Item

Overview

Items are a large part of the gameplay of the Smash Bros. series. They may appear at any time in designated spawning areas during a match.

To pick up an item, press A while your character is near and facing it. Both jabs and tilts will pick up items if they are in range. If you are in the air, you can only pick up items using the Z-button. You can pick up items on the ground you're landing on (in other words that aren't on a platform you're jumping through) by pressing Z right before landing.

There are several categories of items.

Container items can be broken if thrown or hit and will release other items when broken. Opponents hit by thrown container items will be damaged. Container items have a 25% chance of exploding, dealing greater damage than normally but at the same time not releasing any items.

Battering items can be swung with A, f-tilt A, and f-smash A, and do damage to the opponent. They can be thrown, tilt-thrown, or smash-thrown with Z and the C-stick as well and may also have certain special effects.

Status affecting items are items that, if contacted or grabbed, give certain abilities to the holding character: for example, the Starman makes the character invincible as soon as one touches it. Healing items decrease your damage level when picked up. Certain "Gun" weapons can be picked up and shot using the A button.

There is another class of items describable only as "offensive items", which have different special attacking effects that take effect after picked up and/or thrown; for example, the Motion-Sensor Bomb will attach the the first contacted surface, and will explode, dealing huge damage and knockback, if touched. The few non-categorizable items left are found under Other.

Reflection

This chart shows if an item itself can be reflected by the following characters. That means, if you smash Forward+Z to throw the item, not to shoot or batter. YES if it can reflect and NO if it cannot reflect.

Item Reflection
Item	Fox/Falco	Zelda	Mario/Dr. Mario	Mewtwo	Ness
Attack	Shine (Down+B)	Nayru's Love (Neutral B)	Cape (Forward+B)	Confusion (Forward+B)	Bat Swing (Forward smash)
Ray Gun	YES	YES	YES	YES	?
Super Scope	YES	YES	YES	YES	?
Fire Flower	YES	YES	YES	YES	?
Beam Sword	YES	YES	YES	YES	?
Home-run Bat	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
Fan	NO	NO	NO	NO	?
Star Rod	NO	NO	NO	NO	?
Parasol	YES	NO	YES	YES	?
Lip's Stick	NO	NO	NO	NO	?
Green Shell	YES	YES	YES	YES	?
Red Shell	YES	YES	YES	YES	?
Flipper	YES	YES	YES	YES	?
Freezie	YES	YES	YES	YES	?
Mr. Saturn	YES	YES	YES	YES	?
Poké Ball	YES	YES	YES	YES	?
Bob-omb	YES	YES	YES	YES	?
Motion-sensor Bomb	YES	YES	YES	YES	?
Screw Attack	YES	YES	YES	YES	?
Hammer Head	YES	?	YES	?	?
Party Ball	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
Capsule	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
Crate	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
Barrel	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
Egg	?	?	?	?	?

• NOTE
• Mario/Dr. Mario explode the Bob-omb with the cape (Forward+B, but it dosn't reflect or hurt them.
• When Mewtwo reflects with confusion(Forward+B), it still counts as the thrower's item and doesn't hurt them. For example, if a character throws a Poké Ball at Mewtwo and Mewtwo reflects it, the Pokeball will not hit the thrower when reflected. When it lands, the thrower gets the Pokemon and not Mewtwo. This applies to all items that Mewtwo can reflect with the exception of Bob-ombs, they will hurt the thrower.
• All of the question marks have not been tested yet.

List of items

Container items

• Party Balls*
• Capsules
• Crates
• Barrels
• Eggs

Healing items

• Food*
• Maxim Tomatoes¹
• Heart Containers¹

Guns

• Ray Guns²
• Super Scopes*
• Fire Flowers
• Star Rods³*

Battering items

• Beam Swords
• Home-run Bats
• Fans
• Star Rods³
• Parasols*
• Lip's Sticks*

Other offensive items

• Hammers²
• Green Shells
• Red Shells
• Flippers*
• Freezies*
• Mr. Saturns*
• Poké Balls²
• Bob-ombs
• Motion-sensor Bombs
• Bumpers"
• Warp Stars*
• Barrel Cannons¹*

Status-affecting items

• Super Mushrooms*
• Poison Mushrooms*
• Starmen
• Screw Attacks¹*
• Metal Boxes*
• Bunny Hoods*
• Cloaking Devices*

Other

Other items can be produced only by certain characters, stages, or other items. These include:

• Bombs²
• Turnips*
• Apples*
• Enemies*, such as:
  • Redeads
  • Octoroks
  • Goombas
  • Koopa Troopas
  • Koopa Paratroopas
  • Polar Bears
  • Topis
  • Like Likes
• Electrodes¹*
• Hammer heads
• Walking or flashing Bob-ombs
• Yoshi's eggs
• Invisible Bombs"º

Footnotes

• 1: Appears in SSB, but not as an item.
  
• 2: Differs significantly in SSB and SSBM.
• 3: Can function both as a gun (A-tilt/A-smash) or a clobbering item (A)
• *: Only appears as an item iin Super Smash Bros. Melee.
• ": Only appears in Smash Bros.
• º: Only appears as a glitch.