Explosive

Explosive is an attack type in the Super Smash Bros. series that encompasses explosion-based attacks.

Explosive attacks are boosted by Explosives Attack stickers in Super Smash Bros. Brawl's The Subspace Emissary.

While explosive is separate to the effect flame, most explosive attacks also have the flame effect (although there are many flame attacks that are not explosive). In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Ivysaur's bulb blasts are the only fighter attack to be explosive without being flame, being Explosive/Grass instead.

Explosive attacks

By characters

• Bowser Jr. - Abandon Ship! and Mechakoopa when touching an opponent
• Charizard - Flare Blitz
  • Mega Charizard X - Fire Blast
• Diddy Kong - Rocketbarrel Barrage (both the exploding peanuts and the explosion at the end of the move)
• Duck Hunt - Trick Shot
• Ganondorf - Up tilt (hitbox)
• Ike - Eruption (either the fire of a partial charge or any part of a full charge)
• Ivysaur - Up smash, up air, and down air
• King Dedede - Inhale (when sucking up an explosive)
• Kirby - Copy (when sucking up an explosive) and can copy any move that does explosive damage
  • Kirby can copy Eruption, but doing so does not deal explosive damage as it should
• Link - Bomb
• Mario - Explosive Punch
• Mii Gunner - Grenade Launcher, Stealth Burst, Gunner Missile, Lunar Launch (startup), Bomb Drop, Down tilt, Up tilt, Back aerial, and Down smash
• Palutena - Explosive Flame, Celestial Firework, and Rocket Jump
• Peach - Peach Bomber
• Roy - Flare Blade, Critical Hit, Counter, Up smash, and the final hit of all variations of Dancing Blade
• R.O.B. - Up smash, neutral air, back air, and down air
• Samus - down tilt, up smash, Missile, Bomb and forward air
• Sheik - Vanish (startup) and Burst Grenade
• Snake - Up smash, down smash, forward smash, Hand Grenade, Remote Missile, C4, and Grenade Launcher
• Toon Link - Bomb
• Wario - Chomp (upon eating an explosive)
• Zelda - Din's Fire and Up aerial

By items

• Blast Box
• Bob-omb
• Bombchu
• Capsule (has a random chance of exploding)
• Cracker Launcher shots
• Deku Nut
• Gooey Bomb
• Hocotate Bomb
• Smart Bomb
• Warp Star (when hitting the ground after startup)

Trivia

• Despite their descriptions, the Support Spirit skill Fire & Explosion Attack ↑ and the Spirit skill or trait Fire/Explosion Resist ↑ do not affect damage dealt by moves based on whether they are explosive, but rather based on whether they have the flame effect. However, due to almost all explosive moves having the flame effect, these Spirits usually end up affecting explosive attacks anyway.