Judging Every Smash Character By Their Use/Power As A Projectile.

I'll go by their numbered order in Ultimate first, and then throw certain people together if they're similar. I'm an expert.

Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64
It's already been documented in Mario 64 that if you shoot Mario out of a cannon he'd be able to at least knock away a stone wall. Presumably if you upped the ante by stuffing Mega Mushrooms down his gullet it would significantly improve his chances at destroying something of much more significance, like Mecha King Ghidorah.

AT LEAST WALL/BUILDING TIER

Dr. Mario also obviously goes here, except when he lands a megaton of peptobismol spills from his corpse.

AT LEAST WALL/BUILDING TIER
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong has famously been shown smashing his way through the sides of cliffs via being shot out of barrel cannons, thus he leaves quite an impact, but I think there's a better use for DK later, stay tuned....

AT LEAST WALL/BUILDING TIER
Link's Crossbow Training
Link's Crossbow Training
Oh we're crossbow training alright. I'm unfortunately not well-versed on Links, but most of them seem a bit lanky in comparison to our last two contenders, I'm probably missing something though! I'm sure he'd kill at least one person if you stuffed him into a ballista and told him to point his sword out when you shot him.

AT LEAST A SINGLE PERSON TIER

Young and Toon Link go here too.

AT LEAST A SINGLE PERSON TIER
Samus Goes to the Fridge to Get a Glass of Milk II
Samus Goes to the Fridge to Get a Glass of Milk II
I reckon shooting Samus in ball form would essentially be like a shinespark with added velocity, which would be insanely dangerous considering how fast her normal shinespark is on top of all the insane weaponry she's carrying.

AT LEAST STAR DESTROYER TIER

Crazy ass dodgeball.

Dark Samus gets the same judgement.

AT LEAST STAR DESTROYER TIER
Mario Tennis: Yoshi
Mario Tennis: Yoshi
Okay, we get an insanely huge tennis racket right? Then we assure Yoshi that they'll be okay, and that they'll get a ton of cookies to convince them that getting smacked by a giant tennis racket isn't that terrible.

I don't think Yoshi weights that much unfortunately, he eats a lot, but he's shockingly not too out of shape. The giant tennis racket does most of the work I think.

WALL TIER PROBABLY I GUESS
Kirby Mass Attack
Kirby Mass Attack
Alright we get all them there Kirbys and flatten them all together with a giant steamroller, then we build some crazy contraption that chucks them like a humongous and nefarious frisbee. This would presumably create a humongous Kirby boomerang that would annihilate the broadside of a nimitz-class supercarrier.

NIMITZ-CLASS SUPERCARRIER TIER
Star Fox
Star Fox
I would love to be able to shoot Fox while he's in his arwing, but then that leaves questions like how we're not shooting Samus while she's in her spaceship. Sad to say, Fox is a bit lacking. At least he's immune to enemy countermeasures by using his reflect.

WALLSPLAT TIER

Falco and Wolf will get the same judgment.

WALLSPLAT TIER
WALLSPLAT TIER
Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition
Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition
Pikachu has massive potential! Quite literally! With gigantomaxing, you could shoot Pika out of a massive railroad howitzer of some kind and while using a souped up volt tackle could presumably obliterate an entire country. (an evil one hopefully)

CONTINENT TIER

Pichu presumably can probably do similar damage with a gigantomax and volt tackle as well, except with the unfortunate side effect of maybe doing 500% damage to himself probably. He'll walk it off.

CONTINENT TIER
Luigi's Mansion
Luigi's Mansion
I was over here getting ready to submit the list for viewing and was gonna just slap Luigi with Mario, until suddenly I remembered that Luigi literally already uses himself like a projectile. What a money save! Great for your financial costs. Just get an army of Luigis instead of bothering with artillery.

AT LEAST WALL/BUILDING TIER
EarthBound
EarthBound
Ness is just a kid, that's fucked up.

WALLSPLAT TIER

Lucas too.

WALLSPLAT TIER
F-Zero
F-Zero
We're taking this anime scene out of context, and loading Falcon into the largest rail cannon we can fine. The sheer magnitude produced by this Falcon Punch would be felt throughout every shattered reality in existence, thus killing everyone who ever lived, past, present, future.

DON'T FUCKIN' DO THIS TIER
Jiggly Zone
Jiggly Zone
Remember the tennis racket we used with Yoshi back there? Okay, we're gonna try it now with Jigglypuff after she has puffed herself up to small Kaiju size, this should be more than enough to take out a Megazord or two.

A MEGAZORD OR TWO TIER
Super Princess Peach
Super Princess Peach
Okay, I apologize for going back to the giant tennis racket once again and so soon, but if we hit Peach with this it would essentially just be a human-sized badminton bird or whatever you call those things. You know what those things are right? That's what Peach would look and act like as a projectile, just a bit more screaming probably.

WALL/BUILDING TIER ASSUMING SHE ALSO CAN EAT MEGA MUSHROOMS

Daisy's here too.

WALL/BUILDING TIER ASSUMING SHE ALSO CAN EAT MEGA MUSHROOMS
Bowser's Fury
Bowser's Fury
Now this is more like it. We take Furious Bowser here and stuff him into a missile silo, with proper ballistics we've essentially made a meteor to smack people with. This is probably how Sturm did it in Advance Wars.

COUNTRY TIER AT LEAST
Ice Climber
Ice Climber
Two for one, so I've got an idea. We chain these two little fuckers up like a big ol' bola. You know what those are right? It's that stuff that hunters used to throw at people's feet to make them trip. They're not super huge by any stretch though, so I don't anticipate being able to trip Big Zam with this shit, but hey it's worth a try.

WORTH A TRY TIER
Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon
Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon
I'm sorry to say, but I dunno how different Zelda would be as a human-sized badminton in comparison to Peach over there, aside from some magic she might try and propel herself with? She loses access to Mega Mushrooms tho, so she also can't grow big. I dunno, I assume she's got some ridiculous shit to put her on the same level.

Shiek's going here too.

WALL/BUILDING TIER
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
Sorry in advance, but I'm lumping every FE character in the same space as Link from earlier. Put them all in a ballista and slingshot them forward with their swords out like a big arrow, except Roy and Ike probably explode on impact. RIP.

I think one of them turns into a dragon too or something, I dunno. Maybe they're the best for this situation.

WALLSPLAT TO SMALL CITY TIER MAYBE
Bruce Campbell vs Ganon
Bruce Campbell vs Ganon
My god.....I shudder to think how destructive Ganondorf's Falcon Punch would be after being driven into the sky by the world's biggest nine iron golf club. He'd take out at least five Gurren Lagans and a half, and probably a Unicron or two.

A UNICRON OR TWO TIER
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U: Mewtwo
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U: Mewtwo
Remember the end of the first movie? It's like that, except instead of flying off with his buddies he's being shot forward like a DBZ character. Probably like Cooler.

CITY TIER AT LEAST
Game & Watch Ball
Game & Watch Ball
It's going to be the most painful paper cut imaginable.

DESTRUCTO DISC TIER
Revenge of Meta Knight
Revenge of Meta Knight
Meta Knight would've probably had succeeded in his plans to take over Dream Land if he had simply stuffed himself inside the cannon on board the Halberd and launched himself at Kirby. He really has to stop with the honor bullshit.

BUILDING TIER AT LEAST I THINK I FORGET HOW STRONG HIS SWORD IS PROBABLY REALLY STRONG
Kid Icarus
Kid Icarus
I feel like this was something that might've happened in Uprising, but I haven't played that one yet. I assume Pit would just turn himself into a whirling dervish of sorts with his spinning blade thingies after you launch him from a giant bow in the clouds, right before leveling a Trireme or two.

A TRIREME OR TWO TIER

Dark Pit is the same I assume, just with more darkness.

A TRIREME OR TWO TIER
Samus Goes to the Fridge to Get a Glass of Milk
Samus Goes to the Fridge to Get a Glass of Milk
Zoot Suit Samus without the armor feels a lot less threatening as a railcannon projectile, I'm not sure she'd be destroying entire galaxies in her zoot suit.

WALL TIER
Wario Land II
Wario Land II
Wario is a little interesting I feel, what would his form be? A standard cannonball position? In giant snowball form? Keeping his mouth open and repeatedly chomping like some kind of insane chomper missile that rips through hulls? Utilizing his farts to wing himself through the air even faster? The possibilities are endless with Wario. What he lacks in universe destroying power, he more than makes up in fun versatility.

BUILDING TO COUNTRY TIER DEPENDING ON FACTORS
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid
He launched himself off a missile once, surely he can launch himself like one....right?

Wall....tier?
Pokémon Puzzle League
Pokémon Puzzle League
Remember near the end of the first movie? Look, I know it's not canonically the same character, but bear with me okay? We shoot THAT version of Ash out of a cannon to get maximum destructive power out of him, because otherwise I'm not sure how this poor kid is gonna do much else without his buddies.

WALL TIER

Squirtle would be like a little rocket propelled grenade, with even more added propulsion from his water cannon like a tiny little Gamera in training.

WALL TIER

Ivysaur would probably be against the geneva conventions with his unauthorized use of powders, especially since sleep clause is in effect.

BANNED TIER

Charizard would no doubt do the best here, a boring take for sure. Fitting for the most boring starter! >:3

BORING TIER
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
Diddy Kong lacks DK's sheer mass, but he makes up for it with his jet pack to help with velocity, assuming it doesn't just immediately disintegrate upon being fired from a howitzer.

WALL TIER
Sonic Spinball: Life Savers
Sonic Spinball: Life Savers
So Sonic's not fully on board with this plan to shoot him through the air right? So we get this colossal pinball table and tell him that it's a really fun amusement park ride. Then when we go to launch him with the plunger thing, it'll actually shoot him through the back of the colossal pinball table and into the ocean where he'll surely drown. It was never a theme park ride at all.....

oooohohhohohoho.....

EGGMAN PLAN TIER
Revenge of the King
Revenge of the King
The play of course is to ask Dedede to puff himself up, then we slap some duct tape across his mouth so he doesn't accidentally let out the air as he's flying through the skies towards his target. He'll be fine, don't worry.

WALL TIER
Pikmin
Pikmin
Olimar is only two inches tall, but fuck it. We'll make this work. Surely you could stuff him down a straw and spit him at your classmates in school, but it might be more advantageous to put a little thumbtack on his head and slather it in some poison dart frog toxin. There ya go, we made Olimar potentially lethal to a human-sized target.

ASSASSINATION TIER
Pokémon Diamond
Pokémon Diamond
Lucario is probably the same as Mewtwo, except he's voiced by Sean Schemmel.

BUILDING TIER AT LEAST
Gyromite
Gyromite
Honestly, you could just go ahead and do this right now. If you own ROB, you can throw him yourself. Funny enough, this makes him the most powerful projectile on this entire list....

FOURTH WALL TIER
Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing
Okay, so with the Villager's house fully paid off and at it's largest, we attach it to the end of an extremely large trebuchet and throw it-wait..... right, the rule about Samus' spaceship and Fox's arwing not being used.....

Okay that kid's splatting.

WALLSPLAT TIER

Isabelle would splat too.

WALLSPLAT TIER
Mega Man
Mega Man
I forget which shield is the best, because I rarely if ever use them, but Rock would need to use one of those in order to get the most mileage out of being shot out of a big Rush Cannon. Thankfully he's got a big head.

WALL TIER
Wii Fit
Wii Fit
Okay, so we get the wii balance board and somehow rig it to catapult the trainer without his/her knowledge, this is how we win.

DOOR TIER
The Left Hand of Rosalina
The Left Hand of Rosalina
Rosalina seems to be just a slightly bigger Peach in terms of frame, but her army of Lumas offer up additional ammo or maybe we could make a peasant railgun out of them.

If you don't know what a peasant railgun is, it's a stupid thing in DnD where you get a bunch of NPCs to pass down something and through some moronic mechanic abuse that no level-headed DM would allow it produces a shot that does insane amounts of velocity and damage.

So yeah, Rosalina could be utilized like that through her Luma.

PLANET TIER
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
The Right Hand of Mike Tyson

Unfortunate that Little Mac has proven to be relatively useless in the air thanks to his performance, thus it's for the best we try to make him some kind of land-based torpedo.

Actually one idea, you know those Hot Wheels track things that zip the cars through the tracks? You launch Little Mac through a giant version of one of those and make a big piece of plastic track to make sure his aim is proper.

WALL TIER
Pokémon X
Pokémon X
You know that old carnival game where you try to launch a frog off a seesaw with a big mallet? I'm probably making that up since I just saw it on an episode of Rocko's Modern Life, but we get one of those and launch Greninja like a surface-to-air missile that hopefully takes down an aircraft instead of splatting on someone's windshield.

WALL/SPLAT TIER?
Bad Time Simulator (Sans Fight)
Bad Time Simulator (Sans Fight)
sans is one of the mii fighter costumes, so we're just gonna make that our choice of projectile, because it's really funny and i think sans would agree.

I don't even know what material the Mii Fighters are made of, they seem to be made of some kind of plastic-y material that would probably just melt in the cannon barrel if we used anything with lasers or gunpowder involved.

Anyways, sans seems like a pretty hardy fellow. I reckon he'd do some damage if we launched him with a big mangonel.

WALL TIER
Famicom Mini: Hikari Shinwa - Palutena no Kagami
Famicom Mini: Hikari Shinwa - Palutena no Kagami
I feel like a broken record when I say that launching Palutena would probably be similar to launching Peach/Daisy or Zelda, except she wouldn't quite get the same trajectory of a badminton bird like the others. She probably gets a ton more velocity at least, or I would assume since she's a goddess. Those usually do quite a bit of damage when you spitball them at people.

BUILDING TIER AT LEAST
Pac-Land
Pac-Land
What luck! A big ol' cheese bowling ball! That's perfect, just what we need! That'll sink at least one galleon!

GALLEON TIER
Xenoblade Chronicles
Xenoblade Chronicles
Okay look, I don't know anything about no Xeno or Blade, unless the former is in front of a morph and the latter is in front of a soul.

He's gonna need to be shirtless to ensure he doesn't accidentally snag onto some trees, that'd be a pretty terrible waste for our human-sized cannonball.

WALL-TIER AT LEAST
Bowser Jr.'s Journey
Bowser Jr.'s Journey
Junior gets a pretty cool advantage over the others in being able to already launch himself from his self-destructing Clown Car, so we theoretically double this up by launching him from a battleship cannon, and afterwards he can give himself even more thrust by self-destructing his clown car.

It'll be a massive headache incoming for them no-good plumbers.

BUILDING TIER
Duck Hunt
Duck Hunt
We've done the bola idea already with the ice climbers, and that trick probably wouldn't work so hot with a team that has much more different weight distribution.

If we could launch multiple ducks along with the dog inside a sackbag, we might be able to make some kind of insanely inhumane giant version of a shotgun shell.

LARGE-ISH PERSON/WALL TIER
Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II
Okay, so we get a small missile silo in the ground right? We coerce Ryu into believing there's someone down there talking shit about them, then we fire them through the silo. It'll be the biggest shoryuken you will ever see. This will be how we break Godzilla's jaw, by waiting for him to step over this nondescript missile silo and springing our plan into action!

GODZILLA TIER

I reckon Ken's shoryuken would be even more fucked up with this idea, so he gets extra power.

BIG GODZILLA TIER
Cloud
Cloud
Alright, so you remember the boomerang idea from the Kirby entry right? I hope you've been reading all of these....

We take Cloud and chuck him by his feet, this will result in a massive shuriken flying through the air. We could probably stuff him in some kind of oversized air hockey table that shoot pucks out at blazingly fast speeds with some extra spin on it.

BUILDING/KAIJU TIER
Bayonetta
Bayonetta
I haven't played Bayonetta to know the full extent of what she can do beyond some LPs I've seen in bits and pieces, but I don't think it matters terribly much since we're just tying her to the end of a trebuchet, because we haven't used the trebuchet enough on here. Witch time I assume could help with her getting the trajectory right while in mid-flight, which would be quite useful for marksmanship.

WALL-TIER
Splatoon
Splatoon
So we take this squid who's a kid, and we mash them to the point we can put them into a can of compressed air, it'll be essentially a can of mace but with ink.

I'm trying real hard to just not shoot people out of cannons, I'm sorry.

AGH MY EYES TIER
Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Crossover Randomizer
Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Crossover Randomizer
Are you familiar with Eddie/Zato-1's one super where he turns into a sword and flies through the air?

We get Ridley to stretch out his wings for maximum speed through the air, and stiffen out his tail to be our arrowhead. Bam, the world's largest bow and arrow. Massive damage to Godzilla's heart or his appendix.

KAIJU TIER
Castlevania
Castlevania
Simon's fall speed in every Castlevania game hints at him weighting like a ton of bricks, so I assume he'd probably do about as much damage as a condensed ball of said bricks. Charge him up with some holy energy and you got yourself a big ol' holy hand grenade.

Why didn't he do this to kill Dracula? What is he stupid? The tools were all available to him.

CASTLE TIER

Richter is the same, I can't imagine he's much different. Belmont stereotyping, I'm sorry.

CASTLE TIER
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Y'all played until the end of Donkey Kong Country 2 right? I hope you did, cause I loved that game. We load DK up on some protein and heavy lifting for a month, then stuff K.Rool full of fast food to increase his girth. With timing we can get DK to uppercut the extra large K.Rool into the Death Star, destroying it completely.

DK has punched the moon canonically, it makes sense.

DEATH STAR TIER
Pokémon Sun
Pokémon Sun
Finally, I get an idea to use someone as an air-to-ground missile.

Load Incineroar into a massive Apache Helicopter rocket launcher and fire at will upon all your enemies. Essentially a makeshift fire bomb.

POTENTIAL WAR CRIME TIER
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Piranha Plant
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Piranha Plant
I think the play here is getting Peter Piranha here to stretch himself to maximum capacity, then put some extra weight on the pot end of him to ensure that the blunt part can deal the most damage after we chuck them like an overly huge morning star.

KNOCKS OUT GIGA BOWSER TIER
Mortal Kombat 11: The Joker
Mortal Kombat 11: The Joker
I dunno which version of Joker would be best, but I assume all of them would be more than willing to use themselves as a projectile. I guess we could use the Joker that appears at the end of Arkham Asylum, it would be most logical. Stuff that clown into a big tennis ball shooter, that'll be at least one Batmobile or Batwing going down.

BATMOBILE OR BATWING TIER
H.E.R.O.
H.E.R.O.
It's actually been so long since I last booted up Smash Ultimate that I forgot what DQ guy even does besides the funny RNG stuff.

I wanna say I can just cop out the answer and treat him like an FE character, but then it wouldn't do justice for the kaboom spell or whatever he's got that people were complaining about. I guess he'd just be like using Roy or Ike as a projectile then, just with more Dairy Queen and Akira Toriyama.
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
That's right we're using the best version of Banjo and Kazoo, because they got a big wrench and we can build the cannon we need from their garage. Very convenient, if I must say so myself.

With that dive bomb move they use when go through the air, I can assume much havoc can be raised by shooting them out of a one-time use flare gun that also lights them on fire.

BUILDING TIER
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Challenger Pack 4
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Challenger Pack 4
Okay, we so we have two options for Terry here. We could either load him into the missile silo like Ryu and Ken earlier and launch him for the most devastating Rising Tackle you'll ever see, or we could shoot him from an Apache Helicopter to deliver an absolutely ridiculous Power Dunk/Geyser.

A ton of options for us here! Extra points for versatility!

GODZILLA TIER
Arms
Arms
Oh hell yeah, here we go. The endgame of our spinning contraption idea. We stuff Min Min headfirst into a giant Rev Up Launcher like a Beyblade, then shoot her out and send her careening down a five-lane highway. What could possibly go wrong?

TRAFFIC ACCIDENT TIER
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Challenger Pack 8
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Challenger Pack 8
Sephi only has one wing, which is a bit problematic when it comes to him maintaining proper aim if we fire him out of anything. Thus it may be in our best interest to use him like a big throwing axe, I assume that power level of his transfers to how strong that wing is if you whacked someone with it. That's how it works.

SUPERNOVA TIER
Minecraft
Minecraft
I don't know anything about the lore of Minecraft, but considering his tier in Smash Ultimate he's probably some kind of dimension-hopping reality destroyer.

Being of cubic aesthetic though, it may be best to load him onto a mangonel.....I'm sorry my brain's fried doing this list for a while. The idea well is running dry.

MULTIVERSE TIER
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Challenger Pack 9
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Challenger Pack 9
Once again, I know nothing about these ladies.

The DLC in Smash Ulti is so boring man, it peaks at Terry and never recovers.

I'm just throwing them myself, out the door.

DOOR TIER
Tekken 2
Tekken 2
Alright, I actually have something for this. We put Kazuya on a really fast little elevator lift, we start the lift and upon the elevator reaching the surface at mach speed Kazuya delivers an EWGF that launches Godzilla into full combo.

GODZILLA TIER
Sora
Sora
Ugh, look I'm sorry I know nothing about Kingdom Hearts. I grew up a Looney Tunes kid, and the only Squeenix game I cared about growing up was Einhander. So it never interested me.

I'll just assume that if I tie him up to a trebuchet and send him skyward towards a flying battleship, that the battleship is probably gonna lose badly.

PROBABLY FLYING BATTLESHIP TIER

Sorry for making the ending to this a bit dull, but I sometimes regret doing these projects that felt super fun on the onset.
God Hand
God Hand
I couldn't resist making the number 64 for the list, so I'm lumping Master Hand in here.

He's got hands, so whether it's a closed fist that delivers a punch, an open hand slap, or a knife edge chop that lights up Godzilla's chest. Master Hand's gonna do some damage regardless of what contraption we sling him from, it's just funny to imagine him slapping Godzilla across the face.

KAIJU TIER

9 Comments


21 days ago

Best list on backloggd. i think we should practice your projectile theory by shooting everyone at pyra

21 days ago

@moschidae that's a pretty good suggestion, I imagine she's probably sturdy enough to handle all the testing from the scenarios I've laid out. I assume she's fire and poison resistant too, maybe I was too quick to throw her out the door so quick.

21 days ago

shes an almost naked anime teenager against the world, one dedede ought to do her in. maybe a link plus a marth, at best. Its a pretty good standard for a control group imo

21 days ago

If you throw Sora the same way that Hercules did here, yeah he could probably do some damage.

21 days ago

@hotpoppah goddamn, with the statue and the strength of Hercules behind it they'd probably wreck the entire trade federation. Great clip for future studies.

19 days ago

@vee: Ike could probably level a small city.

19 days ago

@umezono adjusted the scale accordingly! Gotta give more respect.

19 days ago

Yeah, ignoring the hypothetical calculations that you'll find in VS battles forums and wikis, Ike spinning around with Ragnell like a beyblade is guaranteed to do some damage

19 days ago

@umezono I try my best to avoid vswiki calculations as best I can as it is, lol. Headcanon is so much more fun.


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