Tabuu

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Moveset gallery

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  Tabuu vanishes, teleporting.

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  Tabuu surrounds himself in electricity, creating a vacuum to attract the player.

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  Tabuu throws a projectile, functioning like a boomerang.

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  Tabuu summons a dragon that fires a large beam of bright azure light.

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  Tabuu creates a line of explosions.

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  Tabuu grows to a large size, emitting lasers from his eyes.

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  Tabuu surrounds himself in a blade resembling a shark.

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  Tabuu grabs a character using the Chain of Light.

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  Tabuu then swings the grabbed character into the stage.

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  Tabuu bursts and emits explosive duplicates of himself.

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  After firing a chain of bullets, Tabuu fires a large ball of electricity.

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  Tabuu, with wings unleashed, releases an Off Wave from the purple gem inside his chest. Each crimson ring covers the whole stage and is a one-hit KO.

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  Tabuu dives, slashing opponents in his pathway.

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  Tabuu, having turned himself into an energy cage, grabs a character and slams him into the stage.

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  Tabuu repeatedly slashes characters with swift karate chops.

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  Tabuu teleports around the stage, causing explosions every time he does so.

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  Tabuu's defeat

HP and damage taken

HP Values
The Great Maze	335	455	535	635	745
Boss Battles	111	160	212.5	265	405

Damage taken	×1.0	×1.0	×1.0	×1.0	×1.0	×1.0	×1.0	×1.0	×1.0	×1.0	×1.0

Like all bosses in Brawl, Tabuu gains an additional ×0.6 damage resistance modifier when fought in co-op mode, effectively gaining 67% more health. This modifier is applied whenever the second player is in-game, and is no longer applied if the second player loses all his stocks. In Boss Battles Mode, the same change is applied without any difference, but now if the second player loses his only stock, it is a Game Over for both players. Notice that the health gap between the Subspace Emissary and Boss Battles Mode is higher on lower difficulties (around two thirds on Easy) than on the higher ones (around 40% on Intense).

Trophies

Tabuu's main trophy is unlocked by using a Trophy Stand on Tabuu. Ways of doing this include:

• Dodging Tabuu's attacks, waiting until he teleports and throwing the stand.
• Throwing the stand when he is using "static" moves like Electrical Shield, Rapid Chop, Ghost Projection and Bullet Rain.
• Notice that Winged Tabuu (the form he takes to unleash Off Waves) can never take damage and, thus, can't be turned into a trophy.

The Tabuu (Wings) trophy is obtained by beating Boss Battles Mode with all characters, and can't be unlocked with a hammer, except for the PAL version. In the original japanese version and several translation, this trophy is called Winged Tabuu instead.

Tabuu

The Tabuu trophy in Brawl.

Tabuu
The ruler of Subspace and master of operations. Tabuu controls Master Hand with chains of light to excise this world and build up his great maze. He used Shadow Bugs to form Subspace and manipulates the servants of Master Hand to his heart's content. Born in a vastly foreign realm, he also possesses great leadership powers. Tabuu...No name is more suitable.

: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Tabuu (Wings)

Tabuu with wings trophy in Brawl.

Tabuu (Wings)
Tabuu with wings extended. The dreadful energy surges cast from these wings instantly turn all fighters back into trophies. Knowing this, King Dedede assembles all able-bodied troops and sets a timed device on each of them. This device is a brooch that, after the designated time runs out, revives all fighters wiped out by Tabuu.

: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Spirit

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Tabuu appears as a spirit in Adventure Mode: World of Light. Presumably, he is one of countless spirits captured by Galeem during his takeover of the universe. Afterward, Dharkon takes control of Galeem's spirits, including Tabuu.

Tabuu is located in the Mysterious Dimension as the penultimate battle before Marx. Prior to his battle, the player is quizzed on which spirit is the creator of the Subspace Army. During his Spirit Battle, Tabuu uses a Metal Bayonetta puppet fighter, and the player's fighter is occasionally inflicted with sudden damage.

No.	Image	Name	Type	Class	Slot	Ability	Series
1,100		Tabuu		★★★★	3	PSI Attack ↑	Super Smash Bros. Series

Glitches

At least three glitches can occur during the battle against Tabuu:

• Tabuu Whip glitch happens when the player air techs or dodges into his Chain of Light. If properly done, he will get stuck beneath Tabuu's legs and be unable to free himself until Tabuu KOs the character. Being under the effects of a Metal Box, Super Mushroom or a strong flinch resistance sticker attacked will also cause this glitch; it could potentially occur on Easy difficulty in Boss Battles but it's very unlikely. A variation of the glitch can be performed in co-op mode by having one character land the final blow on Tabuu while the other is caught by the Chain of Light. Doing this, Tabuu will be defeated without releasing the character from his grab, resulting in that character being frozen in a tumbling pose in the center of the stage while Tabuu falls away, and disappearing at the same time the boss does if a loose explosive does not knock them out.
• Another glitch can occur in the Subspace Emissary if Tabuu is hit by a Green Shell while performing Ghost Projection. The Shell will remain stuck and completely nullify Tabuu's move, instantly destroying every Projection he shoots until the attack ends. The glitch finishes when Tabuu teleports away.
• A third glitch can occur if the character defeats Tabuu when he's using Eye Lasers. When the battle shows him flying off into the Subspace background, in pain, his head will be covered in the same red light that shot out from his eyes.

Two of these glitches are shown in the apposite "External links" section.

Trivia

• Tabuu on Intense Difficulty in the Subspace Emissary has more OHKOs than any other boss or enemy in any of the Smash games: even 14, beating Galleom's and Rayquaza's 8 and Duon's 9, as well as Master Hand's - Crazy Hand's 7 + 3 in Brawl. They are reduced to 12 in Boss Battles.
  • Only two of Tabuu’s moves out of 16 (12%) are not OHKOs on Intense: Teleport (which doesn’t inflict damage) and Eye Lasers (KOing well below 50%).
  • In the Classic Mode of the same game (on Intense difficulty only), combined Master Hand and a Crazy Hand have access to even 17 potential OHKOs, although some of them need most hits to connect for an OHKO.
  • Some of his moves have the unique power to OHKO the same player twice in a row.
• Although his wings have been injured and broken into shards by Sonic, Tabuu's Off Waves on Intense are still the most powerful move in every Smash game for both knockback and damage (up to 200%), along with the Ultimate Chimera's bite in Brawl itself.
  • Rapid Chop and Bullet Rain are also one of the most damaging moves in absolute, being able to inflict from roughly 300% to nearly 400%, only surpassed by multiple Floows’ lament on Intense difficulty, Bucculus' kiss and Lugia’s Aeroblast.
• Some of Tabuu's attacks are similar to those of other bosses; his Eye Laser is similar to Master and Crazy Hand's Finger Laser and his teleportation resembles the abilities of final bosses in the Kirby series, such as Nightmare and Marx. Additionally, Tabuu's Off Waves are somewhat similar to the animation of Giygas's Inexplicable Attack from EarthBound.
• The dragon head summoned during the "Dragon Laser" attack resembles a Dark Cannon. Its attack is also somewhat like Marx's mouth laser.
• Tabuu is the only boss in Brawl to lack an official artwork.
• Off Waves is the only attack to become slower when the game is played in co-op in the Subspace Emissary (but, strangely, not in Boss Battles), most likely due to their ability to affect the whole stage, and they being very difficult to avoid.
• Via the use of strong stickers and items, it is possible to take relatively little knockback from the Off Waves on Easy difficulty, allowing Tabuu to hit the player more than once with the move (in this case, the second hit is always a KO). However, it is also possible to be hit twice on Easy difficulty in Boss Battles, as long as the offstage player is hit by the sourspot at very low or no damage.
  • On Hard or higher difficulties, even a Super Mushroom or a Metal Box will not protect the player from being OHKOed by this immensely powerful attack.
• In Super Smash Bros. 4, if the final transformation of Master Core isn't defeated after 45 seconds, it will begin to spin rapidly and rise to the center of the screen, then charge up and unleash five red waves. These waves work similarly to Tabuu's Off Waves and will one-hit KO the player if they make contact, but only on 8.0 or higher difficulty. Also their knockback and damage are severely weaker, despite being able to one-hit KO most or all characters regardless.
• In the Mysterious Dimension of World of Light, Tabuu's spirit guards Marx's boss fight. This references how Marx and Tabuu share several attacks, such as their tendency to rapidly teleport and fire laser beams.

External links

• Dojo description: Mysteries of the Subspace Emissary
• A YouTube video of playing as Tabuu by hacking
• A YouTube video showing Tabuu Whip glitch
• A YouTube video showing Eye Lasers glitch
• Several one-hit KO moves

See also

• Off Waves
• Tabuu Whip glitch
• Tabuu's Residence
• The Great Maze
• Subspace
• Subspace Army
• The Subspace Emissary
• One-hit KO