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!Throw | !Throw | ||
| 32% | | 32% | ||
| 32% | | 32% | ||
|32% | |||
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!Dash attack throw | !Dash attack throw | ||
| 32% | | 32% | ||
| 34% | | 34% | ||
|34% | |||
|- | |- | ||
!Up tilt throw | !Up tilt throw | ||
| 31% | | 31% | ||
| 31% | | 31% | ||
|33% | |||
|- | |- | ||
!Forward tilt throw | !Forward tilt throw | ||
| 32% | | 32% | ||
| 32% | | 32% | ||
|32% | |||
|- | |- | ||
!down tilt throw | !down tilt throw | ||
| 34% | | 34% | ||
| | | 34% | ||
|34% | |||
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!Forward smash throw | !Forward smash throw | ||
| 33% | | 33% | ||
| 35% | | 35% | ||
|35% | |||
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!Up smash throw | !Up smash throw | ||
| 28% | | 28% | ||
| 31% | | 31% | ||
|36% | |||
|- | |- | ||
!Down smash throw | !Down smash throw | ||
| 38% | | 38% | ||
| | | 38% | ||
38% | |||
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!Air throw | !Air throw | ||
| 32% | | 32% | ||
| 32% | | 32% | ||
|32% | |||
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!Air up tilt throw | !Air up tilt throw | ||
| 29% | | 29% | ||
| 31% | | 31% | ||
|33% | |||
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!Air down tilt throw | !Air down tilt throw | ||
| 34% | | 34% | ||
| 31% | | 31% | ||
|34% | |||
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!Air forward smash throw | !Air forward smash throw | ||
| 35% | | 35% | ||
| 32% | | 32% | ||
|32% | |||
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!Air up smash throw | !Air up smash throw | ||
| 31% | | 31% | ||
| 31% | | 31% | ||
|33% | |||
|- | |- | ||
!Air down smash throw | !Air down smash throw | ||
| 34% | | 34% | ||
| 31% | | 31% | ||
| 34% | |||
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Revision as of 07:13, July 30, 2017
Hammer | |
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Hammer artwork from Brawl. | |
Universe | Donkey Kong |
Appears in | SSB Melee Brawl SSB4 |
Item class | Duration/Battering |
Article on Super Mario Wiki | Hammer |
“ | A favourite of Mario's in his younger days, the Hammer enraptures any character that grabs it and sends them into a clobbering frenzy! | ” |
—Super Smash Bros.'s instruction manual |
The Hammer (ハンマー, Hammer) is a close-range item that appears in all Super Smash Bros. games. Upon being grabbed by any player, it sends them into a unique state that inflicts significant damage and knockback.
Origin
The hammer comes from the arcade game Donkey Kong. In Donkey Kong, when Mario obtains the hammer, he is unable to stop swinging until the hammer disappears. He also is unable to climb ladders while swinging the hammer. The hammer can be used to destroy barrels that are being rolled down towards Mario, and can be used against other enemies.
Contrary to its depiction in the Super Smash Bros. series, the Hammer's head cannot fall off in the game, nor can it otherwise malfunction.
Use
Upon picking up the Hammer, characters enter a unique state; they will constantly swing the hammer back and forth, and will be unable to midair jump, use any other attacks, or defend. The Hammer also cannot be manually dropped unless the user has been sent into a state of tumbling. The Hammer deals about 22% per hit, and it also deals extremely high vertical knockback, potentially KOing opponents at low percentages; the effects of the Hammer are even more formidable in Super Smash Bros., where the Hammer instead does 30% damage with even more knockback. The Hammer can also "chain" into itself, doing 60% and likely KO the opponent. The Hammer disappears after seven seconds.
The Hammer, however, limits the user's options, and particularly careful hitbox placement by other characters can potentially interrupt the wielder. Counters are especially powerful against Hammers, since most of them deal more damage for any attack they counter. As the wielder of the hammer cannot use special moves or midair jump, sending an opponent off a ledge while they swing the Hammer can effectively KO them unless they can somehow drop the Hammer. In Brawl and Smash 4, the Hammer also operates on a "timer"; if a character wielding the Hammer is constantly hit so that they cannot swing the item, the timer will still count down, potentially getting rid of the Hammer before they can properly use it.
The Hammer is also an item in Smash Tour: when its trophy is selected, the user starts the battle wielding a Hammer.
Headless Hammers
Starting in Melee, there is a 12.5% chance of the head of the Hammer falling off, after which the item becomes functionally useless, though the wielder will continue to swing the handle. The Hammer Head itself can be picked up and thrown as a powerful item, dealing 35% when smash thrown.
If the Hammer Head falls off, then the player is rewarded with the Headless Hammer bonus, worth 2500 points. This bonus only appears in Melee.
Damage for Hammer Head
Action | Melee | Brawl | SSB4 |
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Throw | 32% | 32% | 32% |
Dash attack throw | 32% | 34% | 34% |
Up tilt throw | 31% | 31% | 33% |
Forward tilt throw | 32% | 32% | 32% |
down tilt throw | 34% | 34% | 34% |
Forward smash throw | 33% | 35% | 35% |
Up smash throw | 28% | 31% | 36% |
Down smash throw | 38% | 38%
38% | |
Air throw | 32% | 32% | 32% |
Air up tilt throw | 29% | 31% | 33% |
Air down tilt throw | 34% | 31% | 34% |
Air forward smash throw | 35% | 32% | 32% |
Air up smash throw | 31% | 31% | 33% |
Air down smash throw | 34% | 31% | 34% |
Trophies
Melee trophy
- Hammer
- If you grab the Hammer, you'll run across the screen swinging it back and forth nonstop. In Donkey Kong, Mario used the Hammer in exactly the same fashion. It's an extremely powerful item, but you have no recovery move when carrying it. Every now and then, the mallet head will fall off, and you'll end up completely vulnerable, swinging just the handle.
- Donkey Kong, Arcade 1981
Brawl trophy
- Hammer
- An item that, once grabbed, makes you swing nonstop. It's a powerful attack item that does terrific damage and sends opponents sailing. Once in a great while, the hammer's head will fall off, leaving you nothing but the handle. Of course, you can't tell whether the head is securely fastened just by looking. Hammer heads that fall off can be picked up and thrown as weapons.
- : Donkey Kong
SSB4 trophies
- Hammer
- Once you grab this hammer, you can't help but keep swinging and swinging. Who needs special moves when you've got a hammer? And forget your second jump—use that time to deliver a second lump! Oh, but the hammerhead isn't attached very well, so watch out if it pops off or something...
- This is something you just can't stop swinging. At all. You'll do a lot of damage with it, but... you won't be able to jump in mid-air or use special moves, so if you fall off the stage, good luck getting back on! Oh, and if the head pops off, you'll be left waving the handle around. If that happens... man, you are going to look ridiculous.
- : Donkey Kong Classics (09/1988)
- : Mario vs. Donkey Kong (05/2004)
- Hammer Head
- A hammer is just a stick until you add the top. That's where this item comes into play. Sometimes, however, the top comes off. If that happens, just grab this loose part and throw it at your enemies. For some poetic justice, make the guy swinging the hammer handle your first target.
- If the head of a hammer should happen to fall off while someone's waving it around, don't let it go to waste! It's great for launching people, so pick it up and throw it at someone! How about that wally waving the hammer handle around? He's just asking for it!
- : Super Smash Bros. Brawl (03/2008)
- : Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Gallery
Trivia
- Certain characters have unusual Hammer-swinging animations:
- King Dedede swings both the item and his own hammer in a back-and-forth fashion; his own hammer, however, does not actually do any damage, even if the Hammer's head falls off.
- Pit swings the Hammer by pivoting his wrist in right angles; furthermore, his animations become much choppier, with his jumping and walking animations referencing Pit's sprite from the original Kid Icarus. This behaviour also carried over to Dark Pit in Smash 4.
- Mewtwo holds the Hammer sideways and rotates it horizontally around itself. As a result, its effective range is severely reduced, as Mewtwo is significantly more vulnerable from attacks that harm it from above than other characters.
- Wario swings the Hammer above his head while facing the screen, making it seem as if he "wobbles" from side to side. In Smash 4, he faces the screen regardless of which direction he swings, and simply tilts more strongly towards either direction (although the animation of him turning around still occurs before he snaps towards the screen again). This mirrors the "choppy" movements of Warioware cutscenes.
- In Melee, Mr. Game & Watch's model can be seen in 3D when turning around with a Hammer. This doesn't happen in Brawl or Smash 4.
- If Bayonetta grabs a Hammer (or Golden Hammer) with her forward aerial and stops the attack in midair without performing all three hits, the hammer music will not play.
Items in Super Smash Bros. (64) | |
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Normal | Beam Sword · Bob-omb · Bumper · Fan · Fire Flower · Green Shell · Hammer · Heart Container · Home-Run Bat · Maxim Tomato · Motion-Sensor Bomb · Poké Ball · Ray Gun · Red Shell · Star Rod · Starman |
Containers | Barrel · Capsule · Crate · Egg |
Items in Super Smash Bros. Melee | |
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Normal | Barrel Cannon · Beam Sword · Bob-omb · Bunny Hood · Cloaking Device · Fan · Fire Flower · Flipper · Food · Freezie · Green Shell · Hammer · Heart Container · Home-Run Bat · Lip's Stick · Maxim Tomato · Metal Box · Motion-Sensor Bomb · Mr. Saturn · Parasol · Poison Mushroom · Poké Ball · Ray Gun · Red Shell · Screw Attack · Star Rod · Starman · Super Mushroom · Super Scope · Warp Star |
Containers | Barrel · Capsule · Crate · Egg · Party Ball |
Other | Smash Coins |
Items in Super Smash Bros. Brawl | |
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Normal | Assist Trophy · Banana Peel · Beam Sword · Blast Box · Bob-omb · Bumper · Bunny Hood · Cracker Launcher · Deku Nut · Dragoon · Fan · Fire Flower · Food · Franklin Badge · Freezie · Golden Hammer · Gooey Bomb · Green Shell · Hammer · Heart Container · Home-Run Bat · Hothead · Lightning Bolt · Lip's Stick · Maxim Tomato · Metal Box · Motion-Sensor Bomb · Mr. Saturn · Pitfall · Poison Mushroom · Poké Ball · Ray Gun · Screw Attack · Smart Bomb · Smash Ball · Smoke Ball · Soccer Ball · Spring · Star Rod · Starman · Super Mushroom · Super Scope · Superspicy Curry · Team Healer · Timer · Unira · Warp Star |
Containers | Barrel · Capsule · Crate · Party Ball · Sandbag · Rolling Crates |
The Subspace Emissary |
Key · Stock Ball · Trophy Stand |
Collectibles | CD · Coins · Sticker · Trophy |
Other | Smash Coins and Bills |
Smash Tour | |
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Red items | Back Shield · Black Knight · Bob-omb · Boo · Bunny Hood · Daisy (Baseball) · Darkrai · Dixie Kong · DK Barrel · Energy Tank · Franklin Badge · Hammer · Home-Run Bat · Kat & Ana · Latias & Latios · Magnus · Majora's Mask · Mecha-Fiora · Metal Box · Mr. Resetti · Mr. Saturn · Ore Club · Phosphora · Plasm Wraith · Poison Mushroom · Rocket Belt · Sidestepper · Steel Diver · Super Mushroom · Super Scope · Ultimate Chimera · Wolfen · X Bomb |
Blue items | Ashley · Boss Galaga · Bus to the City · Chain Chomp · Dillon · Doc Louis · Excitebike · Ghosts (Luigi's Mansion) · Great Fox · Isabelle · POW Block · Riki · Snorlax · Super Star · Tetra · Timmy & Tommy · Tingle · Yellow Wollywog · Zinger |
Green items | Porky Minch · Proto Man · Substitute Doll |
Random events | Banzai Bill · Flying Man · Iridescent Glint Beetle · Kamek · Koffing · Metal Face · Metroid · Nabbit · Reaper · Ridley · Souflee · Tac · Yellow Devil |
Donkey Kong universe | |
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Fighters | Donkey Kong (SSB · SSBM · SSBB · SSB4 · SSBU) · Diddy Kong (SSBB · SSB4 · SSBU) · King K. Rool (SSBU) |
Assist Trophy | Klaptrap |
Boss | Giant Donkey Kong |
Stages | Kongo Jungle · Kongo Falls · Jungle Japes · Rumble Falls · 75m · Jungle Hijinxs |
Items | Hammer · Barrel Cannon · Peanut · Spring |
Enemies | Kritter · Tiki Buzz |
Other | Dixie Kong · DK Barrel · DK Island · Pauline · Zinger |
Trophies, Stickers and Spirits | Trophies (SSBM · SSBB · SSB4) · Stickers · Spirits |
Music | Brawl · SSB4 · Ultimate |
Masterpiece | Donkey Kong |
Related universe | Mario |