Flower

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Luigi with a flower condition in Ultimate

Kirby with a flower condition in SSB4

Flowering, known as RipStickFlower in Brawl and SSB4's files, is an attack effect in the Super Smash Bros. series that debuted in Super Smash Bros. Melee and has appeared in every subsequent game. Fighters hit by flowering attacks are inflicted with the flower status condition for an amount of time based on the attack's damage.

Examples of flowering attacks include hits from Lip's Stick and, starting in Brawl, Jigglypuff's Rest.

Status condition

Fighters with the flower condition have a flower visibly emerging from the top of their head. In Melee, Brawl, and SSB4, the flower is a white lily. In Ultimate, the flower is a pink daisy with a visible stamen.

A fighter with the flower condition takes damage over time (1% every 21 frames in SSB4), until the are freed from the condition. The flower becomes bigger if fighter that already has the condition is hit with a flowering attack.

Any fighter hit by a flowering attack will be inflicted with the flower status condition—except Super Smash Bros. Brawl's Alloys, which are immune to the condition. The amount of time the flower condition remains is dependent on how much damage the flowering attack did; in SSB4 onward, the maximum number of frames is 40d + 24, resulting in a full-duration flower condition usually dealing slightly less than double the damage of the flowering attack. The duration of the condition can be decreased by button mashing. If a fighter with a flower on their head is hit with another flower attack, the duration will stack.

Starting in Brawl, Flower is one of the rules that can be set in Special Smash, which causes all fighters to permanently have the flower status condition. Additionally, in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS's Smash Run and for Wii U's Smash Tour, one of the possible battle types is "Flower Smash", which causes all fighters to permanently have the flower condition, like the Special Smash rule.

List of flowering attacks

By characters

Character	Move(s)	Games
Jigglypuff	Rest
Luigi	Negative Zone (one of several possible effects)
Peach	Flower Bomber
Villager	Garden
Wario	Rose-Scented Waft
Hero	Command Selection (Hocus Pocus: may occur; only affects the user)
Sephiroth	Supernova (one of several possible effects)

By items

Item	Attack	Games
Lip's Stick	Any attack
Poké Ball Pokémon	Ditto: Transform (if the summoner possesses flowering attacks)
	Togepi: Leech Seed

By enemies and bosses

Enemy/Boss	Attack(s)	Games
Crazy Hand	Squeezing grab release
	Fabric of space-time vortex

Trivia

The title screen of Panel de Pon.

• The design of the flower effect in Ultimate matches the pink flowers seen on the title screen of Panel de Pon.