Isabelle joins the battle from Animal Crossing: New Leaf! She uses various trinkets from around the village to battle. Her side special, "Fishing Rod," not only allows her to snag and bring opponents closer, it can also be used as a recovery move.
Isabelle (しずえ, Shizue) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The secretary for the player character in Animal Crossing: New Leaf and de facto mascot of the Animal Crossing franchise, she was announced as a newcomer at the end of the September 13, 2018 Nintendo Direct. While she shares many moves with Villager, Isabelle is not an Echo Fighter and has a multitude of unique moves, attributes, and animations; and as such Isabelle is classified as fighter #68.
Isabelle's basic attributes are slightly different from those of Villager; she has slightly faster grounded and aerial mobility at the cost of being slightly lighter and floatier.
Isabelle's moveset has several similarities with that of Villager, such as a similar dash attack, the use of Pocket, slingshot and turnip attacks, and grabbing with a net.
She wears her Spring/Summer outfit by default, but can also wear her Autumn/Winter outfit, which has a red variant based on her twin brother Digby.
Dream Town Hall now grants Isabelle invulnerability after the last hit.
Created glitch where if Villager or Isabelle herself Pocket one another's slingshot from a Pocket, the game will crash.
Despite the updates, Isabelle can perform three infamous glitches that have not been fixed.
The infinite Assist Trophy glitch can be performed with two Isabelles using Fishing Rods to catch the Assist Trophy at the same time. This causes one Isabelle to summon an endless amount of a single Assist Trophy. This glitch can be used on most other items for varying effects, but the Assist Trophy gives by far the most extreme results.
The second glitch is a game-crashing glitch which involves a Villager. Isabelle or Villager must use their forward or back aerials, with the other character using Pocket to store the slingshot pellet. From there, they have to constantly unpocket, throw, and repocket the item very quickly. If successful, an error message will pop up and close the game.
The final glitch occurs when using Fishing Rod as a tether recovery with a specific positioning and momentum. During this glitch, Isabelle will teleport and land on stage immediately, rather than grabbing the ledge.
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Whacks the opponent with a toy hammer. This move is a single-hit jab with very low knockback. At low percent, the move can hit multiple times due to its speed and low endlag. Can lock. At high percents, it can combo into tilts or down smash.
Identical to Villager's, but with a brown pot instead of a potted sapling. Either breaks or bounces off the ground after hitting it. The hitbox on the pot disappears even after bouncing off the ground. When used near a ledge, will fall off and continue to have a hitbox.
Swings turnips above her head. Unlike Villager's, she will always swing two turnips, making it more consistent but removing the chance of getting more knockback with three turnips.
Swings turnips below her body. Similar to her up air, she will always swing two turnips, making it more consistent than Villager but removing the chance of getting more knockback with three turnips.
Pockets projectiles and items, similar to Villager. The performance of this move is identical to Vilager's variant. After pocketing a projectile, using neutral special will produce and use the projectile. Using neutral special with a pocketed item will put the item in Isabelle's hand.
Casts out a fishing rod. The distance it is cast depends on whether or not it was inputted while flicking the stick. It can be left out for a period of time, before Isabelle will automatically begin to slowly reel it in. Pressing the special or attack button will automatically reel it in completely at any time. When an opponent is captured by the fishing rod, she reels them in and can throw the opponent in one of 4 directions. The forward and up variants can kill at high percents. The fishing rod can also be used as a tether recovery and can also grab items. Unlike normal grabs, it cannot grab opponents through shield.
Sits on a swing with two bunny balloons. Nearly identical to Villager's variant, and grants a lot of distance. Pressing Special will cause Isabelle to rise. Pressing Attack will cancel the move while propelling her slightly upwards.
Plants a Lloid into the ground. When someone steps over it, or when down special is inputted again, the Lloid rocket shoots out vertically, dragging the opponent with it. If nothing happens for 10 seconds, the trap will disappear. After taking 10% damage, it will explode, which will damage Isabelle if she is near the explosion.
When activated, Tom Nook and his sons come and build a town hall, trapping opponents that got caught in the Final Smash. Once the town hall is completed, it explodes, dealing high knockback and damage. While almost similar to Villager's variant, it deals more knockback and damage. The final hit is also faster, matching the speed of Villager's Final Smash in Smash 4.
Dusts herself off and jumps for joy twice before putting her hands on her hips, identically to the Pride emote.
Waves energetically with her left then right hands, then poses with her arms wide open and a joyful smile.
Waves goodbye to Lloid as he rockets off to the distance, then turns to face the camera and strikes a pose similar to how her render looks in Ultimate.
Isabelle's opponents are composed of nearly all the female challengers that appear in Ultimate; the only female challengers that do not appear are Dark Samus and Spiky-eared Pichu. The only non-female challenger is Popo of the Ice Climbers, as it is impossible for Nana to be alone.
Although Isabelle does not appear in the World of Light opening cutscene, she was vaporized and later imprisoned alongside the rest of the fighters (sans Kirby) when Galeem unleashed his beams of light.
She can be found near a small town on a secluded road, that requires the spirit of Kapp'n (Wild World) to be driven through a tunnel to reach.
Isabelle is the fourth character to be announced in Ultimate that was previously featured as a Mii costume in Super Smash Bros. 4, the others being Inkling, Chrom, and King K. Rool. Additionally, she uses a party popper in her moveset, which was used in her Mii costume in place of an arm cannon.
Isabelle is also the third character to become playable after previously appearing as an Assist Trophy, after Little Mac and Dark Samus.
The Nintendo Direct that revealed Isabelle as a playable fighter was supposed to air on September 6th, 2018. However, an earthquake struck Hokkaidō, Japan that day. Its aftermath prompted Nintendo to postpone the Direct—and by extension, news of Isabelle's inclusion in Ultimate—by one week, out of respect for those affected by the tremor. This makes Isabelle the only playable character in the series' history whose reveal was explicitly delayed for any given reason.
Isabelle's reveal trailer initially appeared to be a reveal trailer for a new Nintendo Switch installment of the Animal Crossing series, and was followed by an actual teaser trailer confirming such a title for 2019.
Tom Nook is even seen watching Isabelle's own trailer on his computer, before telling the audience he has to get back to work, in order to prepare for the upcoming game.
This is the second time an upcoming Nintendo game has been teased through a character reveal trailer, the first being Luigi's Mansion 3, which was teased by Luigi's new Poltergust in Simon and Richter's reveal trailer.
In her reveal trailer, Isabelle opens a letter inviting her to join Smash Bros. that is enclosed in an envelope with a wax seal in the shape of the Super Smash Bros. logo. This is a callback to a similar letter found by Villager in his mailbox in the first trailer for Super Smash Bros. 4.
Joker also receives a similar letter in a trailer revealing him as a downloadable fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
There is an error on Isabelle's page on the Smash Bros. Ultimate site where her Animal Crossing symbol is the same color as Villager's (a dark green), instead of chartreuse, her background color.
Isabelle is the first newcomer in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to be from a franchise that had their first character introduced in Super Smash Bros. 4 . Her inclusion also makes Animal Crossing the first franchise with a single character in Smash 4 to receive another playable character, the other being Street Fighter.
Strangely, Isabelle's reveal trailer shows that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was then still Rating Pending, even though the rating had already been revealed to be rated E10+ at the time. Whether this was an error on Nintendo's part or ESRB's part is unknown, though European trailers kept the PEGI 12 rating.
In a Famitsu column, Sakurai noted that because Isabelle and Villager have significantly different proportions and personalities, it was not possible for Isabelle to be Villager's Echo Fighter, and therefore, she has completely unique animations,[1] although she still shares many moves with Villager.
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