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 for Male Byleth

“	Byleth Recruits... Byleth!	”
—Introduction Tagline for Female Byleth

Byleth (♂: ベレト, ♀: ベレス, Byleth) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Byleth was officially announced on January 16th, 2020 as the fifth and final downloadable character from Volume 1 of the Fighters Pass. Although the male version is the default variant, the female version is available as an alternate costume. Byleth was released on January 28th, 2020, and is classified as Fighter #75.

Zach Aguilar and Jeannie Tirado, who respectively 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

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• As mentioned by Masahiro Sakurai during the January 16, 2020 presentation, Byleth is specifically designed to be a "distance demon," a character along the lines of Marth or Shulk who utilizes large hitboxes to zone out opponents at mid-range. Byleth's overall reach is long due to his variety of weapons.
  • To compensate for this, Byleth has poor overall mobility (reportedly, slightly faster than Robin), and his grab range is rather short.
• Byleth's main weapon is the Sword of the Creator, though he also utilizes the Heroes' Relics throughout his 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 their alternate costumes.
  • The female variant has an altered idle animation where she holds the Sword of the Creator tilted upward. It is unknown if other animations are different.

Moveset

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• The Sword of the Creator is utilized in Byleth's basic attacks and upward-inputted moves.
• 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.
• Aymr is slow, but its attacks are very powerful. It uses the same heavy sword sound effects as Ike's sword, Ragnell. It is utilized in Byleth's downward-inputted moves.
• Failnaught is used for quick attacks. It is utilized in some of Byleth's neutral moves.

Note: All numbers are listed as base damage, without the 1v1 multiplier.

		Name	Damage	Description
Neutral attack			1.5%	A knife-hand strike, followed by a roundhouse kick, and finally a flurry attack with the whip sword. If the button is held, Byleth will finish with another kick.
			2%
			4.5%
			0.4% (loop), 3.5% (last)
Forward tilt			11%	An elegant downward strike.
Up tilt			10%	Swings his sword in an upward arc over his head.
Down tilt			8%	A low swipe with his whip-sword.
Dash attack			13% (blade), 9% (hilt)	An inward swipe while sliding forward.
Forward smash	↗		19.5% (tip), 13% (shaft)	Thrusts the lance forward. Can be angled, though the upward-angled variation is the strongest.
	→		18% (tip), 12% (shaft)
	↘		17.2% (tip), 11.5% (shaft)
Up smash			2% (hits 1-3), 10% (hit 4), 16% (total)	Swings his whip-sword upward, hitting multiple times.
Down smash			23%	Sweeps the axe from front to back.
Neutral aerial		rowspan="1"	2.5% (hits 1-3), 3% (hit 4), 10.5% (total), 1% (landing)	Spins the bow around himself, hitting multiple times.
Forward aerial			12.7% (tip), 8.5% (shaft)	Swings the lance horizontally in front.
Back aerial			15% (tip), 10% (shaft)	Thrusts the lance backward.
Up aerial			3% (hits 1-2), 5.5% (hit 3), 11.5% (total)	Swings his whip-sword upward, hitting multiple times.
Down aerial			19%	Swings the axe downward, with the ability to meteor smash opponents. Deals heavy damage to shields.
Grab			—	Grabs with his left hand.
Pummel			1.5%	Knees the opponent.
Forward throw			3% (hit 1), 3% (throw)
Back throw			7%	Wraps the whip-sword around his opponent and swings them around twice, throwing them behind on the second spin.
Up throw			6% (hit 1) 3% (throw)	Shoves the opponent upward with his sword.
Down throw			3% (hit 1), 2% (throw)
Forward roll Back roll Spot dodge Air dodge		—	—
Techs		—	—
Floor attack (front) Floor getups (front)			7%
Floor attack (back) Floor getups (back)			7%
Floor attack (trip) Floor getups (trip)			5%
Edge attack Edge getups			9%
Neutral special		Failnaught	12% (normal), 29% (fully charged)	The move (called 魔弓 フェイルノート, Demon Bow, Failnaught in Japanese) has him fire an arrow. He can charge it for more speed and damage, change directions while charging, and can charge-cancel with shield until a certain duration. Charging at its maximum duration will fire a powerful arrow that has a similar animation to the staff item. It must be charged a bit before it can be fired, similarly to how Bullet Climax cannot be shield-canceled instantaneously and must charge first.
Side special		Areadbhar	17.2% (tip), 11.5% (shaft)	The move (called 魔槍 アラドヴァル, Demon Spear, Areadbhar in Japanese) has him lunge forward while swinging the lance upward with impressive horizontal and vertical range. If the move is smash-inputted, Byleth lunges forward farther, further improving its range. Aerial version has him spin it in an arc around him, covering area his aerial attacks don't but at expense of lag.
Up special		Sword of the Creator	1% (hit 1), 3% (grab), 9.4% (bounce)	The move (called 魔剣 天帝の剣, Demon Sword, Sword of God in Japanese) has him fling the whip-sword upward, acting as a tether recovery. If it connects with an opponent, Byleth reels the opponent in and bounces off of them. At higher percents, this bounce will meteor smash.
Down special		Aymr	30% (grounded hit), 8% (shockwave), 25% (aerial hit)	The move (called 魔斧 アイムール, Demon Axe, Aymr in Japanese) has him channel all of his energy into a single, powerful yet sluggish strike. It has super armor during startup, can be reversed, and Byleth can drop through platforms while performing it. Like other "bold" moves (such as Falcon Punch, Warlock Punch, and Hatchet Man), it triggers Special Zoom.
Final Smash		Progenitor God Ruptured Heaven	10% (initial hit), 20% (strike), 15% (end)

Classic Mode: A Heroic Legacy

• This route is themed around the different Fire Emblem games, fought in order of Super Smash Bros. appearances.
• All battle are stamina battles, the player always starts with 100 HP. 1vs1 opponents have 100 HP, opponents in team battles have 50 HP and CPU allies in last round start with 30 HP each.

Round	Opponent	Stage	Music	Notes
1	Marth	Temple	Story Meeting 5	This is a reference to how Marth had to use Temple as his home stage in Super Smash Bros. Melee, due to it not having a Fire Emblem stage.
2	Roy	Arena Ferox(Battlefield form)	Winning Road - Roy's Hope
3	Ike (both Path of Radiance and Radiant's Dawn versions (),	Castle Siege	Eternal Bond	Path of Radiance Ike will appear once the first one is defeated.
4	Male Robin , Lucina and Chrom	Arena Ferox	Id (Purpose) (Remix)	Team battle.
5	Male and Female Corrin ()	Coliseum	Lost in Thoughts All Alone (for 3DS / Wii U)	Team battle.
6	Byleth (x3)	Garreg Mach Monastery	Fódlan Winds	Represent the house leaders in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. The Edelgard themed costume will prefer down specials, the Dimitri costumed Byleth will prefer side specials and the Claude costume will prefer neutral specials, showcasing their respective weapons in the game.
Bonus Stage
Final	Master Hand	Final Destination	Code Name: F.E	On intensity 7.0 and higher, Crazy Hand fights alongside Master Hand, the player has Marth, Roy, Ike, Robin (male) and Corrin (male) as CPU allies with 30 HP.

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 using her back aerial on Garreg Mach Monastery.

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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 using her down special against Zelda's Phantom.

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  Male Byleth using his neutral special on Garreg Mach Monastery.

Trivia

• Byleth is the only character in Volume 1 of the Fighters Pass to not be from either a third-party company or a new universe, and is the second such DLC character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, after Piranha Plant.
• Byleth, like Ike, Pokémon Trainer, Wii Fit Trainer, and Inkling, is one of the few characters to have alternate costumes with different animations: Byleth stand animation is slightly different depending on the costume gender. Female Byleth holds the Sword of the Creator with its tip pointed upwards, while male Byleth holds it with its tip pointed downwards. All animations that can be played from the stand animation (like the idle animations) are subsequently affected through the animation blending.
• With his 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. He is also the first character in the game to make his gaming debut after Ultimate's original release in December 2018, which was also the case with fellow Fire Emblem characters Roy and Corrin in their debuts.
  • Correspondingly, Byleth is currently the only fighter in Ultimate to have debuted on the Nintendo Switch.
• 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 his 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 SSB4 site similarly showing both genders, unlike other characters with alternate costumes.
  • Additionally, because male and female Byleth have different names in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese, the lists of fighters on the website names both of them in those languages.
• Byleth is the first and only character with two different introduction taglines in the same trailer. This is due to male and female versions having different names in Japanese.
• According to Sakurai's presentation, Byleth's development was worked in secret; even most of Nintendo worldwide did not know about this inclusion. Only the development team and other stakeholders 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 four months prior at The Game Awards 2018.
• If excluding Kazooie, the female variant of Byleth is the first female DLC character in Ultimate.
  • Additionally, Byleth is the second DLC character to have a male and female variant, following Corrin in SSB4.
• Byleth and Hero are the only Fighters Pass characters whose pages were available on the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate website the same day they were announced.
• Byleth is the only character in Ultimate to have an exclusively tether-based up special, as Joker gains Wings of Rebellion through Arsene, and Ivysaur can use alternative up special moves through Pokémon Change.
  • His tether is also the first one in Ultimate that can grab opponents while the user is airborne.
• Byleth, along with Robin and Corrin, shares the unique distinction of being Fire Emblem characters:
  • That have costumes that change their default genders (which are all male).
  • That have access to projectiles.
• Robin and Byleth are the only Fire Emblem characters whose down specials are not counterattacks.
  • Also like Robin, Byleth utilizes more than one weapon.
• Byleth is one of two female characters with moves that have super armor, along with Wendy.
  • Coincidentally, they are both alternate costumes.
• For unknown reasons, the Korean reveal of Byleth has been delayed, being revealed on January 22, 2020 rather than January 16 like in other regions.
• When Byleth is Star KO'd, he shouts, "My battle ends here...!" This is a reference to a line of dialogue when he exhausts his health in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. He shares the distinction of speaking a full sentence during a Star KO with Pit.
• When KO'd by reaching 0 HP in Stamina Mode, Byleth uses his heavy knockback scream rather than his standard KO scream. This also applies to Mario, Dr. Mario, Hero and Terry.
• When KO'd normally, male Byleth may shout "Not my best!" and female Byleth may shout "Forgive me!"
• Byleth is so far the only DLC character to appear in multiple spirit battles. Joker, Hero, and Banjo & Kazooie only appear in one, while Piranha Plant and Terry don't appear in any.