Ray Gun

Ray Gun
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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. The green lasers it fires have high knockback and a medium fire rate.

Overview

A Ray Gun can be shot 16 times before it runs out of ammunition. Each shot does minor damage (between 2-4% in Melee and Brawl but 10% in Smash 64). One of the better combo weapons, it causes enough knockback to juggle an opponent multiple times, and can even be used to KO an offstage opponent at low damage percentages if the shots are timed correctly, as well as carry an opponent past the side blast lines on stages with walk-off blast lines, especially in Brawl. It has much higher knockback and damage in Smash 64 than in Melee and Brawl. One of the available bonuses in Melee is "Laser Marksman", which means every blast from a single gun made contact with an enemy. The Ray Gun's projectiles can be reflected or absorbed, while the gun itself (when thrown) can only be reflected. Like other shooting items in Brawl, characters can move while firing. In Ultimate, its lasers launch at a more vertical angle in order to prevent sideways kills that could be done in previous titles. Additionally, they now deal weight-independent knockback.

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 the shot can deal kinetic impacts, leave burn marks, or even vaporize matter on contact.

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

Trophies

Melee trophy

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

Brawl trophy

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

SSB4 trophies

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 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!

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. (04/1999)

: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Gallery

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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, which is retained in Brawl.
• In the Japanese version of Smash 64, the Ray Gun is mistranslated as the "Lay Gun", due to the Japanese language having the "R" and "L" sounds merged into one.
• 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".
• The concept of the Spirit ability of Axl from the Mega Man X series to equip the player with the Ray Gun in Ultimate is a slight reference to the Mega Man X franchise. In Mega Man X7 and expanded upon in Mega Man X8, Axl had the ability to acquire various firearms like flamethrowers and gatling guns by defeating bosses. In particular, the weapon gained by defeating Tornado Tonion (in Mega Man X7) and Optic Sunflower (in Mega Man X8) is also called the Ray Gun. Much like with the one from the Super Smash Bros. series, it also fires lasers, but unlike the Smash Ray Gun which fires laser "bullets", his acts as a piercing, multi-hitting laser. Axl also used the Ray Gun to use the Special Weapon Mega Man X gains from Tornado Tonion, the Volt Tornado.