Bombs have an interesting way of calculation how much damage they will do. Link has a variety of ways to throw bombs (tilt, smash, dash, air, ec.) and each way has it's own set amount of damage it will do. A Bomb explosion will always do 4% of damage. This means that if you add the set damage of the throw by 4, you'll get the total amount of damage the throw will inflict. (assuming that the explosion hit box connects with the opponent.) The Throw damage is added on the frame it collides with the opponent, the explosion happens one frame after. If the bomb has been airborne for 18 frames or more (after release) the bomb collision will now only do 1% of damage for all throws. This is what causes farther bomb throws to deal less damage than initial contact throws. (explosion still does 4).

Throwing a bomb behind Link will turn him around! A bomb exploding will also turn him around but not in all cases. Ex. If Link performs his “bomb jump” the explosion will make him face the other way, or when you CC > bomb-throw down the explosion turns Link around. If Link isn't at a % where bomb will put him into tumble and you try to wall tech a bomb explosion the explosion will just knock Link back with no turn around. If Link lands while performing an “aerial glide toss” during his bomb throw back animation, he'll still throw the bomb back, but he will face forward again.

• Bomb Pull: 16
• Bomb Pull Total: 39
• Bomb Duration: 277 (4.6 sec)*
• Bomb Explodes 278
• Explosion Damage: 4%
• Tilt Throw Damage: 4.656
• Smash Throw Damage: 6.2784
• Aerial Tilt Throw Damage: 4.656
• Aerial Smash Throw Damage: 4.656
• Dash Throw Damage: 5.5(ish)
• Z-drop initial: 1%
• Z-Drop Mid: 2%
• Z-Drop Late: 3%
• All Long Bomb Throws (bomb goes 18 frames without connecting with opponent): 1
• Bomb causes knock down on Link at: 34% (pre-throw)
• All Bombs knock-back angle: 70
• KB Growth: 60
• Base KB: 60

Although bombs duration is listed as 277 frames, That's actually the frames Link is active with the bomb. The bomb actually is active in the world for 300 frames if you count when it's pulled on frame 16. If Link were to be hit out of his pull animation after frame 16, he could take advantage of these extra frames.

• Bomb Throw (Release/Total)
• Forward Throw: 7/20
• Back Throw: 7/20
• Up Throw: 10/20
• Down Throw: 6/20
• Dash Throw: 8/40
• Aerial Throw (all): 6/20

Note: The amount of hit-stun a bomb does depends on which throw was used and how/when it collided with the opponent. usually bombs do roughly 30 frames of hit-stun at 0%.