Strong Smash

**Strong Smash**(ストロングスマッシュ *Sutorongusumasshu*) is a gorilla-based Smash from Episode 1 of Kamen Rider Build.

## Personality

The Strong Smash is shown to be a brute who will resort to violence and destruction in order to accomplish his task.

## Appearance

Strong Smash has a curved body with the lower half metal plated with a black/gray color-scheme and with black abs. His orange-colored upper body almost has a spherical shape with a rock-like appearance with a blue back and blue decorations around the body, giving the appearance of a hand clenching the body, with the decoration in the middle acting as the head with the three holes on it acting as the face. He also has two black fists connected to blue/orange-colored arms.

## Biography

During a hunt for an escaped fugitive, named Banjo Ryuga, an amnesic scientist, named Sento Kiryu, confronts him and finds out that he escaped from being apart of human experiment. As Sento is asking him questions, they’re suddenly ambushed by a muscular Smash, called the Strong Smash, who slides an entire car at the two. While they manage to dodge the car, the Strong Smash punches Sento and approaches Banjo. Banjo tries to fight back but ends up getting knocked down and carried away when the Strong Smash jumps away with him. When the Smash brings Banjo to the Sky Wall, Banjo still attempts to fight back with his fists but the Strong Smash is too powerful for him and gets knocked down again. Fortunately, Sento arrives in time and places his Build Driver on his waist. He then pulls out two Fullbottles, the Rabbit Fullbottle and Tank Fullbottle, and starts shaking them, creating flying formula equations and confusing the Strong Smash. Once placing them in his Build Driver, Sento turns the crank and transforms into Kamen Rider Build. Build starts fighting against the Strong Smash and summons his Drill Crusher to strike him. Build then pulls out the Harinezumi Fullbottle, created from the purified essence of the Needle Smash, and switches it with the Rabbit Fullbottle. Using the needle spikes from the Harinezumi Fullbottle, Build manages to get through the Strong Smash’s thick armor and beats down the Smash. Build then switches back to the Rabbit Fullbottle and performs his Vortex Finish where he jumps down into the ground and a chart formula suddenly appears and traps the Strong Smash. Build then jumps back up and slides down the chart to kick the Strong Smash, resulting in the Smash bursting into green flames. With the Smash weakened, Build pulls out an empty Fullbottle and extracts the Strong Smash’s essence, reverting him back into a human named Kyoichi Shimizu, whom Banjo remembers from the human experiments.

## Powers/Abilities

* **Super Strength**: Based on his name, the Strong Smash has incredible strength that allows him to flings cars and punch away his enemies.
	+ **Fists**: With his super strength, the Strong Smash is able to give powerful punches with his fists.
	+ **High Jumping**: Strong Smash is able the jump up high at an incredible length and height, most likely due to the super strength in his legs.

* **Thick Armor**: Strong Smash is equipped with thick armor that makes any kind of punches on him harmless.

## Trivia

* While Strong Smash bares no real resemblance to his motif, gorilla, his design was made to hide the motif without directly inserting it in. This was done in order to bring out the unexpectedness of the Gorilla Fullbottle that was created from his purified essence.
* Shinohara stated that the Strong Smash was difficult to design like with the Needle Smash.
* During the planning stage for the design, the Strong Smash’s whole upper body became like a fist, but originally that element was only a part of the head.
* For the Strong Smash, Shinohara was asked not to make the design look like a Super Sentai Kaijin.