Ridley (SSBU)

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Ridley in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Universe	Metroid
Availability	Unlockable
Final Smash	Plasma Scream

Ridley (リドリー, Ridley) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. He is Samus's arch rival and major villain in the Metroid series. He was the last revealed newcomer from Nintendo's 2018 E3 press conference, on June 12th, 2018, with an animated trailer.

Attributes

• Ridley can air jump multiple times.
• Ridley has a jab combo that ends with an infinite involving a rapid fire tail stab, and ending with a swing.
• Ridley's forward smash has him explode a fireball within his mouth, similar to Mario's forward smash.
• Ridley's down smash is a wide stomp that carries an explosion effect alongside it.
• Ridley's tail has a spiked tip that acts as a sweet spot on attacks involving it.
• Neutral special spits out a fireball that acts similarly to Mario's Fireball, which can be charged to have Ridley spit out multiple fireballs at once. However, if Ridley is attacked while the fireball is charging it will backfire and damage Ridley instead. Deals about 4.4% damage per fireball, with the backfire causing about 24% damage to Ridley.
• Side special is a grab that drags its target across the ground before throwing them, this can also be initiated in the air to drag an opponent to the ground and do the grounded animation or into the blast zone similar to his introductory cutscene in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Ridley can jump directly out of the throwing animation. Deals approximately 29% damage.
• Up special flies upward, and can be angled to fly in any other forward direction.
• Down special is a tail stab. It has a long startup and hits some distance away. It does minimal damage if he hits with the base of his tail, but if it hits with the sweet spot at the center of Ridley's tail tip, the target will be impaled, taking a significantly higher amount of damage and getting knocked down. Normal damage is 5.5%, sweet spot is 50.4% + 8.9% damage.
• Final Smash headbutts the target into Samus's gunship; as the gunship flies off, Ridley shoots it down with a laser that engulfs both the ship and the target in an explosion. The gunship can be seen crashing in the background of the stage afterwards. Deals approximately 40% damage.
• Meta Ridley is available as an alternate costume.

Trivia

• Previously, Sakurai did not want to include Ridley in Super Smash Bros. as a playable fighter, due to various reasons including believing reducing his power to playable levels will undermine his presentation and most infamously, his size being too big to properly integrate into the universe, the latter to the point it has widely been considered an internet meme.
  • His fighter tagline, "Ridley Hits the Big Time!", likely references the size debacle.
• Since this is his playable Smash Bros. debut, this also marks the first time Ridley has been made playable in any Nintendo game.
• His animated reveal trailer is the first time since Ridley's role in the Metroid manga did Ridley display a sense of humor, playfully twirling the hat of a defeated Mario when revealing himself to Samus with something of an inhuman grin.