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'''Boss Battles Mode''' (also called '''Boss Battles''', '''Boss Mode''', '''Bosses Mode''', '''Boss Rush''', or '''Boss Rush Mode''') is an [[unlockable]] [[Stadium]] mode introduced in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' that is very similar to [[All-Star Mode]], except the player fights all the [[boss]]es rather than all the playable characters. Boss Battles Mode is unlocked after the player completes both {{SSBB|Classic Mode}} & [[The Subspace Emissary]] for the first time, or in other words, has defeated each boss at least once (aside from {{SSBB|Crazy Hand}}).

[[File:BossBattlesPiranha.png|thumb|A battle with Petey Piranha in Boss Battles Mode. Note that the cages are empty, and the sky is blue, like in [[The Great Maze]].]]

The goal of Boss Battles Mode is to defeat every boss in the game with a single [[stock]]. When a player begins Boss Battles Mode, they are immediately dropped into combat against one of nine bosses (excluding [[Tabuu]]). Once a boss is defeated, the player is brought to the rest area. The rest area displays all defeated bosses as trophies, a screen that displays the face of next boss to be fought, and has limited recovery items. There are three [[Heart Container]]s, which recover the player's damage to 0% and don't reappear upon later visits to the rest area. This format continues until all bosses are defeated.  

The bosses are fought in random order, except for Tabuu, who is always last. The player receives only 0.5x incoming damage, and reduced knockback, making bosses noticeably weaker, in addition to also being slower to compensate the fact that player has only one life and no [[continue]]s. Some boss attacks are altered in strength as well, either to make them weaker still, or to partially compensate for the resistances.

This format is mostly the same as [[All-Star Mode]]. However, continues are unavailable, so the mode must be retried from the beginning if a [[Game Over]] is earned. The final three bosses before Tabuu move and attack at a faster rate (most noticeable with Rayquaza & Galleom), and boss HP gradually increases as the mode progresses. The player is treated to a picture of one of the bosses upon completing the mode; this picture varies depending on the [[difficulty]] level chosen, starting from [[Petey Piranha]] for Easy to Winged Tabuu for Intense.  

There are eight trophies obtained by completing [[Challenges]] and one [[unlockable character]] in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' involving boss battles mode. None of these challenges can be broken by a [[Golden Hammer]], except in [[PAL]] versions of the game (which can break open all challenges). These trophies cannot be unlocked in [[Multiplayer|co-op play]]. If done in co-op mode, the high scores (similar to [[All-Star]]) are tracked into a unique reserved slot rather than being any attached to any character.

*Clearing Boss Battles on Normal difficulty unlocks the [[Shadow Bugs]] trophy

*Bosses generally have around half the [[HP]] they do in the equivalent difficulty in the [[Subspace Emissary]] and [[Classic Mode]], with their attacks having slightly more than half the power as well (usually having the same [[knockback]] of the previous difficulty in the Subspace Emissary or Classic Mode). This may be to compensate for [[sticker]]s being unavailable.

Below are the congratulations screens for completing Boss Battles Mode.

*The Boss Battles Mode is similar to The Arena from the [[Kirby (universe)|''Kirby'' series]].

*In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', the true ending of [[World of Light]] features a boss rush that pits the player against all the bosses (except for {{SSBU|Master Hand}} and {{SSBU|Crazy Hand}}), which can be fought in any order, before the true final boss.

**{{SSBU|Sephiroth}}'s route has him fighting against all the bosses in the game (aside from Galeem and Dharkon) in a Boss Rush.