Grass (item)

Grass
Grass in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
Universe	Mario
Appears in	SSB4 Ultimate
Item class	Carrier
Article on Super Mario Wiki	Grass

Grass (草(くさ), "Grass") is an item from the Mario series.

Origin

Peach next to several patches of grass in the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 2.

Black tufts of grass made their appearance in the Japan-only game Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (repurposed as Super Mario Bros. 2 for international markets, where the grass tufts become red). When plucked, they will produce an item, most commonly a vegetable but sometimes a Magic Potion, a POW Block, a bomb, or a Turtle Shell. In Subspace, plucking grass rewards the player with coins that can be spent at the end-of-level slot machine.

Players can also pull up Stop Watches in place of every fifth ripe vegetable, Rockets, and in the Game Boy Advance remake, hearts, all of which activate immediately. In Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, grass tufts reappear, reprising their function in Super Mario Bros. 2, though they are now green like the vegetables' leaves. In Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, the grass tufts are replaced by Pluck Patches, which functions in a similar manner.

Overview

As a stage element

In Super Smash Bros. Melee, the grass tufts appear as part of the background element in the Mushroom Kingdom II stage.

As an item

Greninja having just obtained a Fire Bar from grass.

The grass debuted as a carrying item in Super Smash Bros. 4.

The grass tufts randomly appear on the stage platforms and ground. The fighter who plucks it will receive a random item (see the "Spawnable items" table) and briefly holds it above their head before wielding it (if it can be wielded) or automatically using it (if it is a status or recovery item). If the platform vanishes, the grass it grows on will disappear.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the grass does not appear in the list of items when editing the rules.

Spawnable items

Item	Relative frequency
	SSB4	SSBU
Heart Container	3	3
Maxim Tomato	7	7
Food	18	24
Drill	14	14
Fire Flower	10	10
Gust Bellows	12	12
Ray Gun	12	12
Steel Diver	14	14
Super Scope	8	8
Beam Sword	12	12
Ore Club	10	10
Fire Bar	10	10
Home-Run Bat	8	8
Lip's Stick	8	8
Star Rod	10	10
Superspicy Curry	6	6
Metal Box	6	6
Poison Mushroom	2	2
Super Mushroom	9	9
Killing Edge	N/A	10
Death's Scythe	N/A	10
Rage Blaster	N/A	10
Staff	N/A	10
Banana Gun	N/A	10

Trophy

In Super Smash Bros. 4

The Grass trophy appears in both versions.

Grass's trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS

Grass's trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Grass

This special grass first appeared in Super Mario Bros. 2, where plucking it revealed hidden items. It works exactly the same way in Smash Bros.—if you pluck the grass, maybe you'll find a game-changing object! If only cleaning an unkempt lawn would reveal such neat things...

: Super Mario Bros. 2 (10/1988)

A patch of overgrown grass with an item buried underneath. Grass like this grew all over the place in Super Mario Bros. 2, and Mario and co. could pull it up to get all kinds of handy items for their quest. It works the same way in this game: pull it up to get an item. Who knows what it'll be?

: Super Mario Bros. 2 (04/1989)

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	草(くさ)	Grass
English	Grass	—
French	Herbe	Grass
German	Grasbüschel	Tuft of Grass
Spanish	Hierba	Grass
Italian	Erba	Grass
Chinese	草	Grass
Korean	풀	Grass
Dutch	Graspol	Grass
Russian	Трава	Grass

Trivia

• The item spawn list in both SSB4 and SSBU contains entries for Barrels, Crates, Capsules, Rolling Crates, Party Balls, Sandbags, Fairy Bottles, Golden Hammers, and Hammers but all are given a value of zero, preventing them from being pulled.