8-Player Smash

The original eight characters taunting in 8-Player Smash's Battlefield.

8-Player Smash (8人乱闘, 8-Person Fray) is a gameplay mode in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. This mode allows eight players to play on the same stage at one time. In addition to red, blue, yellow, and green indicators for players 1-4, players 5-8 receive new indicators colored orange, cyan, purple, and slate respectively. In Team Battles, an additional team color, the yellow team, can be selected. Additionally, when using the Team Battle function in 8-Player Smash, CPUs will almost always utilize the life stealing technique, even more often than they do in the other modes.

Stages available in 8-Player Smash

Only certain stages and their Ω Forms can be played on. Sizes of stages may change to accommodate for the larger amount of players. Several of the stages' hazards or background elements are also removed. Certain stages allow for 5 or 6 players, but not 7 or 8. Omega stages will be scaled up depending on how many players are present. The stages' 8-Player Smash versions are also used in All-Star Mode and the horde battles in the Special Orders mode.

Stage	Max players (normal)	Max players (Ω form)	Notes
75m	8	8
Battlefield	8	8
Big Battlefield	8	8
Bridge of Eldin	8	8	King Bulblin does not appear and the bridge does not blow up.
Castle Siege	8	8
Delfino Plaza	4	8
Dream Land (64)	8	8
Duck Hunt	8	8	The dog and ducks do not appear.
Flat Zone X	6	8
Gamer	4	8
Garden of Hope	4	8
Gaur Plain	8	8	Metal Face does not appear.
Halberd	4	8
Hyrule Castle (64)	8	8
Jungle Hijinxs	4	8
Kalos Pokémon League	4	8
Kongo Jungle 64	8	8
Luigi's Mansion	8	8	The mansion cannot be attacked or destroyed, and the pillars are intangible.
Lylat Cruise	8	8	The background is only set to starry space, though the space warp will still be shown.
Mario Circuit (Brawl)	8	8	Shy Guys do not appear.
Mario Galaxy	8	8	Background ships are removed.
Midgar	8	8	No Summon Materia appear.
Mushroom Kingdom U	4	8
Norfair	8	8	No lava-related hazards appear.
Onett	8	8
Orbital Gate Assault	4	8	Arwings do not appear in the background.
Pac-Land	6	8
Palutena's Temple	8	8	The bridge cannot be broken.
Peach's Castle (64)	8	8
Pilotwings	4	8	The Planes do not appear in the background.
Pirate Ship	4	8
Pokémon Stadium 2	8	8	The stage does not change its layout, and the screen that normally shows battle information is blank.
Port Town Aero Dive	4	8	No F-Zero Racers appear.
Pyrosphere	8	8	Ridley and other hazards do not appear. The lava doesn't flow in the background.
Skyworld	6	8
Smashville	8	8	No background characters appear.
Super Mario Maker	8	8
Suzaku Castle	8	8
Temple	8	8
The Great Cave Offensive	8	8
Town and City	8	8	No background characters appear.
Umbra Clock Tower	8	8	The battle will not transition to Purgatorio.
Wii Fit Studio	8	8	The background does not change to a mirror.
Wily Castle	4	8
Windy Hill Zone	8	8	Animal Friends do not appear.
Woolly World	4	8	The terrain does not depress when players stand on it.
Wrecking Crew	4	8
Yoshi's Island	8	8

Unavailable stages

The following stages are unavailable in 8-Player Smash in normal or Ω form. Custom Stages are also not selectable, with the option on the stage select screen replaced with the option for switching to Ω Forms and later DLC stages.

Boxing Ring

Coliseum

Final Destination

Mario Circuit

Miiverse

Skyloft

Wuhu Island

Gallery

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  On Big Battlefield

• 8-Player Smash 1.jpg

  On Palutena's Temple

• 8-Player Smash 2.jpg

  On Gaur Plain

• 8-Player Smash 3.jpg

  On Mario Galaxy

• 8-Player Smash 4.jpg

  On Onett

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  On Castle Siege

Update history

1.0.2

• Added 8-player mode versions of the following stages:
  • Luigi's Mansion
  • Lylat Cruise
  • Lylat Cruise Ω
  • Mario Circuit (Brawl)
  • Mario Circuit (Brawl) Ω
  • Mario Galaxy Ω (previously supported max 6 players)
  • Norfair
  • Pokémon Stadium 2
  • Pokémon Stadium 2 Ω
  • Pyrosphere
  • Smashville
  • Smashville Ω
  • The Great Cave Offensive Ω
  • Town and City
  • Town and City Ω
  • Wii Fit Studio (existing omega form remained at max 6 players)

1.0.6

• Added 8-player mode versions of the following stages:
  • Delfino Plaza Ω
  • Orbital Gate Assault Ω
  • Pilotwings Ω
  • Port Town Aero Dive Ω
  • Wii Fit Studio Ω (previously supported max 6 players)
  • Woolly World Ω

1.0.8

• Added 8-player mode versions of the following stages:
  • Dream Land (64) (DLC)
  • Dream Land (64) Ω (DLC)
  • Suzaku Castle (DLC)
  • Suzaku Castle Ω (DLC)

1.1.0

• Added 8-player mode versions of the following stages:
  • Peach's Castle (64) (DLC)
  • Peach's Castle Ω (DLC)
  • Hyrule Castle (64) (DLC)
  • Hyrule Castle Ω (DLC)

1.1.1

• Added 8-player mode versions of the following stages:
  • Super Mario Maker (DLC)
  • Super Mario Maker Ω (DLC)
  • Pirate Ship Ω (DLC)

1.1.3

• Added 8-player mode versions of the following stages:
  • Midgar (DLC)
  • Midgar Ω (DLC)

1.1.4

• Added 8-player mode versions of the following stages:
  • Umbra Clock Tower (DLC)
  • Umbra Clock Tower Ω (DLC)

Trivia

• Various stages unavailable in 8-Player Smash in publicly available versions of SSBU have been shown in official media with more than 4 players. Examples include:
  • Wuhu Island being shown with 6 players in one of Jigglypuff's screenshots on the official website.
  • Skyloft being shown with 8 players in the official trailer for the third wave of downloadable content Mii Fighter costumes (at 1:20).
  • Coliseum being shown with 5 players in Corrin's reveal trailer (at 1:37).
  • Boxing Ring being shown with 8 players in the official trailer for the sixth wave of DLC Mii Fighter costumes (at 1:06).
  • Wrecking Crew being shown with 6 players in the Final Video Presentation (at 32:57).
• Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS includes various unused elements within its data for 8-player Smash.
• While Ω forms of stages are available in 8-Player Smash, Final Destination itself cannot be used in 8-Player Smash, despite the Ω stages usually being no larger than Final Destination itself.
• According to Masahiro Sakurai, 8-Player Smash was going to appear in Super Smash Bros. Melee, but was "more than impossible" at the time. Notably, usage of Melee's debug menu can allow for partially implemented 6-player battles, though this is only used for Multi-Man mode.
• After the 1.0.8 update, players no longer have to select a separate page for Ω forms and now presses a button on the controller for the Ω version like in a normal Smash. This now means that the blue stage select color scheme is unused.
• Miiverse is the only DLC stage not available in 8-Player Smash.
• The Pirate Ship is the only DLC stage that is playable in its Ω form but not in its Normal form in 8-Player Smash.
• Every familiar stage is available in 8-Player Smash, either as a Normal stage or an Omega stage.