Lucina (SSB4)

Lucina in Super Smash Bros. 4
Universe	Fire Emblem
Availability	Unlockable
Final Smash	Critical Hit

“	Lucina Wakes Her Blade?!	”
—Introduction Tagline

Lucina (ルキナ, Lucina) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. 4. She was confirmed during a live stream on the official Smash Bros. website on July 14, 2014, the day before Fire Emblem: Shin Monshō no Nazo: Hikari to Kage no Eiyū was released in 2010, and 2 days before Fire Emblem for the GBA was released in 2003. She is a moveset clone of Marth and also the first full clone officially revealed for SSB4.

How To Unlock

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS

• Play 40 VS Matches.
• Complete Classic Mode with Marth without using any continues.

Lucina is then battled in Arena Ferox.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

• Clear Classic Mode on 5.5 Intensity or higher
• Play 30 VS Matches.

Lucina then must be fought on Coliseum before being unlocked.

Differences from Marth

Lucina's Falchion lacks a specific sweetspot in her attacks compared to Marth's Falchion, as seen in their attack animations.

Lucina is a clone of Marth, meaning her moveset and animations are primarily based off of his. In a Miiverse post, Sakurai explains that "even a small difference in abilities" gives a character their own roster slot, citing Lucina as an example. It was later confirmed that her character physics and moveset are "nearly identical" to Marth's. So far, the following differences have been seen:

• Unlike Marth, her sword does not have a tipper hitbox (except down aerial), meaning every part of her sword will deal equal damage. Her sword trails also appropriately lack the accentuated tip, and are instead a full white blur.
  • This means Lucina will primarily do more damage than Marth, if his tipper hitbox is excluded.
• Lucina's up tilt deals increased damage to opponents behind her, rather than the front as opposed to Marth.
• Lucina's taunts are different than Marth's.
• Lucina does a different pose during her Counter.
• Her animation for Shield Breaker is different than Marth's.
  • Shield Breaker also does less damage than Marth's.
• Lucina is slightly smaller than Marth.
• Lucina's range is shorter than Marth's.

Moveset

	Name	Damage	Description
Neutral attack		4.5%	Does two slashes in front of herself.
Forward tilt		9-10%	A fast forward leaning sword swipe upward.
Up tilt		6%, 7%	Swings her sword in a large arc above her head, with a large hitbox that can hit enemies behind her. Does more damage when hitting an enemy behind her.
Down tilt		8%	A quick crouching sword poke.
Dash attack		9-10%	A quick upward sweeping diagonal slash.
Forward smash		15%	Rotates body counter-clockwise with a strong arc-like one-handed swing from her head to the ground.
Up smash		3% (ground) 14%	A quick, direct upward thrust.
Down smash		Front hit 9% Back hit 14%	Sweeps her sword on the ground toward the front outward then toward the back inward.
Neutral aerial		2%, 6%	Two horizontal slashes around herself via in inward slash followed into a full 360 outward spin.
Forward aerial		8%	Does a forward vertical slash (up to down).
Back aerial		9%	Slashes her sword from bottom to top behind him in an inward swipe. Has the interesting property of turning Lucina around, changing facing direction.
Up aerial		9%	A forward to back upward sword slash in a delayed somersault.
Down aerial		11% or 14% (meteor)	A forward to back downward outward sword slash. If struck at the tip in the middle at the swinging arc, it sends opponents downwards, meteor smashing powerfully. High ending and landing lag.
Grab		0%	Grabs the enemy with her left hand.
Pummel		2%	Knees the enemy.
Forward throw		4%	Grabs and pushes forward, tripping with her leg.
Back throw		4%	Pulls and throws the enemy and extends her leg simultaneously. Similar to her down throw.
Up throw		4%	Powerful upward throw with one arm.
Down throw		5%	Hooks her arm and drags the opponent to the floor sending the opponent backwards.
Floor attack (front)		7%
Floor attack (back)		7%
Floor attack (trip)		5%
Edge attack		7%
Neutral special	Shield Breaker	8%-21%	A sword stab that deals high amounts of shield damage. When used in midair, Lucina moves forward slightly
Side special	Dancing Blade	(up) 3%, 3%, 4%, 6% (neutral) 3%, 3%, 4%, 5% (down) 3%, 3%, 3%, 4 hits of 2% then 4%	A sequence of sword maneuvers with several variations based on control stick tilts.
Up special	Dolphin Slash	6%(body), 7%(blade , 11%	A super fast jumping slash that can be reversed. Has a sweetspot at the beginning of the attack right in front of her
Down special	Counter	Varies depending on the attack countered	Blocks and retaliates against incoming attacks.
Final Smash	Critical Hit	60%	Lucina lunges in one direction, attacking the first opponent. Immense knockback, enough to one-hit KO any character.

Special Moves

In Super Smash Bros. 4, special moves can be swapped out for different variants. Lucina shares all of Marth's special moves, both regular ones and custom ones.

Special Move	Basic	Custom 1	Custom 2
Neutral Special	Shield Breaker	Storm Thrust	Dashing Assault
Side Special	Dancing Blade	Effortless Blade	Heavy Blade
Up Special	Dolphin Slash	Crescent Slash	Dolphin Jump
Down Special	Counter	Easy Counter	Iai Counter
Final Smash	Critical Hit

Reveal trailer

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Alternate costumes

Trophies

Trophy Descriptions

Lucina's regular trophy can be obtained by completing Classic Mode with her and her alternative trophy can be obtained by completing All-Star mode with her (3DS version) or purchasing it at the Trophy shop (Wii U version).

Lucina (3DS)

Chrom's daughter and the future Princess of Ylisse. When she arrives from a doomed future seeking to prevent it from ever happening, she goes by the name Marth before her identity is revealed. She fights much like her adopted namesake, but more than just the tip of her sword is powerful.

Lucina (Wii U)

Chrom's daughter and the future Princess of Ylisse. When she arrives from a doomed future seeking to prevent it from ever happening, she goes by the name Marth before her identity is revealed. She fights much like her adopted namesake, but her entire blade is equally powerful instead of having a more powerful tip.

Lucina (Alt.)

Lucina's moves are much like Marth's, but there are subtle differences. With Marth, you need to try to hit with the tip of his sword, but Lucina's sword is equally powerful all along the blade. Her Shield Breaker move lets her attack opponents and break their shields at the same time. Charge it fully to shatter shields in one hit.

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  Classic

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  Alt.

Gallery

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  Artwork of Robin and Lucina from the official site.

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  Lucina's introduction image.

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  Lucina's amiibo

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  Lucina in the Wii U version

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  About to stab Link

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  About to attack a Phantom

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  Using Counter

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  With the two Fire Emblem veterans

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  Fighting Ike in the Coliseum

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  On Smash Ball standby with Luigi in Coliseum.

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  Lucina in the 3DS version

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  Lucina and Female Robin

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  On the floor with Palutena

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  Lucina wearing her mask with Kirby

Trivia

• In the Japanese-language version of SSB4, two of Lucina's custom moves have different names. "Dashing Assault" is called "Assault Dash", and "Effortless Blade" is named "Easy Combination".
• Lucina was originally planned as an alternate costume for Marth, but was given her own character slot due to "the characteristics of their attacks" being different.
• Although acting as a newcomer to Super Smash Bros., Lucina was not depicted as such on the front page of the Super Smash Bros. 4 Official Site; she was only given a small slot like the returning veterans. However, her profile page also displayed the word "newcomer" and the mobile site still gave Lucina a large slot like other newcomers.
  • Additionally, Lucina is the only unlockable character that is not grouped with the other unlockable characters on the official website and does not have a "???".
• Robin and Lucina's trailer is the first one to reveal two newcomers and the second to reveal a veteran after Greninja's, and their trailer also marks the first reveal of a second newcomer from the same series (Fire Emblem).
  • Coincidentally, Robin and Lucina are the only Fire Emblem characters to originate from the same game, being Fire Emblem: Awakening.
• Lucina's SSB4 official art is posed identically to official art of her disguised as Marth from Fire Emblem Awakening.
• Lucina is the only unlockable character in both games who was officially revealed prior to the release of Super Smash Bros. 4 and the only unlockable to appear in the opening movie in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
• Lucina is the only character officially revealed before the release of Super Smash Bros. 4 to not be playable in any demo of the game.
• Lucina is the first female unlockable character in the Super Smash Bros. series; all of the other unlockable characters in the past three games were male (including Pokémon).
  • Lucina is also the first playable female in the Smash series to be a clone.