Super Smash Bros.

This article is about the series. For the first game, see Super Smash Bros. (video game).

Super Smash Bros. (also known as SSB, Smash Bros. or Smash) is a fighting game franchise created by Nintendo. There are five titles in total and features a wide cast of characters from Nintendo. Some of them were featured from third-party games. It has been incredibly successful and has garnered a large competitive electronic sports community.

History

Super Smash Bros. was first released in 1999 for the Nintendo 64. The game later got four sequels: Super Smash Bros. Melee for the Nintendo GameCube in 2001, Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii in 2008, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U in 2014, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for Nintendo Switch in 2018.

Gameplay

One of the options in the series uses typical health points. Each character in Super Smash Bros. has a percent value. They start with 0 percent damage. When a fighter is hit, they take damage by raising this percent value. The higher that the percent value is, the easier it will be to knock them off the map. The goal of the game is to knock your opponent off of the stage a certain amount of times.

Each game in the series has a wide variety of playable stages, characters, and game modes. At the beginning of the game, players are limited to a smaller cast of characters to choose from. Players can unlock characters with more time, tasks, and experiences. The characters have different abilities and attacks. All characters respond to the same buttons. The A button is for normal attacks. The B button is for special abilities or attacks, like hitting and shooting. Players can use these buttons and tilt the analog stick in different directions. This makes different attacks and show different abilities. Normal attacks can become smash attacks, which are powerful attacks to push the opponent off-stage. The player can flick the analog stick quickly to create a smash attacks. The controller can be used to shield characters too. There are many combos to grab and throw opponents.

A combination of different attacks and abilities can be used to pull off a combo, where the player traps the opponent in a combination of attacks for high damage. There are many complex techniques and tier lists created by the competitive community of the Super Smash Bros. series.

Items and stages

In some game modes, players can use randomly appearing items to help them damage or KO their opponent. Some of these items include bombs, peaches, baseball bats, assist trophies (which temporarily produces an AI character that attacks opponents), and Smash Balls (which allows the player to unleash a powerful Final Smash attack).

Players can choose stages to play on. Most of the stages are based on places in other Nintendo games, such as Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda and EarthBound, but others (such as the Final Destination stage) are from Super Smash Bros. In later games, player also have the choice to choose out of 3 different stage versions for every stage. These include the default stage, an Omega version (which turns off items, removes obstacles and makes the stage perfectly flat, so that the stage mimics the Final Destination stage) and a Battlefield version (which turns off items, makes the stage perfectly flat but adds three static platforms above it, so that the stage mimics the Battlefield stage). This feature has been added due to the popularity of using no items on a relatively empty stage in competitive tournaments of the games.

Characters

Main article: Characters in the Super Smash Bros. series

The Smash Bros. series has many characters from many different video games. Most of these are from Nintendo games. Starting with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, characters that were not from Nintendo games were added, such as Solid Snake and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Stages

Main article: List of stages in the Super Smash Bros. series

There are many stages in Super Smash Bros. Many characters have stages and some stages aren't tied to a character at all.