Classic Mode (SSBM)

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The classic mode seen in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Classic Mode stages

• Stage 1: 1 vs 1 (Opponent chosen at random from a list of characters)
• Stage 2: 2 vs 2 (Ally is chosen at random from a list of allies while the team the player is fighting is randomly picked from a list of 29 teams)
• Stage 3: Target Test
• Stage 4: 1 vs 1 (Opponent chosen at random from a list of characters)
• Stage 5: 3 vs 1 Giant Character (Allies chosen at random from a list of allies while a giant character is chosen out of a list of giant characters randomly)
• Stage 6: Snag the Trophies
• Stage 7: 1 vs 1 (Opponent chosen at random from a list of characters)
• Stage 8: 1 vs 10 of the same character (Teams are chosen at random out of a list)
• Stage 9: Race to the Finish
• Stage 10: 1 vs 1 Metal character (Opponent chosen at random from a list of metal characters)
• Stage 11: 1 vs Master Hand and sometimes Crazy Hand if certain conditions are met.

Opponent statistics

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Stage 1	Opponent Level Knockback given Knockback taken 0 0.60x 1.75x 2 0.85x 1.20x 4 1.00x 1.00x 7 1.00x 1.00x 9 1.20x 0.90x
Stage 2	Ally Level Knockback given Knockback taken 8 0.80x 0.90x 7 0.80x 1.00x 6 0.80x 1.15x 4 0.80x 1.30x 3 0.80x 1.50x	Opponent 1 Level Knockback given Knockback taken 1 0.70x 1.60x 3 0.85x 1.20x 5 1.00x 1.00x 6 1.00x 0.90x 8 1.15x 0.80x	Opponent 2 Level Knockback given Knockback taken 2 0.70x 1.60x 3 0.85x 1.20x 4 1.00x 1.00x 6 1.00x 0.90x 8 1.15x 0.80x
Stage 4	Opponent Level Knockback given Knockback taken 2 0.75x 1.40x 5 0.90x 1.10x 8 1.00x 1.00x 9 1.15x 0.85x 9 1.34x 0.70x
Stage 5	Ally 1 Level Knockback given Knockback taken 6 1.00x 1.00x 5 1.00x 0.90x 2 1.00x 0.80x 1 1.00x 0.80x 0 1.00x 0.80x	Ally 2 Level Knockback given Knockback taken 6 1.00x 1.00x 5 1.00x 0.90x 2 1.00x 0.80x 1 1.00x 0.80x 0 1.00x 0.80x	Giant opponent Level Knockback given Knockback taken 2 0.70x 3.60x 3 0.80x 2.40x 5 0.90x 1.80x 7 1.00x 1.40x 8 1.20x 1.00x
Stage 7	Opponent Level Knockback given Knockback taken 3 0.85x 1.30x 6 1.00x 1.10x 5 0.90x 1.30x 6 1.00x 1.10x 8 1.10x 0.90x
Stage 8	Opponents Level Knockback given Knockback taken 1 0.60x 4.00x 3 0.70x 2.60x 4 0.80x 2.00x 5 0.90x 1.55x 7 1.10x 1.20x
Stage 10	Metal opponent Level Knockback given Knockback taken 1 0.80x 1.80x 3 0.90x 1.30x 5 1.00x 1.00x 8 1.10x 0.85x 9 1.25x 0.68x
Stage 11	Master Hand Level Knockback given Knockback taken 5 0.50x — 6 0.75x — 7 1.00x — 8 1.50x — 9 2.00x —	Crazy Hand Level Knockback given Knockback taken — — — — — — 7 1.00x — 8 1.50x — 9 2.00x —

Regular Battle

All characters except Ganondorf, Roy, and Mr. Game & Watch are eligible to fight the player throughout the mode's three 1-on-1 battles, with their home stages listed below. In this mode, neither Poké Floats nor any Past Stages are used. In Stage 1 on Very Hard Difficulty, the opponent will wear its third alternative costume. In Stage 7 on Hard or Very hard, the computer will usually try to avoid the player at all costs, sometimes by walking off the screen. During the fight with Mewtwo, the theme for Poké Floats will play. As for the fight Yoshi, the Yoshi's Story stage has the theme for the Yoshi's Island 64 stage as its alternate music.

Character	Stage(s)
Bowser	Princess Peach's Castle	Battlefield (if unlocked)
Captain Falcon	Mute City	Big Blue (if unlocked)
Donkey Kong	Kongo Jungle	Jungle Japes
Dr. Mario	Mushroom Kingdom
Falco	Corneria	Venom
Fox	Corneria	Venom
Ice Climbers	Icicle Mountain
Jigglypuff	Pokémon Stadium
Kirby	Fountain of Dreams	Green Greens
Link	Great Bay	Temple
Luigi	Mushroom Kingdom	Mushroom Kingdom II (if unlocked)
Mario	Princess Peach's Castle	Rainbow Cruise
Marth	Great Bay
Mewtwo	Pokémon Stadium	Final Destination (if unlocked)
Ness	Onett	Fourside (if unlocked)
Peach	Princess Peach's Castle	Mushroom Kingdom II (if unlocked)
Pichu	Pokémon Stadium
Pikachu	Pokémon Stadium
Samus	Brinstar	Brinstar Depths (if unlocked)
Yoshi	Yoshi's Story	Yoshi's Island
Young Link	Great Bay	Temple
Zelda/Sheik	Temple

Allies

All playable characters aside from Zelda/Sheik and Roy can fight alongside the player in Team and Giant Battles. These allies all use their first alternate costume in Team Battles; for allies in Giant Battles, the first ally uses the second alternate costume, while the second uses the first alternate costume.

2 vs. 2 Teams

Below is the list of all the teams the player can fight in Classic Mode. Both the characters for each team and the stage fought on is listed. There are a total of 29 teams. On Very Hard Difficulty, the first opponent wears its third alternative costume. When fighting a team of Mario and Bowser on Battlefield, the theme for Princess Peach's Castle plays.

Stage	Teams
Battlefield	Bowser + Mewtwo			Bowser + Peach			Bowser + Zelda			Mario + Bowser
Big Blue	Captain Falcon + Falco						Samus + Captain Falcon
Brinstar	Samus + Fox
Corneria	Fox + Falco
Fountain of Dreams	Kirby + Pichu
Fourside	Ness + Mewtwo
Great Bay	Link + Young Link				Marth + Link				Young Link + Zelda
Green Greens	Kirby + Jigglypuff						Kirby + Pikachu
Icicle Mountain	Kirby + Ice Climbers
Kongo Jungle	Donkey Kong + Fox
Mushroom Kingdom	Link + Luigi						Luigi + Dr. Mario
Mushroom Kingdom II	Mario + Peach
Mute City	Fox + Captain Falcon
Onett	Ness + Peach
Pokémon Stadium	Pikachu + Jigglypuff						Pikachu + Pichu
Hyrule Temple	Link + Zelda				Peach + Zelda				Zelda + Marth
Yoshi's Island	Yoshi + Ness
Yoshi's Story	Yoshi + Luigi

Giant Character Battle

Just like the teams, the giant characters the player fights are picked randomly from a group that has already been predetermined by the game.

Giant Character	Stage
Donkey Kong	Kongo Jungle
Mario	Princess Peach's Castle
Dr. Mario	Mushroom Kingdom
Luigi	Mushroom Kingdom II
Bowser	Fountain of Dreams
Captain Falcon	Mute City
Jigglypuff	Pokémon Stadium
Link	Great Bay
Yoshi	Yoshi's Story
Young Link	Hyrule Temple

Multi-Character Battle

Just like the teams, and the giant characters the player fights, the multiple-character fight is picked randomly from a group that has already been predetermined by the game. This level consists of 10 characters consisting of multiples of a single character. During the battle against 10 Donkey Kongs at Jungle Japes, the theme for Kongo Jungle plays.

Character (× 10)	Stage
Donkey Kong	Jungle Japes
Mario	Rainbow Cruise
Luigi	Mushroom Kingdom II
Captain Falcon	Mute City
Jigglypuff	Pokémon Stadium
Pichu	Pokémon Stadium
Kirby	Fountain of Dreams
Mr. Game & Watch	Flat Zone
Ness	Onett

Metal Battle

All characters eligible to fight the player in 1-on-1 battles may appear as a metal character in this fight. However, the stage is always Battlefield.

Rewards

• Clearing as Mario without using any continues will challenge the player to defeat Dr. Mario, where victory results in unlocking him.
• Clearing with any character on any difficulty will challenge the player to defeat Jigglypuff, and beating it results in unlocking it.
• Clearing with 10 characters will challenge the player to defeat Young Link, and beating him will unlock him.
• Clearing with all starter characters will challenge the player to defeat Marth from the Fire Emblem series, beating him will unlock him.
• Clearing with Marth will challenge the player to defeat Roy, and beating him will unlock him.
• Clearing with all 24 characters will challenge the player to defeat Mr. Game & Watch. Beating him will unlock him.
• Clearing with Mr. Game & Watch will unlock the Flat Zone stage.
• Clearing with all characters gives the player the Donkey Kong Junior Trophy.
• Clearing on Hard or Very Hard without using any continues gives the player a trophy of Master Hand.
• Clearing on any difficulty with any character will give the player a trophy of the character used. Both Zelda and Sheik's trophies are obtained simultaneously.

Trivia

• Oddly, Ganondorf will never appear as an enemy fighter, nor will Mr. Game & Watch outside of the Multi-Character Battle. Roy will never appear at all. Sheik will also never initially appear, only ever as a transformation for Zelda, who will never appear as an ally. Despite their absences, they all have the necessary intro poses programmed into the disc. [1]