A flash of lights reflects off its horn as the king of bugs returns! You can pound stakes with Hardhead Slam and use up to gather your friends on your head and fling them into the air!”
With the Beetle ability, Kirby can use the horn on his helmet to attack and skewer enemies. He also gains a new flying animation, where he flaps wings that appear on the back of his helmet -- it inflicts damage on contact, similarly to Jet's Hover and Wing's Hover Flap. Beetle excels in grab-and-throw attacks, much like the Suplex and Backdrop abilities. All attacks involving Kirby's horn can cut ropes and grass, and the Hardhead Slam attack can pound down stakes. A powerful, hard-hitting ability, Beetle's main weakness is the long start-up and recovery time for its attacks. In Kirby Fighters Deluxe, the Rocket Horn dash attack takes an even longer amount of time to start moving.
Kirby repeatedly slashes with the horn on his helmet.
30x4
Back Slash
B + B + B
Kirby finishes his rapid slashing with a final slash upward.
135
Spiral Horn
B during jump
Kirby spins his horn around him in a yaw movement. Does not cause Kirby to rise.
40
Rocket Horn
Hold/release B
Kirby flies forward with his horn outstretched in front of him. Move lasts for a fair bit of time, and Kirby can still turn and move around.
100 per hit
Dive
After Rocket Horn
Kirby flies upwards and slams any skewered opponents into the ground. Similar to Rocket Horn Dive, but will always occur after a successful Rocket Horn.
200 per hit (rising flips), 150 (slam)
Forward Lunge
Y
Kirby does a short lunge forward with his horn in front of him, which can grab opponents. Similar to Catching Horn, but can be activated whenever instead of only when near an enemy.
50
Slamming Drill
Y or B after Forward Lunge
Kirby slams his captured opponent into the ground.
Kirby/Beetley throw up to three friends, and they fly around the screen, hitting any enemies they come across.
62
Flavor Texts
Game
Flavor text
A flash of light reflects off its horn as the king of bugs soars through the sky! After charging your enemies to grab them with your horn, you can slam them into the ground!
Harness the power of the king of insects to fling and pierce foes!
A flash of lights reflects off its horn as the king of bugs returns! You can pound stakes with Hardhead Slam and use up to gather your friends on your head and fling them into the air!
Related Quotes
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Grab foes with a beetle horn, and then toss them around!”
In Kirby Fighters Deluxe, if the player uses Rocket Horn Dive in the Castle Lololo stage, Beetle Kirby can grab opponents from the level above and force them through the floor.
Beetle's helmet may be partially inspired by some extravagant real-life helmet designs that were worn by military commanders in feudal-era Japan.
Beetle's insectoid helmet may be a visual pun on the name for the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, kabutomushi (カブトムシ), which means "helmet-insect".
Beetle's Rocket Horn and Catching Horn have arguably the most overtly violent implications of any attacks used by Kirby.