Powerups

Overview


Powerups are temporary (and sometimes permanent) buffs or nerfs that can affect your gameplay, which includes your ship, paddle and ball.

There are over 29 power ups and 3 gun types.

Powerups that appear in all games
3-Way Ball Split: Multiplies your Ball to 3 ways

8-Way Ball Split: Multiplies your Ball to 8 ways

Acid Ball: Acid Ball can eliminate normal bricks and Indestructible Bricks

Ball Catcher: Ball Catcher can catch only one ball. Click LMB or push Spacebar to launch.

Ball Generator Ball: Active ball can generate to inactive ball that will make a trapped ball.

Ball Splitter: Splits the ball in two when it hits a released projectile by the gun. The balls will be small.

Bomb: If a bomb hits your ship, you lose one life. You can avoid bomb by moving your ship to safety spot, or take bomb down by crushing bomb with your ball.

Bomb, Low Yield: Same as Normal Bomb, except no score point is given

EMP Bomb: Can destroy nearby bricks such as Indestructible Bricks. You have one charge to use, and recharged when ball touch your paddle.

Extra Ion Sphere: All balls was lose when goes out of bounds, if you have no more life left, the game is over. Collect Extra Ion Sphere to accumulate one extra life.

Fast: Fast all balls up in the screen

Fire Ball: Destroys nearby bricks with more strong damage given

Laser Ball: Every ball can shoot purple lasers when you catch.

Laser Blaster Gun: Laser Blaster Gun can eliminate normal bricks and damage indestructible bricks

Lightning Ball: Shocks and damages bricks until it is destroyed

Meg-o-Blaster Gun: Launch explosive missiles that destroy almost normal and indestructible bricks like Fire Ball

Rail Ball: Shreds many bricks in its path

Stinger Missile Launcher: Stinger Missile Launcher shoots homing missile that can seek to closest bricks/targets

Safety Bumper: This powerup with a yellow laser-like appearance that deflect one missed ball or your projectile. It doesn't deflect Blossom's plasma bolts and Laser's purple lasers.

Shield Shrinker: Shrinks your shield by 1 length

Shield Expander: Expands your shield by 1 length

Laser Sight: Allows you to see incoming ball, indicated by green sight

Slow: Slow all balls down in the screen

Starfish: Gives one starfish to your ball

Ricochet Infinity Powerups

 * There powerups are only found in Ricochet Infinity.

Buffs
Nuclear Beam: Gives the player one burst that can be cast at any time with your M1. Once cast, destroys all bricks in a straight wide pattern.

Blossom: Same as EMP Bomb, shoot multiple plasma bolts in multiple direction pattern

Ship Helper: Increases your side ship by 4 length of both side

Probe: Imbues your balls with a probe that can be cast wat any time with your M1. Once cast, it leaves from the balls to you and following your exact location. You have to touch your paddle to recharge Probe

Ship Specialty: Gives your specialty for your selected ship. Your ship's speciality can be seen if you hover your mouse over your desired ship.

Neutral
Normal Ship: Normalizes your ship to normal state.

Normal ball: Normalizes your ball to normal state.

Nerfs
Freeze: Temporarily freezes your ship for short time