Editing Green Hill Zone

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|caption = [[File:SonicSymbol.svg|50px|class=invert]]<br>Green Hill Zone as it appears in ''Smash''.

==Stage overview==

On March 17th 2009, the [[SmashBoards|BBR]] announced that the stage should be banned, as opposed to its former status as a counterpick, and the stage has since been universally banned in tournament play. Many players take issue with Green Hill Zone for its extremely campy nature: the most effective strategy when fighting here is to camp the signposts, which have a centralising effect due to their significant defensive power for an already highly defensive game,  can severely elongate the flow of the match.  Another major issue with the stage is its deep slope design, which, besides being awkward to fight on, can create a [[cave of life]] effect since players can [[DI]] and [[tech]] into the ground. Furthermore, both sides of the stage have permanent walk-off edges, favoring [[chain throw]]s or simply camping the edge; the frequent absence of a lower blast-line also negates any off-stage play.

Green Hill Zone is universally banned for many of the same reasons as in ''Brawl''. While turning off stage hazards mitigates some issues like camping, other issues are left unadressed.

*In ''Brawl'', due to the slope being destructible and triggering [[hitlag]], the bridge will sometimes slow down attacks like [[Spin Dash]] or [[Wario Bike]]. This is rather ironic considering that, in the ''Sonic'' series, a player would ordinarily use the Spin Dash in an area with this stage's layout in order to quickly accelerate to max speed and jump high into the air.

*A mistake currently exists in the Spanish and United Kingdom versions of the [[Smash Bros. DOJO!!|DOJO!!]] of this stage's page: instead of displaying the ''Sonic'' universe icon, Sonic's head's silhouette, it has the symbol of the [[Mario (universe)|''Mario'' universe]], which is a mushroom.<ref>[http://www.smashbros.com/wii/es/stages/stage27.html]</ref>

*The musical selection for Green Hill Zone in ''Brawl'' makes a subtle reference towards [[Sega]] in the first letters of each track that ends in "Zone": '''S'''crap Brain Zone, '''E'''merald Hill Zone, '''G'''reen Hill Zone, and '''A'''ngel Island Zone.

*In ''Ultimate'', [[Knuckles]] cannot be summoned by an [[Assist Trophy]] on this stage, due to Knuckles being a background element of this stage.

**Additionally, [[Midna]], [[Color TV-Game 15]] and the [[Squid Sisters]] (due to the center of the stage not being a flat surface) cannot be summoned here.

*The following [[Poké Ball]] Pokémon cannot be summoned on this stage: [[Abra]] (because the stage has walk-offs on both sides), [[Entei]], [[Suicune]], [[Kyogre]], [[Palkia]], [[Giratina]], [[Zoroark]], [[Keldeo]], [[Lunala]] and [[Marshadow]].

*With a total of eight, Green Hill Zone has the most default tracks in a ''Brawl'' stage.

*Green Hill Zone is the only third party stage in ''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS'' to use music from two separate games.

*Despite appearing as a cameo in this stage in ''Smash'', Silver had not been playable on Green Hill Zone in a ''Sonic'' title at the point of ''Brawl''{{'}}s release - however, he is planned to be added in a future update to the ''Roblox'' game ''Sonic Speed Simulator'', making this cameo retroactively relevant to a non-''Smash'' Sega game.