Lightning Bolt: Difference between revisions

The Lightning Bolt appears as an item in ''Brawl'', ''Smash 4'' and ''Ultimate''. When used, it will shrink every other [[character]] to [[Poison Mushroom]] 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 collecting a [[Super Mushroom]], only the size-altering effects are amplified even further, causing fighters to grow to 2.4x their normal size, and their direct attacks will deal 1.84x their normal damage). These effects stack with Mega/Mini mode in [[Special Smash]]. Touching a Super or Poison Mushroom will cancel Lightning’s effects.

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 occur with the Super Mushroom and Poison Mushroom.