Lightning Bolt: Difference between revisions

==Overview ==

The Lightning Bolt appears as an item in ''Brawl'', ''Smash 4'' and ''Ultimate''. When used, it will shrink every other [[character]] to minimal size, reduce their attack power to 0.7x, make them lighter, and increase the amount of [[knockback]] that they take, similar to its function in the ''Mario Kart'' series. However, the item can backfire as well, resulting in the player who picked up the item to grow small instead, or make the other characters' size increase (much like with the effects of the [[Super Mushroom]], but the fighters grow to 2.4x their normal size, making them heavier, along with taking less knockback than normal, and their direct attacks will deal 1.84x their normal damage).

Unlike most other items, the Lightning Bolt requires a character to simply make contact with it in order to gain its effect. Any character affected by [[knockback]] while being struck by the Lightning Bolt is still affected by knockback after the shrink/growth occurs. Similar phenomena occurs with the Super Mushroom and [[Poison Mushroom]].

The Lightning is the only item which doesn't spawn normally on two different stages: [[The Great Cave Offensive]] and [[Garden of Hope]].