Boss Battles

Boss Battles Mode is a Unlockable Stadium mode introduced in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which is very similar to All-Star Mode, except you fight all bosses rather than all characters. Boss Battles Mode is unlocked after the player completes both Classic Mode and 'The Subspace Emissary' for the first time, or in other words, has faced each boss other than Crazy Hand at least once.

Gameplay

The goal of Boss Battles Mode is to defeat every boss in the game with a single stock, or two characters in its co-op mode. When a player begins Boss Battles mode, they are immediately dropped into combat against one of the ten bosses. Once a boss is defeated, the player is brought to the rest area. The rest area displays all defeated bosses as trophies, a screen that displays the face of next boss to be fought, and has three heart containers, or five in co-op mode, which, like in All-Star, do not reappear even upon later visits to the rest area. This format continues until all bosses are defeated. This format is the same as All-Star Mode. However, the player is not allowed to continue after losing their stock, as it is a stadium mode. The battles occur in random order, except for the battle with Tabuu which always occurs last. Each boss has their own Stamina Bar as one would normally fight them in the Subspace Emissary, including both of the Hands. The player is treated with a picture of one of the bosses upon completing Boss Battles: this picture varies depending on the difficulty level chosen. You cannot use any stickers in Boss Battles.

The battles in this mode include:

• Petey Piranha
• Rayquaza
• Porky Minch
• Master Hand
• Galleom
• Ridley
• Crazy Hand
• Duon
• Meta Ridley
• Tabuu

Challenges

There are eight Challenges in Super Smash Bros. Brawl involving Boss Battles Mode. Golden Hammers cannot be used to break them, in order to avoid spoilers for Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary.

• First row, #1: Clear on Intense difficulty.
• First row, #10: Clear on Easy difficulty.
• Second row, #16: Clear with 20 characters.
• Second row, #26: Clear with 10 characters.
• Third row, #23: Clear on Normal difficulty.
• Fourth row, #6: Clear on Hard difficulty.
• Fourth row, #26: Clear on Very Hard difficulty.
• Fourth row, #32: Clear with every character.

Differences from Bosses from other modes

Several of the bosses are slightly altered from their appearances in other modes.

• Bosses in the beginning are easier than those towards the end, meaning that the difficulty system is different than in the Subspace Emissary.
• Crazy Hand is a boss itself, rather than together with Master Hand.
• Master Hand and Crazy Hand has a Stamina Bar like other bosses, rather than the usual HP shown at the bottom.
• Except in higher difficulties, Tabuu's Off Wave do not instantly kill a player who comes in contact with them.
• All the bosses' attacks and health are greatly decreased, probably to prevent this mode from becoming too absurdly difficult.
• Petey Piranha's cages are empty, as when he is faced in The Great Maze stage of The Subspace Emissary.
• The individual boss themes are replaced with generic music, Boss Battle, except for Master Hand, Crazy Hand and Tabuu. They use the music Final Destination (Melee), Giga Bowser (Melee), and Boss Battle Song 2, respectively.
• Stickers cannot be used, as they only appear in The Subspace Emissary.

External Links

Boss Battles Mode in action