How do you unlock characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate?

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a 2018 Japanese crossover fighting game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

As series director Masahiro Sakurai said himself, it’s a miracle Super Smash Bros. Ultimate exists. Having Mario and Zelda duke it out against Street Fighter’s Ryu and Final Fantasy 7’s Cloud on a battlefield from Metal Gear Solid is a weird, wonderful thing that only the Smash Bros. series can deliver – and Ultimate is undoubtedly Smash Bros. done big and done right.

With 74 fighters (depending on how you count), 108 stages, nearly 1300 Spirit characters to collect, and a single-player Adventure mode that took me a full 24 hours of playtime to beat, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate offers far more in a single package than any of its four predecessors. And while it occasionally felt like pruning away some of its weaker bits could have made Ultimate an even stronger and more consistent whole, excellent new mechanical and aesthetic additions make it stand out as far more than just a rehash of old ideas. It’s nothing short of the brand-new Smash Bros. game I’d imagined as the ideal sequel for the Switch.
It is the fifth installment in the Super Smash Bros. series, succeeding Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. The game follows the series’ traditional style of gameplay: controlling one of the various characters, players must use differing attacks to weaken their opponents and knock them out of an arena. It features a wide variety of game modes, including a campaign for single-player and multiplayer versus modes. Ultimate features 89 playable fighters, including all characters from previous Super Smash Bros. games alongside newcomers. The roster ranges from Nintendo mascots to characters from third-party franchises.

Is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate free?

As mentioned, this freebie is available exclusively to players who have an active, paid Nintendo Switch Online membership. It can’t be claimed during a free trial.

How do you unlock characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate?

how to unlock characters in super smash bros

Apart from World of Light, the way you’ll encounter new characters is the same – you have to beat them in combat, with them challenging you to a match. Play a Smash match (also known as Versus mode) and after the match is over, you’ll be challenged by a random character so you can unlock them.

‘Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’: How to Unlock Every Character

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doesn’t give players access to the entire roster at first. Instead, Nintendo makes fans work for the beloved fighters. While the roster of 70-plus characters may seem like a lot to unlock, Smash Ultimate makes the process fairly simple.

HOW TO UNLOCK SMASH CHARACTERS IN WORLD OF LIGHT

Going through the World of Light adventure mode is the most streamlined way to unlock characters, albeit the longest.

While adventuring, you’ll run into challenges that give you a chance to fight for certain characters. Once you’ve unlocked them in world of light they become available in smash mode.

Fans of Smash Ultimate know they’ll have to start adventure mode with Kirby and go from there.

HOW TO UNLOCK SMASH CHARACTERS BY PLAYING SMASH MODE

The easiest, and fastest, method for unlocking characters in Smash Ultimate is by simply playing smash mode.

Players begin with the original eight smash fighters (Mario, Samus, Fox , Link, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Yoshi, Pikachu) but can unlock the others as you play more and more.

After about 10 minutes of play time (which you can track in the Vault & Play Records) the first character silhouette will appear after the match.

If you’re trying to grind your way to Smash Ultimate character unlocks, you can just select a match with a time limit of 10 minutes, walk away and come back to find the Challenger. Of course, don’t face a CPU when attempting this method.

If you lose your match against the Challenger, you will simply have to wait for a few more challengers appear. Then a new option will appear called Challenger’s Approach. This option is symbolized by a glowing door in the bottom right corner of the games and more menu. Select this to get your rematch against the opponent you lost to in the same order in which you faced them. Defeat them and they’ll be unlocked.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate character list

Below is a list of every single Super Smash Bros. character coming to the game, their place in the roster, as well as any differences between their last game and Ultimate.

How many Super Smash Bros. Ultimate characters are there?

Ultimate features 89 playable fighters, including all characters from previous Super Smash Bros. games alongside newcomers. The roster ranges from Nintendo mascots to characters from third-party franchises.

01: Mario

02: Donkey Kong

03: Link

04: Samus

04ᵋ: Dark Samus

05: Yoshi

06: Kirby

07: Fox

08: Pikachu

09: Luigi

10: Ness

11: Captain Falcon

12: Jigglypuff

13: Peach

13ᵋ: Daisy

14: Bowser

15: Ice Climbers

16: Sheik

17: Zelda

18: Dr. Mario

19: Pichu

20: Falco

21: Marth

21ᵋ: Lucina

22: Young Link

23: Ganondorf

24: Mewtwo

25: Roy

25ᵋ: Chrom

26: Mr. Game and Watch

27: Meta Knight

28: Pit

28ᵋ: Dark Pit

29: Zero Suit Samus

30: Wario

31: Snake

32: Ike

33-35: Pokémon Trainer

36: Diddy Kong

37: Lucas

38: Sonic

39: King Dedede

40: Olimar

41: Lucario

42: R.O.B.

43: Toon Link

44: Wolf

45: Villager

46: Mega Man

47: Wii Fit Trainer

48: Rosalina

49: Little Mac

50: Greninja

51-53: Mii Fighter

54: Palutena

55: PAC-MAN

56: Robin

57: Shulk

58: Bowser Jr.

59: Duck Hunt

60: Ryu

60ᵋ: Ken

61: Cloud

62: Corrin

63: Bayonetta

64: Inkling

65: Ridley

66: Simon

66ᵋ: Richter

67: King K. Rool

68: Isabelle

69: Incineroar

70: Piranha Plant

71: Joker

72: The Hero

73: Banjo and Kazooie

74: Terry Bogard

75: Byleth

76: Min Min

77: Steve

78: Sephiroth

79 / 80: Pyra / Mythera

81: Kazuya

82: Sora

Who is the 69th character in Smash?

Incineroar

Incineroar is casually relaxing until Necrozma notifies him he is the 69th fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Incineroar wonders what that means when King K Rool interrupts.

How do you unlock all of the characters in Super Smash Bros Brawl?

Unlockable Characters

Ness. Play five matches in Brawl. Reflect 10 projectiles.
Marth. Play 10 brawls. Finish Classic mode on any difficulty level.
Luigi. Play 22 brawls. Beat Classic with no continues.
Falco. Play 50 brawls.
Captain Falcon. Play 70 Brawls.
Lucario. Play 100 brawls.
Snake. 130 Brawl Matches.
R.O.B. Play 160 brawls.

Super Smash Bros.™ Ultimate – Battling with Sora – Nintendo Switch

Is Smash ultimate the last game?

Ultimate is to be the last Smash game, no one would complain. It’s the franchise’s final form, and as the best-selling fighting game of all time, it could keep selling millions of copies for years to come.

Is Super Smash Bros over?

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is finally complete. After launching in 2018 with a roster that included every single character from the series’ long history, it has since been steadily updated with new fighters, culminating in the addition of Sora from Kingdom Hearts in October.

Is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate OK for kids?

Smash games are kid-friendly (the ESRB has rated the game E10+) in the sense that they’re brawling without the blood. They’re nothing like traditional fighting games like Mortal Kombat or Soul Calibur, so the violence is contained to cartoonish depictions akin to what you might see on Looney Tunes.