There are various attacks in the Smash Bros. series that cause the flame effect. Targets hit by these attacks will momentarily be set on fire, flashing red and orange. Flame attacks have other effects:
- They thaw frozen characters.
- They cause Blast Boxes to detonate instantly.
- They do no damage to Red Pikmin, which will not flinch.
- They deal 110% knockback to Ivysaur and 90% knockback to Squirtle.
- They are strengthened by Flame Attack stickers and resisted by Flame Resistance stickers.
Flame is by far the most common "elemental" attack in the Smash Bros. series, with over half of Brawl's roster having access to at least one.
The vast majority of explosive attacks use the flame effect.
List of flame attacks by characters
- Bowser - Fire Breath
- Captain Falcon - forward smash, Falcon Punch, Falcon Dive, Falcon Kick, Raptor Boost
- Charizard - Flamethrower, forward tilt (sweetspotted), back air (the second part when sweetspotted), forward air, neutral air (sweetspotted), down throw, Fire Blast
- Diddy Kong - Rocketbarrel Boost, Rocketbarrel Barrage (ending explosion)
- Falco - Fire Bird
- Fox - Fire Fox
- Ganondorf - Volcano Kick
- Giga Bowser - forward smash, pummel
- Ike - Eruption, Great Aether
- King Dedede - Jet Hammer
- Kirby - dash attack (SSBM), can copy Fire Breath, Falcon Punch, Flamethrower, Eruption, Fireball, Chef, Pikmin Pluck (Red Pikmin), PK Fire (SSB only), or Robo Beam
- Link - Bomb
- Lucas - PK Fire
- Luigi - Fireball, Super Jump Punch (sweetspot only), Green Missile
- Mario - forward smash (when sweetspotted, SSBM and SSBB), Fireball, Mario Finale
- Mr. Game & Watch - forward smash, Chef (the pan itself), Judgment (number 6)
- Ness - PK Fire, down throw
- Olimar - With a Red Pikmin, all Pikmin-based attacks (all smashes, all air attacks except for neutral air, pummel and all throws, Pikmin Throw, and Pikmin Chain).
- R.O.B. - down air, back air, neutral air, up smash, Robo Beam (close range)
- Roy - up smash, Flare Blade, Blazer
- Samus - down tilt, forward air, up smash, Missiles, Morph Ball Bomb
- Sheik - Vanish
- Snake - forward smash, up smash, down smash, Remote Missile, C4, Hand Grenade, Grenade Launcher
- Toon Link - Bomb
- Young Link - Fire Bow, Bomb
- Zelda - Din's Fire, Farore's Wind (upon re-appearing), up air
- Zero Suit Samus - Plasma Whip (very end of the wire)
List of flame attacks by items
- Blast Box
- Bob-omb
- Containers (Barrels, Crates, Capsules, or Party Balls) - have a random chance of exploding
- Fire Flower - both the fire stream and the impact of being thrown
- Gooey Bomb
- Hothead
- Motion-sensor Bomb
- Red Shell - only in Melee's Mushroom Kingdom Adventure
- Smart Bomb
- Soccer Ball
- Superspicy Curry
- Pokéball Pokémon:
List of flame attacks by enemies and bosses
- Crazy Hand - vertical punch, start of jet flight, hits of applause combo move, center of sandwich punch combo move
- Buckot
- Fire Primid - fire breath, fireball
- Glire
- Jyk - Flame variety
- Master Hand - vertical punch, start of jet flight, center of sandwich punch combo move
- Meta Ridley - fireballs (all kinds)