Sephiroth (SSBU)

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Sephiroth in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
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Universe	Final Fantasy
Availability	Downloadable
Final Smash	Supernova

“	Sephiroth Descends to Battle!	”
—Introduction Tagline

Sephiroth (セフィロス, Sephiroth) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and the third third-party fighter from Square Enix after Cloud and Hero. He was confirmed as a playable character on December 10th, 2020 at The Game Awards 2020 and will be released in December 2020.

Toshiyuki Morikawa reprises his role in at least the Japanese version of Ultimate, though it is currently unknown if he will be voiced in English.

Moveset

Sephiroth's moveset is currently unknown, but is likely to be fully showcased on his respective Mr. Sakurai Presents video presentation.

Currently, parts of his moveset have been showcased in his reveal trailer:

• Sephiroth's wields his signature weapon, Masamune, which possesses extremely long reach but a slow attack speed.
• He is able to stab Masamune against walls and jump afterwards, acting somewhat like a wall grapple.
• His up smash appears to be a wide upward swing, similar to Hero's up tilt.
• He possesses side attacks that are sword swings with high range.
• His down aerial appears to be a downwards stab, a homage to an infamous scene in Final Fantasy VII.
• His up aerial or up special is a backflipping slash above himself.
• He has a projectile that causes three dark spheres to orbit around his opponent, which explode some time after.
• He appears to possess a counter, resembling Scintilla in Dissidia.
• His Final Smash may include him transforming into Safer∙Sephiroth (his final boss form) for a cinematic attack, likely Super Nova.
• Some of his taunts and idle animations were shown:
  • One involves him turning to stare menacingly at the screen.
  • He has two variations of him readying Masamune in a battle pose.

• He possesses the ability to summon his wing, although it is unknown how this is accomplished. While his wing is active, it appears to alter some of his moves:
  • One of his attacks (likely his up special) becomes a wild flurry of sword slashes.
  • One of his special moves throws fireballs at opponents, resembling Shadow Flare in Dissidia.

Gallery

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  Sephiroth's splash art.

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Role in World of Light

Due to his status as downloadable content, Sephiroth does not have a legitimate role in World of Light. Instead, he is unlocked for use in the mode after freeing 10 fighters from Galeem's control. If loading an existing save file that meets this condition prior to downloading Sephiroth, he is immediately unlocked.

However, in his reveal trailer, he makes his presence known by slicing Galeem, which suggests he was present to some extent.

Alternate costumes

Trivia

• Sephiroth is the second character to be revealed at a non-Nintendo event/presentation, the first being Joker. Coincidentally, both of them were revealed at The Game Awards (in 2018 and 2020 respectively).
• Sephiroth is the first:
  • DLC character from a third-party universe that was DLC in a previous installment.
    • The Fire Emblem universe also shares this trait, and is the only first-party universe to have it.
  • Character from an already-represented third-party universe to not be a clone of another character.
  • Third-party playable antagonist.
• Sephiroth's reveal trailer is the first reveal trailer in which previously-announced Ultimate DLC fighters appear in an animated segment, with the Dragon Quest III Hero, Banjo and Kazooie all making appearances.
• Sephiroth is the second character whose trailer references the World of Light, the first being Hero.
  • Coincidentally, both are Square Enix characters.
• Sephiroth's trailer makes several references to both the original Final Fantasy VII game, and the CGI-animated film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, with much of his and Cloud's dialogue being adapted from it.
• Sephiroth's trailer currently features the most playable characters in the animated portion of any reveal trailer (excluding himself), with 18 characters.
  • Aside from Erdrick and Banjo & Kazooie, who are DLC characters, Bowser Jr. is the only character of these who does not appear in the World of Light opening cutscene.