Editing Screen KO

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[[File:SSB4 - Mario Mac Screen KO.jpg|thumb|350px|{{SSB4|Mario}} and {{SSB4|Little Mac}} getting Screen KO'd in {{forwiiu}}.]]

A '''Screen KO''' ({{ja|手前やられ|Temae yarare}}, ''Forefront defeat'') is a special type of [[KO]] which has a chance of occurring when characters are sent off the top [[blast line]]. Instead of being [[Star KO]]'d as usual, the character instead falls into the foreground and appears to [[wikipedia:Fourth wall|crash into the screen]] before being KO'd. Whether a character is Star KO'd or Screen KO'd is random, though in the first three games, Screen KOs are considerably rarer than Star KOs; as a result, Screen KOs rarely involve two or more characters at once.

In ''Melee'' and ''Brawl'', Screen KOs complete faster than Star KOs, which can, at times, affect gameplay. For example, when a character is KO'd by {{SSBM|Jigglypuff}}'s [[Rest]], getting a Star KO means that the character will not [[respawn]] fast enough to [[punish]] the sleeping Jigglypuff, due to the length of the Star KO animation. However, if a character is instead Screen KO'd, this provides them with more time to potentially get a solid hit on the vulnerable Jigglypuff. The Screen KO's shorter duration can also influence the outcome of matches that have gone to a last [[stock]] situation. If both characters are KO'd off of the top at around the same time and one is Screen KO'd instead of Star KO'd, the Star KO'd player will win the match due to random chance and the lengthier animation. This time difference was reduced in ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', though Screen KOs are now slightly longer than Star KOs in said game.

In ''Smash 64'', characters yell out their Star KO scream and fall down between the front of the stage and the camera, getting KO'd by the bottom blast line afterwards. Depending on the camera angle, this may not always be visible. The distance from the camera is chosen randomly - sometimes doomed characters appear to be falling normally, while at other times they are just a quick flash of color going down the screen. Screen KOs in this game are only a couple of frames shorter than a Star KO.

In ''Melee'', all characters have a unique tumbling animation for when they crash into the screen; upon striking the camera, the character also yells out one of their strong knockback groans, then gets KO'd by the bottom blast line without making any sounds. Screen KOs in ''Melee'' are significantly faster than Star KOs. All these traits would carry over to ''Brawl''.

There is a [[Bonus points|bonus]] for getting Screen KO'd, Foresight, which grants the receiver 500 points for every time they are KO'd this way.

How close a character being KO'd is to the camera is no longer determined by randomness, but by the stage being played on. On [[Mushroom Kingdom II]], for example, Screen KO'd characters are very close to the camera and thus appear much larger.

In ''Brawl'', with the exception of {{SSBB|Meta Knight}}, {{SSBB|King Dedede}}, {{SSBB|Mr. Game & Watch}} and {{SSBB|Sonic}}, characters use a side version of their regular tumbling animations for a Screen KO, the animations for the actual impact are not as nuanced as in ''Melee''. With the removal of strong knockback yells in ''Brawl'', characters now either use their regular pain yells or say nothing at all when they hit the screen.

In ''SSB4'', instead of using their [[tumbling]] animation, every character now uses a unique Screen KO animation depicting them flying towards the screen, hitting it face-first, then staying in place briefly before sliding down. Due to this new separate animation, several characters pose during their Screen KOs in a manner referencing their series, such as Kirby reusing a pose from ''Kirby Triple Deluxe'', Cloud using a pose similar to his official artwork, and Shulk hitting the screen with his back in order for his Monado Arts to be visible. Characters who share the same base model tend to share the same Screen KO poses, such as Ness and Lucas.

As a direct result of the new Screen KO's "pause", Screen KOs in ''SSB4'' take longer to complete than in previous games, making it so that Screen KOs and Star KOs take almost equally as long to resolve. Additionally, Screen KOs and Star KOs are both disabled during the final seconds of a match - characters will simply create the usual colorful blast after crossing the blast line. Blast KOs still occur even if the match has no [[Match Timer|time limit]] or if it is in an early part of a [[time]]d match.

Some characters have different Screen KOs between the 3DS and Wii U versions, namely Mario, Luigi, Dr. Mario, Pit, Kirby, King Dedede, Pikachu and Pac-Man. The maximum amount of characters that can be Screen KO'd at one time is three. The lighting of the stage also reflects on Screen KO'd characters.

In {{forwiiu}}, Screen KOs are disabled on [[Super Mario Maker]], [[Jungle Hijinxs]], [[Flat Zone X]], [[Duck Hunt (stage)|Duck Hunt]], [[Wii Fit Studio]], [[Pac-Land]] and [[Umbra Clock Tower]]. In Umbra Clock Tower's case, Screen KOs are disabled on the 3DS version as well.

==Trivia==

*In ''Melee'', if a player is Screen KO'd on [[Flat Zone]], a different animation plays instead of the usual animation, in which characters hit the screen in their tumbling animation.

**[[Mr. Game and Watch]] is the only character to always hit the screen as if it were a [[Star KO]]. He also keeps this trait in ''Brawl''.

*In early gameplay videos of ''Brawl'', characters would sometimes hit the upper blast line with the standard colorful blast generally seen only by certain single-player mode enemies; this characteristic would later return for ''Super Smash Bros. 4''.

*In [[Coin Battle]]s, [[Smash Coins]] appear along with the character falling in front of the screen when characters are Screen KO'd; if the game is [[pause]]d, they will disappear if the camera is moved.

*In ''Brawl'', it is possible to see a character about to hit the screen right before they are KO'd by pausing and then zooming out. This can be seen particularly on larger stages such as [[New Pork City]] and [[75m]].

*In ''SSB4'', when a character gets Screen KO'd, all of the remaining fighters' player indicator icons disappear until the character that is being Screen KO'd is actually KO'd (when the numbers on the [[damage meter]] break). This also includes CPU and amiibo fighters. The camera will also shift to a random position.

*In ''SSB4'', {{SSB4|Shulk}} is the only character to hit the screen with his back facing the screen, showing any currently active [[Monado Art]].

*In ''SSB4'', {{SSB4|Pit}} and {{SSB4|Dark Pit}} have two subtle Screen KO differences, depending on how their bows were last used: one with them holding their bow in their right hands, and the other with them holding the two separated parts of their bows as blades.

*In the Wii U version of ''SSB4'', it's possible to see the white lines just when a character impacts the screen when pausing (though the character can't actually be seen). Unlike the trivia point above, this can be seen even on small stages.

*As of update [[1.0.8]], Screen KOs will never occur in ''SSB4'''s training mode.

*Opponents Screen KO'd by the [[Beetle]] will appear closer to the screen.

*It is impossible to be Screen KO'd by [[Nabbit]].

Ganondorf ScreenKO.png|{{SSBM|Ganondorf}} about to hit the screen in [[Yoshi's Story]].

Ness up against the screen.jpg|Ness being Screen KO'd on [[Shadow Moses Island]].

File:LuigiscreenK.O.jpg|{{SSB4|Luigi}} getting Screen KO'd in {{for3ds}}.

ScreenKORyu.jpg|{{SSB4|Ryu}} getting Screen KO'd in {{forwiiu}}.

File:Cloud (Default) Screen KO.jpg|thumb|{{SSB4|Cloud}}'s screen KO, which references his official pose.

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