Home-Run Bat: Difference between revisions

|image=[[File:BrawlHome-RunBat.jpg|250px200px]]<br>'''Home-Run Bat''' artwork for ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''

[[File:SSBhomerunbat.jpg|thumb|left|The '''Home-Run Bat''' in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'']]

The '''Home-Run Bat''' (oralternatively spelled '''Homerun Bat''') is an extremely powerful item in the [[Super Smash Bros. (series)|''Super Smash Bros.'' series]]. Fighters can grab the bat and use it to hit other fighters or throw it at them. The smash attack of the Home-Run Bat is very powerful, butand thedeals processa takeslarge aamount while,of leavingknockback the(on playernormally-sized openstages, enough for attack.a Itone-hit canKO), alsobut allowtakes thea opponentlong totime runto awayexecute. It willlaunches hitplayers anythe playerfarthest struckwhen byhitting itwith instantlythe offtip of the screen,bat. butIn there''[[Super isSmash an exceptionBros. for largeNintendo stages,3DS like/ theWii [[TempleU]]'', the Home-Run Bat reflects projectiles.

While the Home-Run Bat does send opponents flying diagonally for most characters, the item operates differently for [[Captain Falcon]] and [[Sheik]], but only in ''Super Smash Bros. Melee''; the two will send foes flying upwards with their Home-Run Bats, instead of diagonally. In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', the Home-Run Bat has different animations for each of the different characters.

TheFor the first three ''Super Smash Bros.'' titles, the Home-Run Bat reappearstakes inthe appearance of a normal wooden baseball bat. In ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U]]'', withthe abat newis given a designredesign: The main part of the bat is black and yellow, while the handle is red and golden. The ''Super Smash Bros.'' emblem also appears on it in gold on the handle end of the bat.