Electric

There are various attacks in the Super Smash Bros. series that cause the electric effect. Targets hit by these attacks will be shocked and spark for a second or two. Electric attacks have other effects:

• They multiply the freeze frames of an attack by 1.5x.
• They do no damage to Yellow Pikmin, which will not flinch.
• They are strengthened by Electric Attack stickers.
• They are weakened by Electric Resistance stickers.

The majority of magic and PK attacks use the electric effect, though this is hardly universal. The electric effect can be confused with the paralyze effect, as the only common moves that can paralyze use electrical sound effects.

Pikachu's Thunder move is a powerful electric attack.

List of electric attacks by characters

• Captain Falcon - Knee Smash (sweet-spotted)
• Dr. Mario - Forward smash
• Falco - Reflector, Blaster (Brawl only); back, up and down throws
• Fox - Reflector
• Ganondorf - neutral attack, Dark Dive, down aerial
• Giga Bowser - up smash, neutral aerial, back aerial, down aerial, Whirling Fortress
• Kirby - can copy Charge Shot, Thunder Jolt and PK Flash
  • Kirby can copy Falco's Blaster, but doing so does not deal electric damage.
• King Dedede - Waddle Dee Toss (Waddle Doo lasers)
• Lucas - forward tilt (sweet spot only), up tilt (tip), dash attack, up smash, down smash, neutral aerial, forward aerial (sweetspotted), back aerial, PK Thunder, PSI Magnet
• Mewtwo - neutral aerial, Shadow Ball (hitboxes while charging), pummel, floor attack
• Mr. Game & Watch - Judge (number 5)
• Ness (don't apply in Smash 64 except for PK Thunder) - dash attack, forward aerial, back aerial (sweet spot only), PK Flash, PK Thunder
• Olimar - With a Yellow Pikmin, all Pikmin-based attacks (all smashes, all aerial attacks except for neutral aerial, pummel, all throws, Pikmin Throw, and Pikmin Chain).
• Pichu - Forward aerial, down aerial, forward smash, Thunder Jolt, Skull Bash, Thunder, pummel and all throws. Except for back, up and down throws, and missed Thunder, all these do recoil damage to Pichu.
• Pikachu - Forward smash, down smash (Melee/Brawl), forward aerial, down aerial, pummel, forward throw (back throw instead in SSB, and all throws in Melee), Thunder Jolt, Skull Bash (Melee), Quick Attack (Melee/Brawl), Thunder, Volt Tackle
• R.O.B. - forward smash, Diffusion Beam
• Samus - Grapple Beam, forward and back throws (Smash 64) Charge Shot, Screw Attack (last hit), Zero Laser
• Sheik - Chain (the tip)
• Wario-Man - Corkscrew
• Wolf - Blaster (the shots), Wolf Flash (sweet-spotted), Reflector
• Zelda - neutral attack, up tilt, dash attack, up smash, forward smash (last hit), neutral aerial (last hit), Lightning Kick (forward and back aerials, sweet spot only), down aerial (Brawl, sweet spot only), pummel, down throw
• Zero Suit Samus - up smash, forward smash, neutral aerial, forward throw, Plasma Whip (middle hit), Plasma Wire, Power Suit Samus

List of electric attacks by items

• Ray Gun shots (Smash 64 only)
• Beam Sword and Fan - in Melee first hit of smash attack when used by Captain Falcon
• Hothead (spark)
• Keys
• Poké Ball Pokémon:
  • Lugia (contact with body)
  • Raikou
  • Zapdos
• Assist Trophies
  • Barbara

List of electric attacks by enemies and bosses

• Crazy Hand - sweep attack, lasers, parts of drill attack, jet flight, flying punch, start up of cross punch combo move, fourth hit of applause combo move, second hit of triple poke
• Glunder
• Jyk - Zap variety
• Master Hand - lasers, parts of drill attack, flying punch, drill attack (sweet-spotted, Melee and Brawl only) slamming punch (Smash 64 only)
• Porky - beam attacks
• Rayquaza - Thunder, Dragon Pulse
• Tabuu - Off Waves

Trivia

The playable characters' appearances when hit by electric attacks in SSB where some of the characters get shocked with cartoon animations showing; this is the only game in the series to use such an Easter egg.

• In Super Smash Bros, characters hit by electric attacks will briefly flash black, with their skeleton (or lack thereof) visible. The exception is Samus, whose suitless shape is seen instead. Non-playable characters do not have this effect.