This article is about Mario's forward somersault from Super Mario 3D Land . For Mario's backflip used by crouch jumping and his side somersault in this and other 3D games, see Somersault . The Roll is a move used by Mario and Luigi in Super Mario 3D Land Peach , Toad , and Rosalina in Super Mario 3D World crouching . This move moves Mario forward with a quick roll. When rolling, he can break open crates and gain distance; however, he cannot defeat enemies this way, as opposed to the Roll Attack from the Donkey Kong Country series
The roll move makes a return in Super Mario Odyssey Super Mario 3D Land and Super Mario 3D World , Mario can turn while rolling and perform a continuous roll (by holding zl Y [1] zl Long Jump [2] Ground Pound , or Dive (which now uses the Roll's input).
Rolling Leap If Mario jumps during the move, the roll will become a Rolling Leap, a longer and faster version of the Long Jump. If he is in his Tanooki form , this move becomes the Tail Wag (see below).
Tail Wag A version of the move can be used by Tanooki characters , called the Tail Wag enemy in their way.
Names in other languages
Language
Name
Meaning
Spanish (NOE)
Rodar
To roll
Trivia In the pre-release version of Super Mario 3D Land , the roll was performed by pressing the Super Mario games. References
Super Mario 3D World Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Bowser's Fury
Playable characters
Mario • Luigi 1,2 • Peach 1,2 • Toad 1,2 • Rosalina 1,2 • Captain Toad 1,2 • Bowser Jr. 3 • Hint Toad 2 • Banktoad 2 • Yellow Toad 2
Non-playable characters
Kittens 3 • Mii 1 • Neko Parent 3 • Plessie • Rabbits (Mega Rabbits ) • Sprixie Princesses 1,2 • Sprixies 1,2 • Toads • Toadette 3
Worlds 1,2
Sprixie Kingdom • World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World Castle • World Bowser • World Star • World Mushroom • World Flower • World Crown
Lake Lapcat locations3
Fur Step Island • Scamper Shores • Pounce Bounce Isle • Fort Flaptrap • Slipskate Slope • Clawswipe Colosseum • Trickity Tower • Crisp Climb Castle • Risky Whisker Island • Pipe Path Tower • Roiling Roller Isle • Mount Magmeow • Lucky Isle
Bosses
Bowser (Meowser 1,2 · Fury Bowser 3 · Giant Bowser 3 ) • Boom Boom • Pom Pom • Hisstocrat 1,2 • Boss Brolder 1,2 • King Ka-thunk 1,2 • Prince Bully • Motley Bossblob 1,2
Items and objects
+ Clock 1,2 • ? Block • 1-Up Mushroom 1,2 • Arrow platform 1,2 • Arrow Sign • Assist Block 1,2 • Baseball • Beep Block 1,2 • Big Block 1,2 • Blue Coin • Brick Block • Board 1,2 • Bomb • Boomerang Flower • Cage 3 • Cannon Box 1,2 • Cat Shine 3 • Cat Shine Shard 3 • Cat Wheel • Chain-Link • Character Switch 1,2 • Checkpoint Flag 1,2 • Clear Pipe • Clear Pipe Cannon • Cloud Cannon • Cloud Lift • Cog 1,2 • Coin • Coin Block • Coin Box • Coin pile • Color Panel 1,2 • Crate • Crystal Block 1,2 • Dark 1,2 • Dash Panel • Double Cherry • Elevator 1,2 • Fire Flower • Fling Pole 3 • Floating couch 1,2 • Flower 1,2 • Fluff 1,2 • Fury Block 3 • Fury Sun 3 • Giga Bell 3 • Goal Pole 1,2 • Gold Ring • Goomba Mask 1,2 • Gong 1,2 • Graffiti 3 • Green Coin 1,2 • Green Star 1,2 • Green Star Ring 1,2 • Ground-Pound Switch 3 • Grumblump 1,2 • Hexagon 1,2 • Hidden Block • Ice Skate • Illusion 1,2 • Invincibility Bell 2,3 • Invincibility Leaf • Item storage • Jump Panel • Key Coin • Kick Bomb • Lift 1,2 • Light Box 1,2 • Lighthouse 3 • Lucky Bell • Mega ? Block • Mega Mushroom 1,2 • Multi-Vator 1,2 • Mushroom Trampoline • Mystery Box 1,2 • Plessie Medal 3 • P Panel 1,2 • P Switch 1,2 • Pixel Luigi 1, 2 • Potted Piranha Plant • POW Block • Propeller Box • Propeller Platform 1 • Red-Blue Panel • Red Coin 1,2 • Red POW Block 1,2 • Red Ring 1,2 • Rising pillar 1,2 • Rock Block 1,2 • Rotating Panel 1,2 • Seagull 3 • Searchlight 1,2 • Shelf 1,2 • Slamming block 1,2 • Sliding door 1,2 • Slot Block 1,2 • Small birds 1,2 • Snowball • Springboard 1,2 • Stamp 1,2 • Super Star • Super Bell • Super Jump Panel 3 • Super Leaf • Super Mushroom • Switch Block 1,2 • Switch Panel 1,2 • Switchboard • Timer Gate 3 • Touchstone 1,2 • Trapeze 1,2 • Tree • Turning Floor • Warp Box 1,2 • Warp Box (With Key) 1,2 • Warp Pipe • World Warp Pipe 1, 2 • Zipline lift 1,2
Moves
Crawl • Crouch • Crouch Jump • Dash • Dive 2,3 • Ground Pound • Ground Pound Jump 2,3 • Jump • Long Jump • Roll • Shell dash • Side Somersault • Slide • Spin Jump • Swim • Synchro Ground-Pound 1,2 • Wall Jump
Forms
Small Mario • Super Mario • Fire Mario • Cat Mario (Lucky Cat Mario · Giga Cat Mario 3 · White Cat Mario 2,3 ) • Double Mario • Tanooki Mario (White Tanooki Mario ) • Boomerang Mario • Mega Mario • Invincible Mario
Enemies and obstacles
Ant Trooper 1,2 • Baddie Box 1,2 • Banzai Bill 1,2 • Banzai Bill Cannon 1,2 • Beach Koopa • Biddybud • Big Boo 1,2 • Big Ant Trooper 1,2 • Big Galoomba 1,2 • Bill Blaster • Blockstepper • Blooper 1,2 • Blurker 1,2 • Bob-omb • Boo 1,2 • Boomerang Bro • Brolder 1,2 • Bullet Bill • Bully • Cannon 1,2 • Cannonball 1,2 • Cat Banzai Bill 1,2 • Cat Bullet Bill • Cat Goomba 1,2 • Chargin' Chuck 1,2 • Charvaargh 1,2 • Cheep Cheep • Coin Coffer • Conkdor • Disaster Neko 3 • Falling spike 3 • Fire Bar 1,2 • Fire Bro • Fire Piranha Plant • Fizzlit 1,2 • Flopter • Fury Shadow 3 • Fuzzler • Fuzzy • Fuzzy Horde 1,2 • Galoomba 1,2 • Goomba • Goomba Tower • Hammer Bro • Hop-Chop 1,2 • Horned Ant Trooper 1,2 • Innertube Goomba • Ka-thunk 1,2 • Koopa Troopa • Lava Bubble 1,2 • Madpole 1,2 • Magikoopa • Mega Piranha Plant • Mini Goomba 1,2 • Octoomba 1,2 • Para-Biddybud • Parabones 1,2 • Peepa 1,2 • Piranha Creeper • Piranha Plant • Porcupuffer 1,2 • Rammerhead • Ring Burner 1,2 • Skating Goomba • Skipsqueak • Snow Pokey • Spike • Spike ball 1,2 • Spike Block 1,2 • Spike Trap • Spiked roller • Spiny 1,2 • Spiny Skipsqueak 1,2 • Splorch 1,2 • Splotchy goop 3 • Splounder • Stingby • Thwomp 1,2 • Ty-foo 1,2 • Walleye 1,2
Miscellaneous
Captain Toad's Adventures 1,2 • Enemy Battles 1,2 • Mystery House 1,2 • Luigi Bros. 1,2 • Luigi sightings 1,2 • Sprixie House 1,2 • Lucky House 1,2 • Snapshot Mode 2,3 • Stamps
Further info
Cat Shine names 3 • Completion (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Gallery (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Bowser's Fury Glitches (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Media (Bowser's Fury Pre-release and unused content • Playable characters' statistics (Bowser's Fury Staff (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Super Mario 3D World Original Soundtrack
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while crouching. This move moves Mario forward with a quick roll. When rolling, he can break open crates and gain distance; however, he cannot defeat enemies this way, as opposed to the Roll Attack from the Donkey Kong Country series.
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buttons while moving. If the player attempts to do this in the final version, Mario will slide while crouching instead, as in the 2D Super Mario games.
