Meta Knight

• Knight Beam
• Moon Shot
• 3 homing Moon Shots
• Drill Rush (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)
• Piercing Slash (Extra Epic Yarn)
• Shuttle Loop (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
• Gliding
• Shuttle Loop (Star Allies)
• Knight Spin
• Meta Spin Slash
• Mach Tornado
• Mach Tornado (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
• Galactic Counter

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Galaxia is Meta Knight's sword, being notably more powerful than other blades in the verse and giving access to the owner several powers, including many different tornado attacks, elemental manipulation, and various other diverse abilities. Galaxia also seems to be sentient, being able to fight on its own. Other characters like Kirby and Magolor Soul have imitated Galaxia when generating their swords, presumably to assimilate its might.

• Knight Beam: When at full health, Meta Knight is capable of slashing a sword beam, which can damage nearby enemies. The beam can be slashed almost as wide as the battlefield.
• Moon Shot (ムーンショット): When Meat Knight holds up his sword and then slashes it, he shoots a curved energy beam. This is similar to slashing Knight Beams, except the distance it makes isn't as wide, he's capable of slashing this beam at any time he wants, and it does more damage than an ordinary Knight Beam. The attack sometimes slightly homes into the target, and sometimes does that much better.
  • A similar technique has him shooting a fiery and bigger version of it. He can also do that consecutively up to 3 times.
• Electricity Manipulation: Unnamed technique, Meta Knight, briefly raises his sword to generate green electricity that he extends to his surroundings.
• Fire Manipulation: Can use fire versions of Moon Shot. In Epic Yarn and its remake, Extra Epic Yarn, he can involve his sword (which isn't Galaxia at the time) with energy whose colors vary in each of his phases but appears to be fire, this allows him to reach great distances.
• Duplication: Meta Knight uses his sword to create four clones of himself with low durability but identical strength. The duplicates eventually disappear.
• Drill Rush: Meta Knight drills into the target with Galaxia.
  • Piercing Slash: A move that consists of doing the same as with Drill Rush, although apparently faster.
• Shuttle Loop: Meta Knight uppercuts with his sword, travels in a loop and glides.
  • Gliding: Done right after a Shuttle Loop or without it, Meta Knight glides up and down while going forwards.
• Meta Multithrust: Meta Knight swiftly jabs the target multiple times.
• Knight Spin: Meta Knight quickly swings his sword in a pitch movement.
• Galactic Counter: Meta Knight holds Galaxia in front of him in an identical pose to his guard. If hit by an attack, he will back up to avoid it, then rush forward and slash.
• Meta Spin Slash: Meta Knight rewinds his sword while charging, then twirls rapidly with it outstretched, hitting enemies to both sides in a close range. He can mobilize while doing this.
  • Mach Tornado: Meta Knight performs the Meta Spin Slash as usual, but leaps into the air while spinning, also becoming much more mobile in midair.

• Tornado Attack
• Tornado Slash
• Knight Call
• Heal
• Meta Quick
• Mach Tornado (Super Star Ultra)
• Mach Tornado (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
• Galaxia Darkness (Super Smash Bros. Wii U)
• Galaxia Darkness (Planet Robobot)
• Meta Knightmares
• Meta Calibur
• Darkness Illusion

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Thanks to Galaxia, Meta Knight can freely use special moves during his battles. When he's a playable character, using this moves cost him points he has to collect or gain via defeating foes; This is due to Game Mechanics, Galaxia itself has even been stated to have "unlimited power." This list also covers similar and powerful moves he doesn't normally have access to use.

• Tornado Attack (トルネイドアタック): Meta Knight makes a massive jump, turns into a tornado and slowly descends trying to reach his opponents if he gets them the attack will ignore any guard if he fails Meta Knight will be momentarily exposed.
• Tornado Slash (竜巻斬り): Meta Knight creates one tornado with his sword which is impossible to block.
  • In Epic Yarn and its remake, Extra Epic Yarn, he can create 2 of them going on opposite directions and covering a great distance. He also does this fairly quickly and can combine it with a slightly larger Moon Shot.
• Knight Call: Meta Knight summons a Blade or Sword Knight to aid him in battle.
• Meta Quick: Meta Knight increases his speed. The effects are shared if he has a Knight summon.
• Heal/Healing: Meta Knight replenishes his health and stamina entirely, it also increases his speed momentarily. The effects are shared if he has a Knight summoned.
• Mach Tornado: Meta Knight creates two powerful tornadoes in his immediate vicinity, heavily damaging all who are caught within. In some cases, this tornado is localized around Meta Knight, simultaneously damaging foes and protecting him from attack. It can ignore Galacta Knight's guard and should be comparable to his other tornado attacks.
• Galaxia Darkness: Meta Knight swings his cape at his opponent, paralyzing them and covering the surrounding area in pitch-black darkness should it connect. After a few seconds, the target(s) caught by the cape is sent flying by an immensely powerful slash while a far more minor attack merely damages other foes. Ignores Galacta Knight's guard, its version in Super Smash Bros. also ignores guards.
• Meta Knightmares: Meta Knight summons members of the Meta-Knights for a devastating full-screen attack, finishing with an explosion, the knights disappear after this. Currently, his most powerful attack.
• Meta Calibur: Meta Knight briefly charges Galaxia and drags it forward. Upon landing, the target is moved upwards to then be repeatedly hit from all directions at high speed, making it seem as if Meta Knight duplicated himself (which is likely the case due to the context of the technique below). Finally, Meta Knight slams the target down.
• Darkness Illusion: A technique currently exclusive in the non-canon Super Smash Bros. series, as Galaxia Darkness once was. It is an improved version of powers and techniques Meta Knight already has in canon. To quote its description from the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Move List; "Meta Knight raises his sword, emitting a blast of electricity. If he hits an opponent, he multiplies himself to attack and launch the opponent. If no one is hit, the move won't do anything." The duplicates likely come from Meta Knight's power to duplicate himself as opposed to them being a product of Perception Manipulation, as the name of the technique would suggest (or perhaps his power to duplicate himself is a product of Perception Manipulation).
• Special: Meta Knight's special move in the mini-game Slash & Bead from Extra Epic Yarn. It defeats all minor enemies on screen.

• Dimensional Cape (Super Smash Bros Ultimate)
• Dimensional Strike
• Meta Condor Dive
• Reflecting projectiles at his opponent
• Team Attack (Return to Dream Land)
• Friend Heart

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• Dimensional Cape: Meta Knight wraps himself in his cape to teleport away. This is done both to avoid damage and to deliberate a surprise attack right after teleporting. After being defeated in a duel, Meta Knight will usually teleport in this way to escape. He has even come back to confront his opponent mere minutes after doing this, without any sign of fatigue. The cape itself can instantly transform into his wings and vice versa,
  • Dimensional Strike: Meta Knight charges up Galaxia with energy, his wings transformed into his cape, and then he disappears before reappearing, performing the Meta Spin Slash. Meta Knight can move while charging and positioning while disappearing.
• Meta Condor Dive: While in the air, Meta Knight dives diagonally downwards, sending out two shockwave projectiles to either side on impact.
• Attack Reflection: An ability he shares with Kirby. While hitting them with any move, Meta Knight has shown to redirect attacks and projectiles at his opponents. The reflected attacks will be homing into the aggressor as opposed to being repeating in reverse their original route. At worst, he achieves this by hitting the attacks more than once, although these are arguably just Game Mechanics. This technique either comes from magic or sheer precision, or both.
• Space Jump: A technique most Kirby characters have, Meta Knight transforms into a small ball of energy which turns out to be intangible, he uses this power to mobilize himself or regroup with mates faster.
• Friend Heart: Obtained in Kirby Star Allies, Meta Knight generates a Friend Heart, which is then quickly thrown to his objective(s). This can be done an unlimited amount of time as well as repeatedly. Upon contact (or near it), the Friend Heart will generate a major change in the empathy of the being(s) affected to the point of making them change their morality towards being an ally to Meta Knight. The Friend Hearts have also shown to make feel objectives extremely happy, make them have a deep appreciation for the one who used a Friend Heart on them, generate clothes in others, work on robots, heal & purify others, operate without making direct contact to others' bodies as well as affect more than one being at a time, and, by the end of the main story in Star Allies, overwrite the multi-galactic morality changing effects Void Termina forces on allies, thus having the potency of its own morality & empathic manipulation scaling from Void Termina, who gets physically harmed by the Friend Hearts. (It should be noticed that Void Termina getting harmed by the Friend Hearts could be a specific weakness of his, a characteristic of the Friend Hearts, or both, this is left unclear.) The last function the Friend Hearts have is that their targets will immediately be bestowed with the ability the generate and use Friend Hearts with all previously mentioned characteristics.
• Revival Spell: A technique that, depending on the game, either resurrects dead allies or merely heals them from being defeated & unconscious. Both uses are applied to their users as they are doing the same process over what seems to be the same spell given the same name. Initially appearing in the Team Kirby Clash mini-game, the Kirbys there could approach others Kirbys and revive them when being defeated, which meant falling into the floor with their souls leaving their bodies. On the Team Kirby Clash Deluxe & Super Kirby Clash games the Kirbys there could even obtain items to improve their ability to resurrect others. Before the latter game, in Kirby Star Allies, every playable character became able to "Revive" defeated allies, but these defeated allies don't lose their souls and it's notable how some are still breathing.
• Team Attack: A technique Meat Knight can access to with at least another known ally with similar control over energy, such as every Star Ally.
  • In Return to Dream Land when piggybacking an ally or more, they can briefly charge energy to use a special attack, the more allies charging energy, the more powerful the attack will be. The form of the attack depends on the ally below, which is shooting it. Meta Knight uses his sword to launch a giant beam with the form of Galaxia that can pass through enemies. Meta Knight & all other allies in-game (Kirby, King Dedede, and Bandana Dee) can use their Team Attack to push back and warp the waves of space that were consuming interstellar parts of Another Dimension.
  • In Star Allies when piggybacking an ally or more, they can briefly charge energy to shoot an energy beam (without using Galaxia). The more allies charging energy, the more powerful the attack will be. Given that the partner can be another Meta Knight, this is a power he can do on his own.

Heals all of his health when eaten.

Heal varying amounts of his health.

Gives Meta Knight extra powers constantly or when activated:

• Super Charge: Widens charge-attack range and raises attack strength by 20% for 15 seconds when activated.
• Small Speed Boost: Increases movement speed by 10% constantly.
• Big Speed Boost: Increases movement speed by 50% for 15 seconds when activated.
• Quick Charge: Halves charging time for 15 seconds when activated.
• Maxim Tomato: Recovers all health when activated.
• Metal: When activated, it protects Meta Knight for 10 seconds, but he's heavier and less mobile.
• Small Attack Boost: Increases attack strength by 10% constantly.
• Big Attack Boost: Increases attack strength by 40% for 15 seconds when activated.
• Quick Revive: Decreases the amount of time it takes to recover constantly.
• Life Up: Raises maximum health by 40% constantly.
• Power Throw: Improves throwing ability constantly.
• Invisibility: Makes Meta Knight transparent for 15 seconds when activated.
• Mega Blast: Will send foes Meta Knight attacks flying farther constantly.
• Cashgrabber: Raises the number of things you an steal from foes by 50% constantly.
• Deflector: Brushes off attacks automatically for 60 seconds when activated.
• Superspicy Curry: Lets Meta Knight blow flames for 10 seconds when activated.
• Berserk: Raises attack strength by 40% and mobility by 50%, but slowly drains health when activated.

It starts growing in size after being picked up and explodes by itself if held for too long.

When held, it fires arcing shots automatically to a fixed distance ahead of the carrier for as long as it lasts.

When collected, Meta Knight becomes invincible for a short time, and almost any enemy he touches will be instantly defeated, or at least damaged.

The character holding it cannot fly or float with it. As long as it is being held, its carrier is both invisible and intangible. The Invisibility Stone will respawn in its original place if destroyed. It only lasts for a limited time and flashes red when it is close to expiring.

A vehicle that Meta Knight can use, its charge attack is a powerful dash attack.

Called "Lobster Tank" by fans. Another vehicle that he can use, its charge attack is a powerful electroshock that comes from its mouth area.

When picked up and used Meta Knight summons one of the following Dream Friends to assist him

• Bandana Waddle Dee
• King Dedede
• Meta Knight
• Rick & Kine & Coo
• Marx
• Gooey
• Adeleine & Ribbon
• Dark Meta Knight
• Daroach
• Magolor
• Taranza
• Susie
• The Three Mage-Sisters

The Final Weapon in Star Allies, used to take out Void Termina. The Star Allies Sparkler fires projectiles from the tip, fly around quickly and efficiently and spin counterclockwise to avoid all damage on a relative scale (Sparkler Turn). Kirby canonically took the lead in the center of the Sparkler while his friends rode in the tail. Still, the leader can be rotated to imbue the shots with a different element depending on the leader (the technique is called Rider Switch). The Sparkler can fire different homing projectiles with varying power depending on charge time. An uncharged shot is called the Sparkler Comet, and it fires a star-shaped projectile. A charged shot is called the Sparkler Starshot, and it fires a projectile shaped like two intertwining stars. The strongest attack is called Team Star Allies!, which, if everyone who's riding charges together and releases at the same time, fires a giant laser at the opponent. Meta Knight uses this item on his own when used in The Ultimate Choice of Star Allies.

Used to increase his statistics. The effects are shared with allies.

• Speed Power-Up Hearts: Increases speed.
• Health Power-Up Hearts: Increases & heals all health.
• Attack Power-Up Hearts: Increases attack potency.
• All Power-Up Hearts: Gives all previous effects at once.