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[[File:fourspecialmoves.jpg|thumb|250px|Meta Knight's special moves in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'']]
[[File:fourspecialmoves.jpg|thumb|250px|Meta Knight's special moves in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'']]
A '''special move''' ({{ja|必殺技|Hissatsu Waza}}, ''Sure-Killing Art''), AKA a '''special attack''' in most other fighting games, is any move performed by pressing the special button, the [[B button]] by default. In many cases, special moves/attacks provide more damage than [[smash attack]]s, although it's unlikely to provide a KO in some situations. Unlike standard moves, special moves can have wildly different functions unique to a character's fighting style like in nearly all fighting games.
A '''special move''' ({{ja|必殺技 or 必殺ワザ|Hissatsu Waza}}, ''Sure-Killing Art''), AKA a '''special attack''' in most other fighting games, is any move performed by pressing the special button, the [[B button]] by default. In many cases, special moves/attacks provide more damage than [[smash attack]]s, although it's unlikely to provide a KO in some situations. Unlike standard moves, special moves can have wildly different functions unique to a character's fighting style like in nearly all fighting games.


However, in the ''Smash Bros.'' series, they mostly follow a pattern with their inputs:
However, in the ''Smash Bros.'' series, they mostly follow a pattern with their inputs:
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With the [[character customization]] introduced in ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', there are three options for each character's special moves (effectively meaning 12 move options per character). For example, {{SSB4|Yoshi}}'s neutral special, [[Egg Lay]], can be replaced with either Lick or Egg Launch.
With the [[character customization]] introduced in ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', there are three options for each character's special moves (effectively meaning 12 move options per character). For example, {{SSB4|Yoshi}}'s neutral special, [[Egg Lay]], can be replaced with either Lick or Egg Launch.
==Trivia==
*In some circles, the "waza" part in the Japanese term for special moves are written in katakana instead of kanji (rendering it as 必殺ワザ).


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