Ray Gun

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Ray Gun
Artwork of the Ray Gun.
Universe	Super Smash Bros.
Appears in	SSB Melee Brawl SSB4 Ultimate
Item class	Shooting

“	The Ray Gun can hit enemies from a distance with its long-range laser shot. Unfortunately, it's only a 16-shooter.	”
—Super Smash Bros. instruction booklet

The Ray Gun (レイガン, Ray Gun) is a long-range weapon used in all games of the Super Smash Bros. series.

Overview

A Ray Gun can be shot 16 times before it runs out of ammunition. The shots can be reflected or absorbed, while the gun itself (when thrown) can only be reflected. In the original Super Smash Bros. the shots deal 10% electric damage per shot, vertical knockback, and can be fired every 30 frames (0.5 seconds). In Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Super Smash Bros. 4 each shot deals 4% without electricity, horizontal knockback, and can be fired every 30 frames. The horizontal knockback allows it to easily juggle opponents at low percents or to carry them to the blast line at mid percents. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate the shots deal 5%, weight-independent vertical knockback, can be fired every 25 frames (0.416 seconds). The changes to knockback make it impractical for scoring KOs outside of gimping recoveries—being unable to KO on its own until 400%—but makes it better suited to racking up damage.

Starting in Brawl, (along with other shooting items) the Ray Gun can be fired while walking.

One of the available bonuses in Melee is "Laser Marksman", which means every blast from a single gun made contact with an enemy.

Damage table

In Brawl, the momentum of a projectile will affect the damage a character will receive; these are recorded in bounces. Note: The Ray Gun will not bounce twice on some throws that have too little momentum, making some second bounces unable to be recorded.

Action	SSB	Melee	Brawl	SSB4	Bounce	2nd Bounce
Laser/Ray	10%	4%	4%	4%	N/A	N/A
Drop	1%	7%	7%	5%	2%-4%	N/A
Forward tilt throw	7%	10%	10%	10%	6%	4%
Up tilt throw	8%	9%	9%	11%	2%-5%	N/A
Down tilt throw	2%	12%	11%	11%	5%	3%
Dash throw	13%	12%	12%	12%	10%	5%
Forward smash throw	12%	13%	13%	13%	9%	6%
Up smash throw	12%	9%	9%-14%	14%	5%	N/A
Down smash throw	3%	16%	15%	15%	8%	2%
Aerial drop	8%	9%	6%	9%	5%	N/A
Aerial forward tilt throw	9%	10%	10%-12%	10%	7%	3%
Aerial up tilt throw	10%	9%	7%-9%	10%	1%-2%	N/A
Aerial down tilt throw	11%	12%	4%	11%	1%-2%	N/A
Aerial forward smash throw	13%	12%	5%-7%	11%	4%	2%
Aerial up smash throw	10%	9%	5%-6%	12%	1%-2%	N/A
Aerial down smash throw	15%	12%	4%-6%	11%	1%-2%	N/A

Origin

The raygun is a common weapon in science fiction media. Instead of using solid ammunition, the raygun uses focused blasts of energy to deal damage. Depending on the purpose, the energy blasts can deal kinetic impacts, leave burn marks, or even vaporize matter on contact.

Trophies

In Super Smash Bros. Melee

Ray Gun's trophy in Melee

Ray Gun

The Ray Gun is toy-like in appearance and shoots short, fat, highly reflective beams of green light. The gun is fairly weak, but since it fires so fast, it can easily juggle enemies. It contains enough energy for only 16 shots. Try dropping it with a few shots left and watch your foes waste time and energy retrieving it.

Super Smash Bros. (4/99)

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Ray Gun's trophy in Brawl

Ray Gun

A gun that shoots rays of light, as the name suggests. Its fat shape is not very realistic--in fact, it looks more like a toy than anything else. Its beams aren't very strong; they're fast and hard to dodge. In addition, they juggle whomever they hit in midair, making it possible to hit with one beam after another. By the way, it only holds 16 shots. When it's empty, you can throw it.

: Super Smash Bros.

: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

In Super Smash Bros. 4

Ray Gun's trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS

Ray Gun's trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Ray Gun

Grab one of these to instantly feel like you're fighting the battles of the future! With the right timing, the rapid-fire green lasers can juggle fighters in the air, and they have the range to push foes off the stage. Unfortunately, even future weapons only have so much ammo. Make each shot count!

: Super Smash Bros. (04/1999)

: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Grab one of these to instantly feel like you could be fighting the battles of the future! The rapid-fire green lasers can be used to juggle fighters in the air if you've got good enough timing, and they've also got the range to push fighters off the stage from a distance. You get limited shots, though, so don't get too carried away by the future!

: Super Smash Bros. (11/1999)

: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Spirits

Equipping any of the following support spirits will give the player a Ray Gun at a start of their stock.

No.	Image	Name	Type	Class	Cost	Ability	Series
393		Walker		★★	1	Ray Gun Equipped	Star Fox Series
761		EVA		★★	1	Ray Gun Equipped	Metal Gear Solid Series
909		Axl		★★	1	Ray Gun Equipped	Mega Man X Series
955		Sharla		★★	1	Ray Gun Equipped	Xenoblade Chronicles Series
1,048		Octoling Octopus		★★	1	Ray Gun Equipped	Splatoon Series
1,107		Fighting Alloy Team		★★	1	Ray Gun Equipped	Super Smash Bros. Series

Gallery

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  Kirby shooting a Ray Gun in Smash 64.

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  Lucas holding a Ray Gun next to Mr. Resetti in Brawl.

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  Mario holding a Ray Gun and an unused Ray Gun in Super Smash Bros. 4.

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  Rodin with the Ray Gun.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	レイガン	Ray Gun
English	Ray Gun	—
French	Pistolaser	Laser Pistol
German	Laserknarre	Laser Gun
Spanish	Pistola de rayos	Ray Gun
Italian	Pistola a raggi	Ray Gun
Chinese (Simplified)	射线枪	Ray Gun
Chinese (Traditional)	射線槍	Ray Gun
Korean	레이건	Ray Gun
Dutch	Laserpistool	Laser Pistol
Russian	Лучевой пистолет	Ray Pistol

Trivia

• In the original Super Smash Bros., CPU players will never fire the gun at Fox or Ness, since they can reflect and absorb the beams, respectively. They will instead throw the gun.
• The Ray Gun's firing sound in Smash 64 is rather loud and deep, sounding more like a bazooka or a cannon than a gun. Melee altered the noise to sound much weaker and more laser-like, which is retained in Brawl.
• In the Japanese version of Smash 64, the Ray Gun is mistranslated as the "Lay Gun", due to the closest phoneme in the Japanese language being between the English "R" and "L" sounds.
• The Ray Gun featured from Smash 4 onwards has a mirrored Super Smash Bros. logo on the muzzle of the gun: one of the tips in Ultimate mentions that this allows players to "burn the logo into their enemies".