What is the BEST Copy Ability in Kirby and the Forgotten Land? [All Abilities RANKED!] 

I wanna give Deep Sleep partial credit. Its not the best when you find it on a level, but in the town you can just go to the weapons shop and repeatedly use Deep Sleep to get all 3 stat buffs before going into a level

Personally i think homing bomb is the most confusingly designed ability in the game. They can chain together, but they constantly move away from each other destroying the chain. You only get big damage if you chain it, so I find it deeply underwhelming most of the time. I prefer the 2nd version of bomb, Chain Bomb.

Dragon fire does SO much damage, the basic attack melts boss health bars in seconds if you can keep the fire concentrated on them, which isn’t too hard

Something I learned with the morpho knight sword is that if your guarding and hold B, you charge up a spirit head attack thing where two heads orbit you

Dragon Fire is a massive boss killer, the DoT is insane

Space Ranger is absolutely phenomenal. Literally killed the colloseum on first try. I love this game. Haven't unlocked Morpho copy ability yet, Im at Forgo Land but havent played yet

Deep sleep is an amazing ability! Especially in the Colloseum, if you can get it, you can keep using it over and over until you get all 3 buffs it gives and by then you'll be more powerful in your base form than most copy abilities. I'd rather be deepsleep buffed with no ability than have to fight with needle or drill

I feel like Cutter got the best upgrade with the transfer to 3D, Holding the cutters in place and getting a supercharged return can be really fun to kill bosses with especially with chakram and buzzsaw

Deep Sleep is actually an amazing ability. The upgrade turns Sleep, an intentionally useless move, into something that can give Kirby buffs such as a second health bar, 200 seconds of boosted attack, and 200 seconds of boosted speed, and the fact that those can all stack, so you can just stay in the weapons shop and sleep until you get all the buffs, and carry those into the Coliseum, or a hard level... Actually an S tier.

I use the Blizzard Ice ability a LOT, the nearly impenetrable shield that also damages foes is extremely powerful and is how I completed the missions where you have to defeat a boss without taking damage

I feel like you heavily underrated twin drill. The explosion attack when you circle enemies does great damage to bosses, and it shreds mini-bosses in 2 explosions.

I 100% the game last night and Morpho knight is by far the best copy ability. You could complete the most difficult coliseum with that ability on its own.

Note: Gigant Sword's shield is beat by Blizzard Ice's guard since it does the same thing and is actually faster overall than it

imma be honest, this could just be from personal experience against the final boss but i believe control bomb is one of the worst abilities. the bombs are slow and not too accurate, they can get destroyed by bosses and the damage is basically none. the only way to do decent damage is with the chain attacks but they are impossible to do since the bombs just go all around the place

Honestly I love Morpho Knight sword because after 3 consecutive hits, it slightly heals you. Space ranger is really powerful, and the charges hit is really cool. Masked Hammer is also good but not the best. I still like it for the strength.

Morpho blade is incredibly broken, with a damage boost it can almost one shot gorimondo

I actually used Storm Tornado for my first clear of the Ultimate Cup Z. It's actually a really good all-rounded ability. Obviously the main bonus is the mobility, especially since the way the attack lets you hover in the air means you're actually out of range of the majority of enemy attacks. It's also got decent close-range damage if you can combo it properly (Really nice if you can wedge yourself against a wall to really rack up damage), and the ability to pick up the stars off the ground and launch them as a ranged attack is incredibly useful.

Morpho has combo based healing, Blade beams, a small Ultra Sword with even more strength that can summon fire tornadoes, a warp that goes twice the length of his dodge roll, and he can summon 2 homing wisps of Fargo

Deep Sleep and Time Crash definitely deserve to be higher. Sleep being free buffs that you can get for _free_ before any level, and Time Crash absolutely obliterating almost all of the no-hit boss runs. I also prefer Volcano Fire, since its Burning attack isn’t slow. And surprisingly, I think that base Sword and Ranger are pretty decent as well. Sword has the flurry attack that none of the others have, and also lacks the weird aerial attack Meta Knight’s has and the weird dodge Morpho’s has. Base Ranger’s charge attack is less vulnerable than Noble’s, since you don’t have to stand there firing all your shots. Space still wins in the damage department, but I absolutely despise the energy field, and how you can’t see anything through it.

Deep Sleep is great when you’re farming colosseum. Just run back to the weapon shop and roll until you have all the buffs, and they stack with buffs from the shop so you can max out and still have another shop item in your back pocket. I usually get at least 6-8 runs of Meta Knight Cup before I have to go back and restart the process.

You missed something. The final sword ability had one more move… block and hold the attack button. It’s a homing ranged attack.

Meta knight sword ability is so unbelievably busted just use the guard A A B attack and it hits like a truck, slows down bosses attacks because hit stun and the cherry on top most moves only hit ground so it dodges most boss attacks I did the ultimate colloseum which is 12 bosses in 5 minutes and 29 seconds with it on my first attempt Easily the best ability before post game

I feel like deep sleep could've been a slight bit higher since it can give you a second health bar entirely for free whenever you want.

I really liked getting the opportunity to use deep sleep in forgo dreams. It's the best source of healing and gives a buff, making the next section easier.

All of my experience here was just me going through Ultimate Cup Z maaaaany times so keep that in mind Ranger level 1 and 3 are great cuz you don't have to move much during bosses (I've gone through Ultimate Cup Z actually over 100 times now with all version of the copy abilities) I can say that my favorites are: Needle(all versions) because it's actually stronger than you might think. The throwing stars acts like it would if you inhaled the stars with normal Kirby and most of my boss fights with needle I didn't have to get close that much unless they were doing a cool down and there were no stars around(which is rarely the case). Even normal needle was good. Drill+⭐ and Twin Drill+⭐(which I have discovered and even recorded that It's the strongest ability in the game because it's capable of taking 95% of bosses health(Yes even stronger than hammer and Ranger) and it all has to do with the circle you make on the ground and the size does matter. Big circles are your key. Ranger+⭐and Space Ranger+⭐ pretty much play the same and have the similar damage output(with normal ranger being faster). I don't like level 2 ranger because the 3rd charge leaves you stationary for too long. Dragon Fire and Volcano Fire I like with Dragon Fire being my top favorite because the flame you grown on enemies stays for a long time and does a lot of damage and at some point you don't even have to do anything because the flame will pretty much finish off the bosses when they're at low health(you also don't have to get that close and you can leave giant flames on the ground for traps and it's faster to set up). Blizzard Ice is pretty good but I found myself playing more defense in a lot of fights because the ice doesn't do continuous damage like Fire does and some bosses are too fast to hit. Masked Dedede Hammer+⭐ because it's strong and perfect dodging gets you to the 3rd charge way quicker. As far as damage goes you'll be able to attack quicker than Twin Drill and if you play it carefully you can get through all bosses quickly without taking damage. Twin Drills is stronger but you do have to set up the circle and plan out where the enemy will be so as far as just attacking without too much planning goes..Hammer wins easily ~ And yeah Morpho Knight Sword because of it's two play styles and it just being strong AND unique ~

I'd say blizzard ice is number 1 utility wise. It turns enemies into an ice you can attack with grows environmental things that can attack anything that moves over it has an invincible free rock block and slows bosses and does massive damage when you freeze bosses. It really cant be beat. I bet you judging aesthetic too but I'd still rank it top 5 tbh.

Aw yeah! Morpho knight sword looks sick, now I’m more excited to go for the finale since I’m so close to 100% it

I really enjoyed watching this video! I know fun factor plays a part for sure but Toy hammer being above any other hammer variants is like criminal haha. Those charge hits deal insane damage to bosses, and it can still be used aerially just like toy hammer. You can almost feel the need never to go back, but thats just me.

Here’s a Cool attack you didn’t know about for Morpho Knight’s Sword: Used guard and Charge the B Button it can spawned a Ghost Illusion attack to the opponents

This was an awesome video, i learned a lot of new moves and what to use, btw i think you should rank final evolution ice higher since im pretty the shield can block any attack in the game and even does a little bit of damage when enemies get too close

Oooo yes I've been waiting for this!

I haven’t evolved all of my abilities as of yet. But Volcano Fire and Noble Ranger are my favorite abilities.

I know this is late, but I just wanted to mention: The "power-up" system, or upgrading the copy abilities, has the same max level for all copy abilities, being +★, and you get it by upgrading whatever copy ability you want to over 5 bars of power. Once you do, the power rating for the copy ability becomes 5 bars flashing rainbow, and it is max level. each level gives one bar of power, so for example, ranger, you can upgrade it 5 times, 4 for more power bars, and 1 for rainbow. That's probably an over-explanation, but I just wanted to be thorough. So now you know, if someone else didn't already say. Also, I very much agree with the space ranger placement. That ability super carried me through the game.

I agree with the space ranger since it’s so OP but weirdly enough, I feel like the lock on isn’t good, like it’s hard to aim sometimes Upon further theorizing on the lock on feature. I think it may just be joy-con drift being annoying when you’re trying to aim

Cool video I realy like your content. If I could make this list it would be completely different 😅.

4:44 I agree that it requires timing, but I mostly used slide attack to uppercut to down slash. R+A,A,B. 11:08 Each level had a different combo after that which made it harder to do to tighter windows.

Crystal needle is one of the best abilities in my opinion. It's big enough to where you can safely attack mini bosses and bosses. The short speed burst when activating allows you to get out of the way when they start attacking.

Lots of great copy abilities!

I think this was a pretty good video. I personally have different opinions on the best due to my preferences. However, everyone is entitled to hold their own opinion. I personally view the Blizzard Ice copy ability as one of the best due to, as far as I know, being one of the few abilities that doesn't take chip damage while blocking unless you block too much. I also feel Dragon Fire is way stronger than Volcano Fire ability due to the damage output seeming stronger.

i find Twin Drill very useful actually specially for those "no hit boss battle" waddle dees since when you are underground, you are immune to almost every single attack

I love the Gigant sword. The shield allows to easily complete no damage bosses and, while the charged attack is indeed slow, and having no dodge is painfull, the slide/upward slash/aerial attack is still available, fast and powerfull. I uses it in the colosseum and it can kill everything in the first cup in 5 combos max. (killing the first boss before it attacks). Plus, it is available early.

Oddly, despite being the most inferior among the Sword upgrades, Gigant Sword is still pretty good even for the harder arena challenges thanks to its shield that blocks practically every attack. I think its the only second upgrade I was able to do that.

They gave sleep an actual move set in Kirby Battle Royale. I don’t get why they just don’t do that again

I love the moveset they give for Morpho Sword and Masked Hammer, i hope the next game gives more ability a fuller moveset. I know it's a bit early for the next 3d game but it would be cool for Kirby to have a copy switch mechanic kinda like milky way wishes. I feel like it could be a nice step up after upgradable copy ability and give ability like Time Crash more use (using different ability in time stop would be sick).

Crystal needle is my favorite, an underrated choice tho. It rips thru bosses at mid and close range, specifically being almost a perfect counter for Sillydillo, Clawroline and Tropic Woods having really just a "not so good" matchup against Meta Knight and Leongar, being awesome against the other final bosses. It just racks up so much damage and can be used from a distance.

Due to it being the best Speedrun Ability I feel like Toy Hammer should’ve ranked higher or at least over Meta Knight and Buzz Saw

A few notes for things you might not know regarding the Morpho Knight Sword. 1. Kirby heals more health when the sword is larger after completing the final strikes of some of the combos 2. Hold block (L or R) and wile holding it hold B to charge a ranged purple flame attack that tracks enemies and does great damage. 3. For crowd control jump up first and hold block and immediately press and hold B to charge a ranged sound wave attack that surrounds Kirby. The Morpho Knight ability is so awesome to get to use in this game and it's crazy how many different things it can do

Gigan sword is my fav bc of the design and ultimate shield. It has helped so much during the super arenas, it even blocks final boss without receiving any damage to yourself

I always loved the meta knight sword for that jump flurry, cus it can stun any boss, so if you’re quick enough, you can get off like 3 sets of attacks at once

and the morpho knight sword also has 2 "hidden" attacks that are while blocking hold attack button to summon those flying fire heads or smth like that and the heads home in on the enemies it finds and if they cant find any enemies they will spin around kirby and the other one is do the same but in the air to do the aura thingy that morpho knight does in star allies to make ur teammates/friends to not be on ur side, that attack and it does also kinda lot of dmg

One thing to add, if you use the health boost item you can buy in the town, Morpho Knight Sword and Meta Knight Sword keep the blade beams until you loose one of your two health bars. (For those who don't know what the health boost item does, upon use it will put you at double your nor.mal maximun health no matter how much HP you have.)

Morpho Sword actually has 2 more attacks than the other variants. If you hold the attack while you guard you can charge up. On the ground you get two swirling projectiles that home in on enemies, and in the air you do that weird shockwave roar.

1:05 #20 deep sleep 1:34 #19 crash 2:06 #18 time crash 2:36 #17 twin drill 3:20 #16 storm tornado 4:01 #15 gigant sword 4:58 #14 chakram cutter 5:18 #13 crystal needle 6:08 #12 noble ranger 6:45 #11 wild hammer 7:25 #10 blizzard ice 8:14 #9 dragon fire 8:47 #8 volcano fire 9:20 #7 homing bomb 9:57 #6 toy hammer 10:38 #5 meta knight sword 11:27 #4 buzzsaw cutter 12:00 #3 masked hammer 12:44 #2 space ranger 14:03 #1 morpho knight sword

The deep sleep is and easy way to save money when doing different boosts. My favorite damage one is space ranger. The full health effect from the meta knight swords also pairs with double health potions so you can still take damage

I completed the main story a few hours ago. Space ranger and dragon fire were my go-to abilities and storm tornado was fun to use

Masked Hammer was my Go To for the Ultimate Cup, and it actually worked. I used the fire tornadoes for half of it, but it was strong.

You underrated Drill so much. If your goal is to take no damage while killing bosses, twin drills does it easily. The bigger the area of the shape, the more damage the eruption does. This means that you can make a teardrop shape, deal massive damage, and be a safe distance to repeat. Even better is since the damage scales with the area of the circle, the speed buff scales the power of drill in addition to the attack buff. Before +star upgrade, it can 2 shot mid bosses, but after 1 upgrade 1 speed boost 1 power boost it will one shot gorimondo while providing a free approach option. The amount of health it saves is invaluable in the colosseum as well

Morpho knight also has this homing phantom attack that’s great for spamming when an enemy isn’t able to easily be approached. They do a very surprising amount of damage, like they can easily take out about a third of some bosses hp

tip for drill/twin drill: jump and attack without movement input does a forward attack: twin drill's forward attak also gains some significant range.

Hidden bonus effect on Time Crash; If you can manage to area transition while it's still active, the ability isn't used up. Meaning if you can get to the next section before time runs out, you basically get another use of the ability.

100% agree with everything you said !

I mainly used sword as my boss killer weapon (except the basic one) dodge counters are so good with it and gigant sword if you wiggle the control stick while doing the jump spin attack does suprisingly good damage its just a bit risky cause you're close to the boss ^^

Honestly the copy abilities are usually pretty niche, I love Morpho knight for longer bosses due to the healing, deep sleep is just amazing for setup because you can heal and get the very op health buff. Combine the health buff with Morpho knight and you can shoot the lasers AND get hit!. Crystal needle is my favorite for charging through levels, running into all the enemies along the way. Of course, space ranger is just,, so fun. Took some getting used to the controls. My least favorite is homing bomb, it's really hard to use and I just can't seem to get it.

Meta knight's sword is strong that technique you were talk about is called the Upper Calibur and it first appeared since Kirby Star Allies

Fun fact! There are only a couple moves that actually do lifesteal on Morpho Knight Sword-this includes the first and second charges of just holding B, which are probably the most efficient. Not only that, there are (at least) two more attacks it can do with inputs exclusive to the ability: holding block and B lets you charge the phantom Fecto Forgo soul attack that Morpho Knight does in his fight (which you can cancel into a dodge roll), and holding block and B in the air lets you charge the sound wave move (only one charge, but it temporarily stops you from falling, similar to Fox’s Shine in SSB). Also, if you time it properly, the third stage charge of holding B will one shot mini bosses, and the fire tornados interact interestingly with Fecto Forgo’s hit box-if you point them back at it, they will keep hitting it until they despawn.

An interesting the about the morpho knight sword is that some of its attacks will actually heal the user a small amount. Not by much mind you (it seems to be based on how much damage you do) but in the ultimate arena z that little bit of health could mean the difference between life and death.

I personally rank deep sleep really highly. If you ever see it in the collosum you take it for sure. Sleep right away and spam out and you have enough time to get your other ability back for a free full heal and a stat buff. Plus you can use it before a stage to get the stat buff with another ability.

Fun fact if you guard with the morpho knight sword then hold y and release you get a cool wisp like attack.

Fun fact about the Morpho Knight sword If you guard, you can actually charge up a move that sends out 2 flying frogos or what ever its called (hold down guard and then hold down attack)

Tornado is actually good in ultimate cup z. It allows you to move while damaging enemies. Once it picks up stars, that is where it truly shines since it homes in on the boss, dealing huge damage. It gives me a consistent finish time of 10 minutes in ultimate cup Z just by doing that. Also, most attacks literally miss you when you are at jump height, so using storm tornado after jumping allows you to damage them while most of their attacks miss you.

One thing I think many miss about deep sleep is that it can give you a free second health meter. When you combine that with the meta and morpho Knight swords, you can use the full-health beans as long as you have your second health meter, even with a sliver left. It might just be coincidence, but I think you can even increase the odds of getting the second health meter by button mashing. Obviously deep sleep on it’s own isn’t great, but when considered as an assist item it’s great. Basically allowed me to retry the final arena without paying for upgrades.

Dragon fire was too low, i used it as my main weapon until i got space ranger, and even then until i had morpho knight sword it was my main melee. Absolute boss crusher and kills most enemys really quickly

One thing I haven’t seen people mentioned if you jump in mid air block and hold b you make this attack which does op dmg consider you only got charge it for like a second

I used to really like using the Space Ranger, thinking it's full charge can delete bosses. After fully leveling up some abilities tho, Space Ranger's damage is heavily out-classed Gigantic Sword (on a mini boss, Ranger takes 2 fully charged shot while Sword needs 1 fully charged attack). Then later realized that Masked Hammer's damage out-matched Sword too.

I think Blizzard Ice should've been higher up. It's guard (which comes out almost instantly) makes you completely impervious to mostly any thing (M. dedede's hammer throw fiery explosion thing does damage) that isn't a grab, combine that with the freezing effect that can slow to completely freeze any boss (I don't know if you can freeze fecto forgo wall, though), which deals a ton of damage, getting hit is way less likely to happen.

You can power-up everything until crown. Mends 5 stages of power + rainbow. You could upgrade things like the normal sword to that and dish out good damage, if you prefer that playstyle more

I actually love drill so much. Yes it takes long to do damage, and it doesn’t do too much damage, but it is SO FUN to use

Time Crash is my new favorite copy ability because everything about it is cool, and it can give you easy damage against bosses

I mean, if don’t want to spend money you can use deep sleep to prepare for bosses, levels, and the colo. it can also give a second health bar which can boost the effects of the later versions of sword.

Also there are some more things with the more fall night sword you can summon the souls of the damned to attack your enemies also you can do the little invert control speech thing

needle is good, you can set traps and throw. You don't risk anything the meta knight sword stuns enemies when you use the caliburn attack. It doesn't matter if they are fast if you hold guard with morpho and attack on the ground, you shoot projetiles, in the air you make a shockwave

Someone already mentioned this but the Morpho-Knight Sword has an extra ability you activate by guarding and holding attack. Creates two strong homing projectiles. So yeah, not only is it insanely strong up-close, you can also just keep spamming these projectiles if you want to keep your distance and stay safe.

You Forgot to mention, when you hold block with Morpho Knight Sword and hold B, You can shoot Phantom Fecto Forgos (aka ID-F86) out of The Morpho sword as an alternate ranged attack. The ability is crazy.

I agree with you on Morpho Knight Sword, because it has more rapid-fire than any other evolved copy abilities with 5 stat bars. I've been noticing that it also has more attacks in the game than any other copy abilities. I've been learning to do new moves every minute. It's like a "Moth to a Flame." Get it?

You can only gain health from both sword types of morpho Knight from the third hit of a combo as well as a charged spin.

There are two secret attacks for the morpho sword. Guard+B summons phantoms and aerial guard+B does a screech. Also, yes you turn slowly when using dragon fire, but if you quickly release B and press it again, you can turn very easily. I think that's actually better than volcano fire because it allows you to strafe.

My personal take on space ranger is that yeah, it's definitely absurd with a full charge, especially with maxed power and the attack buff, but the only way it falters is when it comes to faster bosses which give you less of a window to charge a shot, mostly an A+ tier imo

The thing about Deep Sleep is that you can easily suck it up, go to sleep, and get back your copy ability when you wake up with your new found “full potential”.

When using twhin drill when you jump and attack without holding a direction you will release 2 drills in the air that go straight for a bit.

If you guard and hold attack with morpho knight sword, you can summon mini forgos to attack (even though they do like no damage). Doing this in the air causes you to do the sound wave attack and it does massive damage. Also, the more you combo an enemy, the more you health you get from the sword.

Morpho Knight sword has one more attack when you guard and hold down b with the morpho Knight sword and charge up it creates 2 mini fecto forgos (larva) around you for like 5 seconds

Morpho knight Swords have also 2 secret attack for attacking when you're defending (in air ora on land)

Storm Tornado was amazing imo but nothing will be better than Dragon Fire and how it shreds through bosses ☠️ maxing it out + the attack boots is wild lmfao

For morpho knight sword, you missed two awesome attacks that kirbs can do, if you hold L and B he releases a soul attack. And if you jump and hold L/R and B in midair, he does a screech attack just like morpho knight :) it’s so cool

On top of being the evolved form of my favorite character (Galacta Knight), Morpho Knight's sword is like the Ultima Weapon of Kirby, and that's just cool.

I believe time crash can also destroy bosses if they're coded to not have their second-phases. Specifically in the mini-boss rush in the final world, every boss there can be completely wiped out by time crash. If we find some way to skip their 2nd phases, they probably can drop the boss in 1 single attack outright...

I love pretty much all the abilities (except the ice ones) in this game so much that I can't even begin to rank them. The only one I know for sure would be number 1 is the Morpho sword.

Can you make a list of (hidden) attacks from the ability’s like dashing with the Space Ranger and the attack there or the two Ghost like creatures with the morpho knight sword. Me and a few friends are doing a Kirby Nuzlocke and are trying out many things like: when do you lose the ability and to what attacks do you lose it

the swords still fire the beam after you take damage if you have a second health bar, which helps a lot during boss fights also in my opinion ice should be a little bit higher because of the good shield ability and bomb should be a bit lower because it is difficult to use

Toy hammer is very useful when you power it up to + ⭐️. When powered up to the max, it’s hammer flips do tons of damage. It’s even better than masked hammer because it does all the damage in one hit, whereas masked does it’s damage in multiple hits, therefore making it slower.