Summit

Summit
File:IceClimbersSymbol.png
Universe	Ice Climber
Appears in	SSBB
Availability	Starter
Crate type	Normal
Tournament legality Brawl Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned

Summit is a stage in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It starts on an icy mountain top which Masahiro Sakurai, the director, describes as being the summit of Icicle Mountain, a stage that appears in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Stage elements

The stage begins on top of the mountain but quickly breaks to the point where it begins to slide down a hill. During the descent, everybody becomes much more floaty. The key factor to survival is to remain on the stage, as making contact with the mountain while the ice cap is moving will result in an instant KO (the front part will give you damage and medium knockback while the back will carry you away). Eventually, the peak splashes into water, where the giant fish (see below) may eat you if you swim around for too long. As time progresses, the stage eventually sinks, due to extreme weight from the Polar Bear in the background. After a while, the iceberg flies back up to the top of the mountain and the whole process is repeated. Several vegetables from the original Ice Climber will make an appearance acting as Food Items. The vegetables appear in the order they do in the original game, namely an eggplant, carrot, cabbage, cucumber, corn, turnip, pumpkin, Chinese cabbage, potato, and a mushroom. They all restore 5% of health with the exception of the corn, which restores 10%.

While the stage remains on the mountain, flying clouds will hover across the stage acting as a platform. Similarly, when the battle reaches the ocean, little segments of ice often float past, which are particularly useful for avoiding the fish. Small icicles also form underneath the left part of the ceiling on the bottom and drop on unsuspecting players. As well as that, certain pieces of the stage are destructible; the blue ice in the middle can be shattered and the platform on the left can be broken at its hinge, making it vertical.

An important thing to remember is that the edges of the bottom of the stage cannot be grabbed, as they are made of ice. Naturally, the floor is extremely slippery, especially when a character attempts to change direction rapidly. The Ice Climbers are the only characters who can walk normally on the stage without sliding.

The Fish only surfaces when prey is to be had.

The Fish

The Fish is a hazard on the Summit. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the fish will pop out of the sea to eat any character that stays in the water at the bottom of the stage for too long. The fish will only appear when there is water around the base of the stage, not when the stage is at the top of the mountain or falling/rising. If the fish swallows a character, that character will be carried through the lower blast line and KOed. The fish's tail is also capable of hurting characters, dealing 15% damage and giving significant vertical knockback. The fish can eat any number of characters in a single appearance, but it will always follow a set arc and will go after whichever character has been in the water the longest. If swallowed, there is no way to escape, but there is a small window of time in which a character can get out of the fish's path.

Origin

The giant fish as originally seen in Balloon Fight, eating one of the enemies.

While this stage doesn't come directly from Ice Climber there are elements in this stage that do come from Ice Climber. In Ice Climber their points in the game where the player has to jump on clouds that move across the stage and act as a moving platform. The first part of this stage features a cloud that floats by and acts as a moving platform. One of the enemies in Ice Climber are Polar Bears. If a player takes too long to beat a level the Polar Bear would appear and jump to make the screen scroll up. In this stage when the stage is in the water a Polar Bear can be seen in the background. The Polar Bear jumps and makes the stage go deeper in the water. In the later levels of Ice Climber there would be icicles that start forming and dropping on the player. If the player gets hit by the icicles the player would lose a life. The icicles that form and drop are retained on this stage. If the player wants to get bonuses at the end of each level in Ice Climber the player has to get all the vegetables near the top of the mountain and complete the level within a set forty second time limit. The vegetables that are shown for each level are eggplants, carrots, cabbages, cucumbers, corn, turnips, pumpkins, Chinese cabbages, potatos, and mushrooms. In this stage these vegetables can appear and can be eaten to lower the player's damage.

In Balloon Fight there is a giant fish that can eat the players or the enemies if they get too close to the water or if they fall in the water after all the balloons have been popped. This giant fish can be seen in this stage when the player gets to the edge of the stage or when the player jumps in the water. If the player doesn't get out of the way in time the fish would jump out of the water and eat the player.

Songs in My Music

• Ice Climber
• Balloon Trip
• Shin Onigashima
• Clu Clu Land
• Icicle Mountain (Melee)

Songs in bold must be unlocked

Trivia

• The stage was revealed on Smash Bros. DOJO!! on October 31, 2007. In reference to Halloween, one image featured a pumpkin.
• Neither the fish nor the polar bear have their own trophy, despite the presence of trophies for most other stage elements. This is also the case with the Ultimate Chimera.
• When the summit is at the top of the mountain, it is possible to see the bottom of the mountain, where the summit resides during the "water" portion of the stage's cycle. This can only be seen with a hacked camera.
• Despite Sakurai's description of this stage as the top of Icicle Mountain, its appearance is inconsistent with the Icicle Mountain stage seen in Super Smash Bros. Melee. This especially considers that the setting of Icicle Mountain in Melee is described as the "Infinite Glacier". However, an iceberg can be seen in the background of Icicle Mountain, which shows that the "Infinite Glacier" is not very infinite at all.

• In addition, Melee features a stage in its debug mode called "IceTop". When certain hacks force it to load, it is only Icicle Mountain with no music. This also applies to another debug stage, 10-2. It is possible that IceTop refers to an unfinished stage set at the top of Icicle Mountain.

• When the summit is sliding down the mountain, the Polar Bear in the background flies off and will later land back on.
• If Sonic has a Bunny Hood, Superspicy Curry, and a Super Mushroom during a giant, light brawl, he can outrun the iceberg on Summit.
• When the iceberg is sliding down the mountain, if the player holds the shield button anytime before landing on the space in front of the iceberg, they will perfect shield when they land, resulting in no damage taken.

• The shield will also slowly deplete over time, as if the player wasn't being attacked.

Gallery

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  The stage sliding.

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  The stage reaching the water.

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  The water level rising to ground level.

External links

Summit on the Dojo