Explosive

Explosive is an attack type in the Super Smash Bros. series that encompasses fire-based and explosive attacks.

Explosive attacks are boosted by Explosives Attack stickers in Super Smash Bros. Brawl's The Subspace Emissary and the Spirit skill or trait Fire & Explosion Attack ↑ as well as certain Spirit Battle conditions in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, explosive attacks are resisted by the Spirit skill of trait Fire/Explosion Resist ↑ and deal more damage to fighters equipped with a Primary Spirit with the trait Fire Weakness.

While explosive is separate to the effect flame, most explosive attacks also have the flame effect. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Ivysaur's bulb blasts are the only fighter attack to be explosive without being flame (they are Explosive/Grass instead). Not all attacks that can cause explosions are explosive-type.

Explosive attacks

By characters

• Bowser Jr. - Abandon Ship! and Mechakoopa when touching an opponent
• Charizard - Flare Blitz
  • Mega Charizard X - Fire Blast
• Diddy Kong - Rocketbarrel Barrage (both the exploding peanuts and the explosion at the end of the move)
• Duck Hunt - Trick Shot
• Ganondorf - Up tilt (hitbox)
• Ike - Eruption (either the fire of a partial charge or any part of a full charge)
• Ivysaur - Up smash, up air, and down air
• King Dedede - Inhale (when sucking up an explosive)
• Kirby - Copy (when sucking up an explosive) and can copy any move that does explosive damage
  • Kirby can copy Eruption, but doing so does not deal explosive damage as it should
• Link - Bomb
• Mario - Explosive Punch
• Mii Gunner - Grenade Launcher, Stealth Burst, Gunner Missile, Lunar Launch (startup), Bomb Drop, Down tilt, Up tilt, Back aerial, and Down smash
• Palutena - Explosive Flame, Celestial Firework, and Rocket Jump
• Peach - Peach Bomber
• Roy - Flare Blade, Critical Hit, Counter, Up smash, and the final hit of all variations of Dancing Blade
• R.O.B. - Up smash, neutral air, back air, and down air
• Samus - down tilt, up smash, Missile, Bomb and forward air
• Sheik - Vanish (startup) and Burst Grenade
• Snake - Up smash, down smash, forward smash, Hand Grenade, Remote Missile, C4, and Grenade Launcher
• Toon Link - Bomb
• Wario - Chomp (upon eating an explosive)
• Zelda - Din's Fire and Up aerial

By items

• Blast Box
• Bob-omb
• Bombchu
• Capsule (has a random chance of exploding)
• Cracker Launcher shots
• Deku Nut
• Gooey Bomb
• Hocotate Bomb
• Smart Bomb
• Warp Star (when hitting the ground after startup)