Rules

The Rules is an option in the Super Smash Bros. games. It lets players select the rules for a match before the fight itself.

Rules

Rule	Description
Rule: Time	Pick the Time limit of the match, once the time limit runs out, the match ends and the person or team with the most KO's wins.
Rule: Stock	Set amount of lives, the last person or team standing with at least one life wins, or person with most lives at Time.
Rule: Coin	Set time limit, once the time limit runs out, the person or team with the most smash coins wins.
Rule: Bonus	Set time limit, when time ends, player with most points from bonuses wins.
Handicap	SSB and Melee: Changes knockback given and received, from 1 to 9. Brawl and SSB4: Sets damage percentage at the beginning of the match, from 0% to 300%. Even if characters lose a stock, they return with the handicap back at what it was at the start of the match. Setting this to Auto, determines the individual handicap of each player by previous wins and losses.
Damage Ratio	Sets how much knockback is received from attacks. The default ratio is 1.0. The higher the number, the further the player will be launched. Players can choose the ratio from .5 to 2.0., increments of .1.
Stage Choice: Choose	Allow freely to pick any stage.	(?)
Stage Choice: Random	Stage choice will be picked randomly.	(?)
Stage Choice: Turns	Take turns start with Player 1, then Player 2 and so on.
Stage Choice: Ordered	Play Stages in order.
Stage Choice: Losers Pick	The loser of the match gets to decide to pick the next stage.
Items	Allows what items can be in the match or not and adjusts how often an item will appear. The player can set how often an item appears by picking the choices: None, Low, Medium, or High. Melee also includes the choices of "Very Low" and "Very High".	(?)			(?)

More Rules

Another section of rules is the More Rules section which can only be unlocked by getting a total of 200 KOs in standard brawl matches in Brawl, and Smash matches in Smash 4.

Rule	Description
Stock & Time	Sets the amount of time for a stock-time match. The time can be set from Infinite to 99:00, in increments of 1 minute.
Team Attack	Allows team attack to be turned On or Off.		(?)
Pause Function	Allows the Pause availability to be turned On or Off.
Score Display	Enables the score to be displayed on the screen in a timed match. Can be turned Off or On.		(?)
SD Penalty	Selects how many points a player loses upon SDing: 1 point, 2 points or no points.				(?)	(?)
Damage Gauge	Shows the Damage percentage of each player. Can be turned On or Off.
Random Stage Switch	Allows or eliminates what stages can be chosen when the stage choice is chosen as Random. Unlocked when all stages are unlocked.

Gallery

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  The default rules screen in Super Smash Bros without Item select unlocked.

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  The default rules screen in Melee.

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  The default "More Rules" screen in Melee, with Random Stage Select unlocked.

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  The default rules screen in Brawl.

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  The default "More Rules" screen in Brawl, with Random Stage Select unlocked.

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  The default rules screen in the 3DS version of Smash 4.