Piranha Plant (SSBU)

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Piranha Plant in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Universe	Mario
Availability	Downloadable
Final Smash	Petey Piranha

“	Piranha Plant Pipes Up!	”
—Introduction Tagline

Piranha Plant (パックンフラワー, Packun Flower) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Revealed alongside Ken and Incineroar on November 1, 2018, it will be the first DLC character in Ultimate, and is scheduled to release "probably a couple of months" after the game's December 7, 2018 launch. It will be available as a free bonus until January 31, 2019 to anyone who pre-purchases the digital version of Ultimate or registers their physical version with My Nintendo. While Piranha Plant is not part of the Fighters Pass, it will be available for purchase separately after January 31st.

Attributes

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• Piranha Plant resides in a pot, as its species are depicted in the Mario Party 3 minigame Storm Chasers and in Super Mario 3D World and Mario Kart 8 as items. It sprouts little feet when moving.
  • It retreats into its pot when crouching.
  • Some of its alternate costumes replaces the pot with a Warp Pipe.
• A reference to its basic attacks in the main Mario series games, presumably one of its taunts.
• A taunt where Piranha Plant viciously snaps forward, similar to Bowser's side taunt.
• A taunt where Piranha Plant spins before striking a joyous pose.

Known moveset

• Two bites forward, presumably its neutral attack.
• A leaf swipe down tilt.
• A pot-first lunge dash attack.
• Forward smash - transforms into a Spiny Piranha Plant from Super Mario Galaxy 2 and headbutts.
• Up smash - lunges upward and bites. Appears to have two hitboxes.
• Down smash - sweeps its pot around itself.
• An aerial where it spins rapidly with its leaves extended, similar to Ivysaur's neutral aerial.
• An aerial where it swings its pot upwards.
• A pot stomp down aerial. A meteor smash with a rather quick startup compared to other meteor smashes.
• A headbutt forward throw, a backward fling back throw, and an upward bite up throw. Piranha Plant grabs with its leaves and bites for its pummel.
• A move where it spits a cloud of poison in front of it, dealing damage with seemingly no knockback or flinching. Possibly its side special. Piranha Plant changes its color to match the Putrid Piranha enemy from the Paper Mario series when executed.
• A move where Piranha plant spits out a metal spike ball, and blows air upwards. The ball can then be blown to the left or right. Only one can be active at a time. Based on the Ptooie enemy introduced in Super Mario Bros. 3. Possibly its neutral special move.
• A move where it spins its leaves, propelling it upwards like a helicopter. Based on the Jumping Piranha Plants from Super Mario World. Presumably its up special.
• A move where it retreats into its pot and pauses briefly before stretching out to bite an opponent. It possesses a form of armor while inside the pot, shrugging off various attacks. Likely a reference to Elasto-Piranhas or Stalking Piranha Plants. Possibly its down special.
• Petey Piranha: Piranha Plant's Final Smash. As the name implies, it summons Petey Piranha, who stomps around the stage with his cages from The Subspace Emissary. Opponents that get too close will get trapped in the cages.

Reveal trailer

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Gallery

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  Piranha Plant's splash art.

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  Piranha Plant's amiibo.

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  Piranha Plant attacking Wario eating a Maxim Tomato on Skyloft.

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  Piranha Plant shooting a Spiky Ball at Chrom on Halberd.

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  Piranha Plant shooting poison at Toon Link on Mushroom Kingdom.

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  Piranha Plant falling on Midgar.

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  Mario with a Super Leaf floating over Piranha Plant's blue, gray, pink, and green costumes on Super Mario Maker.

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  Pirahna Plant being hit by Jigglypuff's Sing in Living Room.

Character Showcase Video

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Trivia

• Piranha Plant is the first newcomer in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to have all its alternate costumes shown in its reveal trailer.
  • Bowser Jr. was the first character this happened with, when he was revealed in his trailer for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
• Piranha Plant is the only character who does not appear in the panoramic artwork despite having its own character trailer.
• Piranha Plant is the first playable character to be a mob. All other fighters have been main and secondary protagonists or antagonists over their respective franchises.
  • In addition, Ultimate is the first time a generic Piranha Plant has been playable in any game. However, Petey Piranha, a Piranha Plant himself, has been playable in various Mario spin-off games, and Fire and Poison Piranha Plants could be controlled in Super Mario Odyssey.
• Piranha Plant is the first (and only, so far) playable character who isn't a Pokémon in the Smash Bros. series to be referred to with gender neutral "it" pronouns, barring the error in which Dark Samus was that was later corrected.
• This marks Petey Piranha's first appearance in Super Smash Bros. since Brawl, as he was absent in both versions of Super Smash Bros. 4. He also appears as he did in Subspace Emissary, wielding two cages and jumping across the stage.
• It has a nice curved form to it.