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

As of September 2008, there has not been a standardized list of banned and neutral stages for Super Smash Bros. Brawl. As the tournament scene develops, organizers will work to make a consistent list of stages for tournament play.

See also

• Tournament legal