Home-Run Bat

The Home-Run Bat (alternatively spelled Homerun Bat) is an extremely powerful item in the 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 and deals a large amount of knockback (on normally-sized stages, enough for a one-hit KO at single-digit damage percentages), but takes a long time to execute. Fighters are launched the farthest if they are hit by the tip of the Home-Run Bat. In Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U, the Home-Run Bat reflects projectiles. The Home-Run Bat is also featured in every iteration of the Home-Run Contest since the mode debuted in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

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.

For the first three Super Smash Bros. titles, the Home-Run Bat has the appearance of a regular wooden baseball bat. In Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the bat is given a redesign: 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.

The Home-Run Bat trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl can be unlocked by hitting the Sandbag in the Home-Run Contest at least 500 meters. In Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, the trophy is obtained for playing Home-Run Contest for the first time. In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, the trophy can only be obtained in Trophy Rush.