Villager (SSB4)

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Villager in Super Smash Bros. 4
Universe	Animal Crossing
Availability	Starter
Final Smash	Dream Home

“	Villager Comes to Town!	”
—Introduction Tagline

Villager (むらびと, Murabito) is a newcomer in Super Smash Bros. 4. Similar to Mr. Game & Watch, his moveset will involve using a variety of miscellaneous objects from his series to attack. On May 16th, it was confirmed that, just like with the Wii Fit Trainer, players will be able to play as male and female versions of the Villager. There are four male and four female variations available.

Moveset

Ground attacks

Normal

• Neutral attack - Punching with a pair of boxing gloves, Punch-Out!!-style (as Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream, the 1990 re-release of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, appeared in the original Animal Crossing as an obtainable NES game).
• Dash attack - Losing balance while running with a potted sapling; the pot does damage as it falls to the ground. Sometimes, the pot bounces when colliding with the ground, instead of breaking.
• Forward tilt - Doing a backhand swipe with an umbrella.
• Up tilt - Doing a short vertical swipe with a tree branch.
• Down tilt - Pulling out a weed from the ground in front of him.

Smash attacks

• Forward smash - Leaning forwards and dropping a bowling ball. The ball falls a reasonable distance when used over an edge. This is also a Projectile, so can be Reflected.
• Up smash - Shooting a fountain firework upwards, similar to Snake's up smash in Brawl.
• Down smash - Using a shovel to dig two holes on either side, burying opponents.

Aerial attacks

• Neutral aerial - Performing a cartwheel in midair, similar to Diddy Kong's neutral aerial.
• Forward aerial - Firing a pellet forwards with a slingshot.
• Back aerial - Firing a short-range pellet backwards with a slingshot.
• Up aerial - Attacks with turnips upward (not to be confused with Vegetable). The number of turnips change each time used.
• Down aerial - Swings a turnip downwards. The number of turnips vary each time the move is used. Three turnips have a meteor smash effect.

Grabs and Throws

• Grab - Traps opponents in a net with an overhead swing.
  • Pummel - Yanks the net backwards to damage the opponent inside.

Taunts

• Faces the camera and cheers three times.
• The Shrunk Funk Shuffle from New Leaf.
• Bends down and pokes the ground with a stick.

Special Moves

In Super Smash Bros. 4, special moves can be swapped out for different variants, but the Villager's have yet to be seen in action. These are the Villager's special moves:

• Neutral special move: Pocket, A move where Villager catches various ranged attacks, stowing them away; using the move again uses the stored attack, acting as a delayed reflector. They can also pocket items.
• Side special move: Lloid Rocket, a move with involves launching the Gyroid Lloid sideways. The Villager can choose to ride on him, which increases its damage.
• Up special move: Balloon Trip, a move where Villager uses two balloons, both of a set color, to fly Balloon Fight-style (as Balloon Fight appeared in the original Animal Crossing as an obtainable NES game). The Villager's helpless animation after they are popped is the same as the Balloon Fighter's losing animation in Balloon Fight.
• Down special move: Timber, a move of 3 different attacks in order, where Villager plants, waters, and chops down a tree, which hits opponents as it falls, even bouncing off near edges to lower areas. However, the tree can be destroyed by other characters, and is a fairly slow move to use altogether - using the move once only advances through one of the four stages (plant, water, first chop, second chop), so having it actually deal damage takes four total usages in the same location. The axe can be swung during the chop stages regardless of distance from the tree, as long as that Villager's grown tree currently exists on the map.
• Final Smash: Dream Home ("Housewarming Party" in Europe), in which Tom, Timmy, and Tommy Nook trap any opponents in front of Villager and start building a house around them and then finish the house, only for it to explode, blowing away Tom and the Nooklings and knocking the Villager down while the enemies inside the house take a lot of damage and knockback.

Special Move	Basic	Custom 1	Custom 2
Neutral Special	Pocket	Bloom Pocket	Wide Pocket
Side Special	Lloid Rocket	Climb Rocket	Giant Rocket
Up Special	Balloon Trip	Explosive Balloon Trip	Balloon High Jump
Down Special	Timber	Counter Seed	Big Timber
Final Smash	Dream Home	-	-

Palette swaps

Gallery

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  His artwork from the Super Smash Bros. website

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  Villager's introduction picture.

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  Female Villager costume.

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  Villager and Wii Fit Trainer on the 3DS version of Battlefield.

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  His punching attack.

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  Him using an umbrella.

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  Him using a stick.

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  Villager pulling a weed.

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  Him tripping and dropping a potted plant.

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  His slingshot.

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  Villager attacking with a turnip downward.

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  Villager attacking with three turnips.

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  Villager using fireworks.

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  Villager buries Donkey Kong and uses a bowling ball to KO him.

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  Villager buries Mario and Bowser.

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  Villager catches a fully charged shot launched by Samus.

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  Villager launching a Gyroid.

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  Villager rides a Gyroid.

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  Villager flies upwards.

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  One of Villager's balloons being popped.

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  Villager chopping down a tree.

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  Villager possibly taunting.

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  Villager throwing Pit's Palutena's Arrow.

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  The Villager and Wii Fit Trainer near a couple of breakable blocks on 3D Land.

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  Villager showing the steps in order of chopping down a tree as an attack.

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  Villager using a net to grab Link.

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  Villager breaking his plant.

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  Villager in the air.

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  Link and the Villager in Palutena's Temple.

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  Various Male and Female Villagers in Town and City.

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  The Female Villager and a Mii Brawler on the Find Mii stage.

Trivia

An example of depicting the Villager as a crazed psychopath. The image itself references an iconic scene from the 1980 horror film The Shining.

• The Villager was considered as a character in the planning stages of Brawl, but dropped because "he wasn't suited for battle".
• The Villager was the first newcomer announced for Super Smash Bros. 4.
• The initial reveal for the Villager quickly became an internet phenomenon; due to his constant smile and variety of weapons associated with stereotypical serial killers, such as a shovel and axe, many smashers and outside observers joked that the Villager was actually a dangerous psychopath. The Wii Fit Trainer was also given this treatment on her reveal, though this was much less widespread than the Villager's.
• The Villager is the only newcomer to be on both the Wii U and 3DS covers.