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This article is about Samus's appearance in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. For the character in other contexts, see Samus.
With her Charge Shot, Missile and Bomb, Samus has three different projectiles to keep her opponents in check from a distance. When fully charged up, her Charge Shot is quite powerful. For her Final Smash, she launches a wide laser beam that can be moved up and down!
Samus (サムス, Samus) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. She retains her modified Metroid: Other M design from SSB4. Samus is classified as fighter #04.
Samus's eighth costume, formerly based on Dark Samus, has been replaced with a black and yellow costume due to Dark Samus's inclusion as a playable fighter.
Neutral attack's first hit has set knockback and hitstun, causing it to struggle to combo into other moves (including the second hit of neutral attack) and making it more punishable.
Dash attack now produces a visual effect similar to the Shinespark ability from Super Metroid.
Dash attack has increased knockback, allowing it to KO at high percents.
Dash attack has more endlag, reducing its combo potential.
Forward smash's explosion sweetspot is slightly larger.
Missiles have updated designs. When firing a missile, Samus's visor and armor lights flash blue in reference to Samus's palette when Missiles are selected in the original Metroid.
Super Missiles travel faster and stall initially before flying forward, similar to the Turbo Missile custom move from SSB4.
Super Missiles deal more damage.
Super Missiles have slightly less endlag.
Samus can drift horizontally while firing a missile in the air.
The opponents Samus faces are akin to the battles that she has faced throughout the Metroid series. Samus unlocks Inkling at completion. If not, she unlocks Incineroar.
Each character can be unlocked by clearing Samus' Classic Mode, or the Classic Mode of any preceding character, if all preceding characters have been unlocked. Once all the above characters are unlocked, clearing Classic Mode with any of them will default to Mario's character unlock tree, starting with Sonic.
Samus was among the fighters summoned to the cliffside to fight an army of Master Hands.
During the opening cutscene, Samus was present when Galeem unleashed his beams of light. Samus attempted to fight back against the beams by shooting them with her arm cannon, but to no avail. Samus was vaporized and placed under Galeem's imprisonment alongside the rest of the fighters (except for Kirby).
In gameplay, the playable Zero Suit Samus, as well as other Spirit versions of Samus such as the Gravity Suit and Fusion Suit, are separate spirits from the original Samus; however, the story significance of this is unknown, as Samus and Zero Suit Samus never appear together in cutscenes, and are seen transforming into each other outside of World of Light.
Samus is later seen among several other fighters, making their last stand against Galeem and Dharkon. She also shows up in the bad ending where Galeem emerges victorious against Dharkon, witnessing Galeem engulf the world in light.
Samus is the only female character on the game's starting roster (aside from Pikachu's female alternate costumes.)
Samus is the only one of the original 12 characters from Smash 64 to have an Echo Fighter.
Samus is the only starter character in Ultimate to have an Echo Fighter.
In her official artwork, Samus's pose matches the image of her alongside Anthony Higgs from Metroid: Other M. This same image was used on the official Other M website with Higgs removed.
While Samus' playable design has not been updated to the more recent Metroid: Samus Returns, her Fighter Spirit uses her artwork from said game rather than Other M.
Coincidentally, Samus's character number is the same as the number of playable Metroid characters in Ultimate.
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Samus's model features a more subdued color scheme.
Like all characters, Samus's 
