Palutena's Arrow is Pit's Standard Special Move in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Pit will pull his bow string back, and fire it when the button is released.
Overview
The arrow does 5% uncharged and 11% charged. The player can change the direction the arrow goes while holding it; backwards, forwards, and upwards. Pit's arrows move much more quickly than other character's arrows, and can be controlled in midair. He is not able to hold his drawn bow indefinitely, however. He will eventually release the arrow, unlike Link and Toon Link.
Palutena's Arrows can actually be curved around in a full circle if controlled properly and avoid going off screen. Also, if two of Palutena's Arrows collide, they will cancel each other out. Starting at 294%, a fully charged arrow can KO a middleweight, such as Mario, making it deadly in Super Sudden Death, and a regular, non-charged arrow, can KO at 562%.
Palutena's Arrows, with skill, can purposely miss the opponent and then come right back from behind. This is one of the few Special moves that can perform a 180˚ and 360˚ reversal, by holding the opposite direction the player is facing while charging an arrow. This does not affect attack power.
Origin
Palutena's Arrow never appeared in the Kid Icarus games prior to Uprising (which is, of course, invalidated as an origin by the fact that it post-dates Brawl and bases much of its design on what debuted or appeared in Brawl), but in the original games, Pit used a bow as his trademark weapon. The move appears to be based on the Arrow of Light, one of the three Sacred Treasures used to defeat Medusa. Normally, Pit fired regular arrows, being able to aim them to either forward, or upward direction. These aiming controls are kept intact in this special move as well.
Palutena's Bow
The Bow of Light, also known as the Sacred Bow of Palutena is Pit's weapon of choice. The bow splits into two blades, which Pit can wield. In the Kid Icarus series, Pit's bow did not have the ability to split into two blades. This is explained in the Subspace Emissary.
Trophy Description
The bow Pit got from Palutena after the Medusa incident. As a standard bow, it's capable of firing arrows of light that can change direction. It can also be split to form two short swords--Pit holds one sword in his right hand in a standard grip and one in his left in a reverse grip. He may hold them like this so he can shift between bow and swords without losing a beat.
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl, 2008
Trivia
- The arrows look like a bright version of the ones fired from the Dark Cannon.
- The trophy is the only one that is not a Final Smash, Subspace Emissary enemy, item or alloy to have Super Smash Bros. Brawl on its game list.
- Normally, Pit has golden rings hovering around his wrist. When he uses this move, the rings slide onto the bow, and back on his wrists when he fires.
The Arrow that is shot actually behaves like a beam of light: even though it moves as fast as bunny hood curry sonic, it still moves away at the same speed even if you catch up with it, just like an actual light beam. Hacking proves it: with the infinite home run contest timer, even when the sandbag is 100,000 feet away and still moving, the bow still streams across the field, even though the camera is moving faster.
External links
Video of arrow that turns 180 degrees: [1]