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Quick Spin
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| First game | Kirby Air Ride (2003) |
| Latest game | Kirby Air Riders (2025) |
| User(s) | Every Air Ride Machine |
“When rivals get too close to you during a race, you can do a Quick Spin attack by quickly tilting (the control stick) to the Left and Right!”
— Kirby Air Ride North American instruction booklet, page 11Quick Spin (also referred to as Quick-Spin[1]) is a maneuver that can be performed in Kirby Air Ride and Kirby Air Riders. It is done when the player quickly taps left-to-right or right-to-left on the Control Stick. Doing so causes Kirby or the respective player character to do a spinning move on their Air Ride Machine, which slows the user down a little, but allows them to attack nearby enemies or opponents.
How much damage a Quick Spin will do depends on the Air Ride Machine used, the amount of Offense Patches collected, or other factors such as the effect of a temporary Attack Up Patch. This move will also break boxes and destructible environmental objects.
In Top Ride, performing a Quick Spin will allow Kirby to shake off certain items he's picked up, if he'd rather have a different one. Furthermore, he can force his opponents to discard their items, too, if he collides with them during one.
Riders can still perform Quick Spins with machines like the Hop Star, though they need to hold down the Boost Charge button before quickly tapping the Control Stick back-and-forth since the rider performs a different action by Quick Spinning normally.[2]
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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| Japanese | クイックスピン kuikku supin |
Quick Spin |
| Traditional Chinese | 快速旋轉 kuài sù xuán zhuǎn |
Quick Spin |
| Simplified Chinese | 快速旋转 kuài sù xuán zhuǎn | |
| Korean | 퀵 스핀 kuik seupin |
Quick Spin |
| Portuguese | Giro rápido | Quick spin |
References
- ↑ Name taken from Kirby Air Ride North American instruction booklet, page 28
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5C85xLpCd4&t=213s
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