Bayonetta (SSS)

:This article is strictly about how Bayonetta appears in Super Smash Stadium. For information about her in general, see .
The very first character to debut in the "Smash 4 Era", Bayonetta is a playable character on Super Smash Stadium. She debuted on the Season 39 premiere, alongside Umbra Clock Tower. Jeanne also debuted around the same time as an Echo Fighter for her.
==In her own universe==
Born in the year 1411 under the name "Cereza", Bayo is one of the last surviving Umbra Witches, a clan of black magic practitioners that is entirely female. The Umbras form contracts with a world known as Inferno, which grants them immense strength and knowledge in exchange for their souls upon death; they can also summon certain Infernal Demons to assist them. Bayo's demon is Madame Butterfly, whose limbs appear during her Smash attacks on SSS.
She can apparently also summon other demons using her hair. The problem, though, is that this causes her to go naked; apparently, her clothing is made of her hair. This, combined with her incredibly "sexy" attitude and the fact that she wears ultra-high heels, has caused her to be an incredibly hated character among feminists, whom Bayo in turn appears to be a massive "fuck you" towards. Almost every appearance she's made on SSS has drawn some joke at the expense of feminists for this reason. Since Season 43, the hosts have made fun of specifically; prior to this, they didn't outright namedrop a feminist.
==Attributes==
Bayo is also a controversial character on SSS, but for a different reason: while she isn't quite as bad as Metaknight was, Bayonetta is still considered a broken character. While SSS thankfully has yet to experience a rerun of EVO 2018 (thanks in no small part to ditto matches being banned on SSS), Bayo has still been quite a handful to fight against in the 66 appearances she's made as of Season 48's end. Almost all of her moves can perfectly or near-perfectly combo into one another, and her recovery is insane for someone who lacks multiple jumps.
This is further augmented by Witch Time and Bat Within, which may be the two most broken moves of any active SSS character. Bullet Climax and her Bullet Arts further allow her to be a zoner, and while she's nearly impossible to edgeguard herself, her air moves allow her to edgeguard a significant chunk of the rest of the roster.
Speaking of which, Bayo has two gimmicks exclusive to her: her Bullet Arts and Bat Within. Her Bullet Arts activate on pretty much all of her attacks, as well as all specials except for her down one. Activating Bullet Arts is as easy as continuing to hold down the attacking button after her attack has finished; she will then fire multiple bullets that act like Fox's neutral special, racking up damage quickly but doing absolutely no knockback at all. Bat Within triggers whenever Bayo does any dodge; if she times the dodge RIGHT as the opponent hits her, she takes half damage from the move and loses no momentum.
This basically allowed Bayo to air dodge in a direction, at a time when directional air dodging had been removed from the game; since Season 47, when directional air dodging returned, Bat Within can also aid in wavedashing.
Some of her...uh, more controversial moves...were censored for SSS.
===Changes===
...Yes.
===Moveset===
Entrance: Pops out of the Umbra symbol in her Bat Within form.
Move Name	Description
Neutral Special:
Bullet Climax	Bayo fires bullets, simple as that. With Bullet Arts, she'll start off firing higher-powered Charge Bullets before transitioning to her normal ones. She may either fire from the guns in her hands or from the heels on her boots, but this is purely aesthetic...
Kirby Variant: ...except for Kirby, who instead fires the bullets at two different heights.
Cannot kill.
Side Special:
Heel Slide or Afterburner Kick	Heel Slide happens on the ground, while Afterburner Kick happens in the air. In both moves, Bayo kicks up to half a Final Destination's length away, then (if you're still holding ) follows up with a capoeira technique known as aú aberto. Bayo's primary combo starter.
Cannot kill.
Up Special:
Witch Twist	Arguably the most broken up special on SSS, Bayo does a corkscrewing kick up. The broken-ness comes from the fact that this move renews her jump count, allowing her to do potentially infinite combinations of her double jump, Afterburner Kick, and this move to cover insane distance and score cheap kills on opponents by dragging them to their doom. The twist is also a disjoint.
Cannot kill on its own.
Down Special:
Witch Time	A counter. Also another one of her infamous moves. Instead of intercepting an opposing attack and paying it back, Bayo slows the opponent down by 1 second for every 25% they're at, allowing her to whale on them with near impunity for that time. However, if an opponent still has hurtboxes out, this move could work against her. Becomes less effective if spammed; requires 15 seconds to get back to full strength.
Cannot kill.
Final Smash:
Infernal Climax	Bayo activates Witch Time for 15 seconds, during which she has to hit any of her opponents in order to fill up a Climax Gauge. Then, she has to deal some sort of knockback to an opponent before time's up.
Once all that mess is overwith, the opponents must suffer through a cutscene in which Gomorrah chomps them up to four times each. Bayo can do extra damage during this cutscene by mashing any attack button to fill a second Climax Gauge. Unfortunately, Gomorrah only launches the victims with fixed knockback. Anyone at 100% or higher when all this mess ends is crushed to death.
Ashley Variant: Bayo starts the move out by yelling out "Smashing!", followed by yelling "Avavago!" to summon the beast. Ashley instead says "Why don't you just chill out?" followed by either "Did that Anita bitch pay you to kill me for daring to criticize her? Well, here's what I do to fucktards like you!" or "Did some cancel culture tardass on Twitter pay you to kill me for daring to criticize them? Well, you're getting cancelled right back, asshole!", followed immediately by "Fuck around and find out!!!"
Kills at 100%, duh.
===Taunts===
Because Bayo's taunts go on for a ridiculously long time, she is able to cancel them, a feature that was given to all fighters in Season 47.
*Up Taunt: Does a seductive, sexy spinning pose.
*Side Taunt: Does another spinning pose which ends with her pointing her guns at the screen, saying "New do, dead you!"
*Down Taunt: Taken straight from Bayonetta 1, it's the dance she does when fighting the first "Joy" there.
===Victory===
*Pose: Breakdances, saying "Dreadful!" when she's done.
*Theme: A riff on "Time for the Climax!"
*"No Contest"/Loss Theme: pending; currently taking suggestions
==Costumes==
*Default
*Classic: Bayo's original, Bayonetta 1 appearance
*All-White
*Bayonetta Sarkeesian: Bayo with a plaid shirt and giant hoop earrings, referencing the signature appearance of a certain aforementioned feminist...
*Jeanne Default
*Jeanne Green
*Jeanne Yellow
*Jeanne Black
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