Lucas (SSBU)

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Lucas in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Universe	EarthBound
Other playable appearances	in Brawl in SSB4
Availability	Unlockable
Final Smash	PK Starstorm

“	Like Ness, Lucas is a young boy who uses PSI powers. Some of their PSI moves share the same names, but since Lucas has different abilities, the moves may work differently. Be sure to try them out! For his Final Smash, he calls down a shower of meteors along with Kumatora and Boney.	”
—Super Smash Blog, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Official Site

Lucas (リュカ, Lucas) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. He was confirmed as a playable character on June 12th, 2018. Lucas is classified as fighter #37.

Lani Minella reprises her role as Lucas, albeit through recycled voice lines from Brawl and Smash 4.

How to unlock

Complete one of the following:

• Play VS. matches, with Lucas being the 36th character to be unlocked.
• Clear Classic Mode with Kirby or any character in his unlock tree, being the seventh character unlocked after Corrin.
• Have Lucas join the player's party in World of Light.

With the exception of the third method, Lucas must then be defeated on New Pork City.

Changes from Super Smash Bros. 4

Lucas received a mix of buffs and nerfs. His combo game was significantly toned down as down throw no longer combos into any of his aerials and techable footstools also hinders him. PK Thunder 2 also has halted momentum at the end of its animation which shortens his recovery. Lucas also has a much harder time landing thanks to him only being able to air dodge once in the air and PSI Magnet no longer halts his momentum.

However, Lucas also received some buffs as his already impressive mobility is now even better. Lucas also has improved specials, aerials, and ground attacks giving his a much more useful ground game, safer aerials, and more useful moves for his neutral game.

It is currently unknown how much his buffs are going to compare to his nerfs and how he compares to his iterations in Brawl and Smash 4.

Aesthetics

• As with all veterans returning from SSB4, Lucas's model features a more subdued color scheme. Similar to Brawl, some of the detailing on his clothes and weapons are more prominent, such as the vertical stitching of his socks.
• The Rope Snake's scales are more pronounced.
• Like other characters, Lucas always faces the screen regardless of which direction he turns. This affects his movesets as well (such as the end of his up tilt), all of which appear to be mirrored.
• All of Lucas’ PSI-based attacks are now dominantly light blue. This closely resembles the colors of PK Love in Mother 3.
• Like Ness, Lucas makes a new face when hit, with his eyes growing somewhat larger and rounder.
• Like Ness, Lucas's victory theme is now the ending of "Eight Melodies" from both Mother / EarthBound Beginnings as well as "Eight Melodies" from EarthBound layered together.
• Lucas has a new idle pose where he points to his forehead with his eyes closed with his leading hand then waves it in front of him, similar to Ness's head-pointing idle pose. It replaces the animation of Lucas waving his fists in front of him.
• Lucas now strikes a different pose during his Seven Needles victory animation.

Attributes

• Like all characters, Lucas's jumpsquat animation now takes three frames to complete (down from 5).
• Lucas dashes faster (1.5 → 1.65). The global changes to initial dashes especially benefit his ground movement.
• Lucas walks slightly faster (0.85 → 0.893).
• Lucas' air speed is slightly higher (1.1 → 1.155).
• Lucas jumps higher.
• Because footstools can now be teched, Lucas's combo game is much worse.

Ground attacks

• Neutral attack:
  • All three hits of Lucas's neutral attack have more hitlag.
  • Neutral attack's second hit can be interrupted sooner, improving its potential for mix-ups.
  • Neutral attack deals slightly less damage (8.5% → 7.5%).
• Dash attack:
  • Dash attack has less startup (frame 15 → 13) and slightly less ending lag (FAF 39 → 38).
• Up tilt:
  • Up tilt has less ending lag (FAF 37 → 34).
• Down tilt:
  • Down tilt has increased hitlag.
  • Down tilt deals slightly more damage (3% → 5%).
• Forward smash:
  • Forward smash has slightly less ending lag (FAF 47 → 46).
  • The reflector has more startup, though the total duration is unchanged (frame 10-19 → 11-20).
• Up smash:
  • Up smash has a larger hitbox.
    • An additional large blue hexagon graphic was added to indicate the hitbox's new size.
• Down smash:
  • Lucas now bends his elbow after each shot of down smash, and his fingers are more pronounced throughout.
  • Down smash covers more range, making it easier to edgeguard opponents.
  • The three hits of Lucas's down smash are now treated as individual hitboxes, thus preventing opponents from shielding one hit and being immune to any following hits.
  • At low percents, Lucas' Down smash hits can connect with each other, doing much more damage.

Aerial attacks

• All aerials aside from grab aerial have less landing lag (Neutral: frame 13 → 12, Forward: 12 → 7, Back: 15 → 9, Up: 12 → 7, Down: 24 → 16).
• Neutral aerial:
  • Neutral aerial's hitbox is larger.
  • Neutral aerial can no longer be escaped from via SDI.
  • Neutral aerial's multihits have less hitlag, speeding up its execution upon connection.
  • Neutral aerial now deals 4 hits instead of 5, resulting in less damage (12% → 10%).
  • Neutral aerial now sends opponents behind or in front of Lucas depending on which part of the hitbox hits the last hit. This makes it more difficult to guarantee combos with.
    • This change makes it easier to combo with back aerial.
• Forward aerial:
  • Forward aerial's sweetspot deals slightly more damage (11.5% → 12.5%).
• Back aerial:
  • Back aerial now autocancels if buffered out of a shorthop.
  • Back aerial's animation is faster.
  • Back aerial can now spike grounded opponents. While this benefits from opponents' inability to tech grounded spikes, this takes away Lucas's ability to send grounded opponents offstage from behind him.
• Up aerial:
  • Up aerial's hitbox is now attached to Lucas's head.
    • A motion trail has been added above Lucas's head to indicate the hitbox's new pattern.
  • Up aerial has reduced ending lag (FAF 46 → 34).
  • Up aerial now autocancels if buffered out of a shorthop.
  • Up aerial deals slightly less damage (13% → 11%).
• Down aerial:
  • Down aerial now connects on aerial opponents more reliably.
  • Down aerial now has dragdown on the first 3 hits, making it a better and easier gimping solution
  • Down aerial now pushes grounded opponents away from its hitboxes, rather than picking them up from the ground as in Smash 4.
• Grab aerial:
  • Grab aerial has reduced range.
  • Grab aerial has more active frames.
  • Grab aerial deals slightly more damage (4% (clean)/2.8% (late) → 5%/3%).
  • Grab aerial has less ending lag (FAF 60 → 52).
  • Grab aerial can be double jump canceled, allowing Lucas to use it very close to the ground to start combos and approach.

Throws/other attacks

• Grab animations:
  • The endings of Lucas's grabs now feature interruptible animations during which the Rope Snake doubles back to return to Lucas.
  • Lucas's animation when holding a grabbed opponent has been altered; he now holds Rope Snake in one hand and uses the other to hold the opponent in place with telekinesis.
  • Lucas now looks angry during his grab animation.
  • Lucas's pummel animation now has him attack the grabbed opponent with PSI.
  • Pummel is now slower.
• Standard grab:
  • Lucas's standard grab range has been decreased.
  • Lucas's standard grab has one frame more ending lag (FAF 46 → 47).
  • Lucas's dash grab has one frame less ending lag (FAF 56 → 55).
• Lucas has a new forward throw animation similar to Diddy Kong's forward throw.
• Lucas has a new back throw animation.
• Up throw deals more knockback.
• Down throw:
  • Lucas has a new down throw animation. Lucas lifts the opponent in the air using telekinesis, then forcefully slams them into the ground, sending them up and away.
  • Down throw has more ending lag (FAF 50 → 58), greatly hindering its follow-up potential.
  • Down throw deals significantly more damage (6.5% → 11%).

Special Moves

• PK Freeze:
  • Lucas's animations during the move have been tweaked; Lucas himself now completely faces the screen, and the particle effects of the explosion now feature the PK Freeze graphic effects from Mother 3.
  • The projectile travels faster.
  • The projectile can now can now travel through soft and semisoft platforms.
  • PK Freeze no longer dissipates upon making contact with hard platforms and can instead be held at the ground until the move is fully-charged.
  • The projectile now launches opponents at a horizontal angle away from Lucas (no matter which direction he faces), making it better for edgeguarding and KO'ing.
  • Lucas no longer becomes helpless when firing PK Freeze in the air.
• PK Fire:
  • Lucas's hands now feature a red spark until PK Fire is fired, similarly to his finger in his down smash animation. The same spark appears when PK Fire successfully connects.
  • PK Fire has slightly increased damage (9% → 10%).
• PK Thunder:
  • Lucas's PK Thunder's graphic effects have been changed; rather than maintaining its magenta coloration from Smash 4, PK Thunder has been changed to be varying hues of blue. The move has also gained particle effects which resemble its respective PSI graphics from Mother 3.
  • PK Thunder's electric ball travels faster.
  • Grounded PK Thunder has reduced ending lag.
  • Lucas's momentum at the end of PK Thunder 2 is lower, slightly shortening its recovery distance.
  • PK Thunder 2 has reduced landing lag.
  • PK Thunder 2 now triggers Special Zoom.
• PSI Magnet:
  • PSI Magnet now features its PSI graphics from Mother 3 upon use. Lucas' back is angled lower in the end of his animation, similar to the beginning of his run animation in Mother 3.
  • PSI Magnet has significantly less ending lag.
  • PSI Magnet now features a hitbox which drags opponents closer to Lucas's hand on startup.
  • PSI Magnet's launching hitbox is larger.
  • PSI Magnet no longer halts Lucas's momentum in the air. This prevents Lucas from being able to use it to mix up his landing as effectively.
    • Thanks to the changes mentioned above, Lucas can combo PSI Magnet between them.
• Final Smash:
  • PK Starstorm is now similar to its Brawl iteration, firing meteors inwards towards the center of the stage, but at a slower rate and with slower meteors. His pose during the move no longer reuses Ness's Final Smash animation and is instead replaced with one reminiscent of his animation in Brawl. Lucas is also assisted by Kumatora and Boney. Like his other PSI moves, the move features graphics from PK Starstorm's animation in Mother 3.
    • However, the trajectory of the meteors can still be angled.

Classic Mode: Magic, Sacred Powers, and PSI!

All of Lucas' opponents have some sort of magical abilities.

Round	Opponent	Stage	Music	Notes
1	Ness	Magicant	Magicant
2	Male and Female Robin	Arena Ferox	Conquest (Ablaze)
3	Rosalina & Luma	Mario Galaxy	Gusty Garden Galaxy
4	Giant Palutena	Palutena's Temple (Ω form)	Underworld
5	Bayonetta	Umbra Clock Tower	Tomorrow Is Mine (Bayonetta 2 Theme) (Instrumental)
6	Mewtwo	Kalos Pokémon League	Battle! (Team Galactic)
Bonus Stage
Final	Master Hand	Final Destination	Master Hand	On intensity 7.0 and higher, Crazy Hand fights alongside Master Hand, and the track Master Hand / Crazy Hand plays during the battle.

Role in World of Light

Although Lucas does not appear in the World of Light opening cutscene, he was vaporized and later imprisoned alongside the rest of the fighters (sans Kirby) when Galeem unleashed his beams of light.

Lucas can be found on a village covered in fog as a callback to his home of Tazmily Village.

Alternate costumes

Gallery

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  Lucas' fighter card.

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  Taunting on Green Greens.

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  Lucas using his Rope Snake on Skyloft.

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  Lucas freezing Ganondorf on Summit.

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  Performing PK Fire near Entei on Great Bay.

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  Using PSI Magnet near the Black Hole item on Skyworld.

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  Lucas holding a Master Ball on Castle Siege.

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  Lucas getting pummeled by Richter on Skyloft.

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  Lucas approaching Gray Fox on Golden Plains.

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  Lucas and Diddy Kong being attacked by Marshadow on the Bridge of Eldin.

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  Lucas getting attacked by Rathalos on Garden of Hope.

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  Snake with Lucas' Rope Snake on Pokémon Stadium 2.

Character Showcase Video

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Trivia

• Because Lucas' PSI-based attacks are light-blue, this makes it inconsistent with his artwork seen in the Panoramic illustration featuring all of the fighters which the PSI-based attack was the former colored pink and yellow.
• Lucas' character portrait is based off of his side taunt.