Fake Smash Ball
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| Fake Smash Ball | |
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 The Fake Smash Ball item as it appears in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | |
| Universe | Super Smash Bros. |
| Appears in | Ultimate |
| Item class | Special |
| “ | This dangerous item looks like a Smash Ball, but it explodes when you break it. Take a closer look and you can see that the symbol is the exact opposite of a real Smash Ball, and the horizontal line is thicker... | ” |
| —Super Smash Blog, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Official Site | ||
The Fake Smash Ball (スマッシュボーム, Smash Bomb) is an item that is scheduled to appear in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch. It was revealed at E3 2018, and behaves similarly to the Smash Ball.
Upon spawning, the Fake Smash Ball will begin acting similarly to a default Smash Ball, although it tends to drift towards fighters and action instead. When broken, it slows down time slightly and yields a colourful X-shaped explosion which launches nearby players (and therefore usually launches the player who broke it). The explosion has large damage and knockback in the version of the game shown at E3, and is likely to function similarly in the final release.
Design
The Fake Smash Ball's design is similar to that of the regular Smash Ball, but with the thick and thin lines of the regular Smash Ball switched around. Otherwise, it shares the exact graphical effects that the regular Smash Ball has.
Origin
While the Fake Smash Ball is an original item to the Super Smash Bros. universe, its explosion bears resemblance to how X Bombs explode.
Trivia
- As a possible pun, the Japanese names of the Smash Ball and Fake Smash Ball (スマッシュボール and スマッシュボーム, respectively) differ by only a single character.
- For some unknown reason, the blog post for the Fake Smash Ball on the official Super Smash Bros. website was removed shortly after it got posted. This appeared to only happen in American and European regions, as the blog post remained on the Japanese site. The post was eventually restored the next day, along with two other new blog posts.
