Fire Flower

Use the Fire Flower to blast your opponents with fiery breath. Be sure to get in close because even breath this bad can't reach too far! The Fire Flower (, Fire Flower) is an item from the series.

Origin
The Fire Flower made its debut in Super Mario Bros.. They pop out of ? Blocks when Mario or Luigi are in their Super states. Once obtained, they become Fire Mario / Luigi and can toss fireballs, projectiles that are fired diagonally downwards and bounce off the ground. Fireballs are very efficient at clearing out enemies quickly, being the only way to defeat underwater enemies and providing an easier time during Bowser fights.

The Fire Flower has underwent a lot of visual changes within the Super Smash Bros. series. In Super Smash Bros., the Fire Flower's design is based on the design from Super Mario Bros. In Melee, it has an unique design modeled after a. From Brawl onwards, the Fire Flower's design is based on the design from , which became its standardized look. In Ultimate, the fire looks more cartoony than in previous games.

As an item
The Fire Flower debuted as a shooting item in Super Smash Bros.

While holding down the attack button, the Fire Flower spits a stream of fire. Holding the attack button will lead to longer attack times. The flames can be shot for a combined seven seconds and inflict up to 44% damage altogether. While characters could not move while using the item in the first two games, shooting items were later changed in Brawl as to allowing running and jumping while shooting such items, including the Fire Flower. While the flower can be thrown when it runs out of flames to fire, it cannot KO at any percentage, though it does inflict a burning hitbox. The Fire Flower's flames are considered to be both reflectable and absorbable.

In Melee, the Fire Flower can be used to cause the Ice Climbers on fire glitch, which causes the partner Climber to continuously release fire effects.

Damage output
In Super Smash Bros. 4, damage dealt when thrown or dropped is dependent on distance. When dropped, items do more damage at greater heights as opposed to when thrown.

Spirit
The Fire Flower appears in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a Novice-class support spirit. It can only be purchased at Timmy & Tommy's.

In addition to the above, equipping the Vulpix or Alraune support spirits will give the player a Fire Flower at a start of their stock.

Trivia

 * In Smash 64, level 5 and above CPUs will never use a Fire Flower against Fox or Ness, as Fox can reflect the flames and Ness can absorb them. Instead, they will always throw the Fire Flower at them.
 * The design of the Fire Flower in SSB4 and Ultimate is slightly different from its standard design; specifically, the outer red band of the flower is larger than usual. This is likely to make the item more visible from a far distance.
 * The Power Flowers from Super Mario 64 DS resemble the Fire Flower design from Melee.