Byleth (SSBU)

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Byleth in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
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Universe	Fire Emblem
Availability	Downloadable
Final Smash	Progenitor God Ruptured Heaven

“	Byleth Joins Smash House!	”
—Introduction Tagline ♂

“	Byleth Recruits... Byleth!	”
—Introduction Tagline ♀

Byleth (♂: ベレト, ♀: ベレス, Byleth) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Byleth's male and female versions were both officially announced on January 16th, 2020 as the fifth and final downloadable character for the first Fighters Pass. They will be released on January 28th, 2020 and are classified as Fighter #75.

Zach Aguilar and Jeannie Tirado, who voiced the male and female versions of Byleth in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, will reprise their roles in the overseas version, while Yūsuke Kobayashi and Shizuka Itō will reprise their respective male and female roles in the Japanese version.

Attributes

• Byleth is specifically designed to be a "distance demon". Their average reach is long due to their variety of weapons.
  • To compensate for this, Byleth's mobility is slow (slightly faster than Robin) and their grab has limited range.
• Byleth's main weapon is the Sword of the Creator, though they also utilize the Heroes' Relics throughout their moveset:
  • Areadbhar, the lance wielded by Dimitri.
  • Aymr, the axe wielded by Edelgard.
  • Failnaught, the bow wielded by Claude.
• Like Robin and Corrin, Byleth has a female variation for half of the character's alternate costumes.
  • The female variant has a different idle animation.

Moveset

• The Sword of the Creator is utilized in their basic attacks and upward-inputted moves.
  • Neutral attack - a knife-hand strike, followed by a roundhouse kick, followed by a flurry attack with the whip sword.
  • Dash attack - an inward swipe while sliding forward.
  • Forward tilt - an elegant downward strike.
  • Up tilt - swings their sword in an arc upwards and outwards over their head.
  • Down tilt - a low swipe with the whip sword.
  • Up smash - swings the whip sword upward, hitting multiple times.
  • Up aerial - swings the whip sword upward, hitting multiple times.
  • Up throw - shoves the opponent upward with their sword.
  • Byleth's up special has them fling the whip sword upwards, acting as a tether recovery. If it connects with an opponent, Byleth reels the opponent in and bounces off them. At higher percents, this bounce will meteor smash.
• Areadbhar has long range but is stronger at the tip. Except for the side special, these moves generally have precise hitboxes. It is utilized in Byleth's side-inputted moves.
  • Forward smash - stabs the lance forwards. Can be angled, though the upward-angled variation is the strongest.
  • Forward aerial - swings the lance forwards.
  • Back aerial - stabs the lance behind them.
  • Byleth's side special has them lunge forward while swinging the lance upwards with extreme range. Using a tapped input increases the distance Byleth travels.
• Aymr is slow but its attacks are very powerful. Uses the same heavy sword sound effects as Ike's sword, Ragnell. It is utilized in Byleth's downward-inputted moves.
  • Down smash - sweeps the axe from left to right.
  • Down aerial - swings the axe downwards and can meteor smash opponents. Deals heavy damage to shields.
  • Byleth's down special has them channel all of their energy into a single, powerful strike. Has super armor during startup, can be turned around, and can drop through platforms. Like other "bold" moves (such as Falcon Punch and Hatchet Man), it triggers Special Zoom.
• Failnaught is used for quick attacks. It is utilized in a few of Byleth's neutral moves.
  • Neutral aerial - spins the bow around them, similar to Pit's.
  • Byleth's neutral special has them fire an arrow. They can charge it for more speed and damage, change directions while charging, and can charge-cancel at a certain duration. Charging at its maximum duration will fire a powerful arrow that has a similar animation to the staff. It must be charged a bit before it can be fired, similarly to how Bayonetta's neutral special can't be shield-canceled instantaneously and must charge first.
• Back throw - Swings opponent around twice, throwing them behind on the second spin. Similar to Pac-Man's.

Alternate costumes

Gallery

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  Male Byleth's splash art.

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  Female Byleth's splash art.

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  Byleth's weapons.

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  Both male and female Byleth on Umbra Clock Tower.

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  Female Byleth wielding Areadbhar.

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  Male and female Byleth crossing swords on Garreg Mach Monastery.

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  Byleth's costumes based on Dimitri, Edelgard, and Claude.

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  Female Byleth wielding Aymr.

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  Male Byleth wielding Failnaught.

Trivia

• Byleth is the only first-party character in the first Fighters Pass, and the second Nintendo franchise DLC character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, after Piranha Plant.
• With their debut in Three Houses in July 2019, Byleth is currently the most recent fighter to appear in Ultimate and, by extension, the entire Super Smash Bros. series. They are also the first characters in the game to make their gaming debut after Ultimate's original release in December 2018.
• Byleth is the fifth fighter to receive an invitation letter in their reveal trailer, after Villager, Isabelle, Joker, and Terry.
• Byleth is the only character whose alternate costume is displayed alongside their default costume on the official Ultimate site, and is one of two characters in general to have this trait, with Robin's page on the official Smash 4 site similarly showing both genders, unlike other characters with alternate costumes.
  • Coincidentally, both are Fire Emblem characters.
• Byleth is the first character with two different introduction taglines in the same trailer, due to male and female Byleth having different names in Japanese.
• Byleth is the only character in the first Fighter's Pass to not originate from a new universe.
• According to Sakurai's presentation, Byleth's development was worked in secret; even Nintendo worldwide did not know about this inclusion. Only the development team and stockholders knew.
• Byleth is the only DLC fighter in Ultimate not to have been revealed before their presentation video's release. While none of Joker's contents were revealed before his video's release, the character himself was confirmed five months prior, at The Game Awards of 2018.
• If excluding Kazooie, the female variant of Byleth is the first female DLC in Ultimate.
  • Additionally, they are the second DLC character to have a male and female variant, following Corrin.
• The announcement Byleth's inclusion drew notable ire from many fans, with most of the backlash stemming from the first Fighters Pass ending on 'yet another Fire Emblem character.' The YouTube upload of Byleth's presentation is currently the most disliked official Super Smash Bros. announcement on YouTube as of January 2020, at nearly 35% of the ratings being negative.