Friend Ability

Various Friend Abilities
Friend Ability
Name (JA)	フレンズ能力 (Furenzu Nōryoku)
- Meaning	Friends Ability フレンズ = Friends, 能力 = Ability
Move uses	Additional puzzle-solving capability, higher offensive capability
Move users	Playable characters

“	Get fire from a friend! Make a friend! Tilt the control stick up!”
	— Tutorial • Kirby Star Allies

Friend Abilities are a game mechanic introduced in Kirby Star Allies. They allow characters to perform more moves or enhance Copy Abilities by cooperating with friends.

Elemental Weapons

Elemental weapons consist of an ability that acts as a base and a second ability that adds an element to that base. Upon successfully imbuing an element to a base ability, its icon will have an elemental symbol dictating the element it has. The added element will cause the base ability to deal damage based on the element in question and alters the weapon's moveset. For example, the boomerangs from the Bluster Cutter will fly directly upward instead of returning to the user and can blow away leaf piles.

Base Abilities

Bomb	Cutter	Hammer	Ninja
Staff	Sword	Whip	Yo-Yo
Bandana Waddle Dee	King Dedede	Meta Knight	Marx
Dark Meta Knight		Susie

Element Abilities

Blizzard	Ice	Kine*	Adeleine	Daroach	Francisca	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bluster	Cleaning	Wing	Coo	Magolor	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sizzle	Fire	Fighter*	Rick	Gooey	Daroach	Magolor	Flamberge	N/A
Splash	Water	Parasol	Cleaning	Ninja*	Kine	Gooey	Francisca	N/A
Zap	Plasma	Beam	ESP	Adeleine	Daroach	Magolor	Taranza	Zan Partizanne

*CPU players will not use Stealth Water Gun, Ice Kine, Kine Freeze, or Giga Force Blast to give elements.

Team-Up Attacks

Team-up attacks allow abilities to perform powered-up moves, usually in combination with another ability; they do not place an elemental symbol next to an ability icon, as they are only extra moves, not modifying the whole ability.

Team-Up Attack	Mix (Ability 1)	Mix (Ability 2/Element)
Al Fresco	Adeleine
Chumbrella	Parasol
Clean Curling	Stone	Cleaning
	Rick
	Gooey
Cook Potluck	Cook (Cook Pot)	Anyone
Crash Rush	Crash	Anyone
Fatal Chorus	Mike	Anyone
Festival Dance	Festival	Anyone
Friend Bounce	Spider Taranza	Anyone
Friend Super-Vac	Cleaning	Anyone
Friend Throw	Fighter	Anyone
	Suplex
	Beetle
	Gooey
Friend Wake-Up Call	Sleep	Anyone
Geokinesis	ESP	Stone
		Rick
		Gooey
Ice Curling	Stone	Blizzard
	Rick
	Gooey
Icicle Lance	Water	Blizzard
Magoloran Launch	Magolor	Anyone
Rising Sizzler	Fire	Bluster
Rock Painter	Stone Rick Gooey	Artist Adeleine
Splash Curling	Stone	Splash
	Rick
	Gooey
Still Life	Artist
Supper Party	Cook (Souper Supper)	Anyone
Thundersplash	Plasma	Splash
Zap Splasher	Water	Zap

Friend Action

Friend Actions occur at specific sections of the game, signified by a Friend Platform, and they require the leading player to have three friends with them.

• Friend Circle: The leading player and their friends form a donut circle by holding each other. In this form, they constantly roll forward, only able to do a long or short jump. Any enemy or weak ground blocks they hit is destroyed. The Friend Circle is invincible to everything except falling into bottomless pits.
• Friend Star: The leading player and their friends ride on a star. They can move freely in the air, can do spin attacks, and they can shoot projectiles, which can be charged, with different attributes depending on the leading friend's ability. Any enemy with an ability that is defeated leaves behind an ability item, which can be obtained to grant the leading friend that ability. Players are vulnerable to all attacks while on the Friend Star except during a spin attack. They are also vulnerable if they fly or fall off-screen. Obtaining Invincibility candy allows the player to use the Shooting Star move, which renders them invincible to all attacks; this effect lasts significantly longer than the normal invincibility effect does.
• Friend Bridge: The leading player and their friends hold each other in a line to form a bridge, which they can move up or down. This form is mostly used to guide Key Dees to their respective locked door.
• Friend Train: The leading player gets a train chimney on their head, while the other friends line up behind them. The train continuously runs forward, and any enemy and weak ground blocks the player hits is destroyed; the Friend Train is invincible to everything except falling into bottomless pits. The train travels up walls, across ceilings, and over the surface of the water, but it cannot jump while on a wall or ceiling.

Star Allies Sparkler icon

• Star Allies Sparkler: The Star Allies Sparkler is a variation of the Friend Star from a 3D perspective, and was created by combining with the spears of the heart. It is only used when fighting Void Termina. The leading friend wears a heart-shaped visor and uses halves of the star as their wings, which have a rainbow outline and glowing feathers. Until they are switched into the leading position, the other friends sit on the star's trail. The Star Allies Sparkler allows the leading friend to either aim manually or locks on to the target, shooting chargeable projectiles with attributes based on the leading friend's ability. As with the Friend Star, the player is still vulnerable to all attacks, and it lacks the spin attack. It hovers rather than flying freely in the air. This is the only friend action that Kirby can use it without friends, but the friends are still needed to summon it.

Related Quotes

“	Kirby and friends can share elemental powers and abilities to level-up skills or even create powerful new Friend Abilities.”
	— Official Kirby Star Allies website

“	Climb onto one of these platforms with three in-game pals to perform a spectacular feat of friendship.”
	— Official Kirby Star Allies website

“	Raise your weapon with ↑ to get a friend's flames put on it.”
	— Set a weapon on fire for a Friend Ability! • Kirby Star Allies loading screen

“	You can add fire, ice, electricity, and other power effects to a weapon.”
	— Add various effects to your weapon! • Kirby Star Allies loading screen

“	If a friend raises a weapon with ↑, attach effects like fire to your friend's weapon by hitting it with B.”
	— Add to a friend's weapon! • Kirby Star Allies loading screen

“	Add the power of wind to a weapon to infuse it with airiness and see how some techniques flow!”
	— Use wind to see some techniques! • Kirby Star Allies loading screen

“	Climb onto a Friend Platform with three friends and press ↑ to perform a Friend Action!”
	— Co-op technique: Friend Actions! • Kirby Star Allies loading screen

“	Use ↑ repeatedly to activate Friend Abilities with your current members in order.”
	— Hold ↑ to activate in order! • Kirby Star Allies loading screen

Trivia

• Sword is the only base ability that changes appearance when obtaining an element (aside from the element surrounding the weapon).
  • Sizzle Sword resembles a wavy flame, as well as a flamberge.
  • Zap Sword resembles a jagged lightning bolt.
  • Blizzard Sword has additional spikes, giving it a somewhat snowflake appearance.
  • Splash Sword resembles water from a fountain.
  • Bluster Sword has the sword made of air itself.

Videos

Kirby of the Stars Special Ability "Friend Ability" Introduction Video

Kirby of the Stars Special Ability "Friend Action" Introduction Video

Concept Artwork

Kirby Star Allies (Unknown Friend Action)

Gallery

Burning Leo breathes fire on Sword Kirby, resulting in a permanent Friend Ability that increases attack power, known as the Sizzle Sword.

Friend Throw

Chilly is about to breathe ice on Stone Kirby...

Then Stone Kirby turns into a type of curling stone known as Ice Curling!

While this Team-Up Attack is getting Kirby to rush his way forward, he just froze a nearby Cappy.

Spider's Team-Up Attack, Friend Bounce

Friend Train

Friend Bridge

Friend Action Icon