Yo-Yo

"This isn't just any yo-yo! Swing up and down, or break-spin! Try 'em all to look cool!"

General Information
Yo-yo is a Copy Ability that Kirby can obtain in Kirby Super Star and its remake. Kirby must inhale and swallow Gim to obtain it. When Kirby becomes a Yo-yo trick-master he wears a backwards light blue cap (differentiating from the Wheel ability's red cap) and wields a typical red and white Yo-yo as his weapon.

Move Set
Kirby combines break dance moves with yo-yo tricks as means of attack with this ability. His basic attack involves throwing his yo-yo as a projectile in any direction. This isn't all he can do with it, though- he can also grab his enemies with his yo-yo and drop them to deal huge damage, or use his yo-yo to do a showy spin jump. In a pinch, he can retreat or move forwards with a Break Spin. This ability's Break Spin was later used as Kirby's new dash attack in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, replacing his Burning-inspired attack.

Trivia

 * The Yo-yo, the ability cap, and the background of the ability picture are all direct references to EarthBound. The background depicts EarthBound's menu screen, and the Yo-yo and ability cap come from Ness, who wears a remarkably similar cap and often uses a yo-yo as a weapon. This can be seen as HAL referencing one of its own games because EarthBound was also developed by HAL.
 * When Kirby inhales Ness in the Super Smash Bros. games, he wears Ness's sideways hat backwards, as if it was the Yo-yo hat. Both characters are also voiced by Makiko Ohmoto.
 * Yo-yo Kirby's hat is the same as those of Paint and Wheel Kirby's hats, but in a different color (Paint's is gray, Wheel's is red).
 * The Break Spin is Kirby's Dash attack in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
 * Yo-yo is one of the five abilities in Kirby Super Star (Ultra) that don't appear in the anime, the other four being Suplex, Beam, Copy, and Plasma.

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