Editing Palutena Bow

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'''Palutena's Arrow''' ({{ja|パルテナアロー}} ''Parutena Arō'' '''Palutena Arrow''') is [[Pit]]'s [[neutral special move]]. Pit will pull his bow string back, and fire it when the button is released. The arrow does 5% uncharged and up to 11% [[charge]]d. The player can change the direction the arrow will go while holding it; backwards, forwards, and upwards. Pit's arrows move much more quickly than other character's arrows, and can be controlled in midair. He is not able to hold his drawn bow indefinitely in normal use; however, if the player keeps changing the direction the arrow will be released, he can hold onto it until the player stops (when he will lose the arrow, unlike {{SSBB|Link}} and {{SSBB|Toon Link}}).

Starting at 294%, a fully charged arrow can [[KO]] a middleweight such as [[Mario]] - making it deadly in [[Super Sudden Death]] - and an uncharged arrow can KO at 562%.

This is one of the few Special moves that can perform a 180˚ '''and''' 360˚ reversal, by holding away from the direction the player is facing while charging an arrow. This does not affect attack power.

[[File:Palutena's Bow - Brawl Trophy.png|thumb|200px|Palutena's Bow trophy in ''Brawl''.]]

Palutena's Arrow didn't appear in a ''[[Kid Icarus]]'' game prior to ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', (though it does appear in the later game ''Kid Icarus: Uprising'' as the [[icaruspedia:Palutena Bow|Palutena Bow]], which bases much of its aesthetic on designs which debuted or appeared in ''Brawl''), but in the original games, Pit used a bow as his trademark weapon. The move appears to be based on the Arrow of Light, one of the three Sacred Treasures used to defeat Medusa. Normally, Pit fired regular arrows.

==Palutena's Bow==

The Bow of Light, also known as the '''Sacred Bow of Palutena''' is Pit's weapon of choice. The bow splits into two [[Sword|blades]], which Pit can wield. Before ''Kid Icarus Uprising'', Pit's bow did not have the ability to split into two blades. This is explained in [[Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary|the Subspace Emissary]].

===Description from the Instruction Booklet===

''Change the angle of fire and trajectory of your ethereal arrows once you've drawn the bow.''

===Trophy Description===

''The bow Pit got from [[Palutena]] after the Medusa incident. As a standard bow, it's capable of firing arrows of light that can change direction. It can also be split to form two short swords--Pit holds one sword in his right hand in a standard grip and one in his left in a reverse grip. He may hold them like this so he can shift between bow and swords without losing a beat.''

:''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''

:2008

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File:PalutenaArrow.jpg|Pit's bow in ''Brawl''.

File:Smash4 - Pit battles Villager.jpg|{{SSB4|Villager}} [[Pocket|catches]] and throws an arrow in ''Smash 4''.

File:Link&PitSSB4.png|Pit and {{SSB4|Link}} using their bows alongside each other.

*The first time that this item is seen in the Kid Icarus universe is in the 3DS game ''Kid Icarus Uprising'', where it was dubbed, 'The Palutena Bow'.

*This is the only [[special move]] Pit has been confirmed to keep in ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]''.

*Normally, Pit has golden rings hovering around his wrist. When he uses this move, the rings slide onto the bow while charging before returning to his wrists when he fires.

*If Pit has the arrow on the screen after he is KO'd, he can continue to control it in unlimited time. An example can be seen here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXpSaprgAYg&feature=youtu.be&t=1m17s].