Tabuu

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Tabuu.

Tabuu (タブー, Tabuu) is the leader of the Subspace Army and the final boss of Subspace Emissary. He uses the Subspace Bombs to send entire locations to his dimension, where he absorbs their power to increase his own. His name is a pun on the English word "taboo", which means "that which is to be unacceptable or improper by society's terms" (he believes that the world is unacceptable and drags it into Subspace) and "something that is not spoken of; secret" (he was the secret puppetmaster of Master Hand).

Role in The Subspace Emissary

According to the Ancient Minister trophy, Tabuu took over The Island of the Ancients, the home of the R.O.B.s and forced them to serve him under the threat of annihilation. He also took over Master Hand, eagerly manipulating his top subordinates Bowser and Ganondorf. Tabuu first discovered that Game & Watch had Shadow Bugs in them and captured him to harness the power, and thus the Subspace Army was born.

Ganondorf realizes that Tabuu was actually controlling Master Hand and that he was not following Master Hand's orders. Enraged, he charges a futile attack at Tabuu who quickly turns him into a trophy. Ganondorf's body hits the puppetered Master Hand, thus breaking him free of his chains. Master Hand also charges at Tabuu, but to no avail. Tabuu then turns everyone into a trophy as soon as they approach. However, Luigi, Kirby, King Dedede and Ness are later revived thanks to the Dedede Badge and rescue everyone. Tabuu then creates a maze out of the worlds that have been consumed by Subspace and brings back the old enemies. He also creates dark clones of all the heroes to slow them down. Once the player has reached Tabuu, he will attempt to turn everyone back into trophies again. Before Tabuu can unleash his attack however, he is ambushed by Sonic the Hedgehog. Anyone can fight Tabuu, however the player must first pick up the trophies of the fallen comrades in order to do so.

Attacks

As the last boss of Subspace Emissary , Tabuu is expected to have a wide variety of attacks avialable to him, which are dangerous. Note that the names are not offical.

• Triple Red Rings: During this attack,Tabuu appears in the background and opens up his wings which proceeds to release three red rings which can KO a character with 1 hit. They cannot be blocked or escaped, the only way is to Dodge. If you are hit, it is possible to survive this attack in Easy or Normal mode in Boss Battles mode. You cannot attack Tabuu in anyway during this attack.
• Laser Dragon: Tabuu appears on a side of the stage and takes out a gun the shape of a dragon's head which fires a powerful laser dodgeable only by jumping up.
• Side Spear: Tabuu transforms into a wide spear and attacks sideways with one swipe.
• Chain of Light: Tabuu takes out a yellow chain and grabs the character,before swinging the character around and slamming him/her onto the ground for high knockback. This is considered by many people the hardest attack to dodge and a main killer in Boss Battle mode. This attack gives you almost no signal of its apperance.
• Dual Eye Lasers: Tabuu transforms into a giant version of himself and appears on 1 side of the stage before unleashing dual red lasers from his eyes. They work the same way as Master Hand 's lasers in Melee,hitting only if you are near the ground, though they can hit you when they are first initiated.
• Energy Blade: Tabuu appears mid-air on 1 side of the map and attacks the stage with a curved swipe with a red energy sword.
• Teleport: Tabuu teleports around the area and appears at a set spawn which is randomly decided from the large amount of spawns available. He also sometimes teleports behind the character and attacks with one of the available attacks.
• Teleport Strike: Tabuu teleports around, attacking after a teleport with a red explosion.
• Electrical Shield: Tabuu teleports to a random area and creates some objects which circle around him and damage anyone near him.
• Rapid Slash: Tabuu teleports behind the character and rapidly attacks the area near the character.
• Golden Bracket: Tabuu transforms into two brackets using the object inside him to grab and slam characters onto the floor.
• Pinpoint Explosion: Tabuu points at five locations which will blink. Those locations will explode after a second.
• Bullet Rain: Tabuu appears in a random area in the air and fires a series of small bullets before firing a large explosion if you are near him.
• Shuriken Boomerang: Tabuu appears on one side of the stage and throws a shuriken-shaped boomerang which crosses the stage twice before he catches it.
• Self Projection: Tabuu pauses in midair and sends out exploding copies of himself in all directions. Characters will take damage if they make contact with a projection.

Strategies

In the Subspace Emissary or Boss Battle mode, the difficulty, what moves Tabuu uses, and especially how offensive you are, will really determine how well you do against him. The whip move is considered to be the hardest move to dodge by most people. Main ideas: Don't be overly offensive, ESPECIALLY in boss battle mode on harder difficulties.

Dodge well by jumping, most moves can be dodged only by sidestepping or break the shield. If you have a character with a good projectile, use projectiles well and only use non-projectiles when you know it will hit.

A character with counter should not spam counter, this won't work well against most moves because Tabuu will go through the counter

During his Triple Red Ring attack,there is a humming sound. Go to Subspace Emissary Boss 4 and sound 51 to hear the attack sound. It is recommended you dodge at every 2 sounds and stand below him.