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| [[File:Melee TeamBattle CharSelect.png|thumb|The Team Battle option as shown on the character selection screen in ''Melee''. The current setup shows a 2 vs. 1 vs. 1 team setup, with Players 1 and 2 fighting solo and Players 3 and 4 on a team.]]
| | '''Team Battle''' is a [[versus mode]] setting present in all the games of the [[Super Smash Bros. (series)|''Super Smash Bros.'' series]]. As the name suggests, players (whether human or computer) fight alongside up to two others against the opposing team. |
| '''Team Battle''' is a [[Versus Mode]] setting present in all games of the ''{{b|Super Smash Bros. |series}}'' series. As the name suggests, players (whether human or CPU) fight alongside others on their team, against the opposing team(s). Team Battle can be toggled on and off in the upper left-hand corner of the [[character selection screen]] by selecting the word "Free-for-all" in ''Smash 64'', or the word "Melee"/"Brawl"/"Smash" in subsequent games. | |
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| == Gameplay == | | == Gameplay == |
| A team battle can contain red, blue, and green teams. Prior to ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', characters are required to use [[alternate costume]]s matching their team color; if two or more players are using the same character on the same team, they will be differentiated by a lighter, darker or more darker tint. In ''Smash 4'' and ''Ultimate'', a character's allegiance is instead indicated by a colored outline, thus enabling the player to use any color costume of their choice for their character. Once a game that features teams is completed, the [[announcer]] will announce the winning team color on the [[results screen]] instead of the last character standing. The following team setups are possible (not counting combinations with only one player per team):
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| | A team battle contains up to three teams (red, blue, and green), with a character's allegiance being shown by their [[Palette swap|color scheme]]. If two of the same characters are on the same team, they will be light or dark variations of the same colour. Since a maximum of four characters can participate in a match, the following team setups are available (not including those with only one player per team): |
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| *3 players
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| **2 team setups
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| ***2 teams
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| ****2 vs. 1
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| *4 players
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| **3 team setups
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| ***2 teams
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| ****2 vs. 2 (known as [[doubles]] in [[competitive play]])
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| ****3 vs. 1
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| ***3 teams
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| ****2 vs. 1 vs. 1
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| Additionally, when playing an [[8-Player Smash]] in {{forwiiu}} and by default in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', an additional team color, the yellow team, can be selected. With a maximum of eight characters that can participate in a match, further team setups become available. The setups done with 5 or more players are (where at least one team has two players):
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| | *2 vs. 2 |
| | *3 vs. 1 |
| | *2 vs. 1 vs. 1 |
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| | Since team battles are a regular division of versus mode, the regular options of [[time]], [[stock]], and [[Coin Mode|coin matches]] can be selected, along with [[Special Melee]]/[[Special Brawl|Brawl]] rules as well. In time and coin matches, the score (or coins collected) of each team is the combined score of its members. Stock matches are played in essentially the same manner; each player starts with a set number of lives and the objective is to deplete the stock of the opposing team(s). However, there is one feature called [[Share Stock]] where, when one player loses his/her last life, and that player has a teammate with two or more lives, he/she may borrow one of the lives from his/her teammate, and the character re-spawns as usual. |
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| *5 players
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| **5 team setups
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| ***2 teams
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| ****3 vs. 2
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| ****4 vs. 1
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| ***3 teams
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| ****2 vs. 2 vs. 1
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| ****3 vs. 1 vs. 1
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| ***4 teams
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| ****2 vs. 1 vs. 1 vs. 1
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| *6 players
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| **8 team setups
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| ***2 teams
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| ****3 vs. 3
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| ****4 vs. 2
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| ****5 vs. 1
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| ***3 teams
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| ****2 vs. 2 vs. 2
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| ****3 vs. 2 vs. 1
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| ****4 vs. 1 vs. 1
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| ***4 teams
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| ****2 vs. 2 vs. 1 vs. 1
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| ****3 vs. 1 vs. 1 vs. 1
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| *7 players
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| **10 team setups
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| ***2 teams
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| ****4 vs. 3
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| ****5 vs. 2
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| ****6 vs. 1
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| ***3 teams
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| ****3 vs. 2 vs. 2
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| ****3 vs. 3 vs. 1
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| ****4 vs. 2 vs. 1
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| ****5 vs. 1 vs. 1
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| ***4 teams
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| ****2 vs. 2 vs. 2 vs. 1
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| ****3 vs. 2 vs. 1 vs. 1
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| ****4 vs. 1 vs. 1 vs. 1
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| *8 players
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| **14 team setups
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| ***2 teams
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| ****4 vs. 4
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| ****5 vs. 3
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| ****6 vs. 2
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| ****7 vs. 1
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| ***3 teams
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| ****3 vs. 3 vs. 2
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| ****4 vs. 2 vs. 2
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| ****4 vs. 3 vs. 1
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| ****5 vs. 2 vs. 1
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| ****6 vs. 1 vs. 1
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| ***4 teams
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| ****2 vs. 2 vs. 2 vs. 2
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| ****3 vs. 2 vs. 2 vs. 1
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| ****3 vs. 3 vs. 1 vs. 1
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| ****4 vs. 2 vs. 1 vs. 1
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| ****5 vs. 1 vs. 1 vs. 1
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| Since team battles are a regular type of Versus Mode, the usual options of [[Time]], [[Stock]], and [[Coin Battle]] matches can be selected, along with [[Special Smash]] rules as well. In Time and Coin matches, the score (or coins collected) of each team is the combined score of its members and if multiple teams have the same total by the end of the match, then [[Sudden Death]] will occur between all members of the tied teams. Stock matches are played in essentially the same manner; each player starts with a set number of lives and the objective is to deplete the stock of the opposing team(s). However, in Team Stock matches there is a feature known as [[Share Stock]] where, when one player on a team loses their last stock and has a teammate with two or more stocks, the fallen teammate may borrow one of their teammate's stocks and re-spawn as usual.
| | As a default setting, members of the same team cannot attack each other. However, turning on [[Friendly Fire]] on the options screen will allow players to damage their allies. This can lead to techniques such as easily using [[Mr. Game & Watch]]'s [[Oil Panic]] move, giving [[Kirby]] a copy ability using [[Inhale]], healing [[Ness]] or {{SSBB|Lucas}} with [[PSI Magnet]], or hitting a recovering ally with a low-[[knockback]] [[projectile]], allowing them to re-use their [[Up special move|third jump]]. |
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| With the default setting, members of the same team cannot attack each other. However, turning on [[Team Attack|Friendly Fire]] on the options screen will allow players to damage their allies. This can lead to techniques such as easily using [[Mr. Game & Watch]]'s [[Oil Panic]] move, giving [[Kirby]] a copy ability using {{b|Inhale|Kirby}}, healing [[Ness]] or [[Lucas]] with [[PSI Magnet]], or hitting a recovering ally with a low-[[knockback]] [[projectile]], allowing them to reuse their [[up special move]] after becoming [[helpless]].
| | Team battle is also available for [[Nintendo Wi-Fi]] connection. When playing with anyone, a player selects his/her character as usual, but his/her team colour and teammate is determined randomly. Online team battles with anyone are always 2 vs. 2. |
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| Team battles are also available when playing [[With Anyone]] online. This requires four players, who are randomly split into red and blue teams for a two-minute time match with Friendly Fire disabled.
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| In all games except ''Smash 4'', all members of the winning team will perform their [[victory pose]]s simultaneously. In ''Smash 4'', only one of the characters (the player with the highest score/stock count) will perform a complete victory animation and even then, only one of their animations can ever play, usually being the least special effects-heavy (Mewtwo, for example, can only use the victory animation where it turns its head towards the screen after facing away, and can never use its other two). In ''Ultimate'', if {{SSBU|Joker}} or {{SSBU|Sephiroth}} poses in front, no other team members will appear. Furthermore, if a solo player wins a Team Battle, the character will perform their victory pose, as in a regular Free For All match.
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| In ''Ultimate'', players have the option to toggle whether their teammate is translucent or not in Local Wireless and [[Online]] battles, so that they can focus more on their battle, not the other teammate.
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| ==Gallery==
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| <gallery>
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| TeamBattle.jpg|Team Battle flags in ''Brawl''.
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| Smash 3DS Time Match (Final 5 Seconds).jpg|The final five seconds of a team battle in {{for3ds}} on {{SSBB|Yoshi's Island}}.
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| </gallery>
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| *In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', enabling team attack will make the [[shield]] color for human players based on port number, rather than team color (i.e. Player 1 has red shield, Player 2 has blue shield, Player 3 has yellow shield, and Player 4 has green shield). This also affects their blast [[KO]]'s explosion color. This was fixed in ''Ultimate''.
| | *In the original ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'', selecting the blue team was the only way to use {{SSB|Samus}}' or {{SSB|Captain Falcon}}'s Blue costume, and green team is the only way to get Captain Falcon's, {{SSB|Mario}}'s, {{SSB|Kirby}}'s, and {{SSB|Donkey Kong}}'s green costume, due to these costumes not being available using the [[C buttons]]. |
| **''Brawl'' also erroneously gives the green team a yellow shield.
| | *In 2 vs. 1 or 3 vs. 1 battles, despite there being only one opponent to attack, the Bully, Predator, and Stalker [[list of bonuses|penalties]] will still be given out to the members of the multi-player team for only attacking a single participant. |
| **In ''Smash 4'', both Player 3 and Player 4 will have their shield, launch trail, and blast KO explosion colors swapped from their normal port colors.
| | *In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', only {{SSBB|Mario}}, {{SSBB|Diddy Kong}}, {{SSBB|King Dedede}}, {{SSBB|Ness}} and {{SSBB|R.O.B.}} use their default costumes for red team, only {{SSBB|Yoshi}}, {{SSBB|Luigi}}, {{SSBB|Bowser}}, {{SSBB|Link}}, and {{SSBB|Toon Link}} use their default costumes for green team, and only {{SSBB|Sonic}}, and {{SSBB|Lucario}} use their default costume for blue team. |
| *In the original ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'', selecting the blue team was the only way to use {{SSB|Samus}}' or {{SSB|Captain Falcon}}'s blue color, and selecting the green team was the only way to get Captain Falcon's, {{SSB|Mario}}'s, {{SSB|Kirby}}'s, and {{SSB|Donkey Kong}}'s green color, which were not selectable otherwise. | | *Because {{SSBB|Wario}} has two sets of outfits, each with its own team setup, he is the only character who has a choice of clothing in team battles. |
| *During 2 vs. 1 or 3 vs. 1 battles in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'', despite there being only one opponent to attack, the Bully, Predator, and Stalker [[list of bonuses|penalties]] will still be given out to the members of the multi-player team for only attacking a single participant. | |
| *Because {{SSBB|Wario}} in ''Brawl'' has two sets of outfits, each with its own team setup, he is the only character who has a choice of clothing in team battles prior to ''Smash 4''. | |
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