Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

This page documents information about or related to a future release. All information in this article must be verifiable, and adhere to SmashWiki's new game procedure. Potentially contentious information should be discussed on the talk page before being added.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
File:Super Smash Bros Ultimate Logo.jpg
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Projected release date	December 7, 2018
Genre(s)	Fighting

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ Special) is an upcoming fighting game for the Nintendo Switch. It was first announced on March 8th, 2018 at the end of the Nintendo Direct released the same day. It will be the fifth installment in the Super Smash Bros. series (sixth if both versions of Super Smash Bros. 4 are counted as two games). The game is scheduled to release on December 7, 2018.

Trailer

The first teaser trailer was revealed at the end of the Nintendo Direct on March 8th, 2018. It suggested that Inklings were newcomers to the game (although this had not yet been explicitly confirmed at the time).

Confirmed elements

All 63 characters from all four Smash Bros. games return as playable characters. Inkling, with Boy and Girl designs from the original Splatoon, has been confirmed to appear in the game. Ridley is confirmed to be a playable character with Meta Ridley as an alternate costume. Daisy is confirmed to be a playable clone character (or Echo Fighter (ϵ)) of Peach.

Veterans (65)
Mario		Luigi		Peach		Bowser		Dr. Mario		Rosalina & Luma		Bowser Jr.		Yoshi
Donkey Kong		Diddy Kong		Link		Zelda		Sheik		Ganondorf		Young Link		Toon Link
Samus		Zero Suit Samus		Kirby		Meta Knight		King Dedede		Fox		Falco		Wolf
Pikachu		Jigglypuff		Mewtwo		Pichu		Pokémon Trainer (Squirtle, Ivysaur, Charizard)
Lucario		Greninja		Captain Falcon		Ness		Lucas		Ice Climbers		Marth		Roy
Ike		Robin		Lucinaε		Corrin		Mr. Game & Watch		Pit		Palutena		Dark Pitε
Wario		Olimar		R.O.B.		Villager		Wii Fit Trainer		Little Mac		Shulk		Duck Hunt
	Snake		Sonic		Mega Man		Pac-Man		Ryu		Cloud		Bayonetta
					Mii Brawler		Mii Swordfighter		Mii Gunner
Newcomers (24)
Daisyε		Piranha Plant (DLC)		King K. Rool		Ridley		Dark Samusε		Incineroar		Chromε		Byleth (DLC)
Isabelle		Pyra/Mythra (DLC)				Inkling		Min Min (DLC)		Kenε		Sephiroth (DLC)		Simon
Richterε		Joker (DLC)		Hero (DLC)		Banjo & Kazooie (DLC)		Terry (DLC)		Steve (DLC)		Kazuya (DLC)		Sora (DLC)

Bold denotes starter characters.
^"ε" denotes Echo Fighters.

Stages

• 3D Land
• 75m
• Arena Ferox
• Balloon Fight
• Battlefield
• Big Blue
• Boxing Ring
• Bridge of Eldin
• Brinstar
• Castle Siege
• Coliseum
• Corneria
• Distant Planet
• Dream Land (64)
• Duck Hunt
• Final Destination
• Find Mii
• Fourside
• Frigate Orpheon
• Gaur Plain
• Gerudo Valley
• Great Bay
• Great Plateau Tower
• Green Greens
• Green Hill Zone
• Halberd
• Hyrule Castle
• Jungle Japes
• Kalos Pokémon League
• Kongo Falls (previously known in Melee as Kongo Jungle.)
• Luigi's Mansion
• Lylat Cruise
• Magicant
• Mario Circuit (SSBB)
• Mario Circuit (SSB4)
• Mario Galaxy
• Midgar
• Moray Towers
• Mushroom Kingdom 2
• Mushroom Kingdom U
• Mushroomy Kingdom
• Mute City
• New Pork City
• Norfair
• Onett
• Pac-Land
• Palutena's Temple
• Pokémon Stadium
• Pokémon Stadium 2
• Port Town Aero Dive
• Pilot Wings
• Princess Peach's Castle
• Prism Tower
• Reset Bomb Forest
• Saffron City
• Shadow Moses Island
• Skyloft
• Skyworld
• Smashville
• Spear Pillar
• Spirit Train
• Suzaku Castle
• Summit
• Temple
• Town and City
• The Great Cave Offensive
• Tomodachi Life
• Tortimer Island
• Town and City
• Umbra Clock Tower
• Unova Pokémon League
• Venom
• WarioWare, Inc.
• Wii Fit Studio
• Wily Castle
• Wrecking Crew
• Wuhu Island
• Yoshi's Island (SSB)
• Yoshi's Island (SSBB)
• Yoshi's Story

An unnamed stage based on New Donk City from Super Mario Odyssey has also been confirmed to appear. It has also been confirmed that either Flat Zone 2 or Flat Zone X will appear; however, it can not be determined which one it is at the moment. The same is also true for PictoChat or PictoChat 2.

Development

Towards the end of Super Smash Bros. 4's post-launch development, Masahiro Sakurai announced that his next project had been decided and that he would be taking a small vacation following the end of development. Prior to leaving Bandai Namco, presumably sometime in 2016, Tiago Sonobe, then a software engineer and graphics programmer for the company, started development on the game's rendering engine. On November 12th, 2017, Nintendo filed a number of trademarks, notably including a Japanese Super Smash Bros. logo.

A Super Smash Bros. title for Nintendo Switch was later officially revealed on March 8th, 2018 via a Nintendo Direct. Shortly after, Sakurai confirmed in a tweet that he had been working on the game "in silence, day after day". On March 22nd, 2018, Nintendo announced the Super Smash Bros. Invitational 2018, a tournament taking place on June 12th where invited professional players will play the upcoming game. This will likely be the first glimpse of actual gameplay, alongside other footage that will be taken at Nintendo's E3 event. In volume 542 of his Famitsu article, Sakurai revealed that his work schedule had been cut down significantly, citing strict regulations regarding work hours. On April 18th, 2018, Nintendo again filed a number of trademarks for several game logos, including the Super Smash Bros. logo. Most of these game logos originate from games with some relationship to the Smash series, including Pikmin, Star Fox, and F-Zero. These trademarks were approved on May 14th, 2018.

Changes from SSB4

Gameplay changes

Transformation-type Final Smashes have been removed so players can focus more on fighting; as a result, many fighters receive new Final Smashes. Fighters inflict more damage during one-on-one fights to increase gameplay speed. In timed matches, characters in the lead will flash gold. Shield dodging often will cause lag leaving fighters vulnerable.

Aesthetic changes

The damage counter now displays tenths of a damage percentage (i.e. 10.5%).

Gallery

• 

  Key Artwork

• 

  Japanese logo

• TCSmashSwitch.svg

  Traditional Chinese logo

• SCSmashSwitch.svg

  Simplified Chinese logo

Trivia

• This is the first Super Smash Bros. game since the original Super Smash Bros. to not be announced alongside new hardware. Super Smash Bros. Melee was revealed alongside the final retail version of the Nintendo GameCube at E3 2001, Super Smash Bros. Brawl was announced alongside the Wii itself, then-codenamed Revolution at E3 2005, and Super Smash Bros. 4 was announced alongside the Wii U at E3 2011. Moreover, unlike the latter two games, this is the first time since Super Smash Bros. Melee that a Smash Bros. game is not announced years in advance, as Super Smash Bros. Brawl was announced in 2005 and revealed a year later, and Super Smash Bros. 4 was announced in 2011 and revealed two years later, with both released in 2008 and 2014 respectively.
• This is the first Super Smash Bros. game to not feature the involvement of Satoru Iwata as he passed away in July 2015.
• This is the first Smash game since Melee where no veteran characters were cut. This game also brings back the greatest number of cut veterans, with the total being 7 (Ice Climbers, Young Link, Pichu, Squirtle, Ivysaur, Wolf and Snake).
• This is the first Super Smash Bros. game to have a planned simultaneous worldwide release.

External links

• Official Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo Switch website