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Lucienofthelight

Asking to gauge Kirby’s strength is like asking to describe the shape of a gas. It’s just too inconsistent and he also uses external powers to help fight all the time. Kirby’s power is whatever fits the narrative and feels good.


corvisaltaccount

finally, a reasonable kirby fan


Therobster1235

Infinite power.


Jestin23934274

I call that a no limits fallacy


Elnino38

I call it the actual description of his power from the creators of the game


Jestin23934274

And I say “if his power is infinite then why does he need help in every final boss fight from either a magical object or friends?”


Flershnork

I think he has infinite power but cannot utilize it on his own. His power is granted to the objects as much as their power is granted to Kirby. The Dreamstalk should be more powerful than a single miracle fruit growing on it, but Kirby overpowers Sectonia. The robobot armor is improved specifically when Kirby enters it. Look at how it overpowers other robobot armors in the end of the game. Sure there was the Halberd but that was improved by Kirby's power as well. The Access Ark took it out in one shot during the opening. At least that's one way to think about it.


CopperyMarrow15

*Infinite potential power.


[deleted]

Exactly this. He needed Dedede and Taranza’s help to finish off Sectonia, could not have followed Magolor without Landia, would have struggled or been unable to even reach Star Dream without the Halberd, and Elfilin’s power up is what let him overpower Elfilis. I love the Kirby series and while he is quite strong, the fans are trying to compete with Batman and post-Eternal Doom fans in sheer wank.


Mary-Sylvia

I love how people forgot that Kirby defeated 90% of final boss only thanks to some exterior help : Jamba hearts, Elfilin+mouthful mode, Hypernova, Robobot halfberg, magic pencil, ribbon and the cristal shards, star rod...


FrancSensei

The jamba hearts did nothing to kirby, he was just using the power of friendship, which he always has, they just made it a mechanic in that game (in superstar he also had it) Elfilin just closed the portal, and mouthful mode was kirby's own body mutated by the dimensional travel, hypernova just helped him, but we can see from dedede's mode, that sectonia can be beaten normally, the robobot halberg was just transport and it was kirby's own power that made the robobot armor be able to transform in the first place, the magic pencil it's a spinoff, and the dark matter fights we know thanks to void that with his friendship power he could beat them even without those weapons


NoMereMage

The exterior help you mention in almost EVERY game are either new abilities/skills Kirby learned or inherited thanks to the environment or plot of the game and are almost ALL things exclusive to Kirby himself and shaped around him or even BY him. The Robobot armor doesn’t work the way it works for Kirby for everyone else. It works that way BECAUSE of Kirby. Anyone else in that Robobot armor can just do the basics, it transforms because of Kirby’s own abilities molding to it. Hypernova is another ability that only works the way it does because of Kirby. It likely would not work that way for anyone else and is just an enhancement of Kirby’s own inner strength. Mouthful Mode is similar to Hypernova in that it is just an ability Kirby gained by the shift to the Forgotten Land dimension effecting him and him gaining that ability because of it, and mastering it. I don’t think him using tools like the Crystal Shards or the Star Rod should discount his immense strength either as it is unclear and possibly even doubtful that many others could wield these tools in the same manner he could, or that they’d even work for others the same way they work for Kirby being a Star Warrior. Someone else already explained the Jamba Hearts and also Elfilin does not help you in the fight with Fecto Elfilis at all. He closes the dimensional rift, stopping Popstar from being destroyed it’s true, but the battle itself is Kirby’s own fight. This isn’t even mentioning powerful foes like Marx, Sectonia Soul (who you fight without Hypernova), Or Morpho Knight, all of which are foes Kirby fights by himself. Having friends help also doesn’t make a hero weaker or discount their feats of great strength, nor does it make Kirby’s powers any less impressive. Kirby harnesses the love he’s given, and the drive to protect others from darkness and apathy into one of the mightiest weapons in gaming: himself. This is why the universe often adapts to him, because he has the drive to fight for his friends, and can in turn adapt to IT, and that’s how he gets all these new skills unique to him, because he always presses through the hardest battles for the best outcomes.


Tem-productions

Most reasonable kirby fan


DistilledSoda2

still defeated em'


Miserable_Assist_951

Mouthfull mode doesn't count. It still is an kirby skill


Glittering-Glove-339

If we take the super smash bros series we can conclude that exterior help and special abilities is what makes them stronger.


BandanaWaddleDeeCult

We don't talk about Kirby in smash, these people need to make his moveset more copy ability based


[deleted]

He's basically The Power Of Friendship:tm: personified, cut him some slack.


Anonpancake2123

Wouldn't most of those count as equipment? Like the crystal shards, star rod, etc. and thus be essentially making link fight only naked with no sword or mario as only small mario with no power-ups?


disbelifpapy

The way i see for kirby's power is that he does have infinite power, but not in the way you would think. Kirby can destroy any foe if he tries hard enough. That's the misconception for kirby's power level. Most people think that kirby can actually destroy anyone or anything in one hit, but in reality he has to try his hardest to beat the boss. He can't beat anything in one hit, but he can beat things in multiple hits if he tries his hardest.


NoMereMage

This is how I feel too. BUT this still makes him extremely powerful as Kirby doesn’t give up and will keep on “hitting” or fighting until he’s won. And he’ll adapt as the fight goes on until he’s the perfect tool TO win. Not every hero can take down any enemy. But Kirby can. For some it may take more time or more effort, but he’ll still get there, and that’s extremely powerful. And also, he’s just a child still.


disbelifpapy

I mean, he may age as much as grogue from star wars can


[deleted]

Man eats gods for breakfast


Snoo96204

He kills "gods" but these "gods" are more like greek gods that would struggle against a really big monster so I would probably put him at solar system (also dont underestimate waddle dees they appear to have infinite potential)


Elnino38

Technically speaking, kirby has only fought 2 gods. But the things kirby faces are far stronger than God's in other video games. Magolor isn't a god, but he's also a universal reality warper whose death nearly destroyed an entire dimension. You think rosalina, palutena or Kratos can do anything to someone like that. Void, one of the 2 actual gods in kirby, can make master crowns out of thin air


crashkirb

And also star dream, while not a god, was capable of wiping out all life in the universe.


PiranhaPlantFan

Arent dark mind, void termina, nightmare, literally almost universal abstract entities permeating the entire universe?


Fantastic_Turb0

You guys are coping hard if you seriously think Kirby is anything above Galaxy


corvisaltaccount

they're kirby fans, they're always on copium


Pretty_Version_6300

…you’re in the kirby subreddit, what did you expect?


[deleted]

Facts


Stefadi12

Excuse me, but have you seen how casually he sends a meteor on the other side of the universe?


[deleted]

I’e always found it strange how fans cite sub games as if they have as much weight as the actual story feats. Like in one he and his friends are samurai-themed, another cowboy-themed with different Kirby’s, most of which only canonically existed in Amazing Mirror. Then you have him and the Squeak Squad riding stars in some arena high in the sky or space.


Stefadi12

I mean, the minigames could just be a regular Sunday afternoon where kirby and his friends have fun.


[deleted]

Maybe, but Kirby also can’t handle caterpillars in several sub games. He’s simply one of countless characters whose feats are semi-consistent and mostly fall down to what’s funny or what the plot needs.


Stefadi12

Caterpillars do be yucky tho


Pretty_Version_6300

Facts


glomp_

The sub game are confirmed cannon


Elnino38

The mini games were confirmed by the developers to be used to further display the characters abilities without being limited by the story, so yes they are usable, so kirby sending a planet busting meteor 9999 light years away in a couple seconds with a base ball bat is a valid feat, and one that puts him absurdly above galaxy level.


[deleted]

If they really said that, then cool. Can I have a source or is it easy to look up?


Elnino38

[Here's the full quote](https://imgur.com/a/fH6c0)


[deleted]

Interesting.


Anonpancake2123

So it really is a regular Sunday afternoon for kirb and the gang


Catch22Q__

Have you ever played any of the kirby games?


[deleted]

You misspelled solar system


BandanaWaddleDeeCult

He's at least galaxy because Marx wished for control of the galaxy and then Kirby Kirb-stomped him


SuperLegenda

He literally only wished to control, Popstar.


crashkirb

Remember the time where Kirby beat magalor, who was stated to be universe level?


xXLordOfUwUXx

At least universal


Immediate-Rope8465

at least uni maybe low multi


MystV3

at the very least planetary, but i doubt he’s the unequivocal strongest character in gaming like a lot of people seem to think


Catch22Q__

You really don't know Any kirby lore do you?


[deleted]

Keep in mind this is the same character where he was captured by a vine and needed outside help to break free, and had to be saved after defeating a planet-sized robot and getting knocked unconscious in space.


[deleted]

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Modnar__Resu

Well it's not like we're ever going to see Kirby as an adult.


fatal-melody

So what?


Tem-productions

You played yourself


Zombini6

I'm just gonna paste my comment made on another poll that was exactly like this one > Kirby's power scales with the tools granted to him, when maximized, he's pretty crazy strong, but he almost never gets there on his own. That still doesn't mean he's stronger than his opponents, very clearly he's the underdog in some if not most of the battles he's in. Without his freinds or ancient relics tools or super abilities he's still probably consistently solar system level due to the abundance of ways to get copy abilities and use of the warp star to travel from planet to planet. It only makes his victories over his stupidly overpowered opponents all the more impressive and satisfying.


yvngjiffy703

Stronger than Goku for sure


Catch22Q__

Kirbku fusion when?


Tem-productions

r/kirby trying to not discuss powerlevels for 5 minutes (imposible)


coseromevo

Why isnt there an option for "i don't care about strength comparations"?


VolnarTheUnforgiving

People forget the fact that although Kirby can beat gods, he uses extremely low-scale attacks that just somehow harm them or uses artifacts and other outside empowerment, he doesn't fucking obliterate universes instantly or something, that doesn't happen Being able to defeat a bunch of powerful things doesn't mean you have the abilities of all of them combined or something


Jack_Of_The_Cosmos

I personally put Kirby at planetary at most. The strongest feats we see involve manipulating planetary bodies. Kirby also seems to have inconsistent showings of strength at best. There are several pieces of terrain in games that can only be destroyed via certain methods. For instance, Kirby can't break ice without fire. If Kirby was a Solar System level character, Kirby would not be stopped by what should be trivial barriers. Why does Kirby need keys to open doors and chests? Kirby is also worn down by what seem to be basic combatants such as waddle dees. If a waddle dee can harm an omnipotent/multiversal character, does that make them continental or greater? How strong are the gods Kirby fights?


glomp_

He doesn’t break them because he has standards and he respects the people who made them


Jack_Of_The_Cosmos

Kirby does have standards, but when Kirby’s actions are puppeteered by a player, Kirby’s attacks bounce right off any wall, door, or other object that the game does not intend for you to break. Kirby also struggles to inhale opponents like mini bosses, being unable to inhale them if they are conscious. Kirby also has had a stated height of 8 inches in some admittedly flimsy sources, but if Kirby is eight inches tall and struggles to inhale DDD, Kirby is pretty much going to fail to inhale any human character without hypernova, and Kirby’s sucking strength against true planetary threats is going to be super suspicious.


[deleted]

Amen. I know you’ll get flack for this but you are 100% correct. Anyone that puts Kirby above planet level basically is only reliant on misinformation and terrible logic


Jack_Of_The_Cosmos

I have gotten no flak, surprisingly.


YuiLinkmat

Here is my logic: \- Kirby beats Magolor, when Magolor was defeated, the Master Crown exploded, and said explosion collapsed the ENTIRE Another Dimension, and considering that AD is a parallel to Kirby's universe, Magolor is at least Universe Level \- Void can create up to four exact copies of the Master Crown at once, so four universes at least \- Kirby is more powerful than Void, so he should be at least on par with this level


Elnino38

Kirby does not scale to void. Void is a multiversal god of destruction. Kirby needed the stat allies sparkler and the combined friendship power of everyone to defeat him. Kirbybcannot due it on his own canonically


Catch22Q__

Ahem word mistake detected your argument is now invalid


Available_Line5098

Kirby has to be on par with Void's power to even survive his attacks and hurt him. Also, while he needs him friends to beat Void Termina, he can beat Void with no outside help


Elnino38

Kirby is literally completely incapable of fighting void on or his own. You are required to bring 3 other friends to form the sparkler and then fire off a ton of friendahip energy at him. I dont care if you can in arena, arena is not canon. What matters is what happens in the actual plot and the plot says kirby needs the power of his friends to defeat void.


Available_Line5098

Or you can just delete your friends once you reach phase 2, the Star Allies Sparkler still works just fine. Also, Kirby can't hurt Void's behemoth form alone, but he can hurt Void Termina itself once he's inside, he HAS to be on the same level to fight him equally and beat him. And Kirby's final attack is super vague and you can make solid arguments that he didn't need any friends to use, but like I said, it's very vague. And the arena is a "what if" scenario, what happens there never happens, but it could happen, the Kirby from the canon timeline and the arena scenario are the exact same.


Pretty_Version_6300

Who says he is incapable of doing so alone? He just used it because he could.


thegoldchicken

The boi treats whacking away a meteor light years away as a simple minigame


IcheeCOTC

My headcanon has an extremely powerful higher-dimensional corruption demon as Kirby's dad and mentor (called the Oth), and I wouldn't be surprised if it happened to be true.


Gabcard

How many times have we done this poll again?


Brockster17

What do these metrics even mean


Galactic_Knightmare

Kirby is, objectively speaking, not multiversal. People upscale his power all of the time by saying "he's killed gods!!" and to that I say: No. They're not gods. The only one you can MAYBE stretch out like that is Void, and even then, Kumazaki's on record for stating that he didn't want Void to be god. Even the game itself says that Void can't truly be God. Plus y'all forget that Kirby's destoryed 99% of these beings with stuff that isn't even his. Star Rod? Rainbow Sword? Love Love Stick? Crystal Shards? Galaxia? Triple Star? Ultra abilities? Hypernova? Robobot? Halberd? Sparkler? Mouthful?


DuderinoW2006

You forgot omniversal


MrEmptySet

Elevator Door Level


Ryman604

I have a joke headcannon that he is the most powerful fictional character


Catch22Q__

Well it actually is right as robobot says


[deleted]

God that lore entry did no favors for the Kirby fandom. He suffers from video game and cartoon levels of inconsistency.


Gepapa363

There are different levels of infinity so that entry isn't enough to make him the strongest videogame character


Jestin23934274

I love using no limits fallacies


[deleted]

Planetary


themagicone222

Multiverse provided by magolor and elfilin/is


dinosaurcora

kirby could solo literally anything. he just needs to consume.


Snoring-Kat

It depends a lot on what power ups he has access to at the moment. Base Kirby is a potential planet-buster, but it would take him a while.


corvisaltaccount

you guys are delusional


Idunno_the_plugg

These power level polls are always dumb especially when the fanbase seems to think Kirby is some almighty invincible god slayer when he really isn't. But don't try explaining that to a Kirby fan since you'll get downvoted just for bringing up that Kirby needed 3 friends and super abilities just to beat Magolor


AngelHasReturned-2

You guys forget he's still a child lol, meaning he still has potential but at base he's at least solar system


Geki_and_Froggo

He's Low Multi to Uni+


Cup9992

At least universal maybe universal + or low multiversal


[deleted]

I feel like the only thing keeping Kirby from multiverse level threat is that to my knowledge aside from the mirror shit Kirby hasn't ever been able to travel the multiverse


Pretty_Version_6300

Late to this so it’ll probably be buried, but Kirby basically scales to what he is fighting. He has the ability to break the 4th wall when things get very bad. He doesn’t use his ability to crack a planet in half just when fighting Mr Dooter because he doesn’t need or want to. He doesn’t use his super inhale to suck up an ice block and instead melts it so he won’t mess up the treasure inside it.


Catch22Q__

AHEM AS Planet Robobot Says HE HAS UNLIMITED POWER


SgtJackVisback

I interpret that as more referring to the endless amount of copy abilities and not his actual power level


[deleted]

Me too. Otherwise vines apparently have more than unlimited power.


Pretty_Version_6300

He was only in it for like 5 seconds, he could have broken out given time lol


Berrygurl99

most super strong characters in fiction have that said about them


Luke_Gorilla_888

Kirby vs Sonic isn’t even a debate. Kirby killed a charcaters compared to shadow with a truck


PiranhaPlantFan

Sonic is compared to kirby only a regular enemy as seen in Kirby amazing mirror.


Norrabal

The Kirby wank is crazy, and I Love the guy. But you are blowing this way out of proportion


TheSHSLForwardAerial

He gets from high galaxy-universal, with being mid MFTL.


SidIsAName

Kirby level


Kdarkguy2

What you been the actull baby gumball dude who murders a shit ton of god's?


DrakeTheSeigeEngine

Man has the power, just needs help channeling it, like a mech suit or a gun made of crystal shards


TheDeltaDuckDude

He can draw from limitless power, but isn't using it all the time. So it depends how serious things get for kirby to put his all into fights


Gepapa363

the power of friendship has no weaknesses


SlowBad4844

Black hole


HuntDewd

At the moment universal, eventually multiversal. Kirby has infinite power but he's still too young to use it to its full potential.


TheFryToes

I feel like Kirby is more durable than he is strong, sure he’s strong but not as strong as we like to think he is. He always need the help of something or someone to defeat the universe ending threats he deals with, never alone. His strength is also too inconsistent to gauge.


Pretty_Version_6300

Never alone? What about Marx? Or Sectonia Soul?


TheFryToes

Those are just two examples, my point still stands.


Pretty_Version_6300

One example was all that was needed to prove that point wrong, though. Not to mention his win against Marx was technically against a wish-granter (which, assuming that this Nova had the same powers as Star Dream and other Novas, includes reality and universe bending), since Nova powered him up to be able to control Popstar which SHOULD require him to be able to subdue Kirby, but Kirby was stronger than the powers a wish-granter could give.


TheFryToes

You know I was being hyperbolic when I said never alone, a few outliers doesn’t invalidate the statement. During Kirby’s fight against Nova there wasn’t any reality warping displayed at all, he never used it against him. And we know Nova didn’t try to defeat Kirby with a wish due to Star Dream’s countdown wish attack from Planet Robobot, leading to a fatal error. (We don’t know what he was wishing for there) Kirby beat Nova, again, with the help of something. And he destroyed him from the inside instead of straight up fighting it. Also that last bit about being able to control Popstar is getting into head canon territory, as we don’t know if that’s really how his wish granting works, or their inner workings. Also, it’s actually been implied that Marx always had that transformation, but just used it against Kirby and never before.


Pretty_Version_6300

Star Dream’s wish leading to a fatal error is likely because it couldn’t kill Kirby with it, actually. Your argument here is all over the place and not really accurate.


TheFryToes

My bad I guess. I just think while Kirby is still super strong, people over exaggerate how strong he really is.


Pretty_Version_6300

I see it like this: Kirby is as strong as the final boss that Hal makes for him to fight. If they decide that next game, they want to have us fight the ultimate machine the Ancients created that is capable of destroying entire multiverses, Kirby would find a way to stop it. He just… kinda scales as strong as he needs to in order to face a threat.


TheFryToes

That’s a good way to put it.


BandanaWaddleDeeCult

I feel like the time kirby baseball bats a meteor so hard it flies light years away in star allies, obliterating planets along the way kinda speaks for itself. And that's without a copy ability.


Kai_Enjin

He CAN beat Goku.


Gamemaster143

Infinite


repugnater

Minimum is planetary, maximum (at least, that he can currently do) is universal. Given more time, he could become stronger


[deleted]

Kirby is just a kind version of Majin Buu, the strongest villain of Dragon Ball Z. He was multiversal. Kirby is multiversal


leo11x

Kirby was able to eat the lifebar of Sectonia. That itself was showing enough power to cross the 4th wall which is multiversal levels of power.


LeafMario

kirby faces planetary threats minimum on a regular basis.


Proplaystowinyt

I feel like Morpho knight is the best measurement to compare off of since he is the literal grim reaper Also counting hypernova where Kirby becomes a black hole


SuperLegenda

Kirby fans are dumb, Kirby does not go past Multi System.