Kirby (PM)

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Kirby in Project M and Project+
Universe	Kirby
Base game appearance	Brawl

Kirby is a playable character in the Brawl mod Project M.

Attributes

Changes from Melee and Brawl to PM

Seeing how he was at the bottom of Melee's tier list, Kirby was heavily buffed in Project M, keeping most of his attributes from Brawl while gaining buffed ones from Melee, as well as receiving other new buffs (though with slight nerfs).

• Increased air speed, giving Kirby an easier time with combos and recovery.
• Attacks with low enough knockback to not cause tumbling no longer cause Kirby to lose copied abilities.
• All tilts have their stronger damage values from Melee, while keeping their Brawl speeds.
• Dash attack is his "Fireball" from Melee, now with more versatility; it has less ending lag and propels Kirby faster, and also hits consecutive times, linking better and dealing more damage. This means it has more combo ability and can setup an edgeguard.
• Neutral aerial initiates much faster and doesn't last as long, dealing a strong hit with increased knockback if sweetspotted.
• Hits of forward aerial link better and rack up much more damage, while having their landing hitbox removed, thus giving Kirby a significant and much more efficient wall of pain with this move.
• Back aerial has more range at Kirby's front, similar to the Smash 64 version.
• Up aerial not only has gained its Melee KO potential, but it now semi-spikes when hitting late (similar to Captain Falcon's or Ganondorf's up aerials from Melee), making it deadlier.
• Down aerial has faster start-up and inflicts higher damage, acting as a better edge-guarding move, and it additionally has its landing hitbox removed, allowing Kirby to effectively follow on.
• Inhale and grounded Hammer both have faster start-up. Kirby can now also move sideways whilst using Inhale in midair.
• Sourspot of grounded Hammer deals higher damage and is smaller. The aerial version is like in Brawl, with more powerful sweetspots, further improving its utility.
• Most copy abilities are improved to match other characters' improved Neutral B attacks.
• Final Cutter can now be aimed horizontally, known as the "cutter dash", which gives a single hit that can be quickly canceled into an aerial as it ends, extending combo options. Also, Kirby can use any action (except another Final Cutter) afterwards, including an air dodge, extending his recovery. The vertical Final Cutter acts like in Brawl, being faster and having a stronger meteor smash.
• Stone now starts and falls faster, and gives Kirby gradually more powerful armor during its transformation. It gives light armor during start-up, then quickly turns into medium armor, and lastly it becomes heavy armor as Kirby transforms completely. Kirby can also slightly move sideways before falling and during the move's endlag.
• Throws (except down throw) follow up better into aerial attacks, increasing Kirby's KO ability.
• Down throw is faster (kicks less times) and acts better for tech-chasing.
• Up aerial decays on damage (from 15% to 12%) depending on when it hits.
• Inhale deals less damage to foes when copying abilities.
• Grounded Hammer has Brawl range, being smaller.
• Stone now deals half the original damage when falling, and Kirby can now receive damage when transformed. When on the ground, it also lasts for a maximum of only one second.
• Forward and up throws deal less damage.
• Shares all copied neutral specials' changes with the original characters, the only exceptions being Bowser, Link, Samus, Fox, Falco, Wario, Ivysaur, Lucario, Mewtwo, Snake, Lucas, Olimar, Roy and Sonic.
  • Chomp remains unchanged from Brawl; holds enemies for longer and bites more times, inflicting 5% damage and biting a maximum of 6 times, and dealing 30% damage total. It can also spit enemies backwards like the original ability.
    • For Wario's hat, Kirby now wears the yellow "W" cap as opposed to the biker cap.
  • Flare Blade deals less damage when uncharged, but charges faster.
    • Kirby uses the Final Cutter sword rather than Roy's Sword of Seals to perform the attack, due to the difficulty in giving him a new prop.
  • Kirby's versions of both Fox and Falco's Blaster do not deal less damage at a distance.
  • Olimar's ability remains unchanged from Brawl, so Kirby cannot "stall" in the air with Pikmin Pluck.
  • Hero's Bow retains its charge speed from Brawl; charge speed is 33% slower than Link's.
  • Kirby does not possess Snake's new rolling Grenade toss.
  • Cannot perform a Blast Attack with Homing Attack.
  • Cannot charge Charge Beam in the air.
  • Fire Breath doesn't possess an ending bite, but has greater range when fully decayed.
  • Aura Sphere remains unchanged from Brawl; they can be charged longer than Lucario's, possess greater speed and size, and fully charged Aura Spheres travel in a straight path rather than a zig-zag pattern. Additionally, Kirby cannot use the Aura Bomb variation.
  • When copying Ivysaur's ability, Kirby will instantly have a charged SolarBeam. After using it, though, he won't be able to charge another and will be practically useless, so he has to drop the hat and copy Ivysaur again in order to use another SolarBeam. This allows Kirby to get a very quick KO, but he must then risk removing the ability in order to use his neutral special again.
  • For Lucas's ability, Kirby copies PK Freeze (side special) rather than Offense Up. It acts more like a traditional projectile; it still possesses high hitlag with 5% damage, but has faster start-up and is not land-cancelable.
  • For Mewtwo's ability, copies Disable (down special) rather than Shadow Ball, due to the difficulty in giving him a new projectile.
• Only down taunt removes copy abilities.
• As a down Smash Taunt, Kirby says "Hii!" in a lower pitch, an otherwise unused voice clip from Brawl's sound test.

Revisions

3.01

• Cutter dash can be performed on the ground and is more lenient to perform. It can additionally be ledge-canceled.
• Ice Climbers' ability's aerial mobility and momentum matched to that of the original move, and hammer hit was also added.
• Ike's ability's armor matches that of the original move.
• Lucario's ability properly stores the Aura Sphere charge when canceling it.
• Sonic's ability bounces off of foes correctly.
• Samus's ability stores charge properly when firing from the air to the ground and goes into the proper cancel animation with the proper cancel duration. Hitbox also matches Samus's version.
• Meta Knight's ability matches the duration of Meta Knight's Mach Tornado.
• Mr. Game and Watch's ability doesn't fire bacon rapidly anymore, instead matching the speed of the original move.
• Yoshi's ability cannot grab from behind anymore.
• Falco's hat graphical effect and sound effect play on the proper frame.
• Pit's ability's arrow speed and control match the original move.
• Sheik's ability's glow displays properly, needle sound effect was fixed, and cancel works with a lightpress of the L/R Button.
• Wolf's ability's hitbox and duration match Wolf's lasers.
• Zero Suit Samus's ability's blaster shot sound effect stays out for the proper duration. Animation was fixed, and the uncharged blaster works like Zero Suit Samus's.

3.02

• Kirby no longer freezes when storing Aura Sphere.

Moveset

Up to date as of version 3.0.

	Name	Damage	Description
Neutral attack	Vulcan Jab	2 hits of 3%, then 2% each hit
Forward tilt	Spinning Kick	10%, 11% (angled up), 9% (angled down)
Up tilt	Back Kick	8% (clean), 7% (late)
Down tilt	Squish Kick	10%
Dash attack	Fireball	4 hits, 12% total
Forward smash	Smash Kick	15% (clean; 16% angled up, 14% down), 12% (late hit)
Up smash	Kirby Flip Kick	15% (sweetspot), 11% (up), 7% (back)
Down smash	Propeller Kick	14%
Neutral aerial	Twinkle Star	12% (clean), 9% (late)
Forward aerial	Spiral Kick	3 hits; 17% total
Back aerial	Drop Kick	14% (clean), 8% (late)
Up aerial	Floating Flip Kick	15%-12%
Down aerial	Screw Driver	6 hits of 3% (18% total)
Grab	Puffball Grasp	—	Grabs the opponent.
Pummel	Slap	3%
Forward throw	Pile Driver	4%
Back throw	Big Suplex	8%
Up throw	Ninja Drop	7%
Down throw	Fury Stomp	7 hits; 8% total
Floor attack (front)	Front Kick
Floor attack (back)	Back Kick
Floor attack (trip)	Sweep Kick
Edge attack (fast)	Flip Kick
Edge attack (slow)	Edge Propeller Kick
Neutral special	Inhale	3% (copy), 10% (star spit), 9%-19% (hit by star)
Side special	Hammer	19% (sourspot), 23% (sweetspot)
Up special	Final Cutter	8% (up slice/cutter dash), 2% (down slice), 6% (shot)
Down special	Stone	9% (fall), 14% (quake)
Final Smash	Cook Kirby	12 hits of 2% (cooking), then 10% (release); 34% total

In competitive play

Notable players

•  Aero
•  Gimpyfish
•  Chu Dat

Palette swaps

Recolors
File:Kirby recolors.png

External links

• Project M character page