Item-swallowing

Kirby and King Dedede swallow items using Inhale.

Wario swallowing a crate using Chomp.

Item-swallowing is a technique in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. 4, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, performable by Kirby, King Dedede, and Wario. These characters can use their neutral special moves to eat most items. Kirby and King Dedede use Inhale while Wario uses Chomp though Kirby can also use King Dedede’s Inhale and Wario’s Chomp as well to eat items if he copies them. Additionally, Munchlax uses the same list for the items it will eat.

When an item is swallowed, it takes some time for the character to swallow it. Light items are immediately swallowed, but non-explosive heavy items like barrels have the characters briefly remain bloated with the item in their stomach, before they eventually swallow it. Explosive items that are eaten will cause about 5% damage to the consumer, and if it is eaten by using Chomp, will also deal 13% damage to nearby opponents.

Food and other recovery items (except the Team Healer), Dragoon and Daybreak parts, Superspicy Curry, Super Mushrooms, Poison Mushrooms, Warp Stars, Super Stars, Metal Boxes, and Timers take immediate effect upon being eaten.

In Super Smash Bros. 4, it has been buffed, as Kirby and Wario can restore 1% damage from eating most items. Swallowing healing items has the same effect as using them normally. For example, swallowing a Fairy Bottle will heal 1% if the character is at less than 100% damage and will heal 100% damage if above. Wario and King Dedede gain 1.5x more HP from eating food items (Kirby can copy Wario's Chomp or King Dedede's Inhale for the same effect). Wario and King Dedede can also now eat energy projectiles like Ness's PK Fire and Mario's Fireballs, but do not receive any health. Finally, eating items, projectiles from items (like the Ray Gun's projectiles), and foods will increase the Wario Waft's charge for Wario.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, it has been further buffed for both Kirby and King Dedede. Kirby, upon inhaling a projectile, can either spit it back out as a star or swallow it to recover some health. King Dedede's Inhale acts as a reflecting move, returning projectiles in their original form with a 1.5× damage multiplier.

Edible items

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

• All normal items except for Smash Ball, Mr. Saturn, Poké Balls, Bonsly, Electrode, Stickers, Trophies, CDs, Smash Coins and Bills
  • Blast Box, Bob-omb, Gooey Bomb, Motion-Sensor Bomb, and Smart Bomb count as explosive items
• A revolving Hothead
• Link and Toon Link's Bombs
• Snake's Cardboard Box when thrown (counts as a heavy item)
• Gyros
• Hand Grenades
• Diddy Kong's Peanuts
• Power Suit Pieces
• Waddle Dees and Waddle Doos
• Wario's Wario Bike (counts as a heavy item) and wheels
• Peach's Vegetables
• Summit's Vegetables
• Apples on Green Greens
• An Auroros stuck in the ground
• A Koopa Troopa retreated into its shell

Super Smash Bros. 4

• All normal items except for Smash Ball, Mr. Saturn, Cuccos, Poké Balls, Master Balls, Electrode, Grass, Custom Parts, Smash Run Powers, Trophies, and CDs
  • Blast Box, Bob-omb, Bombchu, Gooey Bomb, Hocotate Bomb, Motion-Sensor Bomb, Smart Bomb and X Bomb count as explosive items
• A revolving Hothead
• A Koopa Troopa retreated into its shell

Projectile attacks

Character	Move	Edible by	Heals	Explosive	Heavy
Mario, Luigi	Fireball
Peach	Vegetable
Bowser	Fire Breath
Yoshi	Egg Throw
Bowser Jr.	Clown Cannon
	Mechakoopa
Wario	Wario Bike
Diddy Kong	Peanut Popgun, Banana Peel
Mr. Game & Watch	Chef
Link	Hero's Bow, Gale Boomerang
	Bomb
Zelda	Din's Fire (Flames)
Sheik	Needle Storm
	Burst Grenade
Toon Link	Hero's Bow, Boomerang
	Bomb
Samus	Charge Shot, Missile, Bomb
Zero Suit Samus	Paralyzer
Pit	Palutena Bow
Palutena	Autoreticle
Robin	Thunder (all charge levels), Arcfire, Elwind
	Discarded Tomes and Levin Sword
Duck Hunt	Trick Shot, Clay Shooting
Kirby	Final Cutter
King Dedede	Gordo Throw
Fox, Falco	Blaster
Pikachu	Thunder Jolt
Charizard	Flamethrower
Lucario	Aura Sphere
Greninja	Water Shuriken, Hydro Pump
R.O.B.	Robo Beam
	Gyro
Ness	PK Fire, PK Thunder
Villager	Lloid Rocket, forward aerial, dash attack
	Timber (Wood chip)
Wii Fit Trainer	Sun Salutation
	Header
Dr. Mario	Megavitamin
Dark Pit	Silver Bow
Pac-Man	Bonus Fruit
	Power Pellet
	Fire Hydrant (Hydrant, water)
Mega Man	Metal Blade
	Crash Bomber, Leaf Shield, neutral attack, forward tilt/smash, neutral/up/down aerial
Mewtwo	Shadow Ball, Disable
Lucas	PK Fire, PK Thunder
Ryu	Hadoken
Cloud	Blade Beam
Corrin	Dragon Fang Shot
Bayonetta	Bullet Climax

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

• All normal items except for Smash Ball, Fake Smash Ball, Poké Balls, Master Balls, Electrode, Pyukumuku, Grass, Mr. Saturn and Cuccos
  • Blast Box, Bomber, Bob-omb, Motion-Sensor Bomb, Gooey Bomb, Smart Bomb, Bombchu, X Bomb and Hocotate Bomb count as explosive items
• A revolving Hothead
• Vulpix, Alolan Vulpix, Staryu, Kyogre, Snivy, Fennekin and Tapu Koko's projectile attacks
• Chef Kawasaki, Ghirahim, Guile, Hammer Bro, Jeff, Krystal, Mother Brain, Phosphora, Shovel Knight, Starman, Sukapon, Takamaru and Wily Capsule's projectile attacks
• Projectile attacks:
  • Mario and Luigi's Fireball
  • Link's forward Smash, Bow and Arrows, Boomerang and Remote Bomb
  • Samus and Dark Samus' Charge Shot, Missile and Bomb
  • Yoshi's Egg Throw and Yoshi Bomb (stars)
  • Kirby's Final Cutter (shock waves)
  • Fox, Falco and Wolf's Blaster
  • Pikachu and Pichu's Thunder and Thunder Jolt
  • All of Ness and Lucas's special moves except for PK Magnet
  • Peach and Daisy's Toad and Vegetable
  • Bowser's Fire Breath
  • Ice Climbers' Ice Shot
  • Sheik's Needle Storm and Burst Grenade
  • Zelda's Din's Fire
  • Dr. Mario's Megavitamins
  • Young Link's Fire Arrow, Boomerang, and Bomb
  • Mewtwo's Shadow Ball and Confusion
  • Mr. Game & Watch's forward aerial and Chef
  • Pit's Palutena Bow
  • Dark Pit's Silver Bow
  • Zero Suit Samus' Paralyzer
  • Snake's Hand Grenade, Remote Missile, C4, up Smash and taunt (box)
  • Ivysaur's Razor Leaf
  • Charizard's Flamethrower
  • Diddy Kong's Peanut Popgun and Rocketbarrel Boost (airborne)
  • Sonic's Spring Jump (airborne)
  • King Dedede's Gordo Throw and Super Dedede Jump (stars produced by landing)
  • Olimar's Pikmin Throw
  • Lucario's Aura Sphere and Force Palm's aura
  • R.O.B.'s Robo Beam and Gyro
  • Toon Link's Hero's Bow, Boomerang, and Bomb
  • Villager's dash attack, forward and back aerials, forward Smash, Lloid Rocket, and Timber (water)
  • Mega Man's neutral attack, forward tilt, neutral aerial, up aerial, Metal Blade, Crash Bomber and Leaf Shield
  • Wii Fit Trainer's Sun Salutation and Header
  • Rosalina & Luma's Star Bits
  • Mii Brawler's Shot Put
  • Mii Swordfighter's Gale Strike, Shuriken of Light and Chakram
  • All of Mii Gunner's projectible attacks
  • All of Palutena's projectile attacks
  • All of Pac-Man's special attacks except for Pac-Jump
  • All of Robin's projectile attacks except for Discarded Levin Sword and tomes
  • Bowser Jr.'s Clown Cannon and Mechakoopa
  • Duck Hunt's Trick Shot and Clay Shooting
  • Ryu and Ken's Hadoken
  • Cloud's Blade Beam
  • Corrin's Dragon Fang Shot
  • Bayonetta's Bullet Climax
  • Inkling's Splat Bomb
  • Ridley's Plasma Breath
  • Simon and Richter's Axe, Cross and Holy Water
  • King K. Rool's Blunderbuss and Crownerang
  • Isabelle's dash attack and forward and back aerials
  • Piranha Plant's Ptooie and Poison Breath
  • Joker's Eiha/Eigaon
  • All of Hero's projectile attacks except for Woosh/Swoosh/Kaswoosh
  • Banjo & Kazooie's Egg Firing / Breegull Blaster, Rear Egg and Shock Spring Jump
  • Terry's Power Wave
  • Byleth's Failnaught, only the max charged arrows
  • Steve's side tilt, down aerial, down Smash, Minecart and TNT
  • Sephiroth's Flare / Megaflare / Gigaflare, Shadow Flare and Scintilla
  • Pyra's Blazing End
  • Mythra's Ray of Punishment / Chroma Dust
  • Kazuya's Devil Blaster
  • Sora's Magic

Trivia

• When using Inhale, the player must usually stand directly next to an item. However, certain items will be actually pulled in from a greater distance.
• Munchlax's function as a Poké Ball Pokémon is to eat all the items (except Trophies, CDs, Stickers, other Poké Balls and Smash Balls) on the stage.
• Despite being able to eat both enemies and fruits in his home series, Yoshi cannot swallow items in Smash, making him the only character that can hold opponents in his mouth but cannot swallow items.
• Characters can eat Waddle Dees and Waddle Doos from Dedede's Waddle Dee Toss attack; however, Kirby doesn't turn to Beam Kirby when he swallows a Waddle Doo even though it occurs in the Kirby series.
• Characters who can swallow items can eat Sandbag in the Wi-Fi room, but another will reappear instantly.
• Wario swallows items quicker than Kirby and Dedede, but still takes a while to swallow big things, such as his bike.