Pac-Man (SSB4)

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Pac-Man in Super Smash Bros. 4
Universe	Pac-Man
Availability	Starter
Final Smash	Super Pac-Man

“	PAC-MAN Hungers for Battle!	”
—Introduction Tagline

Pac-Man (パックマン, Pakkuman), also stylized as PAC-MAN, is a newcomer in Super Smash Bros. 4, first shown on June 10th to attendees of the E3 2014 Smash Bros. Roundtable and later confirmed to the public on Nintendo of America's Twitter account. His abilities involve throwing fruits at other fighters and eating power pellets, along with basic punching and kicking abilities for close-range moves. He is noted within the trailer for being, along with Mr. Game & Watch, among the oldest characters in the game, first appearing in 1980 (earlier than Mario's debut in Donkey Kong). While Pac-Man is introduced in his classic "wedge" shape, within the game he mostly takes his 3D "ball" form that appeared in game cabinet artwork and advertising but first appeared in-game in the Japanese version of Pac-Land.

Moves

• Bonus Fruit, a move where he summons 8-bit fruit, and Galaxian Starships. This is his neutral special. [3]
• Side special is when he turns into his ball form and chomps on a chain of pac-dots. The player can control the path of the dots and use it to assist his up special.
• Down special spawns a Fire Hydrant that shoots water with a push effect. It can also be launched with an attack into players.
• His jab consists of two punches followed by a kick.
• His up air is similar to the aerial flip kick from Pac-Man World 2.
• His down air, that involves Pac-Man stomping multiple times downward, much like Lucas's down air in Brawl.
• Neutral aerial has Pac-Man spin around in his ball form, similar to Wolf's neutral air in Brawl.
• Turns into his ball form and dashes forward as his dash attack.
• Forward smash is where he shoots Blinky, the red ghost, forward.
• Up smash where he shoots Inky, the blue ghost, straight upward with moderate knockback with high ending lag.
• Down smash where he shoots Pinky and Clyde at both of his sides.
• When using his side tilt, the beam from Boss Galaga is seen. It is emitted from Pac-Man's hand.
• Up special where Pac-Man spawns a trampoline from the Namco game Mappy that can be bounced on by other players, similarly to Sonic's Spring Jump and Mega Man's Rush Coil. The trampoline will remain where it was spawned, even in midair, and will change color from blue to yellow to red each time it is used. If the trampoline is red when it is used, it will break and the player will enter a helpless state as they fall.
• Namco Roulette, an up taunt where he summons classic Namco items, characters, and enemies, similar to Bonus Fruit, including those from Galaga, Mappy, Dig Dug, and Xevious.
• He has a taunt where he lays down while 2 ghosts and music notes hover over him.
• A Final Smash, where Pac-Man turns into a giant 2-D version of his 8-bit form and can go toward other players. When he catches them, it's knockback will transform other players into a pair of ghost eyes for a second similiar to how Pac-Man ate ghosts in his original self-titled game.
• Pac-Man can wall jump. [4]

Special Moves

Special Move	Basic	Custom 1	Custom 2
Neutral Special	Bonus Fruit	-	-
Side Special	Power Pellet	-	-
Up Special	Pac-Jump	-	-
Down Special	Fire Hydrant	"Erupting Plug"	"Exploding Plug"
Final Smash	"Super Pac-Man"	-	-

Trailer

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Gallery

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  Pac-Man's poster used on the official website.

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  Pac-Man's introduction image.

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  Pac-Man with the other third party characters, Sonic and Mega Man.

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  Pac-Man with Mario, Sonic, and Mega Man.

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  Pac-Man and Zero Suit Samus.

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  Pac-Man in his classic form that the uses for certain attacks.

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  Namco Roulette with Kirby.

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  Pac-Man kicking a Pooka.

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  Pac-Man and Mario on the Pac-Maze stage.

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  Pac-Man's neutral special move, Bonus Fruit.

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  Pac-Man holding a sprite of Mappy.

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  Various sprites that can be summoned with Namco Roulette.

Trivia

• Red, Blue, Yellow (Pac-Man's trailer) is the first newcomer trailer that shows footage of the 3DS version.
• Pac-Man is the oldest third-party character to appear in a Super Smash Bros. game, beating out the next oldest, Solid Snake, by seven years.
  • Overall, he is the second oldest Super Smash Bros. character, as his debut was one month (in Japan; 6 months in North America) after Mr. Game & Watch's debut.
• Pac-Man, along with Shulk, are the only two characters in the game without a Green palette swap option.