Crate

Crate
Crate variants.
Series	Super Smash Bros.
Item Class	Carrying
Appearance	SSB SSBM SSBB

A Crate is an item that has appeared in the entire Super Smash Bros. series. Crates are containers which can hold various different items. When you pick up a Crate, because they are so heavy, you will not be able to jump or attack, and you will move very slowly while holding it. However, in the original Super Smash Bros., one could not move with it at all; this was a special ability available only to Donkey Kong. After you have picked up a Crate, you can throw it up, forward, backward, or down. Crates are very similar to Barrels. If you tap the control stick lightly, you cannot walk off ledges holding a Crate. But holding it down makes your character and the crate tumble off the ledge, and you drop the crate.

Exploding Crates are "dud" Crates that explode when destroyed and do not contain items. These Crates appear in all three games. One out of eight Crates are Exploding Crates. Exploding Crates deal around 49% damage and have strong knockback.

In Super Smash Bros. Melee

Also, in Melee, Crates may contain an enemy, such as a ReDead, Goomba, or an Octorok. When they are thrown at opponents, they can deal 18%-22% damage and have a decent amount of knockback.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl

The Rolling Crate in action.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Crates, along with Barrels, have a different appearance depending on what stage you are playing on. On a more futuristic stage, e.g Lylat Cruise, they take on a futuristic appearance, and on more fantastical stages, e.g Yoshi's Island, they look like wrapped-up presents.

Stage	Crate type
Final Destination	Futuristic
Battlefield	Normal
Yoshi's Island	Presents
Jungle Japes (Melee)	Normal
Port Town Aero Dive	Futuristic
Lylat Cruise	Futuristic
Halberd	Normal
New Pork City	Normal
Norfair	Futuristic
Bridge of Eldin	Normal
Pirate Ship	Normal
Pokémon Stadium 2	Normal
Spear Pillar	Normal
Flat Zone 2	Presents
Shadow Moses Island	Normal
Green Hill Zone	Normal
Rumble Falls	Normal
75m	Normal
Frigate Orpheon	Futuristic
Castle Siege	Normal
Summit	Normal
Skyworld	Normal
WarioWare, Inc.	Normal
Distant Planet	Normal
Smashville	Normal
PictoChat	Presents
Hanenbow	Futuristic
Delfino Plaza	Normal
Mushroomy Kingdom	Normal
Luigi's Mansion	Normal
Mario Circuit	Futuristic
Mario Bros.	Normal
Yoshi's Island (Melee)	Normal
Big Blue (Melee)	Futuristic
Corneria (Melee)	Futuristic
Green Greens (Melee)	Normal
Brinstar (Melee)	Normal
Rainbow Cruise (Melee)	Presents
Onett (Melee)	Normal
Pokémon Stadium (Melee)	Normal

Trophy description

Item holders. You can destroy these to get at the items they contain, but be careful, because they will sometimes explode when broken. In Super Smash Bros. Melee, crates were uniform in design, but this time around, their appearance will change to match the stages. They'll sometimes look futuristic--other times, they'll look like presents with fancy ribbons.

Rolling Crates

Rolling Crates are a new type of Crate that appear in Brawl. These Crates are identified by their tiny, black wheels on the bottom, and can oftentimes go unnoticed. If a player hits this Crate, it will start sliding in the direction it was hit. Characters hit by the Rolling Crate will take damage and lots of knockback depending on the speed of the Crate, and the Crate normally breaks. Since characters can stand on top of them, players can take a ride on a Rolling Crate when it's been hit.

According to DOJO!!, they are actually attached to a dolly.

Trophy description

Special crates that look like normal ones but have four wheels attached to the undersides. However, what is more obvious is the "cart" that the wheels are attached to, and the fact that Rolling Crates will always be placed squarely on the stage, and never at an angle. Try to destroy these and they will go rolling along, smashing everyone in their path. When a rolling crate is destroyed, it will reveal the same sorts of items found in normal crates. You can also jump on a rolling crate for a fun ride.