Onett

Eagleland: Onett
Onett in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Universe	EarthBound
Appears in	Melee Brawl SSB4 (Wii U) Ultimate
Availability	Starter
Crate type	Presents (Brawl Only)
Maximum players	4 (Melee and Brawl) 8 (Wii U and Ultimate)
Tracks available	In Melee and Brawl: Mother Mother 2 (Alternate) Bolded track must be unlocked in Brawl In SSB4: Onett Magicant / Eight Melodies (Mother) Onett Theme / Winters Theme Smiles and Tears Pollyanna (I Believe in You) Snowman Mother 3 Love Theme Porky's Theme Unfounded Revenge / Smashing Song of Praise Bolded track must be unlocked In Ultimate: EarthBound series music
Tournament legality Melee Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned Brawl Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned Smash 4 Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned Ultimate Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned
Article on WikiBound	Onett

“	Ness's hometown has a drugstore in the middle and houses on either side. Watch out for cars entering the stage from the right—they can hit you for 30% damage!	”
—Super Smash Blog, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Official Site

Announced at E3 2001, Onett (オネット, Onett) is a stage available in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

In All-Star Mode in Super Smash Bros. Melee, this stage is played on when the player face Ness and any of his teammates. In both Brawl and Ultimate, Ness is fought here when being unlocked.

Stage overview

The center of the stage is occupied by a building with two awnings which act as soft platforms. Stepping on the awnings makes the sign tilt, and stepping on them two more times makes them drop and become unavailable; they get automatically restored after a short time.

On the right there is a light blue house with a festoon over it, which acts as a soft platform. On the left there is a yellow house: the tree over it provides two soft platforms which react to the weight of fighters and items.

Several more buildings appear but because they are beyond the lateral blast lines, they cannot be accessed during gameplay.

Wario, Mario, Lucas and the black Runaway Five van in Brawl.

At times a warning sign appears near the side of the screen, signifying that a car or van will pass by the bottom of the stage. The vehicles can hit and damage fighters, as well as destroy or activate items like crates. Every vehicle deals 30% damage, but their other properties differ:

• The Taxi Cab (Yellow car) and Teal Coupe deal exactly the same amount of damage, but the taxi has more forward knockback. The coupe is most likely to spin out whenever it hits an opponent, and the larger the opponent, the more likely. In Melee, they used the "whistle" horn.
• The Magenta Coupe deals reverse knockback, meaning that it sends the victim flying behind it, like a much more powerful version of Mr. Game & Watch's judgement number 3. In Melee, it used the "two-beep" horn.
• The Runaway Five's Tour Bus spikes any character it hits. Since it is on the ground, it sends airborne fighters downwards and sends grounded fighters upwards. The spike is powerful, capable of star KOing any character above 90%. In Melee, it used the "one-beep" horn.

The background features several more elements: a hospital, a hotel, a backhoe, and a hill with some houses (including Ness's) and a meteorite on top. On the foreground, outside the normal camera view, there is a white canopy and some bicycles. On the right of the stage, slightly beyond the blast line, there is a sign with a warning about the black van.

Onett returns in Super Smash Bros. Brawl with multiple changes. The stage prefix is now EarthBound: Onett. One change in the stage is that the right edge of the left building's roof can no longer be grabbed. Also, there are slight lips on the both sides of the house on the right. This prevents characters against these walls from jumping to avoid cars. However, the cars in this version of Onett deal highly reduced knockback, lacking KO ability at realistic percentages unless very close to the walk off edges, although their damage output has not been decreased and they can still disrupt gameplay. Another slight change to this stage is that the red cross on the building of the Hospital has been removed, most likely due to issues about the Red Cross emblem.

The warning sign on the right side of the stage is only readable in Brawl when the Devil assist trophy moves the stage to the right or when an unrestricted camera hack is in use. In Melee, it can be read simply by standing close to it, pausing and moving the camera.

In SSB4, the vehicles lose their unique launching properties.

Ω forms and Battlefield form

In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, the Ω form is set on the roof of a much bigger version of the drug store with the platform extending below the blast line. Walk-offs are also removed.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the main platform of the Ω form and Battlefield form is reminiscent of the drug store from SSB4's Ω form, such as the floor resembling the building's roof top and the walls resembling the bulding's facade; however, the drug store, as well as the rest of the town, are in the background. The platform does not extend below the blast line and is resized and reshaped to match Final Destination and Battlefield, respectively. The three soft platforms of the Battlefield form are multicolored canopies.

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  Ω form in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

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  Ω form in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

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  Battlefield form in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Origin

Onett as it originally appeared in EarthBound.

This stage is based on the town Onett from EarthBound, which is Ness's hometown; however, Onett's actual layout is different from this stage.

The buildings that act as the main platforms of this stage include a drugstore, which act as item shops where Ness can withdraw and deposit money with an ATM and save the game with a payphone; the blue house on the right, which bears resemblance to how small houses were designed in EarthBound; and the yellow house on the left, which is not based off any house in EarthBound.

The Runaway Five's tour bus as it originally appeared in EarthBound.

Cars, including Taxis, drive along the streets in the cities, but unlike in this stage they stop when in front of Ness until he gets out of the way. The black van, which in EarthBound never appears in Onett, belongs to the Runaway Five, a band with debts that Ness and his friends help repay. To show their gratitude, they offer Ness a ride from Twoson to Threed. The bulletin board which warns players about the van is inspired by similar bulletin boards in EarthBound which feature miscellaneous messages.

Some of the elements in the background and outside the stage's bounds include the Onett arcade, where Ness defeats the Sharks and their leader Frank Fly; a hospital, where status aliments including unconsciousness can be healed; a hotel, where the party's HP and PP can be fully recovered; a backhoe resembling the one in Dusty Dunes Desert, and a canopy in the stage's foreground that resemble the shops of Burglin Park in Twoson.

The very back of the stage also depicts the steep cliffs at the north of Onett. These feature Ness's house, Porky's house, the entrance to the cave that leads to Giant Step, and the meteorite which crashes on top of the hill at the beginning of EarthBound, thereby kickstarting the plot; however, their positioning is different with respect to EarthBound.

The Ω form in SSB4 takes place on top of a wider version of the drugstore with some flowers and a trash can, which is reminiscent of the first meeting between Ninten and Lloyd in Mother (later released as EarthBound Beginnings outside Japan), where Lloyd is hiding in a trash can on the roof of Twinkle Elementary School.

Tournament legality

The stage is banned in all games it appears in. It saw use as a counterpick in the very early metagame of Melee. The reasons for banning are the same across games; the walls allow for infinite combos (this problem is more prevalent in Melee and not at all in Smash 4), and the stage hazards of the cars can disrupt gameplay and easily allow for early kills. The lack of a lower blast line also removes the edge guarding component of characters; the low ceiling at the top of the stage and the walk-off blast lines also can allow for very easy and early KOs.

Gallery

Super Smash Bros. Melee

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  Onett in Melee.

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  A full view of Onett in Melee.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

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  Onett in Brawl.

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  Ness and Lucas on the topmost awning of the drug store in Brawl.

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  A panoramic view of Onett.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

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  Onett in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

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  Ness and Jeff in Onett in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

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  Ganondorf with Toon Link, Ness and Villager in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

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  Image of Onett from Ultimate.

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  Kirby and Jigglypuff both using Rollout.

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  Mario on the stage in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

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  Ness crouching as Jeff launches his bottle rockets.

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  Samus using her dash attack after laying a Bomb.

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  Villager riding his Lloid Rocket.

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  Wario attacking Pit with his new forward tilt.

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  Young Link in his blue alternate costume tossing his Boomerang.

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  Ness taunting on the stage.

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  Ken using Focus Attack on Wario on the stage.

Trivia

The message board as seen in Onett, which talks about a Runaway Five member racing recklessly through Onett in a black van.

The rice ball, as seen when the bush textures are removed from the stage.

• Onett's name is derived from the number one, referencing that it is the first town Ness visits in Earthbound. Fitting as it is the first stage from Earthbound to appear in Smash.
  • Similarly, Fourside is the fourth Ness visits in Earthbound, however it is the second stage from Earthbound to appear in Smash.
• If the player stands just to the right of the blue house and pauses, zoom out to see the "Onett Message Board" to the right. It reads, "Caution; A black van driven by this guy (seen in the picture right of the message - he is one of the main Runaway Five band members) has been spotted racing recklessly through town. Be careful!".
• In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, there is a glitch involving the Soccer Ball. If the ball is hit and lands on one of the tree platforms above the left house, it will bounce continuously, causing the tree to bounce, until a player or another item steps onto it.
• Using the unrestricted camera hack, a rice ball can be seen behind some flowers. This can be seen in both Melee and Brawl, yet is absent in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
• Oddly, two of the mailboxes that appeared in previous incarnations of the stage do not appear in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Ultimate.
• This is the only Melee Stage in Super Smash Bros. Brawl that is used when unlocking a character, that being Ness.
• Onett is the only stage in Melee barring the Smash original stages where the primary music and alternate music come from the same game.

External links

• Onett - History Behind Super Smash Bros. Melee