Editing Charge (Donkey Kong Country series)

{{Italic title|Charge (''Donkey Kong Country Returns'' and ''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze'')}}
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'''Charge'''<ref name="TFmanual">{{cite|title=''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze'' Wii U electronic manual|language=en-us|format=PDF|date=2014|page=15|publisher=nintendo.com|accessdate=February 7th, 2025|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20170110153828/http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/downloads/manual-WiiU-Donkey_Kong_Country_Tropical_Freeze.pdf}}</ref>, also described generically as a '''dash'''<ref>{{cite|date=2013|title=''Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D'' digital instruction manual|publisher=Nintendo|language=en|page=4|quote=Press {{button|3DS|X}}/{{button|3DS|Y}} while moving to dash.}}</ref>, is a move that the [[Kong]]s can command [[Rambi]] to use while riding him. Rambi lowers his head and rushes forward, plowing through enemies and stone alike with his horn. It is equivalent to the [[Kong Roll]], sharing a similar control scheme and properties. It can be used in ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'', its [[Nintendo 3DS]] [[Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D|port]], its [[Nintendo Switch]] [[Donkey Kong Country Returns HD|port]], and ''[[Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze]]''. It conceptually resembles the [[Super move|supercharge]] from ''[[Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest]]'', which is bolstered by ''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze'' describing Charge as "supercharg[ing] Rambi".<ref name="TFmanual"/>

==History==
===''Donkey Kong Country Returns'' (''3D'' / ''HD'')===
While riding Rambi, the player can use the inputs that trigger the [[Roll Attack|Barrel Roll]] and [[Cartwheel Attack]] to command Rambi to Charge. When Donkey Kong is riding Rambi, he slaps Rambi's side. Charging has identical properties to the Kong Roll, so a single button press does not go that far but the length of a Charge can be extended with repeated inputs. Rambi can even [[Roll Jump]] out of a Charge. Note that as with the Kong Roll, Rambi has to be moving to Charge, otherwise he [[Hand Slap|ground pound]]s.

The primary difference between the Kong Roll and the Charge is that the Charge keeps Rambi's nigh invulnerability and other strengths, meaning all non-flaming enemies are defeated in one hit and that it can break rocks and [[Cracked Block]]s like Rambi normally does. Note that if Rambi Roll Jumps, then collides with enemies or objects from his sides or from above, the animation for swinging his horn cancels out the increased speed cap of the Roll Jump.

If the player dismounts Rambi while using Charge, be that through the input or by taking damage. Rambi continues to Charge for a short time. The charge continues to affect enemies, but not rocks.

The increased speed from Charge is key to [[Temple Topple]] and [[Smokey Peak]], two levels with long sections of terrain that fall away after being stood on. Rambi in specific is necessary because several platforms are blocked by rocks that only Rambi can break.

===''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze''===
Rambi can Charge in this game as well. Levels continue to put the player under time pressure via collapsing platforms to enforce using Charge. [[Meltdown Mayhem]] introduces a wave of [[lava]] which similarly has to be outrun.

==Profiles==
===''Donkey Kong Country Returns''===
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|Eng=Shake the Wii Remote or Nunchuk while tilting the Control Stick left or right to charge Rambi forwards.<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' manual|page=22|date=2010|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|language=en}}</ref>}}

===''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze''===
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|Eng=Supercharge Rambi, moving even faster than before. There are several things you can only destroy by dashing into them.<ref name="TFmanual"/>}}

==References==
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[[Category:Donkey Kong moves]]
[[Category:Donkey Kong Country Returns]]
[[Category:Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze]]