to heal some damage! The amount you recover depends on what kind of food you eat.

Franklin Badge

• Category: Gear
• Origin: EarthBound
• Description: Pick this up and it’ll attach itself to you, reflecting all projectile attacks from foes.

Freezie

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Mario Bros.
• Description: An item that slowly slides along the stage. Opponents hit with one will be frozen in ice for a time.

Golden Hammer

• Category: Battering
• Origin: Wrecking Crew
• Description: Attack quickly over and over, and press Jump repeatedly to float in midair. If you don’t do any damage, you probably have a squeaky one instead.

Gooey Bomb

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Super Smash Bros.
• Description: These bombs stick to almost anything, exploding after a time. If it gets stuck to you, just brush it off onto someone else!

Green Shell

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Super Mario Bros.
• Description: Attack or throw the Green Shell to send it sliding across the ground!

Gust Bellows

• Category: Shooting
• Origin: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
• Description: Blow your opponents away with the strong winds of this item. Put it down and it’ll blast gale-force winds in random directions!

Hammer

• Category: Battering
• Origin: Donkey Kong
• Description: Once you start, you’ll just keep swinging this item to great effect, though the hammer’s head can pop off. Oops!

Heart Container

• Category: Recovery
• Origin: The Legend of Zelda
• Description: This heals 100 of the damage you have taken so far! Grab it before your foes get to it!

Hocotate Bomb

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Pikmin 2
• Description: Once placed, this bomb soars into the sky…only to return a short time later to explode!

Home-Run Bat

• Category: Battering
• Origin: Super Smash Bros.
• Description: Use a Side Smash to send a foe flying for the fences. It’s a tough attack to land, but it has lots of attack power.

Hothead

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Super Mario World
• Description: This item sticks to the stage and rolls around. The sparks deal damage, and hitting the Hothead will make it grow.

Killer Eye

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Kid Icarus: Uprising
• Description: Once it touches the stage, it’ll stay in place and fire beams in a straight line.

Lightning

• Category: Transforming
• Origin: Super Mario Kart
• Description: Grab this to make other fighters shrink—unless it backfires and shrinks you!

Lip’s Stick

• Category: Battering
• Origin: Panel de Pon
• Description: Attacking with this makes an energy-sapping flower bloom on your opponent’s head!

Master Ball

• Category: Helping
• Origin: The Pokémon series
• Description: Throw this to summon a rare or Legendary Pokémon to team up with you against your foes!

Maxim Tomato

• Category: Recovery
• Origin: Kirby’s Dream Land
• Description: A tomato with a big M on it. When eaten, it removes 50% damage from your counter.

Metal Box

• Category: Transforming
• Origin: Super Mario 64
• Description: Turns you into metal. Light attacks won’t make you flinch, and you’ll be tough to launch—but you’ll fall faster.

Motion-Sensor Bomb

• Category: Throwing
• Origin Super Smash Bros.
• Description: Once placed on the battlefield, these small bombs go off the moment anyone gets too close.

Mr. Saturn

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: EarthBound
• Description: Mr. Saturn won’t deal much damage when thrown, but he’ll decimate any shields he’s thrown at.

Ore Club

• Category: Battering
• Origin: Kid Icarus: Uprising
• Description: Swing this to perform an incredibly strong attack. Side Smash attacks create a whirlwind effect.

Pitfall

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Animal Crossing
• Description: Throw this at the ground to create a pitfall, burying an opponent in the dirt and leaving that opponent vulnerable.

Poison Mushroom

• Category: Transforming
• Origin: Super Mario All-Stars
• Description: Running into one of these mushrooms shrinks you, making you easier to launch and your attacks less powerful.

Poké Ball

• Category: Helping
• Origin: The Pokémon series
• Description: Throw this to summon a random Pokémon to team up with against your foes!

POW Block

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Mario Bros.
• Description: Hit it or throw it at something to launch anybody standing on the ground at the time. It’ll disappear after the third use.

Ray Gun

• Category: Shooting
• Origin: Super Smash Bros.
• Description: Fires a fast blaster shot that can knock enemies backward and into the air.

Rocket Belt

• Category: Gear
• Origin: Pilotwings
• Description: While wearing this, hold Up or hold the Jump button to rocket into the sky. You’ll refuel automatically on the ground.

Sandbag

• Category: Punching
• Origin: Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Description: Hit Sandbag to make items fall out! The more you hit it, the easier it will be to launch.

Screw Attack

• Category: Gear
• Origin: Metroid
• Description: Pick this up and you’ll execute a high-speed Screw Attack every time you jump.

Smart Bomb

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Star Fox
• Description: These bombs create a massive explosion when they detonate, hurting anyone caught in the blast.

Smash Ball

• Category: Final Smash
• Origin: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Description: Destroy this floating orb, and then press the Special Move button to unleash your Final Smash!

Smoke Ball

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Description: After being thrown, this item will roll around on the ground or stick to opponents. The smoke makes it hard to see the battle.

Soccer Ball

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Super Mario Strikers
• Description: Give it a good kick, and watch the ball burst into flames! You can’t pick it up, though—that’s a foul.

Special Flag

• Category: Effect
• Origin: Rally-X
• Description: You’ll be vulnerable while holding this , but eventually you’ll gain +1 KO (in a timed battle) or +1 stock (in a stock battle). Risk and reward!

Spiny Shell

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Mario Kart 64
• Description: Once thrown, it floats above someone’s head and then explodes after a short while.

Spring

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Donkey Kong Jr.
• Description: Jump on this to get a boost! If you bump into it while it’s laying on its side, though, you’ll be sent flying sideways.

Star Rod

• Category: Battering
• Origin: Kirby’s Adventure
• Description: Side Smash attacks and Side Tilt attacks will make this item fire star-shaped projectiles. Its ammo is limited, though…

Steel Diver

• Category: Shooting
• Origin: Steel Diver
• Description: This “sub-machine gun” fires powerful torpedoes that take a second to get going before taking off at high speed.

Super Leaf

• Category: Gear
• Origin: Super Mario Bros. 3
• Description: After picking this up, hold Up or hold the Jump button to hover in midair with the help of a very fuzzy tail!

Super Mushroom

• Category: Transforming
• Origin: Super Mario Bros.
• Description: Touching this will make you a giant, raising your attack power and making you tough to launch.

Super Scope

• Category: Shooting
• Origin: Super Nintendo Entertainment System accessory
• Description: This laser rifle can fire rapidly or unleash a power-charged shot. You can even shoot while moving!

Super Star

• Category: Transforming
• Origin: Super Mario Bros.
• Description: Touch one of these, and you’ll be invincible! Not forever, though—more like for 10 seconds.

Superspicy Curry

• Category: Transforming
• Origin: Kirby’s Dream Land
• Description: Eat this spicy dish to send a constant eruption of flame pouring from your mouth! You can still attack, but you can’t stand still.

Team Healer

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Description: Only available in team battles. Throw it at teammates to heal their damage. If thrown at an enemy, it will either damage or heal that enemy. It’s a roll of the dice!

Timer

• Category: Transforming
• Origin: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Description: This item slows down everyone but the player who collects it…except when it backfires.

Unira

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Clu Clu Land
• Description: Throw or attack this to reveal its dangerous spikes. Attack it again to make the spikes retract.

Warp Star

• Category: Transforming
• Origin: Kirby’s Dream Land
• Description: Grab this to fly up into the air, and then slam back down to the ground in a devastating attack. You can aim slightly to the left or the right.

X Bomb

• Category: Throwing
• Origin: Kid Icarus: Uprising
• Description: Once thrown, these bombs hover in the air and then blast fire in four directions. Your throw determines the angle of the fire.