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Dr. Mario
in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Dr. Mario SSBU.png
MarioSymbol.svg
Universe Mario
Other playable appearances in Melee
in SSB4

Availability Unlockable
Final Smash Doctor Finale
Dr. Mario (SSBU)
He has more attack and launch power than Mario, but his jump and recovery is not as good. Pro tip: You can repeatedly press the B button when using his down special, Dr. Tornado, to float a bit!
Super Smash Blog, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Official Site

Dr. Mario (ドクターマリオ, Doctor Mario) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. He was officially confirmed as playable on June 12th, 2018.

Changes from Super Smash Bros. 4

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While Dr. Mario is still slower and stronger than Mario, he is not classified as an Echo Fighter. Aside from having an altered animation for his side special, as well as receiving a new down aerial and back throw, it is other unknown to what extent he has been decloned.

Aesthetics

  • Change As with all veterans returning from Smash 4, Dr. Mario's model features a more subdued color scheme. Like Mario, his hair and clothing now feature simple detailing, with his head mirror's headband reverting back to a cordovan brown from his design in Super Smash Bros. Melee, instead of a dark taupe gray.
  • Change The inside of Dr. Mario's pants are now slate grey instead of white.
  • Change Dr. Mario has a new idle animation with less exaggerated bouncing.
  • Change The victory animation where Dr. Mario rubs his chin now has him tap the toe of his shoe on the ground before contemplatively rubbing his chin.

Attributes

  • Buff Like all characters, Dr. Mario's jumpsquat animation now takes three frames to complete.
  • Buff Dr. Mario jumps slightly higher.

Ground attacks

  • Buff Jab deals slightly more damage.
    • Buff Jab was reverted to match Mario's, meaning that it jablocks.
    • Buff The last hit of neutral attack comes out faster and goes higher. These changes allow it to connect better from the first two hits.
  • Nerf Down tilt has more base knockback and a more horizontal launch angle, lowering its combo potential.
  • Nerf Dash attack has an altered animation that no longer lowers Dr. Mario's hurtbox, which prevents him from sliding under certain attacks unlike his previous dash attack.
    • Buff Dash attack travels further.
  • Buff All tilt attacks deal slightly more damage.
  • Buff All smash attacks deal slightly more damage.

Aerial attacks

  • Buff All aerials have less landing lag.
  • Buff All aerials deal slightly more damage.
  • Change Forward aerial has a different animation, with Dr. Mario now punching downwards with his opposite hand and twisting around afterwards instead of flipping.
  • Buff Dr. Mario has a new down aerial, a downward stomp similar to that of Captain Falcon and Ganondorf, as opposed to a drill kick. Compared to the old down aerial, it deals more damage, has reduced ending lag, has a larger autocancel window and can meteor smash.
    • Nerf The new down aerial has slower start-up and lacks a landing hit.

Throws/other attacks

  • Change Pummel deals less damage but is noticeably faster.
  • Buff All throws deal slightly more damage.
  • Change Pummel has a slightly different animation: Dr. Mario now uses one hand during his pummel instead of both of his hands like in previous installments, to keep consistent with his grab animation.
  • Change All of Dr. Mario's throws have been altered with more exaggerated animations.
  • Change Dr. Mario has a new back throw where he heaves the opponent overhead behind him.
    • Buff The new back throw is slightly faster.
    • Nerf The new back throw doesn't have a collateral hit.

Special Moves

  • Change Dr. Mario no longer opens his mouth when using Megavitamin.
  • Buff Megavitamins deals slightly more damage.
    • Buff Megavitamins are slightly larger.
  • Change Super Sheet has an updated animation. He now swings the sheet upwards rather than sideways, indicating the move's better vertical reach. The move reflects projectiles upwards instead of back to the sender.
  • Buff Super Sheet deals slightly more damage.
  • Buff Super Jump Punch deals slightly more damage.
  • Buff Dr. Tornado now hits seven times instead of four, and deals much more damage.
    • Buff Dr. Tornado has less endlag.
    • Change Dr. Tornado has a vortex form around Dr. Mario when used.
  • Change Dr. Mario appears to be much angrier than in the previous games when unleashing Doctor Finale.

Gallery

Character Showcase Video

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Trivia

  • With Link and Young Link now representing different incarnations of Link and Zelda and Sheik now representing different incarnations of Princess Zelda, along with Zero Suit Samus briefly transforming into her Varia Suited form for her Final Smash, Dr. Mario is the only playable character to represent an alternate identity for another character with no gameplay connection between the two.
  • During Luigi's character's trailer, Dr. Mario's Super Sheet is shown to have a visual glitch in which the sheet is not displayed.
    • Oddly enough, Dr. Mario's Super Sheet also uses its' original animation from SSBM-SSB4 in this trailer, rather than the updated animation.
  • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the first Smash Bros. game where Dr. Mario is not holding his Vitamins in his official art.
  • Dr. Mario’s official art resembles one of the victory animations he has in Super Smash Bros. 4.
  • One of the images on the Smash Bros. website shows Dr. Mario and Link, with the former holding a Fairy Bottle and the latter laying face-down. This is a reference to Fairies, a The Legend of Zelda series item that would restore Link's health in case of exhaustion.