Windbox

This page refers to the term used for hitboxes with pushing or pulling effects. For wind as used by stages, see Wind. For other uses of the term "wind", see Wind (disambiguation).

Windboxes are hitboxes that exert a force that pushes or pulls a character or item. As a purely aesthetic conceit, windboxes will also make certain parts of a character, such as Link's cap, respond realistically to the wind. Windboxes are typically non-damaging, and are frequently push with too weak of a force to kill all on their own. That being said, if a player is hit with a non-damaging windbox by an opponent, and then promptly SDs, it will count as a KO for the opponent.

Pushing attacks

Pushing is a common side effect in Brawl and SSB4 for many attacks, such as the Water Gun and F.L.U.D.D.. This causes characters, as well as certain items, to be pushed away from the source of the attack. Most push attacks work on both airborne and standing opponents, while characters hanging from edges are not affected. It is usually much more difficult to fight pushing than pulling.

From a physics standpoint, pushing is simply knockback without flinching. Because of this, it can KO characters and its overall effectiveness is affected by the damage ratio. Mr. Game & Watch's up air windbox with a damage ratio of 2.0 will likely KO characters over the upper blast line.

Push attacks can also cancel knockback. A character knocked towards a source of pushing will begin to tumble as if he or she has been footstoolled. Pushing attacks are ineffective against shielding opponents.

Sources of pushing include:

Characters

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Character	Move(s)	Games
Bowser	Turbulent Bomb (vortex)
Bowser Jr.	Air Cannon
Captain Falcon	Falcon Kick Fury
Cloud	Finishing Touch
Dark Pit	Breezy Flight
Donkey Kong	Storm Punch
Dr. Mario	Breezy Sheet
	Soaring Tornado
	Clothesline Tornado
Falco	Neutral attack (final hit)
	Explosive Blaster
Fox	Neutral attack (final hit)
	Big Reflector
Greninja	Hydro Pump
Ike	Tempest
Jigglypuff	Puff Up
Link	Gale Boomerang, just before returning
Little Mac	KO Uppercut
	Dash Counter
	Jolt Haymaker
	Rising Uppercut (final hits)
Lucas	PK Thunder (tail)
Lucina	Storm Thrust
Luigi	Mach Cyclone (excluding final hit)
	Clothesline Cyclone
Mario	Gust Cape
	F.L.U.D.D.
Marth	Storm Thrust
Mega Man	Up aerial
	Skull Barrier
Mii Gunner	Laser Blaze
Mii Swordfighter	Gale Strike
Mr. Game & Watch	Down tilt (windbox does minimal damage)
	Up aerial
	Fire (on launch)
Ness	PSI Magnet
Pac-Man	Fire Hydrant (water)
Palutena	Forward smash
	Down smash
	Heavenly Light
Pit	Wings of Icarus (start)
	Angel Ring (end)
	Breezy Flight
Rosalina	Luma Shot (appears on the wand when Luma is called back)
Sheik	Vanish
Squirtle	Water Gun
Toon Link	Down aerial (upon piercing the ground)

By items

Item	Attack	Games
Back Shield	Back of the shield
Deku Nut	Blasts can push opponents
Gust Bellows	Gust from bellowing and being dropped
Poké Ball (Pokémon)	Kyogre: Hydro Pump
	Latios and Latias: Pockets of wind left behind that carry opponents from using Steel Wing

By enemies and bosses

Enemy/Boss	Attack	Games
Borboras	Blowing wind
Master Hand	Icy wind
Rayquaza	Horizontal flying
Ridley	Wing flapping (Subspace. SSBB), Roar (Pyrosphere, SSB4)

Pulling attacks

Conversely, pulling or vacuuming attacks (such as Inhale) causes characters, as well as certain items, to be gently pulled toward the source of vacuum. Some kinds of vacuum only work on standing opponents, while others work on opponents in midair. Characters hanging from ledges are not affected by this. It is fairly easy to fight the vacuum's pull.

When Ganondorf's up tilt is used on a Rolling Crate, the vacuum created by the move will cause the crate to move at incredible speed. A vacuum effect can be used to free another character from Ike's Great Aether and Link and Toon Link's Triforce Slash. Pulling attacks are ineffective against shielding.

Sources of pulling include:

Characters

Character	Move(s)	Games
Donkey Kong	Konga Beat's weaker shockwaves
	Kong Cyclone
Ganondorf	Up tilt
King Dedede	Inhale
	Waddle Dee Army
	Dedede Burst (startup)
Kirby	Inhale
	Cook Kirby
Link	Gale Boomerang (upon return)
Lucario	Aura Storm
	Snaring Aura Sphere
Luigi	Poltergust 5000
Mega Man	Up smash
Ness	PSI Vacuum
Palutena	Black Hole Laser
Pac-Man	Enticing Power Pellet
	Pac-Jump
	Power Pac-Jump
	Meteor Trampoline
R.O.B.	Gyro (when grounded)
Robin	Goetia
Rosalina	Gravitational Pull (only on items)
	Catch & Release
	Guardian Luma (only on items)
Ryu	Shinku Hadoken
Samus	Zero Laser
Sheik	Burst Grenade (windboxes do damage)
Wario-Man	Up smash
Wii Fit Trainer	Hoop Hurricane
Zelda	Nayru's Passion
Zero Suit Samus	Power Suit Samus

By items

Item	Attack	Games
Poké Ball (Pokémon)	Darkrai: Dark Void
	Deoxys: Hyper Beam
	Latios and Latias: Vacuums created from intersections between the two
Unira	Directly around the Unira

By enemies and bosses

Enemy/Boss	Attack	Games
Duon	Spinning attack
Master Hand	Finger drill

Items affected by both pushing and pulling

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• All Containers including Sandbag
• All Explosive items except Motion-Sensor Bombs
• Unira
• Soccer Ball
• Metal Box
• Deku Nut
• Freezie
• Green Shell
• Mr. Saturn
• Beetle
• Bumper