Stage legality

Banned stages are stages that are banned from most main-stream tournaments. These stages can be banned for several reasons, including:

• Providing an unfair advantage for certain characters (such as excessive camping)
• Allowing players to abuse glitches in the game
• Completely re-vamping the strategies needed to win (such as Temple and Icicle Mountain)
• Having a significant amount of slow-down during a match

Banned stages in SSB

Banned in both singles and doubles
Stage	Reason for Banning
Mushroom Kingdom	Pipe camping; stalling
Planet Zebes	Acid
Sector Z	Overly large; Arwing lasers
Yoshi's Island	Not all characters are able to recover from the clouds

Banned stages in SSBM

Stage	Banned in		Reason for Banning
	Singles	Doubles
Big Blue	X	X	Randomly moving stage
Brinstar Depths	X	X	No ledges to grab; stalling
Flat Zone	X	X	Randomness of falling materials; too small
Fountain of Dreams		X	Significant slowdown during doubles play
Fourside	X		Uneven recovery potential; no large platforms for fighting
Great Bay	X	X	Over reliance on camping
Icicle Mountain	X	X	Randomly moving stage
Mushroom Kingdom I	X	X	Completely irregular design
Mushroom Kingdom II	X		All fighting centers on small middle platform in singles
Mute City		X	Too small to accommodate doubles play.
Temple	X	X	Too large; over reliance on teching; see here for more
Venom	X	X	Slow-down; game-breaking stalling and camping potential.
Yoshi's Island N64	X	X	Not all characters are able to recover from the clouds
Yoshi's Island (Pipes)	X	X	Camping

Varies

• Princess Peach's Castle - Banzai Bill; stalling
• Onett - Cars
• Kongo Jungle - Klap-trap

Banned Stages in SSBB

In the current Smash Back Room rule set, certain stages are left up to the tournament organizer to decide on banning versus counter-pick. Stages marked with a single X are left up to the tournament organizer, whereas those marked with XX are always banned.

Stage	Banned in		Reason for Banning
	Singles	Doubles
75m	XX	XX	Highly irregular design; all fighting centers around top-right corner
Big Blue	XX	XX	Randomly moving stage
Bridge of Eldin	XX	XX	Potential for game-breaking camping/stalling
Flat Zone 2	XX	XX	Randomness of falling materials; too small
Green Greens	X	X	Bomb blocks are excessively powerful
Hanenbow	XX	X	Highly irregular design
Hyrule Temple	XX	XX	Too large; Over reliance on teching
Mario Bros.	XX	XX	Gameplay is vastly altered by stage enemies
Mario Circuit	X	X	Potential for game-breaking camping
Mushroomy Kingdom (1-1 and 1-2)	XX	XX	Side-scrolling, underground's ceiling
New Pork City	XX	XX	Overly large; camera angle makes the game hard to view on smaller TVs, Ultimate Chimera
Onett	X	X	Cars
Port Town Aero Dive	X	X	Randomly moving stage; cars are hard to see coming due to the colors
Rumble Falls	XX	XX	Overly advantages character's with better jumps; the first spike is unfairly OHKO
Shadow Moses Island	XX	XX	Removes three of the four blast lines
Skyworld	X	X	No fall through platforms; over-reliance on stage spikes
Spear Pillar	XX	XX	Randomness of Pokémon attacks; tunnel under stage similar to Temple's underground
The Summit	XX	XX	Irregular design; no normal ground; The Fish
WarioWare, Inc.	XX	XX	Over-reliance on bonuses from Microgames

See also

• Tournament legal