Poké-Floats (SSS)

:This article is strictly about how Poké-Floats appears in Super Smash Stadium. For information about it in general, see...something.
Poké-Floats is an active stage on Super Smash Stadium. It debuted halfway through Season 10 and is the 51st stage to debut. Notable for being the first of three stages to debut multiple characters on it, owing to the presence of Pokémon Trainer, and the only one not belonging to St. Clair Publications in some way.
==Stage overview==
...Yes. This is arguably the most complicated stage to describe solely in words. The gist is that the stage takes place in the sky, and balloons of multiple Pokémon fly across the screen. You must keep up with the balloons as well as your opponents. A full cycle of all the balloons takes about three minutes and 30 seconds.
Among the balloons:
*Mudkip: Slowly floats downwards.
*Steelix: Floats in from the right over Mudkip. Is initially curled but then straightens out. Has been in its Mega form since Season 43, the season that Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire was released in.
*Plusle and Minun: Float in from both sides, eventually squeezing out Steelix, who turns 90 degrees clockwise and becomes unusable.
*Bulbasaur: Floats in from below, pushing Plusle and Minun up.
*Swalot: You can stand in its mouth, but said mouth will eventually close, taking you down with it.
*Slowking and Slowbro: Initially flew in from the left, one behind the other; in Season 43, it changed to Slowking floating in from below and Slowbro from above as a result of the latter getting a Mega Evolution. Also, since Season 49, if an Unlimited Smash is done on this stage, both Pokémon's Galarian forms appear.
*Porygon-Z: Flies in from the right and rotates quickly a few times.
*Hitmontop: Flies in from the top left and moves right, spinning once as it does so.
*Bonsly: Slowly rises up.
*Snorlax: Rises from the bottom and stays there until forced out by Meganium.
*Meganium: Floats in from the right headfirst and stays that way for a bit before fully appearing.
*Whiscash: Undulates slightly as it moves.
*Wobbuffet: Quickly peeks in and out on the bottom right, then appears a second time for slightly longer before floating out for good.
*Unown: For about the last minute or so of the cycle, all 28 variants quickly fly in from side to side, spanning three rows' worth of platforms.
*Magmar: Quickly bobs in and out from the bottom three times; hurts to touch, to the tune of 10% and fire damage.
*Pinsir and Heracross: Float in from the left; Pinsir with its horns open and Heracross sideways. Pinsir then closes its horns and Heracross rotates counterclockwise as if thrusting upwards with a Megahorn.
*Geodude: Became Alolan Geodude in Season 45, occasionally hurting to touch, to the tune of 10% electric damage.
After the last Unowns have left, the cycle repeats again starting from Mudkip.
==Changes==
The last major change to this stage took place on its first playing in Season 32, producing what was just described above.
*Prior to December 19, 2000, the stage took place in an actual parade similar to the , and the balloons moved right to left in a more linear order. This also caused the stage to have no bottom kill zone and walk-off side kill zones.
*From the overhaul until February 23, 2001, the stage had a different background that still explicitly identified the stage as being in Indigo Plateau. This was eventually changed to the pink sky background seen currently.
*Initially, the balloon order was:
**Pidgey
**Doduo
**Pikachu
**Butterfree
**Lapras
**Snorlax
**Meowth
**Scyther
**Eevee
**Chansey
**Magikarp
**Kangaskhan
**Poliwag
**Bulbasaur
**Slowpoke
**Shellder
**Slowbro
**Vileplume
**Metapod
**Psyduck
**Porygon 1
**Cloyster
**Squirtle
**Goldeen
**Dratini
**Mankey
**Sandshrew
**Sandslash
**Geodude
**Graveler
**Gyarados
**Staryu
**Starmie
**Dragonite
*From April 3, 1996 to the end of Season 31, the balloon order was:
**Squirtle
**Onix
**Psyduck
**Chikorita: Leaf was a soft platform.
**Weezing: Gradually shrank in the Season 29 revamp.
**Slowpoke: Uncurled its tail in the revamp.
**Porygon 1 ×3
**Wooper: In the Season 29 revamp, it faced forward, allowing its antennae to be used as soft platforms.
**Sudowoodo
**Snorlax
**Venusaur
**Seel
**Wobbuffet:
**Unown: In the original version, they were all condensed into one float.
**Goldeen: Quickly bobbed in and out in the revamp.
**Lickitung: Had its tongue outstretched initially, then retracted it. This happened in both versions of the stage.
**Chansey: In the revamp, it quickly peeked up in three random spots.
**Geodude
==In its own universe==
This appears to be a stage that is completely original to the Smash Bros. franchise and has little relation to Pokémon whatsoever. The original version of the stage took place on the streets of outside the stadium, as was depicted in the animé, but this appears to be a coincidence.