Spear Pillar (SSS)

:This article is strictly about how Spear Pillar appears in Super Smash Stadium. For information about it in general, see .
Spear Pillar is an active stage on Super Smash Stadium. It debuted on the Season 37 premiere and is the 103rd stage to debut overall, as well as the first one of the "Brawl Era" (fitting) and the first one to debut with St. Clair Publications as sole producer.
==Stage overview==
A somewhat unique two-tiered stage, consisting of a cave on the bottom and a not-quite Battlefield ripoff on the top (there's only two soft platforms). On the top half, the following Pokémon will appear in the background as stage hazards:
*Dialga: Slows everything down for 15 seconds. Stacks with a Stopwatch. May sometimes also step onto the stage and use ; it hurts to touch during this.
*Palkia: Reduces gravity, flips the battlefield backwards, or flips it upside down, reversing your controls in the latter two instances.
*Giratina: Inverts the stage's colors for 15 seconds, breaks the stage apart into pieces, or switches to Origin Form and uses on an opponent.
*Cresselia: Shoots out a crescent-shaped boomerang, or five Moonblasts.
*Darkrai: Unleashes a in the cave. Anyone inside falls asleep and gradually takes damage.
In addition to the above, any Pokémon will fire a Hyper Beam either vertically through one third of the stage or horizontally through the cave. It does severe damage and knockback but can be shielded; Ness and Lucas can also absorb these beams with their PK Magnets. The Pokémon can also tilt the screen up to 60 degrees in a direction, which doesn't really affect play, and can break a hole in the top half of the stage, which gets rebuilt after 15 seconds.
The Lake Trio, Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf, also appear, but they do nothing. Since Giratina is also a Poké-Ball Pokémon, it will not appear from Poké-Balls on this stage.
==Changes==
*Giratina and Darkrai were not available as possible Pokémon until October 19, 2010.
*In Season 37 only, only one predetermined Pokémon could appear during a match. It was painfully easy to spot exactly which Pokémon would appear, as the stage's color scheme would change slightly to match the Pokémon's color scheme: a blue sky meant Dialga would appear, while a purple sky would indicate Palkia. Cresselia got a more indigo tone, which would become the default later on.
*On September 24, 2015, the stage was given its current black/green color scheme.
==In its own universe==
In Generation 4 of Pokémon, Spear Pillar is where the climactic final showdown with takes place. In Diamond and Pearl, the team's leader, Cyrus, uses a Red Chain he made from the extracts of other Pokémon to awaken Dialga or Palkia, and then abuses their power to try and create a new universe on top of the existing one, wiping out all humanity in the process and, so he claims, creating this new world in his image. However, the Lake Trio warps in and destroys his Red Chain, reversing the process. After much butthurt from him, you get a chance to capture Dialga or Palkia for your own use.
In Platinum, the plot thickens slightly. Cyrus awakens both dragons, and the plot proceeds as before until Giratina intervenes, dragging him down to the Distortion World. This initiates a subquest where you have to go into said world alongside Cynthia and capture Giratina to calm it down.