Snow Bowl

Snow Bowl Artwork from Kirby's Return to Dream Land. Details First game Kirby's Return to Dream Land Usage type Super Ability Obtained from Super Chilly Power(s) Powerful variation of the Ice ability: Rolls a huge snowball across the stage.

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Snow day! Transform into a giant snowball and bowl down foes! Roll them up and crash into a wall for an ice-cold strike!

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— Pause Menu description

Snow Bowl is a Super Ability available in Kirby's Return to Dream Land, obtained by defeating a Super Chilly. By gaining the ability, Kirby gains a hat resembling a soft ice cream cone with a large crystal pattern and a star on the front.

Moveset

Upon use, Kirby transforms into a large snowball, which can roll around and jump.

By giving the Wiimote a shake, the snowball gains a burst of speed and careens across the stage, instantly defeating any enemy in the way and destroying star-marked terrain and objects.

Once the snowball hits a wall or runs out of steam, or the unknown reader presses 1, it bursts, sending the previously-defeated enemies scattering and freezing any others that happen to be nearby.

Snow Bowl's Moveset
Skill	Button Execution
Snow Bowl	1
Snow Attack	Shake Wii Remote during Snow Bowl
Jump	2 during Snow Bowlor 2 during Snow Attack
Snow Crash	Snow Bowl + 1 or Snow Attack + hit wall

Trivia

• Snow Bowl and Monster Flame are the only Super Abilities that don't have the normal counterpart's name in them.
• Snow Bowl and Ultra Sword are the only Super Abilities whose names don't have any change in the English localization.
• If any Super Ability like Snow Bowl is hacked into a boss battle in Kirby's Return to Dream Land (except for Grand Doomer and Magolor in Story/Extra Mode with their shields), it can defeat even a boss in one hit, suggesting Super Abilities simply have a hitbox of OHKO.
• Snow Bowl is the only Super Ability not used by Magolor Soul. He adds an ice element to his Grand Hammer attack, however.
• An almost identical ability exists in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, known colloquially as Ice-Ice. That ability is a Power Combo of two Ice abilities that similarly turned Kirby into a snowball and rolled him across the stage, catching enemies, then blowing up with them.

Gallery

• Snow Bowl Get.jpg

  Kirby acquires the Snow Bowl ability.

• Snow Bowl Ready.jpg

  Using Snow Bowl, about to bowl down a row of Waddle Dees.

• Snow Bowl Using.jpg

  Snow Bowl.

• Snow Bowl Burst.jpg

  Snow Crash.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	スノーボウル Sunōbouru	Snow Bowl
German	Schneeball	Snowball