All-Star Mode

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The all-star mode rest station in Melee.

All-star mode is a gameplay mode, available in both Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, that pits the player against every playable character in the game. The character chosen has only one life in this mode.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

All-Star Mode made its debut in Super Smash Bros. Melee, as an unlockable 1-player mode which puts the player up against every playable character in the game. The battles consist of a set amount of randomly picked characters teamed against the player, with the last fight being against a team of 25 Mr. Game & Watches. Each opponent faced wears up to 3 of the alternate costumes, with the exception of Mr. Game & Watch, who always wears his default (unless the player uses Mr. Game & Watch in his default costume, in which case the Game & Watches will instead use their red costume). If the player uses a character with an alternate costume and the player faces the same character, the character will either use up to 2 of the alternates, or use the default costume. The characters are fought on the "home stages" of the first member on the list (if there are teams).

In the beginning, the player battle against one opponent. After four characters got KO'd, the player will battle against two opponents. After eight battles, the player will battle against three opponents until the last fight against Team Mr. Game & Watch.

Unlike Classic Mode and Adventure, the player does not automatically regain health in between battles; players can only recover health by using one of three Heart Containers available between matches located in the All-Star Teleporter. These Heart Containers, unlike normal containers, heal the player up to 999% (restoring the player to 0%, as they did in the original SSB) instead of only healing 100% damage. However, if the player enters the portal while damage is being healed, then the damage will not heal any further, and the next match will start with the same amount of damage the player had when he or she entered the portal.

While players can use Ness's PSI Magnet and Mr. Game & Watch's Judgement to recover health, there is no other way to recover with the exception of the Heart Containers; items such as food, Maxim Tomatoes, and eggs do not appear at all in the mode.

As a reward, the player can also collect random trophies that appear after the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth battles.

For characters with a home stage set outside their universe, the stage will have a more appropriate track from their series play; this acts as the only time these tracks can play on these stages. For instance, Pichu's stage is set as Fourside, but the "Battle Theme" plays. The only exception is Ganondorf, in which the normal Brinstar Depths music is played.

In order to unlock all-star mode, one must unlock every character.

Stages Fights take Place In
First Character	Stage
Dr. Mario	Mushroom Kingdom II (Dr. Mario)
Mario	Rainbow Cruise
Luigi	Mushroom Kingdom
Bowser	Yoshi's Island (Super Mario Bros. 3)
Peach	Princess Peach's Castle
Yoshi	Yoshi's Story
Donkey Kong	Kongo Jungle
Captain Falcon	Mute City
Ganondorf	Brinstar Depths
Falco	Venom
Fox	Corneria
Ness	Onett
Ice Climbers	Icicle Mountain
Kirby	Green Greens
Samus	Brinstar
Zelda	Temple
Link	Great Bay
Young Link	Jungle Japes (Saria's Song)
Pichu	Fourside (Battle Theme)
Pikachu	Pokémon Stadium
Jigglypuff	Poké Floats
Mewtwo	Battlefield (Poké Floats)
Mr. Game & Watch	Flat Zone
Marth	Fountain of Dreams (Fire Emblem)
Roy	Final Destination (Fire Emblem)

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

All-star mode has returned in Brawl, and again needs to be unlocked. It is unlocked once all characters are unlocked. It is mostly unchanged from Melee. The player still gets 3 Heart Containers, random Trophies (however, they will not appear as a question mark if the game is paused), and fight through every character in the game. The player still only has 1 life, and they do not regain health between matches without a Heart Container (although the player can now enter the teleporter without having to wait for their health to fully recover).

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The All-Star mode Rest Station in Super Smash Bros. Brawl

However, instead of the matches having a progressively large enemy team, the opponents are based on their series of origin. The highest count of enemies on the stage at a time is two. When a series has more than two opponents a new fighter will appear a few seconds after the player KOs one of the opponents. This means that stages for Kid Icarus, Ice Climbers, and Pikmin will be easier than Mario, Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon. In the case of Pokémon, there are a total of six opponents, as the Pokémon Trainer will send out each Pokémon separately. On the Metroid stage, the player will randomly battle Samus or Zero Suit Samus, and on the Zelda stage, they will battle Zelda or Sheik. Another note is that the player doesn't fight a team randomly, but on stages with multiple opponents the order of the opponents is random. It is always in a set order, but the second stage, Mario, the player may fight the four characters in any order. It is chronologically ordered by series first release in Japan. The player will always fight Mr. Game & Watch first and Olimar last. The stage the player fights each character on will be a home stage from SSBB, randomly selected if there are more than one. Battlefield and Final Destination are not considered home stages, while Mario Bros. is R.O.B.'s home stage instead of a Mario home stage. However, if Mario Bros. has not yet been unlocked, he appears in Delfino Plaza instead.

This is the order for all-star mode:

All-Star Mode order
Series	Characters
Game & Watch	Mr. Game & Watch
Mario Bros.	Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser
Donkey Kong	Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong
Ice Climber	Ice Climbers
R.O.B.	R.O.B.
The Legend of Zelda	Link, Toon Link, Ganondorf, Zelda or Sheik
Metroid	Samus or Zero Suit Samus
Kid Icarus	Pit
Metal Gear	Snake
Mother/Earthbound	Ness, Lucas
Fire Emblem	Marth, Ike
Yoshi	Yoshi
F-Zero	Captain Falcon
Sonic the Hedgehog	Sonic
Kirby	Kirby, Meta Knight, King Dedede
Star Fox	Fox, Falco, Wolf
WarioWare	Wario
Pokémon	Pikachu, Squirtle, Ivysaur, Charizard, Lucario, Jigglypuff
Pikmin	Olimar (Two Olimars in 2-player mode)

Clearing the all-star takes about 7-20 minutes depending on the character used, the player's skills, and the difficulty setting chosen.

As a reward for completing this mode, the player will earn their character's a trophy of their character using their Final Smash. Additionally, the player will see an interesting congratulatory picture that plays to what their fighter is. For example, for Snake, it shows Snake in his box with Zero Suit Samus and other various bounty hunters looking for him.

Co-op mode

All-Star mode in SSBB may be played with up to 2 players. When playing co-op, the player receives a total of 5 heart containers, and even if either player dies, the player will get to continue. The opponents are the same until the last battle where the players face 2 Olimars instead of one (a possible nod to Louie from Pikmin 2). One advantage of playing All-Star with 2 players is that if the players both are 2 different characters, beating All-Star will get them the Final Smash trophy for both characters at the same time.

Caution: Obtaining Final Smash trophies through Co-op will not clear the Challenges for All-Star Mode, such as clearing it with ten characters.

Rewards

In Super Smash Bros. Melee

• Clearing all-star mode one time will result in unlocking the Battlefield stage, as well the Battlefield trophy.
• Clearing all-star mode on Hard or Very Hard gives the player the Mew trophy (they can use continues).
• Clearing all-star mode without using continues gives the player the Wario trophy.
• Clearing all-star mode with all characters gives the player the Meowth trophy.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl

• Clearing all-star mode on Easy gives the player the Tal Tal Heights Music.
• Clearing all-star mode on Normal gives the player a sticker of Phyllis.
• Clearing all-star mode on Hard gives the player the Birdo trophy.
• Clearing all-star mode on Very Hard gives the player the Dyna Blade trophy.
• Clearing all-star mode on Intense gives the player the Mewtwo trophy.
• Clearing all-star mode with 10 characters gives the player the Gekko trophy.
• Clearing all-star mode with all characters gives the player the Kyle Hyde trophy.
• Clearing all-star mode with all characters (including alternate characters that can be switched in) gives the player the Plusle & Minun trophy.
• Clearing all-star mode without using continues gives the player the Pichu trophy.

Rest Area Music

In Melee

All-Star mode is heavily based on Kirby Super Star's Arena. In Melee, the music comes from The Great Cave Offensive Save Room in Kirby Super Star. Interestingly enough, in Kirby Super Star Ultra, this music is used in The Arena between boss fights.

In Brawl

In Brawl, the music is a light, relaxed remix of Brawl's main theme.

See also

• Home stage
• Classic Mode
• Character Roll Call