Bury

Villager burying Mario and Bowser in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

There are a few attacks in the Super Smash Bros. series that cause the bury effect. Characters hit by such attacks will be embedded in the ground. If the target is not on the ground, they will take regular knockback. If the target is already buried, the length of the effect will not be increased or reset. It is not uncommon for burying attacks to meteor smash airborne opponents, often giving them good edgeguarding abilities, though this is merely a design convention and not a property of the effect itself. A prone opponent cannot be buried in Melee and SSB4, but they can in Brawl, and an opponent who has been tripped can also be buried.

Hitboxes that have the bury effect are weight independent, and they can also ignore the Metal Box's knockback resistance.

List of burying attacks

By characters

Character	Move(s)	Games
Bowser Jr.	Grounding Dash
Charizard	Sinking Skull
Donkey Kong	Headbutt
	Jumping Headbutt
	Stubborn Headbutt
Ganondorf	Beast Ganon (initial stomp)
Giga Bowser	Down tilt (first hit; grounded opponents)
	Dash attack (second hit)
	Down throw (on bystanders)
Inkling	Splat Roller
King Dedede	Super Dedede Jump (descent)
	Quick Dedede Jump (falldown before landing)
Kirby	Grounding Stone
Little Mac	Grounding Blow
Lucas	Down throw (all but last hit)
Luigi	Burial Header
Mii Brawler	Head-On Assault
Olimar	End of Day (the ship as it appears)
Pac-Man	Meteor Trampoline
R.O.B.	Down throw
Sonic	Hammer Spin Dash
Villager	Down smash
Wario	Burying Bike
Wii Fit Trainer	Neutral attack (third hit)
Zero Suit Samus	Flip Jump
	Low Flip

By items

Item	Attack	Games
Assist Trophies	Waluigi: stomps
Poké Ball Pokémon	Ditto: Transform (if the summoner possesses burying attacks)
	Metagross: Earthquake
	Togepi: Metronome (Magnitude)

By enemies and bosses

Enemy/Boss	Attack(s)	Games
Bulborb	Jumping backwards, rump-first
Crazy Hand	Fake-out slap
Master Hand
Galleom	Stomp attack
Ticken	Falling attack

By stages

Enemy/Boss	Attack(s)	Games
WarioWare, Inc.	"Crack Down" and "Sole Man" microgames
PictoChat 2	The "boots" transformation buries players it steps on

Plunge

The plunge effect is similar to the bury effect, and in most situations, it acts exactly the same. The main difference is that, if the target is standing on a soft platform, they will be hit down through the platform after the "being buried" animation has finished instead of popping back up.

The only attack to use the plunge effect is that of the Pitfall.

Gallery

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  Donkey Kong burying King Dedede in Brawl.