Ranking Every Kirby Copy Ability | The More Hats, The Merrier 

I actually think that Kirby’s backwards hat when he has Wheel is supposed to make him look like a Mechanic.

What I like about the Mike ability is the fact that Kirby's not trying to attack with it. He's just so tone deaf that when he tries to sing he does massive damage. LOL

I really do miss the change in Kirby's color depending on the copy ability.

Regarding the Copy ability from *Kirby Super Star:* It was also useful in the *Milky Way Wishes* portion of that game, as your own copy ability is nerfed in that game, requiring you unlock them in order to use them. The copy allowed you to use abilities you hadn't unlocked yet.

Glad to see another Poison appreciator! It was actually the copy ability I used on my first True Arena clear in Robobot. I hope it comes back someday sooner than later

I was always bummed out that when burning fused with fire, they never allowed Kirby to keep the flaming hands. It looks legitimately badass.

Glad to know I'm not the only Mirror lover. It's always been my favourite, just wish it showed up more

Great video! And soon l will try to illustrate many abilities as well on my 3DS ^^

You are brave for tackling this

Spider Kirby doesn't cause Arachnophobia, it cures it

The Morpho Knight upgrade in Forgotten Land instantly made Sword one of my favorites. It was already really good but man, that upgrade's some of the most fun I've ever had in a Kirby game

THERE ARE THREE WAYS TO GET PAINT! You can get it from Marx as well. Also copy can be used in Milky Way Wishes, if you deal the final blow to Heavy Metal Lobster in the same attack that you scan its little paint blob, to take the Paint ability outside of the boss fight.

27:20 Also the references to the Robobot armour are greatly appreciate.

This is objectively a correct list because Ant acknowledged the unique moveset of Sleep in Battle Royale. Seriously though, congratulations on 200 episodes, Ant! We can tell how much you've been refining the quality of your content over the years, and it definitely shows! Cheers and best wishes to all your future endeavors!

A note about Ranger, it also has the unique power among regular Copy Abilities to even hurt Clawroline while she's clinging to the background to chuck knives at you where she can't be hit by you during that in most cases. But, good luck aiming your shot and having it go off on her before she flinches you out of that aiming stance by hitting you.

Nice to see some Staff appreciation! It's not necessarily my top ability, but I always thought its concept was really cool and the pogo bouncing moves were quite fun, especially when you give it a wind element. Would love to see it again, especially to see how it would work in 3D.

I feel like the only reason we got Drill instead of a revamped Animal is because even the most basic enemies were animals.

Yeah Tornado Kirby is actually like the most untouchable ability in the game. The only real downside being you’re vulnerable for a bit after spinning. Shit carried me through True Arena in return to dreamland

Happy 200 episodes! I’m of the personal opinion that Planet Robobot had the strongest selection of new abilities, and I wish we could see them more. Doctor at least got to show up again in Battle Royale and the Clash games, but ESP would have been SICK in Fighters 2, and Poison (along with Missile) is probably the most underrated ability in the franchise imo. Also the fact that Forgotten Land broke Whip’s perfect attendance makes me a little sad, as it’s tied with Beetle for my favorite ability.

I couldn’t agree more with the #1 pick. Mirror is by far my favorite ability. I was so excited when I saw it make another appearance outside of super star!

Animal should’ve 100% been in forgotten land instead of drill! Heck the main enemy group is called the BEAST pack! It’s such an extremely massive missed opportunity and I’m so mad….

Timestamps that contain *_spoilers_* for the list: 2:59 #67: Light 3:34 #66: Copy 4:01 #65: Mini 4:28 #64: Metal 5:08 #63: Ball 5:53 #62: Paint 6:32 #61: Festival 7:06 #60: Ghost 7:54 #59: Throw 8:30 #58: Laser 9:01 #57: Sleep 10:00 #56: Balloon 10:28 #55: Backdrop 10:53 #54: Freeze 11:19 #53: Burning 11:49 #52: Bubble 12:28 #51: Jelly 13:02 #50: Missile 13:28 #49: Stone 14:05 #48: Cupid 14:31 #47: Hi-Jump 15:05 #46: Drill 15:55 #45: Animal 16:24 #44: Wing 16:56 #43: Jet 17:20 #42: Wheel 17:58 #41: Suplex 18:26 #40: Whip 19:02 #39: Magic 19:41 #38: Cutter 20:21 #37: Spider 20:57 #36: Bell 21:31 #35: Cleaning 22:27 #34: Artist 23:34 #33: Parasol 24:09 #32: Cook 24:31 #31: Needle 25:26 #30: ESP 26:07 #29: Circus 26:43 #28: Bomb 27:17 #27: Mecha 27:52 #26: Archer 28:24 #25: Water 28:57 #24: Poison 29:39 #23: Crash 30:09 #22: Mike 30:45 #21: Fire 31:19 #20: Ranger 31:59 #19: Ninja 32:37 #18: Sword 33:09 #17: Spear 33:47 #16: Staff 34:26 #15: Beetle 35:01 #14: Spark 35:40 #13: Plasma 36:19 #12: Hammer 36:49: #11: Smash Bros. 37:28 #10: Ice 37:57 #9: Leaf 38:31 #8: Fighter 39:10 #7: Wrestler 39:50 #6: Tornado 40:49 #5: Beam 41:23 #4: UFO 41:58 #3: Doctor 42:48 #2: Yo-Yo 43:38 #1: Mirror

30:43 I have played this game for over 60 hours and I have never seen this move before! Kirby has so much depth and I love that!

Throw is actually one of my top 3 favorite copy abilities. As well as backdrop. Yes backdrop, not suplex. This shows how little of this series I’ve played

Glad to know that one of my favorite RU-vidrs has the same favorite copy ability as mine, Mirror Chads are a very rare breed but now I believe it'll grow. Not many people know about the quality of mirror shield and that it actually reduces chip damage to zero. That's one of the reasons why it's so overpoweres, and why it's my favorite Kirby ability. It's just so efficient in every sense of the word, and I hope this video will bring more appreciation to that underrated ability, because I honestly think it deserves it more than something like Sword

I’m surprised that you didn’t mention swords upgrades in forgotten land. Sword has always been my favorite copy ability and the upgrades in forgotten land perfect it.

the commentary on some of these bits are strikingly similar if not the same to a video @SilveryMP did a while back. you should credit him in a pinned comment or something. :)

The thing about Throw is that throwing enemies is stronger than just spitting them out. Throwing enemies acts like you've sucked up 2 or more enemies and you can aim it.

We love to see Mirror getting the respect it has always deserved but never received (ignoring the one game only abilities which have gotten even less) Mirror is so fun and useful it was always my go to when it existed in a game

Here's my top 5 personally: 5. Hammer, almost got a bit bored of this before Forgotten Land where the hits feel so impactful and reminded me why I like this ability so much. 4. Spear, For so many years I loved Spear. It's fast,l ong and turns me into a helicopter. All I felt like this ability was missing was some kind of dash attack. Then Bandana Dee got Ground Thrust in Star Allies and everything was right with the world again. 3. Yo-yo, this ability just feels so smooth and cool to use. Plus the backwards cap is always a plus. 2. Fighter, I get to be Ryu from Streets and use a command input. This is always a reliable ability to thrash anyone around in. 1. Sword. This is like picking Charizard as your favourite Pokemon. "Wow you must really like stale bread too huh?" But I can't help it. It's moveset is so full and fluid. All of it's moves feel like they connect into each other. And who doesn't love a good duel with the coolest knight around.

I'm honestly shocked that they didn't bring Animal back for forgotten land. I mean come on, the outfit he puts on literally looks like an Awoofy! It would've been perfect!

I'm so happy Yoyo made it so high up. It's always been my favourite and I always used it in Superstar. Honestly I though I was alone on this because non of my friends ever used it when we played Superstar

i'm so happy that beam made it to the top 5 and i really hope beam does get the time to shine in another 3D adventure

Funnily enough, the only kirby games I've played are Adventure, Super Star Ultra, and Planet Robobot, and the ladder two are the only two appearances of Mirror, so I had been under the impression that Mirror was very common in this series. I had honestly forgotten about it completely because it had been so long! Now I want to replay Robobot lol.

28:39 I wonder if Kirby can also turn people into snails with his rainbows

3:53 it was also meant for Milky Way wishes. You could get it on its own isolated planet without visiting the others and it allows you to basically have the copy ability before you start getting the permanent ones.

Congratulations on 200 episodes, Antdude! Your Kirby marathon videos were my introduction to you and I've never looked back since.

This seemed like an obvious video for a channel like this, and I can tell it’s going to be good.

35:14 I will! Thank you AntDude!

Wing Kirby and the bird buddy were my favourite in ultra!! Defeating bosses as a cute lil bird was a highlight of my childhood

to 300 and beyond! cheers to Kirby!

Beam is so solid and iconic that I think it's more iconic than sword and also more fun (unless you're fighting Meta Knight, of course. Give the man an honourable duel!)

I always felt whip didn't get the love it deserved; felt more like a timing-based ability to me. I love all the angles you can attack from along with the rapid-hitting whip, but it is kinda weak in terms of damage.

I had no idea that you could swallow those little balls that those bosses shoot and get the Paint ability. That's a Kirby ability I'd never even seen before. I learned something today.

This video is eerily similar to Silvery's video he uploaded a while ago. Like, the wording is nearly the same in some segments.

Man, I loved this list, but I would have put fire and sword higher because of the upgrades of Forgotten Land - moving around with dragon fire is sooooo satisfying, I spent most of my game with it. And the final sword upgrade is really OP!

Copy is also useful for something in Super Star: Copy a Scarfy to get Crash! This is a cool thing unique to Copy that’s not very well known. You can’t inhale a Scarfie so people generally assume you can’t get a copy ability from them.

Let's not forget about the move named "Painbrush"

This year has been such an amazing year for the pink puff ball. Amazing work in the video as always dude. There are so many good, weird and bad… copy ability’s so this must have taken ages to do. Happy 30th Anniversary Kirby 💫

Congrats on the 200 eps milestone, Ant and really hope you can keep going! :D Your vids are always a great time hehe ^^ this was a fun ranking list as well lol

Fun fact! The grab in Ninja is called an Inzuna drop, and is something of a staple of fighting game Ninjas. Examples can be seen in Samurai Shodown and Marvel vs. Capcom.

Mirror is my favorite ability as well! I was over the moon when I saw it at number one.

Congrats on 200 episodes, Ant! Just a suggestion, but what if you were to do a Smash Bros copy ability ranking as well? Whatever you do next, best wishes for everything!

Imagine if one day a kirby game lanches with every single ability seen up until now, it would be crazy

the rock ability is my favourite, its so destructive and in star allies it has a rock fist that SMASHES

I never considered Spark & Plasma Kirby to be different separate abilities. And I never will.

Forgot the part of upgraded sleep in Forgotten Land where it also doubles your health bar and gives you a timed speed boost. That puts it up way higher for me

Mirror is by far my favourite ability in the entire Kirby Franchise. Mirror is also recorded as being THE most popular Copy Ability in the franchise thanks to the 3DS backdrop being the result of a survey ranking the Copy Abilities.

Another upside to bubble is that it’s the only practical way to make a he elemental variations of sword and bomb in Squeak Squad. How many people knew that Squeak Squad had those as secret abilities?

That break in the middle reminded me that i was watching this at 3 in the morning. I'll finish the rest tommorow.

Congratulations on 200 episodes! Here's to many more episodes along the way!

Mad respect for using the Peppermint Palace theme with Ice Kirby

I kept watching, thinking "I wonder where mirror will fall on this list." Never did I think I'd see another big Mirror fan to rank it so perfectly.

Mirror is 100% my favourite as well

Ah yes the 200th episode is a Kirby episode. Truly one of the moments of all time. Thank you for apologizing about the color about your walls.

I've been maining Yo-Yo since the SNES days and I'm so glad that it got to where it was based on merit alone. Made me all the more eager watching through seeing how increasingly glowing the summaries got.

Silvery: Puts Plasma before Spark Antdude: Puts Plasma after Spark

I'll always have a lot of affection for Mirror, if only because its special guard/shield move is undefeated. Pleasantly surprised to see it rank so highly.

Odd, I hate spiders and Spider happens to be one of my favorite abilities, especially design wise.

Mirror is my favourite ability and I really wish we'd have gotten to see it in Forgotten Land!

Ant didn't add combo abilities from Kirby 64 because he knew everyone would guess that the number one spot would be FRIDGE KIRBY BABYYYYY

Congrats on 200 episodes, and thanks for all the fun provided!

The “Love-Love Stick” sounds like an item used for personal pleasure.

I guess you could say mirror is… AMAZING

I love how doctor kirby plays, especially the ways he was redesigned visually for Super Kirby Clash. They make him a little wizard crafting potions, while still performing all the same attacks

As an aracnophobe myself, spider kirby is the only spider I'm ok with because he's still somehow adorable

You forgot the final form of sword in forgotten land is Morpho knight. And that’s just fantastic

I had an idea for a replacement for Sleep if it ever got its Battle Royale moveset back in a mainline called Lazy. Kirby would don a pair of underwear and sit down doing nothing until getting back up. An upgraded version giving him a couch and a bag of chips to heal himself with.

Bell also has a pretty good defensive move with bell block

I completely agree with beam and mirror. Both are a blast to use, with mirror sliding around splitting and obliterating everything in sight, and beam's midair volley, you can't help gush whenever you run into them, knowing the impending destruction.

I personally like archer, it's cool, and it does basically the same amount of damage as hammer.

It's funny how the game with the most Kirby copy abilities isn't even a Kirby game, but rather Smash Bros Ultimate. Though I suppose when you think about it, at its heart, the entire Smash Bros series is just a fighting adaptation of the classic 2D Kirby formula.

Yesss, a great top two. Even if I was starting to worry that number one would get somehow passed over by mistake until it finally showed up, haha.

3:35 The other use of the Copy ability is in Milky Way Wishes, in which you can't get non-limited use abilities by swallowing enemies.

Honestly I prefer freeze and burning over fire and ice Soley because of the costume. Like I wish they’d switch the costumes of the 2 that’d make them feel more original

Kirby’s number one copy ability is copying perfection 👌

1:25 just realised he did the pose

mirror was always my favorite ability. the first Kirby game i played was superstar at a friend house and man i loved the mirror ability. so sad it's in so few games.

AntDude should apologize to Silvery because...you know.

Happy 200th episode man. Its been a great year of videos and this is a perfect video to end it. Kirby fans have been eating good this year and this is a great topic to pick.

62: I think Paint is at least notable for being one of the few screennukes where a boss can troll you with it. Marx can grant you Paint but when it's used on him, it does an obscenely miniscule amount of damage. 46: Admittedly Forgotten Lands is my first proper Kirby game, but Drill threw me for such a loop when I first ran into it. Luckily, the stage it's in does a decent job giving you a tutorial for it but still, was very awkward for a moment.

31:19 You wanna talk about dedication- OOOGH

The fact that Ant and I have the same favourite ability makes me SO unreasonably happy 😭😭 I've never fully understood why I love mirror as much as I do, but honestly I think you summarized it pretty accurately!! Amazing video all around :D

The stat buffs with Sleep were a gamechanger for the arena in Forgotten Land

I don’t know if Ant dude knows but a couple of years ago Nintendo did a poll on the best Kirby ability and the winner was Mirror Kirby.

Mirror is my favorite, and it does everything truly amazingly, however after seeing dark MetaKnight, I dreamed that one day mirror kirby would do those things to (replacing all the sword parts with his wond that he has instead) that would be amazing

Can’t believe you actually painted your walls; absolute legend

Plasma was one of if not the best power in Superstar. All you had to do was hold block and go ham on the d-pad, it’d make you near invincible.

best 200 episode video ever! i love your Kirby videos so much!

As a younger brother, Copy ranks way higher for me. Because it sucks for Kirby, but the thief side character is super strong, plus as you mentioned having control over your own powers. Copy is the hero of anyone that was often relegated to second player.