Wii Fit Trainer

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**Wii Fit Trainer** (Wii Fit トレーナー, *Wii Fit Trainer*) is a playable character in *Super Smash Bros. All Stars*. After initial reveal trailers, her status as a newcomer was revealed during E8 2018 on August 24th, 2018. She was one of the three newcomers announced at E8 2018, alongside Villager and Mega Man. A male version of Wii Fit Trainer was shown on August 24th, 2018, the release date for the trial version of *Wii Fit U*, and was later confirmed to be an alternate costume during the August 23rd, 2018 Super Smash Bros. Direct. She was also among the first wave of amiibo figures compatible with *SSB All Stars*.

Unlike a majority of the characters, Wii Fit Trainer has different voice actors depending on the region and also because of being either female or male. In American English, female and male Wii Fit Trainers are voiced by October Moore and Steve Heinke, while Tania Emery and Luke Smith voice them in British English. In Japanese, they are voiced by Hitomi Hirose and Tomoyuki Higuchi. In French, they are voiced by Corinne Kempa and François Anseaume/Christophe Hespel, who provide dialogue and grunts, respectively. In American Spanish, they are voiced by Isabela Arevalo and Horacio Mancilla, while they are voiced by Pilar Orti and Javier Fernandez Peña in Spanish. In Italian, they are voiced by Lara Parmiani and Giovanni Loto. In German, they are voiced by Sylvia St. John and Michael Hulsmann. For the European Portuguese, Dutch and Russian versions of *SSB4*, their British English voices are used.

Wii Fit Trainer is currently ranked 49th out of 58 on the tier list, placing her in the E tier. Wii Fit Trainer's greatest strength is her offensive potential, as she is able to quickly rack up damage and has respectable power, both of which can be strengthened by using Deep Breathing. She also has two useful projectiles in Sun Salutation and Header, a formidable approach thanks to her mobility, and a decent combo game and impressive mindgame potential due to her unusual hitbox placements.

Wii Fit Trainer's recovery is overall quite good due to a number of traits. In addition to her fairly high jumps and her ability to wall jump, Super Hoop covers above average vertical distance when button mashed, while its hoops can fend off point-blank edge-guarders. Although situational, the first use of aerial Header can be used to either grant a small vertical boost when used at the apex of a jump, or stall her descent. By extension, these traits also grant her fairly strong edge-guarding potential.

However, Wii Fit Trainer's greatest flaw is her range. Her aforementioned unusual hitbox placements make it difficult for her to space consistently without her projectiles, since her attacks can miss despite her body visibly touching against an opponent. Her range issue is also very apparent with her grab game, as her grabs can whiff unless she is practically touching the opponent. Incidentally, her grab game is also largely unimpressive overall: her pummel is very slow, while her throws have very minimal utility outside of dealing damage.

Although she boasts respectable power, Wii Fit Trainer's only has a handful of attacks that KO at reasonable percentages while not boosted by Deep Breathing. In addition, these KOing options are either burdened with considerable overall lag (smash attacks) or rely on sweetspots to KO reliably (up smash and back aerial), which leaves her with only one (up aerial) that has consistent KO potential either with or without Deep Breathing. Deep Breathing itself is also flawed: its duration is short and its recharge time is long recharge, which necessitate wise usage. Lastly, Wii Fit Trainer's recovery is predictable and short-ranged without extendable elements (such as Header) or button mashing Super Hoop.

Due to her steep learning curve, Wii Fit Trainer has a small playerbase and poor matchups against a large portion of the cast. However, she has nonetheless managed to achieve a decent amount of success at various levels of tournament play: John Numbers and Waveguider have collectively won a handful of local tournaments, while John Numbers, RIN and Wii Twerk Trainer have each managed to achieve several high placings in both singles and doubles at regional and national tournaments.