Yellow Alloy (SSBB)

Yellow Alloy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Universe	Super Smash Bros.
A boss in	Brawl
Availability	Hacking
Tier	Banned

Yellow Alloy (ザコイエロー Zakoierō, Yellow Small Fry), is an unplayable character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and only playable via hacking. He's a clone of Mario.

When playable, much like many Multi-Man Brawl characters, Yellow Alloy is worse than a good portion of the Brawl roster. Mario notably benefits from his improved special moves in Brawl, and with these removed, it exposes a very meagre toolkit. He inherits Mario's poor attack range, causing him to struggle mightily against disjointed attacks, and these don't have fantastic KO potential. This is all while suffering from the standard weaknesses of the Fighting Alloys: Yellow Alloy cannot shield, cannot air dodge and thus can't hitstun cancel, his aerials all have 40 frames of landing lag, and he has a horrible meteor cancel window. However, there are some silver linings; Yellow Alloy has a forward aerial reminiscent of Dr. Mario's; an up smash with higher KO potential, albeit with less head intangibility; and damage is slightly increased across the board. This doesn't do much to improve from the negatives, though, making Yellow Alloy one of the worst characters in the game.

If a player wins with Yellow Alloy, the game will crash without further modifications. When losing, the game will continue, with Yellow Alloy being in a pratfall state.

Codes

Yellow Alloy can be played as using the following Gecko codes and choosing any character on the Character select screen. These codes are for the NTSC release.

Player Slot	Code
1	4A000000	90180F20
	10000098	00000030
	E0000000	80008000
2	4A000000	90180F7C
	10000098	00000030
	E0000000	80008000
3	4A000000	90180FD8
	10000098	00000030
	E0000000	80008000
4	4A000000	90181034
	10000098	00000030
	E0000000	80008000

Attributes

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Yellow Alloy is largely the same as Mario on a surface level, having his quick startup frames, a dash attack that stage spikes consistently, and a strong back throw. However, without special moves and aerials with extremely high endlag, it is difficult for Yellow Alloy to achieve much of what Mario seeks to achieve, having trouble mounting any aerial offence to speak of and lacking a projectile to form a neutral game around.

Differences from Mario

Yellow Alloy has the exact same movement statistics as Mario, but has some minor differences on various moves reminiscent of Dr. Mario; most notably, he has a single-hitbox, strong forward aerial, and a down aerial without a landing hitbox.

Aesthetics

• Yellow Alloy has a slightly larger model, giving him more reach, but making him much easier to combo.
• Yellow Alloy is unvoiced.

Attributes

• Yellow Alloy has no special moves.
• Yellow Alloy can't shield and thus cannot roll or spotdodge.
• Yellow Alloy can't airdodge and thus cannot perform hitstun cancelling, making him uniquely susceptible to combos.
• Yellow Alloy can't grab the ledge and can't use any ledge options by extension.
• Yellow Alloy has a significantly worse meteor cancel window, tied with Wolf for the worst in the game (25f → 60f).

Ground attacks

• Jab 1 has worse weight-based knockback, with a single hitbox (WKB: 15/10 → 11).
• Jab 2 has worse weight-based knockback, with a single hitbox (WKB: 18/15/25 → 10), causing opponents to be able to shield Jab 3.
• Jab 1 and 2 lacks their 80° angle hitbox, making them connect slightly worse.
• Jab 3 comes out a frame sooner (Startup: f7 → f6), giving it overall better hitbox activity.
• Jab 3 has drastically higher endlag (FAF: 30 → 40).
• Jab 3 has less knockback growth (KBG: 95 → 90).
• Dash attack has a larger hitbox, making it drastically better at stage spiking with the late hit.
• Dash Attack has its 80°/70° hitboxes removed, with the latter being inconsequential due to it being fully covered for Mario anyway.
• Forward tilt deals more damage (8% → 10%).
• Forward tilt has higher endlag (FAF: 25 → 33).
• Forward tilt has lower base knockback, standardised across all versions (BKB: 8/13 → 6); largely made up for by the damage buff, but still worse on shield.
• Up tilt has a frame of extra endlag (FAF: 30 → 31).
• Down tilt has a single hitbox with the higher damage range (5%/7% → 7%), but still remains unsafe on hit.
• Forward smash has more hitbox activity (15-17 → 15-19).
• Forward smash lacks its sweetspot fire hitbox, making the animation not only misleading, but also causing it to only deal 15%.
• Forward smash has higher endlag (FAF: 48 → 57).
• Up smash has higher knockback growth (KBG: 90 → 97), making it KO sooner.
• Up smash has no head intangibility.
• Down smash has lower base knockback (BKB: 40/35 → 30), but much higher knockback growth (KBG: 73/75 → 90/80), making it KO sooner.
• Down smash has less range, lacking hitboxes on the feet.
• Back throw has higher base knockback (70 → 80).

Aerial attacks

• Yellow Alloy cannot air dodge.
• All of Yellow Alloy's aerial attacks have 40 frames of landing lag, making them terrible on shield and reducing follow-up potential.
• Neutral aerial autocancels later (34+ → 36+).
• Neutral aerial's early hit does more damage (10% → 12%).
• Neutral aerial's late hit has an extra frame of hitbox activity (6-29 → 6-30).
• Forward aerial has overall higher hitbox activity (16-21 → 16-23).
• Forward aerial has much higher endlag (FAF: 60 → 76).
• Forward aerial is changed to be a single hitbox, dealing 13% with a 60° angle, 20 base knockback, and 100 knockback growth; akin to Dr. Mario's.
• Forward aerial no longer meteor smashes.
• Back aerial has its late hit removed, just being the strong early hit, with near enough the same overall hitbox activity (6-13 → 6-12).
• Back aerial has higher knockback growth (95 → 100).
• Back aerial does less damage compared to Mario's early hit (12% → 11%).
• Back aerial has higher endlag (FAF: 34 → 46).
• Up aerial has much higher base knockback (BKB: 9 → 90).
• Up aerial has more endlag (FAF: 30 → 34).
• Up aerial launches at a slightly higher angle (45° → 55°).
• Down aerial lacks its landing hitbox.

Moveset

• Unlike regular fighters, Yellow Alloy lacks special moves, can't shield, and cannot grab the ledge. He also lacks idle poses and taunts.

For a gallery of Yellow Alloy's hitboxes, see here.

		Name	Damage	Description
Neutral attack			3%	Mario's regular attack combo from Super Mario 64. The first hit on frame 2 and easily jab locks characters if they miss their tech. However, it is terrible at linking into itself, being very easy to shield.
			2%
			4%
Forward tilt			10%	A roundhouse kick with meagre damage. Unsafe on hit at lower percentages.
Up tilt			7%	A spinning uppercut. It has low startup and ending lag, being the same as Mario's, average damage and above-average knockback. An excellent juggler that can be combo'd into itself at low percents. It can also KO at higher percents, being his strongest tilt.
Down tilt			7% (leg)	Performs a legsweep. Though it has low startup lag and surprisingly decent range, it deals low damage, has high ending lag and low vertical knockback. Punishable on hit all the way up to mid percents or even high percents. While improved compared to Mario's, it remains one of the worst moves in the game
Dash attack			9% (clean), 7% (late)	Performs a sliding kick from Super Mario 64. Has low diagonal knockback behind Yellow Alloy that is difficult to follow up on. Low profiles various moves and has a large enough hitbox to perform unusual stage spikes.
Forward smash	↗		15% (arm)	Steps back and then forward, causing a blast of fire out of his hand; however, the fire animation lacks a hitbox compared to Mario's. Can be pivoted to cover some distance, which can make up for this issue. Much weaker than Mario's.
	→		15% (arm)
	↘		15% (arm)
Up smash			14%	An upper-reaching headbutt. Lacks the head intangibility of Mario's, but is overall stronger.
Down smash			15% (front), 12% (back)	Performs a flare kick. Comes out quickly, but has poor range, leaving it outclassed by dash attack for edgeguarding purposes. In all other cases, it's strong for resetting neutral or getting the opponent off-stage.
Neutral aerial			12% (clean), 5% (late)	Performs a sex kick in the air. Comes out very quickly on frame 3, which makes it useful to escape combos but it has short reach; this trait is worsened by Yellow Alloy's inability to hitstun cancel. Has overall unspectacular power and is largely hampered by the 40 frames of landing lag.
Forward aerial			13%	Performs a delayed overhand. Seemingly derived from Dr. Mario's forward aerial from Melee, instead of being a meteor smash, it deals general meaty knockback. It isn't very strong and has high ending and landing lag, making it difficult to utilise if a KO isn't outright confirmed.
Back aerial			11%	A backward-reaching dropkick. Because it lacks the late hit of Mario's, it's more consistent, but is severely held back by its high ending and landing lag.
Up aerial			11%	Performs a bicycle kick.
Down aerial			1% (hits 1-5), 7% (hit 6)	Performs several discus spinning clotheslines followed by a backfist body stretch. Due to the lack of a landing hitbox, Yellow Alloy is extremely vulnerable to opponents SDIing out of the move.
Grab			—	A clinch grab. Meagre grab range.
Pummel			3%	Slowly headbutts opponent.
Forward throw			9%	Spins around once then throws his opponent in front of him. It has below average knockback scaling for a throw, KOing Mario at around 167% at the ledge, and completely lacking KO power from further away. It is mostly only used to set up an edgeguard.
Back throw			12% (throw), 8% (collateral)	Spins around three times then throws his opponent backwards. Slow and easy to DI, but stronger than Mario's back throw, which was already powerful in the first place.
Up throw			8%	Throws his opponent high into the air. High base knockback but it has low knockback scaling. KOs at 189%. Arguably his least useful throw.
Down throw			6%	Slams his opponent into the ground. Yellow Alloy's weakest throw. Its vertical trajectory allows it to set up an up aerial juggle with a successful read, but the opponent is put into tumble at 0%, which allows them to air dodge any potential followups.
Floor attack (front)			6%	Gets up then kicks behind him, then in front of him.
Floor attack (back)			6%	Gets up then punches behind him, then in front of him.
Floor attack (trip)			5%	Kicks behind him, then in front of him while getting up. punches them upwards.

Announcer call

The Fighting Alloy Team has an unused announcer call intended for Classic Mode, which can be accessed if an Alloy is made selectable on the Character select screen. It is present in all versions.

In competitive play

Due to Yellow Alloy only being playable via hacking, he's been banned in competitive play since Brawl's release. While the accessibility of Wii modding makes it relatively easy to add the Fighting Alloys to the character select screen, and they don't crash the game unlike the Fighting Wire Frames upon winning, the entry barrier still exists. This barrier also causes logistical issues that tournament organisers have to work around, such as the potential for installing further mods to cheat, consoles not having the appropriate mods installed that can cause setup disputes, and more. Due to the Fighting Alloy Team as a whole being largely inferior versions of their base characters, especially in the case of Yellow Alloy, there is also little interest in changing that status quo. Ergo, the entire Fighting Alloy Team group has not seen much competitive experimentation, with no documented tournament matches. Should they ever be made legal, however, their influence on the metagame would likely be minimal.

In 1-P Mode

In Multi-Man Brawl

The Fighting Alloys fighting Mario and Sonic in Co-op 3-Minute Brawl.

Yellow Alloy, as part of the Fighting Alloy Team, is a central figure in Multi-Man Brawl, where he spawns alongside the other Alloys to attack the player. He appears in all modes, including Cruel Brawl, where he's quite overwhelming. Additionally, in each mode, Yellow Alloy will fight with a handicap, changing its properties by quite a bit.

Trophies

The Yellow Allow trophy is unlocked by defeating 100 Alloys in Endless Brawl.

Yellow Alloy's trophy in Brawl

Yellow Alloy

A member of the Alloys who stands out from the bunch with a sharp yellow body and horns. He moves like Mario but is bigger and has a longer reach. He can't, however, use items or special moves. Also remember that he is not controlled by a human player, so this is your big chance--show him who's boss!

: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Trivia

The Fighting Alloy Team on the victory screen, with the Green, Red, and Blue Alloys in their tripped state, while Yellow Alloy is in its standing pose.

• When winning, if the game is forced to not crash, in lieu of a victory pose, all Alloys will use their default standing pose instead.
• Yellow Alloy curiously has some traits only seen with Dr. Mario in Melee, namely a single-hitbox, strong forward aerial, and a down aerial without a landing hitbox.