Kirby (SSB)/Neutral special

Overview

The moves name is Inhale, where Kirby opens his mouth wide open and then begins to vacuum, creating a vortex of wind. This can be held as long as he wants unless if the player releases the special button, is hit by an attack that does at least some knockback. Its main purpose is to suck up a nearby opponent. With an opponent inhaled and Kirby bloated by him/her, Kirby can't move with them, and his falling speed is increased. If Kirby does not do anything with the inhaled opponent, he/she will eventually escape in a few moments and Kirby will be knocked back. However he has various options to do with him/her.

The first option is that Kirby can copy an opponent's neutral special move and poping them out for 6% damage by pressing the special move button or by tilting the control stick down. This allows Kirby to use their said neutral special move in place of Inhale, and gains a hat resembling that character (such as Kirby wearing Mario's hat if he swallows him). However, Kirby can also lose the copied special move and hat by either being attacked enough that a star resembling that ability drops out of him, being KO'd, or if he decides to discarding it by taunting. If Kirby decides to inhales and normally pops out another Kirby, nothing would change to the inhaler but if Kirby inhales another Kirby with an copied special move, the inhaler would gain that special moves while the inhaled Kirby would lose the move. A list of neutral special moves that Kirby can copy can be seen here.

The second option is that if Kirby doesn't want the opponents special move, he can shoot out the swallowed opponent (by pressing the attack button) for 10% damage and the opponent is sent in the direction Kirby is facing with decent range. Any other opponent that is hit by the projectile is hit for 17% damage and decent to high knockback.

Kirby also has other options with an inhaled opponent. One infamous option that Kirby can preform is by "Kirbyciding", where if Kirby is offstage and an opponent is nearby the edge that Kirby is trying to get to, he can use Inhale on the opponent when he gets close to him/her and he will eventually take the opponent down with him, Sacrificial KOing as a result.

Inhale has little or no use in competitive play, as it is laggy, short ranged, and Kirby has better options.

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