Intangibility

Kirby successfully avoiding a Teal Coupe in Onett with his sidestep.

Intangibility is a state in which characters will not be hit by attacks. This is different from invincibility because, instead of attacks' damage and knockback simply being canceled, it won't hit at all. For example, a projectile will travel right through them. Intangibility is often attributed to dodges, techs, edge-grabbing, get-up attacks and animations, certain body parts during certain moves, and the start of a shield break. Since the character is not hit, a long-lasting attack (or very short intangibility time) may still hit the character once it ends.

Intangibility's negative aspect is that on the Planet Zebes, Brinstar, and Norfair stages, characters will fall straight through the stage's lower hazard rather than sustaining damage and bouncing back up, possibly causing an otherwise preventable KO. They may occasionally also be KO'd if they are standing on the track on Mute City (SSBM), Port Town Aero Dive or Mute City SNES. In Smash 4, Master Giant's "glowing hands" attack also completely ignores any form of intangibility as well as invincibility (including respawn).

In Super Smash Bros. Melee's debug menu, intangibility is displayed by affected hurtboxes changing from their usual yellow color to a blue color during the intangibility period. A similar feature is present in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Training Mode via an invincibility toggle, which causes intangible parts of characters to acquire a blue tint.

Examples

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• Smash attacks in this table are not charged.

User/Item	Move	Part of Character	Intangibility Frames	Notes
By Characters
All characters	Spot dodge/Roll/Air dodge Edge grab Techs (Standard, Rolling, Wall, Ceiling) Edge recovery actions (Climb, Attack, Roll, Jump) Floor recovery options (Get up, Roll, Attack) Perfect shield	Entire body	Varies
	Shield break animation			*Lasts until the character lands and gets back up
	Wall jump		1-14	*Only applies to those who can wall jump
	Tripping		1-5 (soft trip); 1-13 (hard trip)
	Footstool jump		9-12 (regular footstool); 1-4 (phantom footstool)
Banjo & Kazooie	Shield	Arms	1-2	*Activation
	Shock Spring Jump	Entire body	15-17 (Uncharged), 31-33 (Fully Charged)
Bayonetta	Witch Time	Entire body	5-16 8-23
Bowser	Shield	Head; Arms	1 (head), 3-5 (arms)	*Activation
	Netural attack	Arms	7-8; 9-11	*Applies to the first and second attacking arm, respectively
	Forward tilt	Arm	8-10 10-14	*Applies to the attacking arm
	Up tilt		7-12 11-16
	Down tilt	Arms	10-12, 20-22 10-12, 15-17	*Applies to the first and second attacking arm, respectively
	Up smash	Entire body	16-17
	Up aerial	Head	10-20 3-13
	Down aerial	Arms and legs	14-60 (midair) 1-15(landing) 1-26(landing)
	Flying Slam	Entire body	1-23	*Only when opponent is grabbed
	Whirling Fortress		1-4 1-5	*Only when used on the ground
Captain Falcon	Up tilt	Leg	14-17	*Applies to the attacking leg
	Up smash	Legs	22-23, 28-29	*Applies to the first and second attacking leg, respectively
Charizard	Shield	Head	1-4	*Activation
	Up tilt	Wings	7-23
	Forward smash	Entire body	22-26 22-25 20-24
	Up aerial	Head	6-11 11-15
Chrom	Up smash	Arm	10-23	*Applies to the sword arm
	Counter	Entire body	7-9 (startup), 1-6 (counterattack)
Cloud	Down tilt	Leg	7-17	*Applies to the bent leg
	Blade Beam	Entire body	10-17	*Limit Break version only
	Cross Slash		6-11
	Climhazzard		5-12
Corrin	Shield	Head	1	*Activation
	Dragon Lunge	Entire body	2-5 2-7	*Jumping
	Dragon Ascent		10-17 7-17
	Counter Surge		6-7 (startup) 1-49 (counterattack)
Daisy	Up smash	Arms and head	14-20
	Toad	Entire body	8-10 (startup); 1-3 (counterattack)
Dark Pit	Shield	Head	1-3	*Activation
	Power of Flight	Entire body	9-19 (ground); 15-19 (midair)
Dark Samus	Shield	Head and right arm	1-5 (activation); 3-5 (deactivation)
	Screw Attack	Entire body	3-6 (ground); 3-4 (midair)
Diddy Kong	Shield	Rear-most arm	3-5	*Deactivation
Donkey Kong	Shield	Head	1-4 (activation); 3-5 (deactivation)
	Forward tilt	Arm	6-9	*Applies to the attacking arm
	Up tilt		5-11
	Down tilt		5-7
	Forward smash	Arms and head	20-26
	Up smash		12-16 12-15
	Down smash	Arms	11-14
	Up aerial	Head	5-10
	Giant Punch	Entire body Arm	17-18 4-20	*Only occurs when fully charged *Applies to the attacking arm *Does not occur when fully charged
	Spinning Kong	Entire body Arm/arms	1-5 3-5 (ground); 2-5 (midair) 19-24 (ground); 10-38 (midair)	*When used on the ground, applies on the rear-most arm only *When used in the air, applies to both arms
Dr. Mario	Up smash	Head	9-11 9-13
	Super Jump Punch	Entire body	3
Duck Hunt	Shield	Head	3-5	*Deactivation
Falco	Up smash	Head Legs	1-11 7-12, 13-18	*Applies to each attacking leg, respectively
	Down smash	Legs	1-6 3-8
	Reflector	Entire body	1
Fox	Up smash	Head	1-9
	Down smash	Legs	6 6-7
	Reflector	Entire body	1 2-3
Ganondorf	Shield	Head Arm	1-4 (activation) 3-5 (deactivation)	*When deactivating, applies to the front-most arm
Greninja	Shield	Arm	3-5	*Applies to the front-most arm
	Substitute	Entire body; head and foot	7-34 (startup); 1-5 (activation); 1-56 (counterattack)	*After frame 17 of startup, intangibility occurs on its head and front-most foot
Hero	Kamikazee	Entire body	1-42
	Zoom		30~	Intangibility disappears as soon as Hero starts descending
Ice Climbers	Belay	Partner	5-16 1-65 1-15
Ike	Counter	Entire body; head	8-33 (startup); 1-4 (counterattack)	*After frame 15 of startup, intangibility occurs on his head
Incineroar	Shield	Arms	1-3	*Activation
	Down tilt	Legs	8-11	*Intangibility occurs on the non-attacking leg on frame 8; occurs on both legs for remaining frames
	Up tilt	Head	6-11
	Up smash	Arms	13-18
	Cross Chop		13-26
	Revenge	Entire body	1-19 (counterattack)
Isabelle	Pocket		5-23
Ivysaur	Up smash	Flower	26-29
	Up aerial		12-13
	Bullet Seed	Entire body	1-3
Jigglypuff	Down smash	Feet	7-26 9-10 14-15 14-16
	Rest	Entire body	1-29 1-26 1-27
Joker	Summoning	Entire body	2-62	*Only triggered when not moving on the ground
	Gun/Gun Special		4-13 (forward dodge, ground); 5-14 (backward dodge, ground); 1-6 (jump); 5-16 (forward/backward dodge, midair)	*Applies for both versions
	Wings of Rebellion		1-25 (ground); 3-25 (midair)
	Rebel's Guard		1-14	Counterattack
	Tetrakarn/Makarakarn	Entire body; head, arm	3-4 (startup); 1-8 (counterattack); 1-29 (reflection)	*When reflecting, gains intangibility on his head at frame 1, and on his front-most arm for the remaining frames
Ken	Neutral attack (held, close)	Upper body	4-10
	Forward tilt (tapped, far)	Leg	7-12	*Applies to the attacking leg
	Up tilt (held)	Upper body	4-10
	Up smash	Arm	9-12	*Applies to the attacking arm
	Up throw	Leg	27-32	*Applies to the attacking leg
	Oosoto Mawashi Geri		7-8	*Applies to the attacking leg *When canceling into the Inazuma Kick, applies intangibility on frame 1
	Tatsumaki Senpukyaku		13-22 (ground, tapped); 13-42 (ground, held; midair)	*Applies to both standard and input versions *Applies intangibility to the pivoting leg on the ground, and to the attacking leg in midair
	Shoryuken	Entire body; arm	5 (standard) 1-14 (input)	*When inputting, applies intangibility to the attacking arm on frames 1-3 and 7-14, and to the entire body on frames 4-6
King Dedede	Up tilt	Head and left arm	7-13
	Inhale	Entire body	4-18	*Occurs when inhaling opponents only *Inhaled opponent gains intangibility on frames 4-7
	Super Dedede Jump		18-21
King K. Rool	Shield	Arm	1-2	*Applies to the front-most arm
	Up tilt		4-9	*Applies to the attacking arm
	Up smash	Head	6-11
	Up aerial		7-13
	Blunderbuss	Entire body	1-8 (capture); Launch intangibility varies based on the amount of hitstun received	*Intangibility applies to the opponent only
	Gut Check		4-15 (startup); 1-7 (counterattack); 1-14 (reversed counterattack)
Kirby	Shield	Arm	3-5	*Deactivation *Applies to the front-most arm
	Up tilt	Foot	4-10	*Applies to the attacking foot
	Up smash		12-17
	Down smash	Feet	7-26 7-9 5-14
	Inhale	Entire body	4-18	*Occurs when inhaling opponents only *Inhaled opponent gains intangibility on frame 4
	Hammer Flip		2-10	*When fully charged
Link	Shield	Head	1-3	*Activation
Little Mac	Shield	Right arm	3
	Jolt Haymaker	Entire body	1-17	*After frame 3, applies intangibility to his lower body
	Rising Uppercut		1-3
	Slip Counter		4-5 (startup); 1-20 (counterattack)
Lucario	Double Team	Entire body	4-13 (startup); 1-29 (counterattack)
Lucas	Up smash	Head Head and arms	15-29
	PK Thunder	Entire body	1-9	*Applies to PK Thunder 2 only
Lucina	Dolphin Slash	Entire body	4-5
	Counter		5-6 (startup); 1-7 (counterattack)
Luigi	Up smash	Head	7-10 9-11 9-13
	Green Missile	Entire body	18-22 (uncharged/misfire)	*Always offers 5 frames of intangibility upon releasing the charge
	Super Jump Punch		2; 5-8 8-10 (ground), 6-8 (midair)
Mario	Up smash	Head	7-10 9-11 9-14 9-12
	Super Jump Punch	Entire body	2-5; 3-6
Marth	Dolphin Slash	Entire body	5 1-5 1-5 (air), 4-5 (ground) 4-5
	Counter		1-5 (counterattack) 1-2 (startup), 1-8 (counterattack) 5-6 (startup), 1-7 (counterattack)
Mega Man	Up tilt	Entire body	5-7
	Down tilt	Legs	3-12
	Rush Coil	Entire body	7-10
Meta Knight	Dimensional Cape	Entire body	12-39 (no attack) 12-32 (ground attack, no direction/backward; aerial attack, no direction/backward) 12-29 (ground attack, forward; aerial attack, forward)
Mewtwo	Shield	Head and tail	1-5	*Deactivation
	Teleport	Entire body	8-17 9-17 9-19
	Disable		10-16
Mii Brawler	Up smash	Leg	8-12	*Applies to the attacking leg
	Helicopter Kick	Legs	8-37
	Thrust Uppercut	Arm	3-7	*Applies to the attacking arm
	Feint Jump	Entire body	2-4	*Applies same frames of intangibility when jumping off of a wall
	Counter Throw		5-6 (startup); 1-17 (counterattack)
Mii Gunner	Cannon Jump Kick	Entire body	6	*Only when used on the ground
Mii Swordfighter	Stone Scabbard	Entire body	5-12
	Blade Counter		1-16 (startup), 1-8 (counterattack) 5-6 (startup), 1-5 (counterattack)
Min Min	Shield	ARMS	1-3 (activation); 5 (deactivation)
	Down tilt	Leg	10-14	*Applies to the attacking leg
	Up smash	Legs	7-15	*After frame 9, applies intangibility to the attacking leg only
	Down smash		6-8
	Neutral aerial	ARMS	8-18 (Ramram); 14-32 (Megawatt); 10-23 (Dragon/Dragon Plus)	*Applies to the attacking ARM
	ARMS Jump	Entire body; ARMS	8-13 (uncharged); 8-25 (fully charged)	*When fully charged, applies intangibility on her ARMS on frames 8-17, and on her whole body during frames 18-25
Mr. Game & Watch	Up tilt	Hands	1-39
	Up smash	Head	24-28
	Fire	Entire body	5-13
	Oil Panic		2-25	*When absorbing a projectile
Ness	Up tilt	Head	5-19 5-6
	PK Thunder	Entire body; head	1-9 1-32	*Applies to PK Thunder 2 only *Grants intangibility on his head for frames 10-32
Pac-Man	Shield	Hands	2-3	*Activation
	Up tilt	Fist	7-10
Palutena	Forward tilt	Right arm	14-35
	Warp	Entire body	16-31 16-32
	Counter/Reflect Barrier		6-12 (startup), 1-5 (counterattack)
	Celestial Firework		1-15
Peach	Up tilt	Head Head and arm	9-13 10-13
	Up smash	Head and arms	13-22 14-20
	Toad	Entire body	8-10 (startup); 1-3 (counterattack)
Pichu	Shield	Ears	1-2 (activation); 1-5 (deactivation)	Closest hitbox
	Up smash		9-11
	Down smash	Entire body	7-10
	Down aerial	Ears	14-17
	Thunder	Entire body	1-10	*Only if the bolt comes into contact with Pichu
Pikachu	Quick Attack		1-20
	Thunder		1-8 1-10	*Only if the bolt comes into contact with Pikachu
Piranha Plant	Shield	Upper lip	5	* Deactivation
	Forward tilt	Jaws	7-8	*Applies to the 1st hit only
	Up tilt	Head	6-13
	Forward smash		16-17
	Up smash		12-18
	Up aerial		7-9
	Footstooled Attack	Head and stem	10-13	*Only about half of the stem is intangible
	Long-Stem Strike	Head	21-26 (uncharged); 80-86 (fully charged)
Pit	Shield	Head	1-3	Activation
	Power of Flight	Entire body	9-19 (ground); 15-19 (midair)
Pokemon Trainer	Pokemon Change	Entire body	1-120 1-25	*In Brawl, it is the maximum amount of frames it takes for the game to load
Richter	Shield	Head	1-4 (activation); 1-5 (deactivation)
	Uppercut	Entire body	5-6
Ridley	Shield	Wings; tail	1-4 (activation); 1-5 (deactivation)	*When activating, the rear-most wing loses intangibility on frame 4 *When deactivating, applies intangibility on the wings and tail
	Up tilt	Wing, arm, and head	8-12	*Grants intangibility on the attacking wing, rear-most arm, and head on frames 8 and 9; frames 10-12 grant intangibility on just the attacking wing
	Up smash	Leg	12-17	*Applies to the attacking leg
	Wing Blitz	Wings	36-50 (ground forward); 36-55 (aerial forward; ground/aerial backward); 34-57 (up)
R.O.B.	Robo Burner	Entire body	2-4	Only when used on the ground
Robin	Nosferatu	Entire body	15-18
Rosalina & Luma	Up tilt	Head	4-10
	Up smash		7-16	Luma
Roy	Up smash	Arm	10-23	*Applies to the sword arm
	Blazer	Entire body	9
	Counter	Entire body	7-9 (startup), 1-5 (counterattack)
Ryu	Neutral attack (held, close)	Upper body	4-10
	Forward tilt (tapped, far)	Leg	7-12	*Applies to the attacking leg
	Up tilt (held)	Upper body	4-10
	Up smash	Arm	9-12	*Applies to the attacking arm
	Up aerial		6-11
	Up throw	Leg	25-30	*Applies to the attacking leg
	Tatsumaki Senpukyaku	Legs	13-28 (ground, tapped); 13-60 (ground, held); 13-44 (midair)	*Applies to both standard and input versions *Applies intangibility to only the attacking leg in midair
	Shoryuken	Entire body; arm	5 (standard) 1-14 (input)	*When inputting, applies intangibility to the attacking arm on frames 1-3 and 7-14, and to the entire body on frames 4-6
Samus	Shield	Head; shoulders	1-5 (activation); 3-5 (deactivation)	*Applies intangibility to head and shoulders when activating/head and arms when deactivating
	Screw Attack	Entire body	1-5 (ground), 1-3 (midair) 3-6 (ground), 3-4 (midair)
Sheik	Shield	Head and arms	1-4	*Activation *Applies intangibility to her head and arms on frame 4
	Up smash		8-15
	Down smash	Legs	5
	Vanish	Entire body	18-55 14-55 (ground); 19-53 midair
	Transform		27-36
Shulk	Monado Arts	Entire body	1-14
	Vision		6-7 (startup); 1-45 (counterattack, ground); 9-40 (counterattack, midair); 1-36 (forward counterattack)
Simon	Shield	Head	1-4 (activation); 1-5 (deactivation)
	Uppercut	Entire body	5-6
Snake	Shield	Head	1	*Activation
	Dash attack	Head and arms	5-12
Sonic	Up smash	Entire body	18-20 14-18
	Spin Dash		1-6 1-5	*Applies intangibility as soon as the charge is released
	Spring Jump		5-13 5-7
Squirtle	Forward tilt	Tail	1-8
Terry	Dodge Attack	Entire body; upper body	1-9	*Applies intangibility to entire body on frames 1-3; upper body on frames 4-9
	Forward tilt	Leg	8-13	*Applies to the attacking leg
	Up tilt	Arm	7-11	*Applies to the attacking arm
	Burning Knuckle		15-21 (ground input, tapped); 21-28 (ground input, held); 14-19 (aerial input, tapped); 18-23 (aerial input, held)	*Applies intangibility on his attacking arm
	Rising Tackle	Legs; entire body	9-20 (standard); 5-24 (input)	*If input is done on the ground, intangibility applies to the entire body for frames 5-16. If done in the air, it applies for frames 5-11.
	Power Dunk	Entire body	6-12 (input, tapped); 6-13 (input, held)
	Buster Wolf	Arm; entire body	10-23 (startup); 1-57 (attack)	*When the attack lands, Terry and the opponent both gain full-body intangibility **Opponent's full-body intangibility lasts from frame 1-32
Villager	Up tilt	Head and arm	7-25	*The arm holding the stick
	Pocket	Entire body	5-23
Wario	Up smash	Head	8-14
	Chomp	Entire body	2-17	*When eating an explosive
Wii Fit Trainer	Up tilt	Arm	3-12	*Applies to the attacking arm
	Up smash	Entire body	9-12
Wolf	Reflector	Entire body	5-8
Yoshi	Shield	Head, arms, and feet	1-6 (activation); 1-5 (deactivation)	*When activating shield, grants intangibility on his head, arms, and legs *When deactivating shield, grants intangibility on his head and arms
	Forward smash	Head	12-16
	Up smash	Foot	11-13	*Applies to the attacking foot
	Egg Lay	Entire body	29-51	*When swallowing the opponent *Opponent gains intangibility for 7 frames when escaping the egg
Young Link	Shield	Head	1	*Activation
Zelda	Down smash	Leg	4-16 4-13	*Applies to the attacking leg
	Nayru's Love	Entire body	4-11 4-13
	Farore's Wind		33-53 17-34
	Transform		34-43
Zero Suit Samus	Flip Jump	Entire body	13-43 3-12	*Applies same frames of intangibility when jumping off of a wall
By Items
Daybreak		2-50 (assembly), 1-197 (firing)
Dragoon		2~	*Begins as soon as the last part is collected. *Ends after the attack
Lightning Bolt		1-24 (size change)	*When reverting back to normal size, applies intangibility on frames 1-20
Poison Mushroom		1-20	*Applies the same amount of intangibility frames when reverting back to normal size
Super Launch Star		1-15
Super Mushroom		1-20	*Applies the same amount of intangibility frames when reverting back to normal size
By Pokémon
Ditto		Varies	*When performing any move or action that grants intangibility
By Stage Element
Great Cave Offensive (Cannon)		1-71	*When being shot out
Spring Stadium (Trampolines)		4-9	*When jumping *Not triggered by short hopping

Trivia

• In Ultimate, if one turns on the "Intangibility display" in Training Mode, intangibility will be displayed on Bowser while he is in his helpless state, and it will appear as though he is fully intangible. This is because during his helpless animation, only his shell and torso are tangible, in order to prevent unexpected interactions.