Fire Flower

Fire Flower
The Fire Flower in action in Smash 4.
Universe	Mario
Appears in	SSB SSBM SSBB SSB4
Item class	Shooting
Article on Super Mario Wiki	Fire Flower

The Fire Flower (ファイアフラワー, Faia Furawā) is a item in Super Smash Bros., Melee, Brawl, and Smash 4. It originates from the Super Mario Bros. series.

Operation

When holding a Fire Flower, hitting the attack button will make the flower start spewing fire in front of the character. The flames can be spewed for a combined 7 seconds and inflict up to 44% damage altogether. As the Fire Flower is a shooting item, characters cannot move or jump while firing in Melee. It can be thrown or dropped to inflict between 4-12% damage. When a character is hit, he or she can catch fire and receive knockback, but the knockback cannot KO. The flames are treated as energy projectiles, allowing them to be reflected or absorbed. Mewtwo can deflect it with Confusion, though it will not hurt the opponent, making the tactic not as effective.

Origin

A fire flower as it originally appeared in Super Mario Bros.

The Fire Flower made its first appearance in Super Mario Bros. When the item is acquired, the player can shoot fireballs at enemies. An enemy hit by a fireball will instantly die. The fireballs don't stop bouncing until they hit a enemy or object. Fire Flowers have appeared in numerous Mario games since and they usually function the same way. In the Super Smash Bros. series, the Fire Flower shoots a stream of fire rather than a fireball. The design of the Fire Flower is also different for each of the Super Smash Bros. games: The design of the Fire Flowers in Super Smash Bros. comes from Super Mario Bros., the design in Melee resembles a daisy, which is the type of flower the Fire Flower is in Super Mario Bros., and the design in Brawl and SSB4 comes from the design used since New Super Mario Bros. [1]

Damage

Action	SSB	Melee	Brawl
Each flame	3%	1%	3%
Full fire	150% (15%×10)	60% ((1% - 3%)×24)	150% (15%×10)
Drop	1%	4%	1%
Forward tilt throw	6%	7% - 8%	6%
Up tilt throw	7%	9%	7%
Down tilt throw	4%	9%	4%
Dash throw	11%	9%	11%
Side smash throw	10%	10%	10%
Up smash throw	10%	11%	10%
Down smash throw	6%	12%	6%
Air drop	5%	4%	5%
Air forward tilt throw	8%	8%	8%
Air up tilt throw	9%	4%	9%
Air down tilt throw	10%	9%	10%
Air side smash throw	11%	8% - 10%	11%
Air up smash throw	11%	4%	11%
Air down smash throw	11%	9%	11%

Glitch

In Melee, the Fire Flower is used to cause the Ice Climbers on fire glitch. It causes the partner Climber to continuously release fire effects (though this fire does not inflict any damage).

Description from the Super Smash Bros. Instruction Booklet

Use the Fire Flower to blast your opponents with fiery breath. Be sure to get in close because even breath this bad can't reach too far!

Trophy Info

The Fire Flower trophy from Melee.

In Melee

Once you grab this item, press and hold down the A Button to make the flower breathe flames until its power gives out. The Fire Flower is incredibly useful when you want to push someone off the edge of a stage. In Super Mario Bros., it transformed Mario into Fire Mario, changing his garb and enabling him to throw fireballs.

The Fire Flower trophy from Brawl.

In Brawl

A flower that breathes flames when you press and hold the attack button. The flames don't last forever, though--after a while, the flower will lose its fiery power. You can also throw Fire Flowers at enemies to set them on fire for a brief moment. In Super Mario Bros., Fire Flowers were used to transform Mario into Fire Mario.

: Super Mario Bros.

: Super Mario Bros. 3

Sticker

Name	Game	Effect	Character(s)
Fire Flower	New Super Mario Bros.	Carry Fire Flower

Fire Flower (New Super Mario Bros.)

Gallery

• Fire Flower.jpg

  Fire Flower's artwork from Super Smash Bros.

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  Fire Flower in Melee

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  Official Brawl artwork.

• FireFlower, GreenShell, Pokeball SSB4.jpeg

  A Fire Flower in Super Smash Bros. 4, along with some other items.

Trivia

• Level 5 and above CPUs in the original Super Smash Bros. will never use the Fire Flower against Fox or Ness, since Fox can reflect the flames and Ness can absorb them. Instead, they will throw the Fire Flower at them.