Floow

Floow
Two Floows in the Subspace Emissary.
Universe	Super Smash Bros.
Level(s) appears in	The Ruined Zoo The Ruins The Swamp The Glacial Peak Battleship Halberd Interior The Subspace Bomb Factory II Entrance to Subspace The Great Maze
Point worth	800

A Floow (フロウス, Flows) is an enemy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl's Subspace Emissary mode, which first appears in The Ruined Zoo.

Enemy description

When a Floow initially appears, it looks like a large, indefinite black cloud. After a brief time, it takes form as a slim, tall, humanoid shape made of separate gray bars, with two small red eyes that get brighter when it attacks. The bars get more distant as the Floow takes damage, thus widening its figure. Its trophy describes it as "a ghost patched with strips of darkness".

A Floow's attack (some sort of scream or lament) is a multi-hit move that deals medium damage and decent knockback on the last hit. It is possible for multiple Floows to attack at alternate times to deal even more damage to the player, however the finishing hit from one typically launches the player out of the other's attack.

A particular annoyance of the Floow is its ability to steadily regain health, although it cannot move or attack while healing. The required time for a complete healing varies with the difficulty, from four seconds on Easy to less than two seconds on Intense. Sufficiently weakened Floows can be turned into a trophy with the use of a Trophy Stand, but precise aiming and timing may be required as the Floows float around. Floows are also completely immune to absorbable attacks; such attacks will simply vanish on contact and not do anything.

Name origin

Its name is a corruption of the word "flow", which describes the way it moves.

Moveset

Notes: The "d" below is a multiplier based on the difficulty value. Final damage is rounded down to the nearest whole number. The move names are fan-made in the absence of an official source.

Name	Damage	Description
Curse	1 + 0.8d (hits 1, 3, 5) 2 + 0.8d (hits 2, 4, 6) 6 + 1.6d (final hit)	A Floow scrunches up then releases a wail that traps the player for several hits before launching them. The multihits have weak fixed knockback angled to keep the player close to the Floow. They also deal 15% additional shield damage, have a hitlag multiplier of 0.4×, and have varying SDI multipliers (in order: 2, 2.5, 3, 3, 3, 2.5). The final hit has high knockback and deals 30% shield damage.
Careening	6 - 0.2d	—

HP and damage taken

HP Values
Minimum (early levels)	34.3	39.5	43.4	49.9	56.4
Maximum (late levels)	38.98	45.22	49.38	54.58	60.3

Damage taken	×2.5	×2.5	×2.5	×2.5	×2.5	×2.5	×2.5	×2.5	×2.5	×2.5	×1.0

Trophy

Floow's trophy in Brawl

Floow

An enemy that might be described as a ghost patched with strips of darkness. A Floow will float in the air and attack nastily from behind. Harboring pent-up resentment, a Floow's cries reveal one part sadness, one part madness. This especially hits home when gazing into its ghastly red eyes. After taking a certain amount of damage, a Floow will disappear.

: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Names in other languages

Language	Name
Japanese	フロウス, Flows
English	Floow
French	Raturay
German	Fluuh
Spanish	Gramius
Italian	Fantow
Korean	부랑스