Puffball

**Name**: Puffball

**Species**: Kirby's species

**Homeworld**: Unknown

**Appearance**: Puffball is a small black spherical creature with two stubby arms, two black feet and two oval-shaped eyes with black pupils (with a faint shade of red at the bottom. Puffball's cheek-blushes are solid red ovals. Puffball's body is soft and flexible, allowing him to flatten himself or expand like a balloon. Officially he is 20 centimeters (8 inches) tall, but he can change his height as about three feet when compared to his other alien forms. His weight is not known, although that he is light enough to be easily carried. Puffball has no form of skeletal structure nor does he have teeth. The Omnitrix is on his back.

**Powers and Abilities**:

**Inhale**: Puffball's signature technique is his inhale and has been performing it he unlocked it. He attributes this ability to his "powerful lungs", although all Puffball is ever seen doing is opening his mouth really wide and sucking up lots of air in the manner resembling a vacuum cleaner more than breathing. Traditionally, Puffball's inhale is unlimited in duration, but he tires after inhaling for several seconds and has to take a short break. Puffball's Super Inhale is powerful enough to suck up larger objects. He can suck up stone blocks and many enemies at once. Puffball can inhale other Kirbys to steal their Copy Ability. Puffball gains an ability known as Hypernova by touching a Miracle Fruit, which allows him to inhale things as large as trees or move things made of stone or metal more than twice his size. Hypernova allows Puffball to inhale almost anything and send it back. Puffball cannot inhale underwater.

**Copy Ability**: After inhaling anything, Puffball has the option to either swallow it or spit it back out as a Star Spit attack. Puffball gets a Copy Ability should the player choose to swallow an enemy with a special power. Copy Abilities essentially let Puffball mimic whatever the enemy he had just swallowed. Each Copy Ability has multiple moves which Puffball can perform instead of just one or two. Puffball can combine Copy Abilities by inhaling two enemies at once or throwing Ability Stars at enemies. Having a Copy Ability does not change Puffball's appearance drastically, aside from his color changing to orange or cyan, or wielding a weapon for abilities like Sword or Hammer. Puffball could sacrifice a Copy Ability to create a Helper, an allied version of the enemy he had previously swallowed.

**Other techniques**: Puffball has a soft, flexible body. This allows him to be flattened or stretched, always returning to his original shape. He can inflate himself, making himself more buoyant, and he can flap his arms to hover. He can do this indefinitely. He can exhale to deflate himself and use the exhaled air as an attack. This technique is known as the Air Gun. When underwater, most of Puffball's Copy Abilities do not work, and he is largely limited to using the water gun attack, where he shoots a bubble of water in one of four directions (or a constant spray in some games), unless he happens to have Sword, Hammer, Parasol, or a few other abilities which can be used underwater. The water gun works just like the air gun, but Puffball does not need to inhale beforehand. Having the Water ability strengthens Puffball's water gun attack by having it reach farther and do more damage to enemies. Puffball can inhale underwater. Puffball can do a move known as the slide kick or slide attack while crouching as a basic attack that does minor damage. If Puffball does a slide kick facing down a steep incline, he will roll down and over any enemies in his way. Puffball jump off the ground can be used as a headbutt attack. Puffball deals the most damage when he has just left the ground and is most vulnerable at the peak of his jump. Puffball has the guard move, which allows him to protect himself from enemy attacks, and take little to no damage. He can also perform the normal beam near Helpers to revert them to an item state, which Puffball can inhale to reacquire the Copy Ability for himself. He can get rid of his ability and toss it as an item, which Helpers can touch to claim that ability, which also saves the Helper from dying if they have run out of health. Puffball is an astonishingly fast runner. He could run fast enough to skim across water and get over to the horizon within seconds. It is also explained whenever Puffball consumes enters another dimension. Puffball can also run a lot faster than usual. It is stated that Puffball has infinite power, and such power allows the Invader Armor's limitations to be removed due to the armor's ability to mimic its user's abilities. Puffball is sucked into a vortex that gives him the ability to use Mouthful Modes, a state in which he partially inhales items and utilizes them in a different way than Copy Abilities. Puffball also gains the ability to perform a new version of his dodging move while Guarding in this game. Additionally, he is now able to move freely while inhaling, and even may inhale while he has a Copy Ability (only if he is inhaling an object that will grant him a Mouthful Mode).

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