Saffron City (SSS)

:This article is strictly about how Saffron City appears in Super Smash Stadium. For information about it in general, see .
Saffron City is a stage on Super Smash Stadium. It debuted in the spring of 1973 and was the 13th stage to debut.
==Stage overview==
The stage takes place on the roof of the Silph Co. building, which is sloped in the middle and has a doorway that presumably leads back into the building. There are also two smaller buildings on either end, and the one on the left has Mario-style elevators above it.
There is a stage hazard on this stage, courtesy of the Pokémon come out of the doorway every now and then. Among the possibilities:
*Venusaur: Uses Razor Leaf. Also does as much as 15% on contact.
*Charmander: Spews flames, presumably using Flamethrower.
*Electrode: Uses Explosion, dealing huge damage and knockback, just like the kind that comes out of the Poké-Ball item.
*Chansey: Throws eggs. They may heal you on contact, or they may act just like pills and have another item inside.
*Porygon 1: Uses a Tackle that is strongest right when it pops out, then gets weaker over time.
==Changes==
The last major change to this stage happened in 1990.
*The stage was originally in 8-bit (like most other stages of the era) lacked the two extra buildings, elevators, and Pokémon.
*The Pokémon were in place by the stage's third playing.
*In 1980, the stage was redone with an orange-yellow motif. It was at this point that the two extra buildings and the left building's elevators were added, and that the stage's main music became a theme of Team Rocket rather than a riff on the Pokémon theme.
==In its own universe==
Saffron City is the second-largest city in , after . Silph Co. is its main attraction, as one of Kanto's largest employers and a company that makes products for Trainers, working with Hoenn's Devon Corp. in some later portrayals to achieve this. Partially due to how primitive the Pokémon games looked in Generation 1, this level's portrayal of Saffron City borrows more from the animé.
The fact that this stage uses Team Rocket themes for its music rather than the canon music heard in the actual Smash Bros. games references the fact that, in the Generation 1 games, Silph Co. is Team Rocket's ultimate target. Silph Co. is where the final confrontation with the team takes place; the team is looking to get its hands on Silph Co.'s then-top secret , and essentially holds the entire city hostage to achieve this goal.
Some fans have pegged Saffron City as being the capital of Kanto. St. Clair Publications is not one of them; The World of Nintendo was fairly adamant about a region's "capital" being where its Pokémon League is, even though this means Johto would have no capital.