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 1st, 2018, it is the first DLC character in Ultimate, and was released on January 29th, 2019. It is available as a free bonus until January 31st, 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. Piranha Plant is classified as fighter #70.

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 small feet when moving, and moves like a Ptooie.
  • It retreats into its pot when crouching.
  • Half of its alternate costumes replace the pot with a Warp Pipe.
• Datamining has revealed a weight value of 112, meaning that Piranha Plant weighs more than all heavyweights but less than all super heavyweights.
• Datamining has also revealed it has an average dash speed.
• When Piranha Plant is footstooled while crouching, it will automatically attack the opponent.

Known moveset

Ground attacks

• Neutral attack - A leaf jab, followed by a leaf swipe, followed by a headbutt. Alternatively, the leaf swipes can be followed by a flurry of bites, similar to Corrin's flurry attack.
• Forward tilt - A bite. Pressing the attack button a second time will have Piranha Plant follow up with a second bite. It resembles the attacks a Piranha Plant performs in Super Mario 64 after waking up.
• Up tilt - Flails its head upwards.
• Down tilt - A leaf swipe.
• Dash attack - A pot-first lunge.

Smash attacks

• 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. First in the back, then in the front.

Aerial attacks

• Neutral aerial - Spins rapidly with its leaves extended, similar to Ivysaur's neutral aerial. Hits multiple times.
• Forward aerial - Swings its pot upwards
• Back aerial - Turns around and spits fire, akin to a Fire Piranha Plant.
• Up aerial - An upward headbutt.
• Down aerial - A pot stomp. A meteor smash with quick startup compared to other meteor smashes.

Grab attacks

• Grab - Reaches out with a leaf.
• Pummel - A bite.
• Forward throw - Headbutts the opponent forward.
• Back throw - Chomps the opponent and flings them backwards.
• Up throw - Tosses the opponent upward as it bites them.
• Down throw - Throws the opponent on the ground and bites them twice.

Special Moves

• Ptooie, Piranha Plant's neutral special, has it spits out a metal spike ball, and blow 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.
• Poison Breath, Piranha Plant's side special, has it spits a cloud of poison in front of it, dealing damage with seemingly no knockback or flinching. Piranha Plant changes its color to match the Putrid Piranha enemy from the Paper Mario series when executed.
• Piranhacopter, Piranha Plant's up special, has it spins its leaves, propelling it upwards like a helicopter. Based on the Jumping Piranha Plants from Super Mario World.
• Long-Stem Strike, Piranha Plant's down special, has it retreat into its pot and pause briefly before stretching out to bite an opponent. The pot can be tilted in order to aim the attack. It possesses a form of armor while inside the pot, shrugging off various attacks. Likely a reference to Elasto-Piranhas or Stalking Piranha Plants.
• Petey Piranha: Piranha Plant's Final Smash. As the name implies, it summons Petey Piranha, who stomps around the stage with his cages from his boss fight in The Subspace Emissary. Opponents that get too close will get trapped in his cages. When the Final Smash is nearly over, Petey Piranha will breathe fire at both of the cages, then slam both of the cages to the ground, dealing heavy damage and knockback to the opponents who were trapped in the cages.

On-screen Appearance

• Piranha Plant rises straight up out of its pot, making a Warp Pipe noise as it does so.

Taunts

• Up Taunt: Rises up out of its pot, using the same animation and sound effects as its entrance animation.
• Side Taunt: Bites the air around it multiple times, similar to one of Bowser's taunts.
• Down Taunt: Spins around and strikes a pose with a grin.

Victory Poses

• Hangs down from the ceiling, posing for the camera.
• Mario runs towards Piranha Plant's pot, only for Piranha Plant to pop out of the plant and bite Mario, sending him flying, before smiling. This is taken directly from the trailer introducing Piranha Plant.
• Bites the air around it three times, before smiling.

Classic Mode: New Bloom

All of Piranha Plant's opponents are newcomers in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Round	Opponent	Stage	Music
1	Inkling (x8)	Moray Towers	Splattack! (Original)
2	Ridley and Dark Samus	Norfair	Vs. Ridley (Ultimate)
3	Simon and Richter	Dracula's Castle	Vampire Killer (Remix)
4	King K. Rool and Chrom	Pirate Ship	Gang-Plank Galleon
5	Isabelle and Daisy	Smashville	Tour - Animal Crossing: New Leaf
6	Incineroar and Ken	Boxing Ring	Battle at the Summit!
Bonus Stage
Final	Rathalos	?	Roar/Rathalos

Role in World of Light

Unlike the other fighters, it's unknown if Piranha Plant was captured by Galeem when he engulfed the universe in light, as it doesn't appear in the mode due to its status as downloadable content.

However, if the player starts the mode in an already saved file, Piranha Plant is immediately unlocked for use in the mode. It's currently unknown if it can be unlocked on new files.

Alternate costumes

Gallery

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  Piranha Plant's splash art.

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  Piranha Plant's amiibo.

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  Piranha Plant's fighter card.

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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 next to Jigglypuff's Sing in Living Room.

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  Piranha Plant spitting poison on Hanenbow.

Trivia

• Piranha Plant's official artwork has a UV Mapping error near the base of its pot, where the texture appears to squish vertically.
• Despite the fanbase's bewildered reaction to Piranha Plant's reveal, Masahiro Sakurai stated in an interview that he does not aim to surprise players, stating that "The surprise element quickly fades once the announcement has been made. Rather, I believe it’s important to have a good balance as a game. In the past titles in the series, Mr. Game & Watch, R.O.B. and Duck Hunt Dog were some of the examples we offered outside of people’s typical expectations. However, if we don’t have these types of fighters, and we only had typical “hero/heroine” type fighters in the lineup, there’s not much difference. It’s probably not very interesting. Correct? Also, unlike some main characters from some (not widely known) franchises, Piranha Plant is a character everyone knows well." [1]
• Piranha Plant is the first newcomer in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to have all its alternate costumes shown in its reveal trailer; in fact, they were all shown in one shot, excluding the main.
  • 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 first playable character to be a mob.
  • 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; Fire Piranha Plants are capturable by in Super Mario Odyssey; and Fire Stalking Piranha Plants are playable in Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser and Bowser Jr.'s Journey.
• 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 pronouns, barring the error in which Dark Samus was referred to as "it" until the mistake was corrected.
  • This is not including characters whose alternate costumes change their gender, including Pokémon Trainer, Villager, Robin, Corrin, and Inkling; who are referred to as “they” and “their” in the tips.
• Piranha Plant is the second DLC character to be free for a limited time after launch, the first being Mewtwo in Super Smash Bros. 4.
  • Both characters were first to be released as DLC in their respective games.
• Piranha Plant is the first original newcomer in Ultimate to not have a CGI reveal trailer.
• Although red Piranha Plants are usually depicted residing in a pipe in official Mario artwork, the red Piranha Plant is never in a pipe in Ultimate, only in a pot.
• The splash art for Piranha Plant is so far the only one that uses a different font, opposite to the font "DF Gothic Japanese" that was used in every single splash art since Super Smash Bros. 4.
• Along with Robin, Piranha Plant is one of the only characters with a victory pose that features a separate character (in this case, Mario).
• When entering a completed World of Light save file after obtaining Piranha Plant, the player will only get a message saying “You can now play as Piranha Plant”. However, the player cannot use Piranha Plant if the mode is not completed.