Lucina (SSB4)

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Lucina in Super Smash Bros. 4
Universe	Fire Emblem
Availability	Unlockable
Final Smash	Critical Hit

“	Lucina Wakes Her Blade?!	”
—Introduction Tagline

Lucina (ルキナ, Rukina) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. 4. She was confirmed during a live stream on the official Smash Bros. website on July 14, 2014, the day before Fire Emblem: Shin Monshō no Nazo: Hikari to Kage no Eiyū was released in 2010, and 2 days before Fire Emblem for the GBA was released in 2003. She is a moveset clone of Marth and also the first clone officially revealed for SSB4.

How To Unlock

• Play 40 VS Matches.
• Complete Classic Mode with Marth without using any continues.

Lucina is then battled in Arena Ferox.

Moveset

Lucina's Falchion lacks a specific sweetspot in her attacks compared to Marth's Falchion, as seen in their attack animations.

Lucina is a clone of Marth, meaning her moveset and animations are primarily based off of his. In a Miiverse post, Sakurai explains that, "even a small difference in abilities" gives a character their own roster slot, citing Lucina as an example. It was later confirmed that her character physics and moveset are "nearly identical" to Marth's. So far, the following differences have been seen:

• Unlike Marth, her sword does not have a tipper hitbox (except dair), meaning every part of her sword will deal equal damage. Her sword trails also appropriately lack the accentuated tip, and are instead a full white blur.
• The tipper hitbox of Lucina's down aerial meteor smashes for the whole duration of the move, unlike Marth.
• Lucina has a taunt in which she puts on and takes off the mask she wore while masquerading as Marth in Fire Emblem: Awakening.
• Lucina does a different pose during her Counterattack.
• Her animation for Shield Breaker is different than Marth's.
• Lucina is slightly shorter than Marth.
• Lucina's range is shorter than Marth's.

Special Moves

In Super Smash Bros. 4, special moves can be swapped out for different variants, and Lucina's have been confirmed to be the same as Marth's. Lucina shares all of Marth's special moves.

Special Move	Basic	Custom 1	Custom 2
Neutral Special	Shield Breaker	Storm Thrust	Assault Dash
Side Special	Dancing Blade	Easy Combination	Heavy Combination
Up Special	Dolphin Slash	Crescent Slash	Dolphin High Jump
Down Special	Counter	Easy Counter	Iai Counter
Final Smash	Critical Hit

Reveal trailer

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Palette swaps

Lucina's palette swaps have resemblances to the color schemes of multiple female characters in Awakening. They are, from left to right: Nowi, Cherche, Cordelia, Tiki, Lissa, Tharja, and Sumia.

Gallery

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  Artwork of Robin and Lucina from the official site.

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  Lucina's introduction image.

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  Lucina in the Wii U version

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  About to stab Link

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  About to attack a Phantom

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  Using Counter

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  With the two Fire Emblem veterans

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  Fighting Ike in the Coliseum

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  On Smash Ball standby with Luigi in Coliseum.

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  Lucina in the 3DS version

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  Lucina and Female Robin

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  On the floor with Palutena

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  Lucina wearing her mask with Kirby

Trivia

• Although acting as a newcomer to Super Smash Bros, Lucina was not depicted as such on the front page of the Super Smash Bros. 4 Official Site; she was only given a small slot like the returning veterans. However, her profile page also displayed the word "newcomer" and the mobile site still gave Lucina a large slot like other newcomers. The reason for this discrepancy is unknown.
• Lucina was originally planned as an alternate costume for Marth, but was given her own character slot due to "the characteristics of their attacks" being different.
• Robin and Lucina's trailer is the first one to reveal two newcomers and the second to reveal a veteran after Greninja's, and their trailer also marks the first reveal of a second newcomer from the same series (Fire Emblem).
• Lucina's SSB4 official art is posed identically to official art of her disguised as Marth from Fire Emblem: Awakening.
• Lucina is the only unlockable character who was officially revealed prior to the release of Smash 4.
  • Additionally, Lucina is the only unlockable character that isn't grouped with the other unlockable characters on the official website and doesn't have a "???".
• Lucina is the only character officially revealed before the release of SSB4 to not be playable in any demo of the game.
• Lucina is the first female unlockable character in the Super Smash Bros. series (unless one counts Wendy O. Koopa).