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{{Infobox Item
|title = Fake Smash Ball
| title       = Fake Smash Ball
|image = [[File:Fakesmashball.png|250px|Fake Smash Ball]]
| image       = [[Image:Fakesmashball.png|250px]]
|caption = {{symbol|ssb}}<br>The Fake Smash Ball item as it appears in ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''
| caption     = The Fake Smash Ball item as it appears in ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''
|universe = {{uv|Super Smash Bros.}}
| universe     = {{uv|Super Smash Bros.}}
|item class = Special
| item class   = Special
|games = ''[[Ultimate]]''
| game1 = Ultimate
}}
| requirements = }}{{cquote|''This dangerous item looks like a Smash Ball, but it explodes when you break it. Take a closer look and you can see that the symbol is the exact opposite of a real Smash Ball, and the horizontal line is thicker...''|cite=[https://www.smashbros.com/en_US/blog/ Super Smash Blog]|source=[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Official Site]]}}
{{cquote|''This dangerous item looks like a Smash Ball, but it explodes when you break it. Take a closer look and you can see that the symbol is the exact opposite of a real Smash Ball, and the horizontal line is thicker...''|cite=[https://www.smashbros.com/en_US/blog/ Super Smash Blog]|source=[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Official Site]]}}
The '''Fake Smash Ball''' ({{ja|スマッシュボーム|Sumasshubōmu}}, ''Smash Bomb'') is an item that is scheduled to appear in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' for the [[Nintendo Switch]]. It was revealed at E3 2018, and behaves similarly to the [[Smash Ball]].  
The '''Fake Smash Ball''' ({{ja|スマッシュボーム|Sumasshubōmu}}, ''Smash Bomb'') is an item in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''. It was revealed at E3 2018.


==Overview==
Upon spawning, the Fake Smash Ball will begin acting similarly to a default Smash Ball, although it tends to drift towards fighters and action instead. When broken, it slows down time slightly and yields a colourful X-shaped explosion which launches nearby players (and therefore usually launches the player who broke it). The explosion has large damage and knockback in the version of the game shown at E3, and is likely to function similarly in the final release.
Like a true [[Smash Ball]], the Fake Smash Ball slowly floats through the air, although it tends to drift towards fighters and action instead. Also unlike the Smash Ball, it will occasionally move very erratically, usually to interfere with an attack, making it quite devious to deal with. It can be distinguished from a true Smash Ball by carefully looking at its black lines, whose thickness is switched around. When broken, it slows down time slightly and yields a colorful X-shaped explosion. The explosion deals 36% damage and very strong knockback to nearby players, likely including the player who broke it, and 18% with weaker knockback as it dissipates.


The Fake Smash Ball is much less durable than a real one, likely to make the item more effective since if too much screen time is given to the item then players would likely just stop interacting with it after a few attacks, rendering it pointless. It becomes indestructible during a Final Smash, preventing the Final Smash, or any other attack, from breaking it and dealing extra damage to fighters caught in the Final Smash. In addition, the Fake Smash Ball can appear alongside a real one, and multiple Fake Smash Balls can appear at once.
==Design==
The Fake Smash Ball's design is similar to that of the regular Smash Ball, but with the thick and thin lines of the Super Smash Bros. logo switched around. Otherwise, it shares the exact graphical effects that the regular Smash Ball has.


==Origin==
==Origin==
Although the Fake Smash Ball is an original Smash Bros. universe item, the inspiration for the item can be traced back to the Mario Kart series, which features [[mariowiki:Fake Item Box|Fake Item Box]]es. These items made their debut in ''Mario Kart 64''. As with the Fake Smash Ball, Fake Item Boxes are obstacles designed to look like the real thing, distinguishable only by an upside-down question mark, lack of spinning, reddish sheen, or some other mark.
While the Fake Smash Ball is an original item in Smash Bros., it might be a reference to the [[X Bomb]].
 
The explosion also resembles that of [[X Bomb]]s.
 
==Gallery==
<gallery>
SSBUWebsiteFakeSmashBall1.jpg|{{SSBU|Meta Knight}} and {{SSBU|Roy}} facing a Fake Smash Ball.
SSBUWebsiteFakeSmashBall2.jpg|The Fake Smash Ball exploding.
</gallery>
 
==Names in other languages==
{{langtable
|ja={{ja|スマッシュボーム|Sumasshubōmu}}
|jaM=Smash Bomb
|en=Fake Smash Ball
|fr=Fausse balle Smash
|frM=Fake Smash Ball
|es=Bola Smash falsa
|esM=Fake Smash Ball
|de=Smash-Bombe
|deM=Smash Bomb
|it=Sfera Smash finta
|itM=Fake Smash Ball
|nl=Nepsmashbal
|nlM=Fake Smash Ball
|ru={{rollover|Смеш-бомба|Smesh-bomba|?}}
|ruM=Smash Bomb
|ko={{rollover|스매시봄|Seumaesibom|?}}
|koM=Smash Bomb
|zh_cn={{rollover|乱斗弹|Luàndòu Dàn|?}}
|zh_cnM=Smash Bomb
|zh_tw={{rollover|亂鬥彈|Luàndòu Dàn|?}}
|zh_twM=Smash Bomb
}}


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
* The Japanese name of the Fake Smash Ball, "Smash Bomb", is possibly also a pun on "Smash Ball" ({{ja|スマッシュボーム|Sumasshubōmu}} and {{ja|スマッシュボール|Sumasshubōru}} , respectively), as they only differ by one syllable.
* As a possible pun, the Japanese names of the Smash Ball and Fake Smash Ball ({{ja|スマッシュボール|Sumasshubōru}} and {{ja|スマッシュボーム|Sumasshubōmu}}, respectively) differ by only a single character.
*For some unknown reason, the blog post for the Fake Smash Ball on the official ''Super Smash Bros.'' website was removed shortly after it got posted. This appeared to only happen in American and European regions, as the blog post remained on the Japanese site. The post was eventually restored the next day, along with two other new blog posts.


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