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[[Image:damagepercent.jpg|thumb|right|{{SSBB|Mario}} damaging {{SSBB|Link}} in ''Brawl''.]]
'''Damage''' is the basic measure of how vulnerable a [[character]] is to the [[knockback]] of attacks. At low damages, the character cannot be knocked back very far, and can only be thrown off-stage by the game's most powerful attacks. However, at high damages, attacks deliver  considerably more knockback, increasing the risks of severely damaged charcters to be [[KO]]'d.


[[File:damagepercent.jpg|thumb|{{SSBB|Mario}} damaging {{SSBB|Link}} in ''Brawl''.]]
Damage starts at 0% and can rise all the way up to 999%. Though damage is displayed as a percent, getting to 100% does not mean a character is doomed - the number itself is somewhat arbitrary. Damage is measured as an integer in ''[[Smash 64]]'' and a decimal number in ''[[Melee]]'' and ''[[Brawl]]''; a damage with a decimal part is rounded down when displayed.
'''Damage''' is the basic measure of how vulnerable a [[character]] is to the [[knockback]] of attacks. At low damages, the character cannot be knocked back very far, and can only be thrown off-stage by the game's most powerful attacks. However, at high damages, attacks deliver  considerably more knockback, increasing the risks of severely damaged characters to be [[KO]]'d.


Damage is represented by a numerical percentage that starts at 0% and can rise all the way up to 999%. Despite this formatting, getting to 100% does not mean a character is doomed — the number itself is somewhat arbitrary. This value is displayed as an integer in every game prior to ''Ultimate'', though is only actually measured as such in the original game. In ''Melee'', ''Brawl'', and ''Smash 4'', it is actually a decimal value that is shown as a truncated integer. In ''Ultimate'', the value is displayed to one decimal place (with the damage cap rendered as 999.0%).
Each attack deals a set amount of damage, which is then modified by things such as [[Stale-Move Negation]] before the target is launched. An attack that does no damage will not cause targets to [[flinch]] and not produce a regular hit sound, although it will still cause knockback. The damage an attack deals is a significant factor in how much knockback it causes.


Each attack deals a set amount of damage, which is then modified by things such as [[stale-move negation]] before the target is launched. An attack that does no damage will not cause targets to [[flinch]] and not produce a regular hit sound, although it will still cause knockback. The damage an attack deals is a significant factor in how much knockback it causes.
The following aspects are affected by damage:


The following aspects are affected by damage:
*Knockback - As a character gets more damage, they fly further when hit. Certain attacks have [[set knockback]], and don't apply.
*[[Grab]] time - Characters at high damage can be grabbed for longer periods of time.
*Status time - Generally, characters with higher damage are vulnerable for longer from a status effect (such as sleeping). The exception is being stunned though a shield breaking - the more damage a stunned character has, the faster they can recover.
*[[Ledge recovery]] - Before ''Smash 4'', a character's ledge animations changed at 100% or more, becoming more sluggish and providing more invincibility frames. The slower attack also dealt more damage.
*[[Hoop damage]] - Characters will not accumulate hoop damage at 150% damage or more.
*[[Jet Hammer]] - Like hoop damage, {{SSBB|King Dedede}} will not be damaged by charging this attack when he has 150% or more damage.
*[[Lucario]]'s attack power - The more damage Lucario has, the more damage his [[Aura|aura-based]] attacks do. In ''Brawl'', the power is at "normal" when Lucario is at 75%, while it stops decreasing at 20% and caps at 170%.
*[[Pikmin Throw|Pikmin latch time]] - Pikmin release a character faster at higher damages.
*A [[Team Healer]]'s healing power - The more damage the target has, the more damage the item heals.
*[[Swimming|Swim time]] - Higher-damaged characters have less time to swim before panicking, the shortest swim time being at 96% and up.
*[[Donkey Kong]]'s [[forward throw]] - The more damage the grabbed character has, the longer they can be carried, similar to the grab time function.
 
Should a [[tournament]] match [[time out]] and the players have equal stock remaining, whoever has less damage is the winner, and a tiebreak procedure is followed should damage also be even. This refers to the usual rules in ''Smash'' tournaments, unrelated to the [[Tournament mode]].
 
==Damage meter==
[[File:StockMeter.png|thumb|right|Link's damage meter in the first three games.]]
[[File:GameAndWatchStock.png|thumb|left|Mr. Game and Watch's stock meter in ''Melee'', illustrating what occurs when there are more than five stocks.]]
The damage meter displays the damage percentage a character has accumulated from attacks, as well as the character's [[series symbol]] and number of [[stock]] remaining; as of ''Brawl'' the meter also contains the character's name and portrait. In all games, the number of stock remaining is visually represented by the number of icons (the character's mugshot in the original game and ''Melee'', nondescript circles in ''Brawl''); a stock of higher than five (six in the original) is represented by one stock, with a multiplier value next to it; having fifteen stock, for instance, would show "× 15".


*Knockback – As a character gets more damage, they fly further when hit. Certain attacks have [[set knockback]], and don't apply damage to the knockback formula.
Damage meters are displayed at the bottom of the screen during gameplay. While normally opaque, damage meters in ''Brawl'' onward become translucent if a character is "standing" behind it. The damage percentage itself changes colour when more damage is accumulated; at low percentages, the value is white, but the value gradually turns maroon (original and ''Melee'') or red (''Brawl'' onward) as the value increases. In ''Smash 4'', the color has a metallic gradient and will also shift through green and yellow before turning red.
*[[Grab]] time – Characters at high damage can be grabbed for longer periods of time.
*Status time – Generally, characters with higher damage are vulnerable for longer from a status effect (such as sleeping). The exception is being [[stun]]ned through a [[shield]] [[Shield break|breaking]] – the more damage a stunned character has, the faster they can recover.
*[[Ledge recovery]] – Before ''Smash 4'', a character's ledge animations change at 100% or more, becoming more sluggish and providing more invincibility frames. The slower attack also deals more damage (in all games this applies to, [[Captain Falcon]]'s is the sole exception).
*[[Magnifying-Glass Damage]] – Characters will not accumulate hoop damage at 150% damage or higher.
*[[Jet Hammer]] – Like hoop damage, {{SSBB|King Dedede}} will not be damaged by charging this attack when he has 150% or more damage.
*[[Lucario]]'s attack power – The more damage Lucario has, the more damage its [[Aura|aura-based]] attacks do. In ''Brawl'', the power is at its base level when Lucario is at 75%, while it stops decreasing at 20% and caps at 170%.
*[[Pikmin Throw|Pikmin latch time]] – Pikmin release a character faster at higher damages.
*Certain recovery [[items]]:
**The [[Fairy Bottle]]'s behavior – it heals a character only if they have 100% or more damage; otherwise, it acts as a Throwable item.
**A [[Team Healer]]'s healing power – The more damage the target has, the more damage the item heals.
*[[Swimming|Swim time]] – Highly-damaged characters have less time to swim before panicking, with characters at 96% or higher damage having the shortest swim time.
*[[Donkey Kong]]'s [[forward throw]] – The more damage the grabbed character has, the longer they can be carried, similar to the grab time function.
*[[Instant KO]]s – Many potential Instant KOs, such as [[Danger Zone]]s, [[Giga Bowser Punch]], [[Infernal Climax]], [[Plasma Scream]], [[Triforce of Wisdom]], [[All-Out Attack]], [[Whack]], [[Thwack]], [[Sealing the Keyhole]], and [[Death's Scythe]], will fail to obliterate a character with less than a certain amount of damage and instead cause damage and knockback.


In lieu of [[sudden death]], damage is used as a tiebreaker in competitive environments when players have equal [[stock]] remaining. The player with the least damage is considered the winner.
Additionally, in all games, the colour of the series symbol behind the damage percentages changes depending on the player's number. Player 1 would receive a red symbol, Player 2 has blue, Player 3 has yellow, and Player 4 has green, while all CPUs have a grey colour; in ''Brawl'' onward, the bar behind the character's name is also coloured accordingly and the symbol itself contains an animated "smoky" texture.


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*The most damaging single-hit move (excluding [[counter]]s) is the strongest bite of the [[Ultimate Chimera]] in ''Brawl'', inflicting 200% in a single hit.
*In ''Melee'', when a character reaches 10% or 100% damage, their damage meter displays a leading zero on the frame they get hit. For example, raising one's damage from 7% to 12% will have the meter display 07% for one frame before it changes to 12%.
*Considering multi-hitting moves, [[Lugia]]'s Aeroblast in ''Melee'' can deal up to 440% in a little more than 2 seconds if all hits connect.
*Sometimes, the damage meter in ''Melee'' uses the "healing" animation instead of the "falling off" animation for returning to 0% if the character is KO'd.
*While ''Ultimate'' was the first in the series to display decimal percentages on-screen, decimal points have actually been used in every ''Smash'' game since ''Melee''. Up until ''Smash 4'', the game would truncate that value to an integer and display that number on-screen.
*In ''Brawl'', the black outline around the damage text is not part of the number textures like in the previous two games; it is instead drawn in real-time.
**This caused a side effect where attacks seemingly had inconsistent damage output in certain circumstances because the hidden decimal would roll up to the next integer, which would be reflected on-screen.
 
**Another side effect was that players would occasionally be forced to go into [[Sudden Death]] because they have the same integer percentage on-screen when time runs out despite technically having a difference of less than 1% in the background.
==Gallery==
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File:StaminaMeterSSB4.jpeg|The Damage Meter in ''Smash 4''.
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==See also==
==See also==
*[[HP]] – The measure of damage in [[Stamina Mode]], which is also used by [[boss]]es.
*[[HP]] - The measure of damage in [[Stamina]] mode, which is also used by [[boss]]es.


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