Landmaster

The Template:Nihongo is Fox's, Falco's and Wolf's Final Smash. While all three characters control the same basic vehicle, each model has it's own modified attributes. It is a powerful machine, capable of delivering multiple KOs to a single player or a group. It cannot be damaged, though SDs are not unlikely with these heavy, somewhat unwieldy ships.

Upon using the Final Smash, the character leaps straight upward and off the top of the screen (passing through all barriers and damaging any players in their path), and the Landmaster is deployed from the sky in his place. While other players can stand on the vehicle without taking damage, they would be ill advised to do so for long, as the Landmaster has various means of attack from both short and long range.

It's main weapon is the cannon, activated using the attack button, which fires a medium-speed blast. The attack will hit any characters in its path, as well as those standing on the cannon's barrel.

The other means of direct attack, aside from simply landing on opponents or driving into them, is the roll. Pressing down causes the ship to roll-over in place, damaging everything around and on top of it. If the tank is on a fall-through platform, it will drop through instead of rolling.

Do a barrel roll!

Using the jump button, the vehicle can also hover and fly for a good amount of time. Though it can not fire while hovering, it does have enough lift to carry opponents above it beyond the upper blast line for a star KO. Players standing on the cannon can drop though it to avoid this.

After a time, the Landmaster begins to blink (indicating the end of the final smash), soon fading away as a wire-frame and leaving the pilot in its place.

The Landmaster is unharmed by spikes, unaffected by conveyor belts, impervious to stage hazards such as the Ultimate Chimera, but sinks in water.

While the character piloting the Landmaster cannot be damaged, the remaining time of the final smash can be shortened by "damaging" the Landmaster with player or item-based attacks. In fact, if enough damage is caused to the Landmaster, the entire Final Smash can end instantly. However, it is quite difficult in normal gameplay to to cause a significant reduction in time of the Final Smash, as the amount of damage that must be given is enormous. However, it is relatively easy to "destroy" the Landmaster using hacks, as seen in this video.

Fox

Fox's Landmaster.

When he activates it, he shouts "Landmaster!"

While powerful, the Landmaster has somewhat slow turning, driving backwards a short distance before actually turning around. Slowest falling speed of the three. If an opponent gets tackled by the tank, they will take about 15% damage. Each blast deals about 34%. The only downside is that it's much harder to Star KO by staying over it due to its slow rising speed. This Landmaster is the most balanced of the three, having centered out strength and maneuverability, as well as time. It, as well as Falco's, lasts 18 seconds.

Trophy

Fox's Final Smash. Climb aboard the Landmaster tank, the ultra-high performance, anti-air, rolling combat vehicle of Team Star Fox. Just like in the Star Fox series, the cannon can be used to blast foes, and the tank can roll over enemies. The jets beneath the main body can be used to hover. Between its firepower and mobility, this tank knows no equal.

Falco

Falco's Landmaster.

When he activates it, he shouts "Personally, I prefer the air!"

Falco Lombardi's Landmaster appears to be very similar to Fox McCloud's Final Smash. Almost visually identical, its attacks are slightly weaker though still very powerful. The one noticeable difference is that Falco's jump jets go higher. Falco's Landmaster can fly so high that it can star-KO anyone standing on top of it. Although his Landmaster is slower than the others, it has superior movement in the air as well as Wolf's. When controlled by a CPU, it has the tendency to drive or fall off the stage the moment it is activated.

Trophy

Falco's Final Smash. He jumps aboard the Landmaster high-spec, anti-craft tank. With the tank's powerful cannon blasts and rolling ability, it's possible to take out all enemies at once. The Landmaster is based on actual production vehicles, but Team Star Fox's Landmaster was customized by the team's mechanic, Slippy Toad.

Wolf

Wolf's Landmaster

When he activates it, he shouts "We're gonna have fun with this thing!" (or "Koitsude asonnde ageru ze!" in Japanese, literally meaning "I'll play with you with this!").

Wolf's Landmaster has the same appearance of Fox and Falco's, only sporting the red color of his Wolfen and the notable absence of the Starfox logo on the side panel. Wolf's Landmaster is more powerful than Fox or Falco's, capable of dealing more damage with high knock-back. Its blasts are shot much faster, and its overall feel is more aggressive than Fox or Falco's. It has the fastest ground movement speed of the three as well as fastest lateral air speed. The jet boost is similar to Falco's in which he can also Star-KO easily. It has the same rising speed along Falco's Landmaster. The move's main drawback is that the Landmaster doesn't last very long, and it falls faster compared to the other two. It lasts 6 seconds less than Fox or Falco's Landmaster.

Trophy

Wolf's Final Smash. Wolf analyzed Fox's Landmaster and built his own improved version, which he now calls out and boards. He's increased the output of the on board generators and upped the vehicle's firepower. However, this has substantially decreased the time the Landmaster can appear on the screen. It sports the same colors as Wolf's Wolfen.

Origin

The Landmaster originally appeared in Star Fox 64 (known as Lylat Wars in PAL regions). On the planets Titania and Macbeth, the Star Fox team must use the Landmaster tanks to complete their objects. The abilities to roll over and temporarily hover were both in the original game.

The tank's appearance is a cross between its Star Fox 64 look and its Star Fox Assault look. It maintains the sharp and futuristic appearance it had in Assault, but still has the traditional tank treads from 64 (in Assault, the Landmaster ran on off-road wheels).

Size

The Landmaster can fall through small holes. NOTE: the words "Epic Failure" do not actually appear in the game, these words are there to add humor to the clip.

Due to its size, the cannon of the Landmaster fires above most character's heads, requiring a bit of strategy to properly use. Also, it comes from the sky as seen in gameplay videos and even goes off from smaller platforms. This makes it difficult to use in small stages such as Battlefield.

Despite its size, it only requires only a small 'player' sized piece of land to rest upon, about the size of a Stage Builder block, as collisions with the floor are only registered at the center of the tank. This leads to the Landmaster being able to fall down small gaps, such as the one in the center of the 'Yoshi's Island' Melee stage (seen here). The Landmaster will still fall down the same size hole even in a "Mega" Special Brawl.

Due to the Landmaster's size, it can not easily maneuver around small stages or small enclosures, such as those found in the Hyrule Temple. Once summoned on Mario Bros., it will be impossible to get to lower parts of stage.

Commonality

Oddly, both Falco and Wolf use the Landmaster for their Final Smashes, despite Falco having an open hatred of it in Star Fox 64, and never using it outside of multiplayer.

Because three characters use the Landmaster despite the contradiction of the Star Fox canon, the term "Landmaster" has come to colloquially refer to any move that more than one character shares (for example, Marth and Ike's Counter). The Landmaster has also become a recurring joke on many forums, in which the Landmaster is sarcastically referred to as something that there is not enough of in the game. A similar joke is that because all 3 of them use a Landmaster, there is meme of a screen that says: "Everyone has a Landmaster, do you?" or similar content. Furthering this joke are edited pictures of more characters using Landmasters, such as a Landmaster edited green with Toon Link as one of the characters.

According to Falco's Final Smash trophy, Landmasters are manufactured as a regular military tank, with the Star Fox variety customized by Slippy. Wolf's Final Smash trophy indicates that he analyzed Fox's Landmaster and customized his own.

In the Japanese site of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, it spelled out Wolf's Landmaster with a kanji at the end (ランドマスター改), which literally means "Landmaster Change". This is unlike the spelling of Fox and Falco's Landmaster (ランドマスター), which lacks the kanji KAI (改). It basically means that Wolf's version of Landmaster is a "reformed" one.

Events

Fox is given infinite uses of his Final Smash in Event 2: Landmaster Ignition to KO Meta Knight and Sheik.

Glitch

There is a small glitch when you play on Stage Builder stages. When the Landmaster pushes a player against a normal sized block, the player can fall through the block.