Yoshi

For fighter info, see Yoshi (SSB), Yoshi (SSBM), Yoshi (SSBB), and Yoshi (SSB4).

For the universe, see Yoshi (universe).

Yoshi
File:YoshiSymbol.png Official artwork of Yoshi from Mario Party: Island Tour.
Universe	Yoshi
Debut	Super Mario World (1990)
Smash Bros. appearances	SSB Melee Brawl SSB4 Ultimate
Most recent non-Smash appearance	Mario Kart 8 (2014)
Console/platform of origin	Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Species	Yoshi
Gender	Male
Place of origin	Yoshi's Island
Created by	Shigefumi Hino
Designed by	Shigefumi Hino Masanori Sato (artwork) Akiko Hirono
Voice actor	Kazumi Totaka
Article on Super Mario Wiki	Yoshi

Yoshi (ヨッシー, Yosshī, sometimes romanized Yossy in earlier Japanese language materials) is a major character in the Mario series, who eventually spun off into his own series.

Character description

Yoshi, as he appears in Super Mario World. His design in this game inspired his looks in Super Smash Bros. and Melee.

Yoshi first appeared on Mario's first Super Nintendo Entertainment System game, Super Mario World. In the game, the player played as Mario or Luigi, and were able to find Yoshi eggs, which would hatch automatically, revealing a full-grown Yoshi. Later in the game, Baby Yoshis could also be found. The player could grab these baby Yoshis and toss them around like they could with a shell. They could also feed the Yoshi 5 enemies, which would result in the Yoshi maturing, allowing the character to ride the Yoshi's back. Also in the game, 4 different color Yoshis were introduced, each with its own special abilities, depending on what color shell it had in its mouth. The Green Yoshi is the most common found color Yoshi. He grew wings and could fly freely when he had a Blue Shell in his mouth. When he had a Red Shell in his mouth, he could spit fire. Lastly, when he had a yellow shell, he could stomp the ground when he jumped. The color of the Yoshi indicated what his special abilities were when they had a shell in their mouths, matching the colored shells. No matter what shell they had, the Blue Yoshi could fly, the Red Yoshi could spit fire, and the Yellow Yoshi could always stomp the ground.

Yoshi then took the spotlight in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the SNES. As the main playable character, Yoshi kept all his previous moves (eating things, pounding the ground) and added a few new ones (using his tongue, egg tossing, flutter jumping). The game was a prequel of sorts to the Mario universe: Baby Luigi was captured by Kamek while being delivered by the Stork, while a group of Yoshis discover the missing Baby Mario and work to rejoin him with his brother.

Yoshi went on to become a mainstay in the Mario series, as well as his own spin-off series. In the Mario sports games, he is portrayed as the speedy type - he may not have that much power, but he can get from A to B faster than most others.

In Super Smash Bros.

The official Super Smash Bros. artwork for Yoshi

Yoshi makes his first appearance in a fighting game in the original Super Smash Bros. as a starting playable character. As the twelve-character roster goes, Yoshi is arguably the most unique. Not only does his shield (in which he uses an egg rather than the standard bubble that shrinks) not follow the same laws as other shields, but he lacks a triple jump - which he makes up for with a massive and generally safe double jump. These unique points make Yoshi a bit difficult for beginners to learn. He is ranked 6th on the current tier list, in the very middle.

Yoshi's in-game description reads:

Yoshi

Yoshi is the friendly dinosaur of Yoshi's Island. He began as Mario's partner, but has since built his own identity, and now appears in many games. He uses his unique ability to turn whatever he swallows into an egg as his foremost attack. Yoshis come in a rainbow of colors and are said to have a high IQ from a very early age.

Works:

• Super Mario World (SNES)
• Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (SNES)
• Yoshi's Story (N64)

In Super Smash Bros. Melee

Yoshi's artwork from Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Yoshi returns in Melee as a starting playable character. Yoshi stays relatively unchanged, but is given a few new visual properties, such as a more realistic dinosaur posture and several new, unique techniques such as edge-canceled eggs. Although Yoshi can continue to double jump cancel, he continues to lack a third jump and is still unable to jump out of his shield, two things that are hard to simply brush off. That said, his unique shield physics, agile yet heavy frame, and somewhat powerful attacks are not to be shunned. Yoshi was somewhat nerfed in Melee and is ranked 18th on the current Melee tier list.

Trophies

Classic

Yoshis are gentle, fleet-of-foot dinosaurs that make their home on idyllic Yoshi's Island. They come in a variety of colors and have evolved an interesting trait to help increase their numbers: they can transform anything they swallow into an egg. With adhesive tongues and bottomless bellies, Yoshis have been known to eat anything.

• Super Mario World 08/91 (SNES)

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  Trophy [Classic Mode]

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  Smash Red trophy [Adventure Mode]

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  Smash Blue Trophy [All-Star Mode]

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  Mario and Yoshi trophy (unobtainable)

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Yoshi's artwork from Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Yoshi once again returns as a playable character in Brawl. He appears in his more recent cartoony stand-up look from the Mario Sports and Party games. His moves are relatively unchanged from his Melee moveset, except for the fact that his up special move, the Egg Toss, now acts somewhat as a third jump, which gives him a little extra air/stall time. This is a welcome addition for Yoshi, especially since the directional air dodge seen in Melee has been removed, which previously aided Yoshi in his recovery. He also keeps the unique ability to be able to resist knockback during his second jump. Yoshi is ranked 27th on the current tier list in D tier.

Trophies

Classic

A creature that hails from Yoshi's Island. Yoshi's come in a variety of colors, and all possess gentle personalities. No matter what problems they face, they always look like they're having fun. Yoshi's use their long tongues to grab and swallow fruit and enemies. They can convert what they swallow into eggs, which they then lay. They also give Mario rides.

: Yoshi's Safari

: Yoshi's Story

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  Trophy

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  Final Smash trophy

In Super Smash Bros. 4

Yoshi's artwork for Super Smash Bros. 4.

Yoshi has been confirmed to return as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. 4. In this game, Yoshi stands more upright to match more closely to his recent artworks. Yoshi features brighter colors and, from the trailer, seems fairly similar to his past versions. One change is that his up special move, the Egg Toss, has a rainbow effect to it when thrown.

Trivia

• Yoshi's portrayal as a heavyweight in the Smash Bros. series (outweighing Ganondorf in the PAL version of Melee, and being on par with Wario in Brawl) is highly unusual, considering his portrayal in the Mario multiplayer games. In the SNES and N64 eras, Yoshi was characterized as being the fastest of the lightweights; in the GameCube and Wii eras, he is more of a light-middleweight all-arounder that trends towards speed.
• Other non-human Mario characters like Donkey Kong, Bowser and Diddy Kong all use realistic animal noises in the Smash Bros. series, yet Yoshi still maintains his standard noises from the games he appears in (although one could argue Yoshi making realistic dinosaur noises would be unfitting for his personality).
• Yoshi is the only character to have a unique shield, an egg, rather than the bubble that all characters in all three games have.
• Even though Yoshi can take on different colors, the color of his Egg Roll egg and the eggs he can throw will still be the default green, unlike other games such as Yoshi's Story where the egg color would match that of the Yoshi's.
• Yoshi is the only character of "The Original 8" to not appear in the Super Smash Bros. 4 E3 2013 trailer.
  • Similarly, he was the last of The Original 8 to be confirmed in Brawl, and the only one to be confirmed on the DOJO!! before appearing in a trailer.
• The F-Zero and Yoshi series are the only two series to have appeared in all four Smash Bros. games with only one playable character (though Yoshi can be considered a part of the Mario series). However Captain Falcon has Samurai Goroh appearing as an assist trophy while he and Donkey Kong doesn't have any character as a assist trophy. So therefore the Yoshi series and Donkey Kong series are the only series not to have an assist trophy.