Temple

Temple
Temple in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Universe	The Legend of Zelda
Appears in	Melee Brawl SSB4 (Wii U) Ultimate
Availability	Starter
Crate type	Normal
Maximum players	8
Tracks available	In Melee: Temple Fire Emblem (Alternate) In Brawl: Temple (Melee) Great Temple/Temple In SSB4: Great Temple / Temple Full Steam Ahead (Spirit Tracks) Temple Theme Main Theme (The Legend of Zelda) Song of Storms The Dark World Gerudo Valley Dragon Roost Island Hyrule Main Theme Yuga Battle (Hyrule Castle) Bolded tracks must be unlocked
Tournament legality Melee Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned Brawl Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned Smash 4 Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned
Article on Zelda Wiki	Dungeons in The Adventure of Link

Temple (神殿, Temple) is a stage introduced in Super Smash Bros. Melee, which returns in Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a Melee Stage, in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U as a familiar stage, and in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It is commonly known as Hyrule Temple (this name appears in Melee's instruction booklet at page 49), though its proper name is Temple (since "Hyrule" denotes Temple's location). Temple was first announced at E3 2001.

Stage Description

Temple is one of the eighteen default stages available in Super Smash Bros. Melee. It is a Legend of Zelda stage on which characters from that franchise (along with the characters from the Fire Emblem franchise) will usually battle the player in the single player modes. The layout is based on the palaces from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.

In Melee's All-Star mode, this stage is played on when Zelda and her teammates are fought. It is also where Zelda will fight in Classic Mode and will sometimes play the song "Lost Woods", from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the stage no longer has a chance of playing the "Fire Emblem" medley theme from Melee, because the track has moved to the Fire Emblem-themed Castle Siege stage. A remix of the "The Great Temple" theme from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link can be obtained to play on this stage in My Music, making it the only Melee stage that has a new piece of music available to play on it. In Brawl, the ledge on the right hand side can no longer be grabbed on the larger bottom platform as it could in Melee.

Fight Club

The underground area on the stage is referred to by Nintendo Power as the "Fight Club". It is termed so because battles there tend to produce disproportionately high damage totals because the surrounding environment has walls on all sides that can be teched on, which keeps characters from leaving the stage and greatly increasing the difficulty of KOing them. The ease in which a high damaged character can survive in the Fight Club can often lead to players turtling inside. The area is also known by a variety of other nicknames by players.

Hyrule Jump

Due to its immense size and its structure, Temple is a stage where notable feats involving the traversing of large area are performable, such as the Hyrule Jump and, as of Brawl, gliding completely around the stage.

Ω form

The Ω form is set on a much smaller stage retaining some of the designs from the original stage. The original stage can be seen in the background, split up.

• 

  Ω form

Tournament legality

As an extremely large stage, it is banned in all serious tournaments in every game it is featured in because its size and build provides opportunities for what is perceived broken camping and stalling. The many walls allow for wall infinites, and the underground section creates a large cave of life, allowing characters to live to extremely high damages that are effectively impossible to reach in normal conditions. The geometry of the stage also allows players to circle camp endlessly with characters such as Meta Knight or Jigglypuff, encouraging extremely slow hit-and-run matches, as well as favoring stalling. As a result of having areas where the upper blast line is much closer to the stage than the horizontal blast lines, this stage also gives characters with powerful vertical finishers a benefit over those with powerful horizontal finishers.

Origin

The entrance to Parapa Palace, the first palace of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.

This stage is loosely based on the palaces of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link; however, there are few clear references: the top left portion resembles the entrances to the palaces; and the building on top of the mountain in the background, which resembles the sprite used to represent palaces in The Adventure of Link's overworld. The palaces in The Adventure of Link are also notorious for how immense and complex they are, which would explain why this is the largest stage in Melee.

The platforms on this stage have Hylian writing on them. In Melee, the writing appears to resemble the Hylian language in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time; however, it is not actually based on the language. In Brawl and Smash 4, it is based on the Hylian language from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

Temple Race

Temple Race is a method of gameplay in Super Smash Bros. Melee that could be considered as a Special Melee, though it must be set up through manual means. The mode features no specific data within Melee, but gameplay of the mode is explained in the instruction booklet. The mode would only be possible with human players, as there are no CPU commands to co-operate with this type of Melee.

How to Play

The suggested way to play Temple Race is to first set up a timed match on the Temple stage, with any time limit being allowed. The players must then choose the layout of a course, some of which may require usage of the Hyrule Jump, and then the player that can complete most laps of this chosen layout within the designated time limit is declared the winner.

Description in the Instruction Booklet

Play a MELEE battle in Time Mode. Set the time and choose the HYRULE TEMPLE stage. Choose a particular route, then see who can complete the most laps within the time limit.

Gallery

• 

  Roy and Marth inside Temple's underground platform in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

• 

  Temple as it appears in Melee.

• 

  Temple as it appears in Brawl.

• 

  Temple in Brawl.

• 

  Bowser, Wario, and Diddy Kong in Temple as it appears in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

• 

  Temple in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

• 

  Toon Link and Link on Temple as it appears in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

• 

  8-Player Smash.

• 

  Hylian text that reads 「スマツシユ・ブラザーズ」 and translates as "Smash Brothers".

Videos

• "The stupidest set of Brawl you will ever see", a video showing how abusive the strategies can be on Temple

Trivia

The two strange platforms seen in Melee's Special Video.

• In Melee, if Sheik's Chain is used in the correct spot in the tunnel of Temple, the tip of the chain will stick to the roof of the tunnel and make a straight line from her hand to the roof. This is sometimes referred to as the Sticky Chain glitch. In Brawl, there is another glitch involving Sheik's Chain when used in the right position on the stone slab to the right of the entrance to the underground area. If performed correctly, the chain makes a high pitched sound that is different from the usual sound produced.
• In Melee, Temple is notorious for exploiting the flawed AI. One such example is if Jigglypuff and Kirby are knocked off the left side of the lower part of the stage, they will attempt to return using their multiple midair jumps, but will sometimes get stuck on the slight overhang above. This is usually not fatal to Jigglypuff, as it will often glide back to the platform after its jumps are exhausted, but Kirby will use his Final Cutter and fall straight down for a SD. Another notable example is where Fox as a level 9 CPU cannot escape from the lower area of the stage if the player is on the top area, as it will attempt to jump on the path leading to the top but fail, walk side to side on the bottom, fall off the right side, use Fire Fox to get back up, and repeat. With the improved AI, these specific CPU exploits do not occur in Brawl.
• In the "Special Video" of Melee, during two clips of Temple, two odd platforms can be seen, which do not appear on the stage in Melee, Brawl, or Smash 4. The same platforms can be seen in the short video clip after beating a single player mode as Luigi as well as in the manual's picture depicting Fixed-Camera Mode.
• Along with the platforms, early versions of the game featured an elevator to lead to the bottom of the stage; this does not appear in the finished form of the game.
• If Pokémon Trainer is chosen, he stands on top of the arches in the middle section of the stage.
• If Sonic releases his Spin Dash while facing right on the stairs to the left of the large floating platform, he will shoot horizontally across the stage, going over any gaps, ignoring gravity, and self destruct.
• This is the only Melee stage in Brawl that has at least one track that isn't from Melee.
• In the PAL Spanish version of Smash 4, the name for this stage is taken from Summit.
• This is one of the two familiar stages in SSB4 to not appear in Classic Mode or All-Star Mode, the other is 75m.
• This is so far the only stage in the series to be used in the box art of a Super Smash Bros. game.