Super Smash Bros. Fusion Force

Artwork of the mobile app's logo.

*❝ Unleash the power of the fusion!❞*
―Trailer motto for the mobile app
**Super Smash Bros. Fusion Force** is a crossover free-to-play mobile app for iOS, iPadOS and Android devices where it was published by Nintendo and developed by Bandai Namco, Sora Ltd. and King (from the makers of *Candy Crush Saga*). This Super Smash Bros. mobile game was first teased at the end of the Nintendo Direct on Kwanzaa (December 26, 2020) and was fully revealed on February 5, 2021. Super Smash Bros. Fusion Force has been released on April 23, 2021. This fighting and platforming game requires an internet connection and a Nintendo account to play this mobile app.

## Gameplay

Super Smash Bros. Fusion Force is heavily based on the Super Smash Bros. franchise on Nintendo systems. When starting up the mobile app for the first time and before visiting the main menu, players must summon the Android Phone Mascot itself, Bugdroid along with the Mii Fighters based on a Brawler, Swordfighter and Gunner and an Ace-class fighter for free to use during gameplay. The Mii Fighters and Bugdroid can be customized in the Customization Menu.

During gameplay, players can fight opponents by tapping on the enemy and the player will get closer to them to attack. When performing a smash attack and a special move, players must use the following commands as of the previous Super Smash Bros. games. Players can use the control pad on the touch screen to move. Pressing the A button initiates normal attacks, while using the control pad and the A button initiates smash attacks. Pressing the B button initiates a neutral special move. Using the control pad for the side, up and down directions along with the B button initiates the side, up and down special moves. Pressing the L button initiates a grab. The player can perform a throw using the control pad. The R button activates the shield just by holding it. The player can also activate the shield by holding the L button.

On a stage during gameplay, Smash card boxes (in their style as item boxes from the *Mario Kart* series) can now appear for players to use. Players can pick up items by going near one and press A. There are various types of Smash cards. The Red card initiates increased power of smash attacks. The Yellow card initiates powerful special moves. The Green card initiates helpful items such as a Beam Sword and a Ray Gun. The Blue card involves performing a Final Smash. After a random amount of time has passed and the character's icon has been filled up, players can tap on the character's icon to have the blue card reveal itself. The fifth and final card is the rainbow card, which involves performing a Team Final Smash. The rainbow card can be revealed when the player has two or three characters alive and after collecting all of letters from the red, yellow, green and blue cards that spell out S-M-A-S-H.

Before gameplay, players can now perform the fusion technique on their favorite characters using the power of each spirits, support items and many other characters in common. Fusing characters can only be featured in the Fusion Chamber. When summoning a character in the Summon Chamber, players can use Smash Tokens to summon their favorite characters who appear from each Super Smash Bros. game to train and fuse their favorite characters. Players who have a Nintendo Account and any of the following accounts such as *Google* and *Facebook* can link their account to the mobile app to prevent their progress from being automatically deleted. As of the version 1.2.0 update, players can now play this game offline, even if they are not connected to the internet. But they will keep earning the number of XP to level up according to the CPU's difficulty level when playing Solo mode battles.

## Characters

When starting up this mobile app, players start out as three Mii Fighters based on a Brawler, Swordfighter and Gunner (in their appearance from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate) and Bugdroid along with a healthy sum of Smash Tokens. The SSB4 variants of the Mii Brawler, Swordfighter and Gunner can be unlocked later when either the player reaches level 50 or logs in for a total of 100 days. Other playable characters besides the Mii Fighter variants and Bugdroid can be obtained by summoning in the Summon Chamber. Each character has a rating of either a Novice, Advanced, Ace or Legend. As of the two Super Smash Flash games, fourth-party characters such as Goku (from the *Dragon Ball* series) and Ichigo Kurosaki (from the *Bleach* series) join forces in this fighting mobile app.

In the Fusion Chamber, players can now fuse their characters with the power of spirits and many other characters (similar to fusing two monsters to become one powerful monster in the *Yu-Gi-Oh!* franchise where players known as duelists use the *Polymerization* card). For example on the first method, fusing a playable character such as Mario with the Smoky Progg spirit will both become *Smoky Mario*. Another method is combining a character with a support item. For example, fusing Sonic with the Chaos Emeralds support item turns him into *Super Sonic* (as of his Final Smash). On the third method, fusing two ordinary characters such as Pyra and Mythra will both eventually become *Pneuma*. And on the fourth method, fusing two spirits such as Tiki (in her young age) and Naga will both become *Nagi*, one of the fusion assist characters. The same thing happens when fusing a spirit and an item such as Young Zelda and the Triforce item turns Young Zelda into the Adult Zelda, who is playable from Ocarina of Time. Lastly, fusing two spirits into one playable character such as fusing two *Touhou Project* spirit characters Byakuren Hijiri and Sumireko Usami to combine into Bayonetta (in her classic costume from the original Bayonetta), a fully playable character. Any characters that were combined with another character, spirit or a support item will eventually be stored in the Fusion Characters list.

In the version 1.2.0 update, players can now obtain characters by purchasing them at the shop for coins. Various palette swap characters such as the ones for Bowser Jr., Olimar and Corrin are now standalone fighters.

### **Assist Trophy Characters**

Some of the assist trophies can still be KO'd for an extra point in time battles, extra stock in stock battles and 500 coins in coin battles, while many others are immune to being KO'd, whom opponents cannot attack.

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## Pokémon

All of the Pokémon that were released from Poké Balls and Master Balls return from various Super Smash Bros. games. Unlike various assist trophies who cannot be KO'd, all of the Pokémon who emerge from Poké Balls do not, although Ditto (who transforms into the exact fighter) can still be KO'd for an extra point in time battles, extra life in stock battles and 500 coins in coin battles.

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## Mob Smash Enemies

These enemies in Mob Smash can occasionally appear only in bonus challenges that involve defeating enemies. Invincible enemies such as a Zinger and Gastly must be avoided in order for players to prevent themselves from taking damage, unless using a Super Star can instantly defeat them. Getting KO'd in Mob Smash will result in losing points rather than ending this mode. Enemies of Mob Smash can only be found on Battlefield form stages.

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## Items

Items can be picked up at random by tapping on an item box and the player will try to get close to them. Soda brands are exclusive to this mobile app where it affects the player's status such as attack power, defense power and movement speed.

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### **Fusion Bosses**

Fusion Bosses are non-playable boss characters that must be fought in Adventure Mode, Classic Mode Events and Fusion Boss Challenge. Here is a list of all of the fusion bosses which it can be seen below.

## Background Stages

Super Smash Bros. Fusion Force has a wide load of stages originated from each Super Smash Bros. game. This time each playable background stage will have one single music theme as of the original Super Smash Bros. However, it is possible to have alternate songs replace the main songs on each stage during Spirit Battles. Some of the new stages are inspired by various types of soda brands.

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## All-Star Events

For a list of All-Star events, see *List of All-Star Events in Super Smash Bros. Fusion Force*.

## Categories

Each of the following characters and spirits have multiple categories. These categories of the characters and spirits are shown below and can be seen in the *Characters and Spirits* screen.

## Events

*For a list of events, see List of Events in Super Smash Bros. Fusion Force.*

## Spirits

*For a list of Spirits, see List of Spirits in Super Smash Bros. Fusion Force.*

## Spirit Battles

*For a list of Spirit Battles, see List of Spirit Battles in Super Smash Bros. Fusion Force.*

## Trivia

* This is the only Super Smash Bros. installment to:
	+ Have this video game as a mobile app to be released on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets.
	+ Have this mobile app get developed by King, the company that made *Candy Crush Saga*.
	+ Not feature the Smash Ball item since its debut in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and the Fake Smash Ball since its debut in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
	+ Have players fuse their own characters to make powerful ones.
	+ Have fourth-party characters return from the two games, Super Smash Flash 1 and 2.
	+ Feature a setting for character-only and Smash retro victory themes for some of the playable characters.
	+ Feature new voice providers for Bowser, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, King K. Rool, Olimar, Alph, Mega Man and Pac-Man.
	+ Have item boxes (originated from the *Mario Kart* franchise) appear during the battle.
* Characters such as the Koopalings, Female Corrin, Alph and the Inkling Boy are now standalone characters.
* The following stages, Mushroomy Kingdom, Dream Land (GB), Mementos and Balloon Fight each have their own standalone stages.
* Besides Bowser, Ridley and King K. Rool, other villain characters such as Ganondorf, King Dedede and Wolf now have their own victory themes.
	+ Although, characters who are fused together do NOT have a victory theme, but rather use the Mii Fighters and Sandbag's victory theme.
	+ As of this mobile app, Kazuya gets his own victory theme sampled from *Tekken Tag Tournament 2'*s Results theme.
* On December 26, 2020, the teaser trailer for Super Smash Bros. Fusion Force first aired on *Utopia One* during a marathon of *Icons* where the teaser trailer was shown at the end of the episode, *The Super Smash Bros. Franchise*. On January 2, 2021, the same thing happened on *Touhou Genesis* where one of the TV episodes was interrupted at 12:35 PM to show the trailer for this mobile app.