Piranha Plant (SSBU)

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Piranha Plant in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Universe	Mario
Availability	Downloadable
Final Smash	Petey Piranha

“	Piranha Plant Pipes Up!	”
—Introduction Tagline

Piranha Plant (パックンフラワー, Packun Flower) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Revealed alongside Ken and Incineroar on November 1st, 2018, it will be the first DLC character in Ultimate, and was released on January 29th, 2019. It will be available as a free bonus until January 31st, 2019 to anyone who pre-purchases the digital version of Ultimate or registers their physical version with My Nintendo. While Piranha Plant is not part of the Fighters Pass, it will be available for purchase separately after January 31st. Piranha Plant is classified as fighter #70.

Attributes

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• Piranha Plant resides in a pot, as its species are depicted in the Mario Party 3 minigame Storm Chasers and in Super Mario 3D World and Mario Kart 8 as items. It sprouts small feet when moving, and moves like a Ptooie.
  • It retreats into its pot when crouching.
  • Half of its alternate costumes replace the pot with a Warp Pipe.
• Datamining has revealed a weight value of 112, meaning that Piranha Plant weighs more than all heavyweights but less than all super heavyweights.
• Datamining has also revealed it has an average dash speed.

Known moveset

• Two bites forward, its forward tilt. It resembles the attacks a Piranha Plant performs in Super Mario 64 after waking up.
• A rapid jab attack, discovered through datamining of the game.
• A leaf swipe down tilt.
• A pot-first lunge dash attack.
• Forward smash - Transforms into a Spiny Piranha Plant from Super Mario Galaxy 2 and headbutts.
• Up smash - Lunges upward and bites. Appears to have two hitboxes.
• Down smash - Sweeps its pot around itself. First in the back, then in the front.
• An aerial where it spins rapidly with its leaves extended, similar to Ivysaur's neutral aerial. Hits multiple times.
• An aerial where it swings its pot upwards, presumably its forward aerial.
• A pot stomp down aerial. A meteor smash with quick startup compared to other meteor smashes.
• A headbutt forward throw, a backward fling back throw, and an upward bite up throw. Piranha Plant grabs with its leaves and bites for its pummel.
• Ptooie, Piranha Plant's neutral special, has it spits out a metal spike ball, and blow air upwards. The ball can then be blown to the left or right. Only one can be active at a time. Based on the Ptooie enemy introduced in Super Mario Bros. 3.
• Poison Breath, Piranha Plant's side special, has it spits a cloud of poison in front of it, dealing damage with seemingly no knockback or flinching. Piranha Plant changes its color to match the Putrid Piranha enemy from the Paper Mario series when executed.
• Piranhacopter, Piranha Plant's up special, has it spins its leaves, propelling it upwards like a helicopter. Based on the Jumping Piranha Plants from Super Mario World.
• Long-Stem Strike, Piranha Plant's down special, has it retreat into its pot and pause briefly before stretching out to bite an opponent. The pot can be tilted in order to aim the attack. It possesses a form of armor while inside the pot, shrugging off various attacks. Likely a reference to Elasto-Piranhas or Stalking Piranha Plants, possibly a tether recovery.
• Petey Piranha: Piranha Plant's Final Smash. As the name implies, it summons Petey Piranha, who stomps around the stage with his cages from his boss fight in The Subspace Emissary. Opponents that get too close will get trapped in his cages.

On-screen Appearance

• Piranha Plant rises straight up out of its pot, making a Warp Pipe noise as it does so.

Taunts

• Up Taunt: Rises up out of its pot, using the same animation and sound effects as its entrance animation.
• Side Taunt: Bites the air around it multiple times, similar to one of Bowser's taunts.
• Down Taunt: Spins around and strikes a pose with a grin.

Victory Poses

• Hangs down from the ceiling, posing for the camera.
• Mario runs towards Piranha Plant's pot, only for Piranha Plant to pop out of the plant and bite Mario, sending him flying.

Alternate costumes

Gallery

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  Piranha Plant's splash art.

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  Piranha Plant's amiibo.

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  Piranha Plant's fighter card.

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  Piranha Plant attacking Wario eating a Maxim Tomato on Skyloft.

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  Piranha Plant shooting a Spiky Ball at Chrom on Halberd.

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  Piranha Plant shooting poison at Toon Link on Mushroom Kingdom.

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  Piranha Plant falling on Midgar.

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  Mario with a Super Leaf floating over Piranha Plant's blue, gray, pink, and green costumes on Super Mario Maker.

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  Pirahna Plant next to Jigglypuff's Sing in Living Room.

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  Piranha Plant spitting poison on Hanenbow.

Trivia

• Piranha Plant's official artwork has a UV Mapping error near the base of its pot, where the texture appears to squish vertically.
• Despite the fanbase's bewildered reaction to Piranha Plant's reveal, Masahiro Sakurai stated in an interview that he does not aim to surprise players, stating that "The surprise element quickly fades once the announcement has been made. Rather, I believe it’s important to have a good balance as a game. In the past titles in the series, Mr. Game & Watch, R.O.B. and Duck Hunt Dog were some of the examples we offered outside of people’s typical expectations. However, if we don’t have these types of fighters, and we only had typical “hero/heroine” type fighters in the lineup, there’s not much difference. It’s probably not very interesting. Correct? Also, unlike some main characters from some (not widely known) franchises, Piranha Plant is a character everyone knows well." [1]
• Piranha Plant is the first newcomer in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to have all its alternate costumes shown in its reveal trailer; in fact, they were all shown in one shot, excluding the main.
  • Bowser Jr. was the first character this happened with, when he was revealed in his trailer for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
• Piranha Plant is the first playable character to be a mob.
  • In addition, Ultimate is the first time a generic Piranha Plant has been playable in any game. However, Petey Piranha, a Piranha Plant himself, has been playable in various Mario spin-off games; Fire Piranha Plants are capturable by in Super Mario Odyssey; and Fire Stalking Piranha Plants are playable in Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser and Bowser Jr.'s Journey.
• Piranha Plant is the first (and only, so far) playable character who isn't a Pokémon in the Smash Bros. series to be referred to with gender-neutral pronouns, barring the error in which Dark Samus was referred to as "it" until the mistake was corrected.
  • This is not including characters whose alternate costumes change their gender, including Pokémon Trainer, Villager, Robin, Corrin, and Inkling; who are referred to as “they” and “their” in the tips.
• Piranha Plant is the second DLC character to be free for a limited time after launch, the first being Mewtwo in Super Smash Bros. 4.
  • Both characters were first to be released as DLC in their respective games.
• Piranha Plant is the first original newcomer in Ultimate to not have a CGI reveal trailer.
• Although red Piranha Plants are usually depicted residing in a pipe in official Mario artwork, the red Piranha Plant is never in a pipe in Ultimate, only in a pot.
• The splash art for Piranha Plant is so far the only one that uses a different font, opposite to the font "DF Gothic Japanese" that was used in every single splash art since Super Smash Bros. 4.