Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
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50 free Super Smash Bros. Ultimate trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate set out to be the biggest crossover in gaming. Every fighter who had ever appeared in the series came back, joined by a wave of newcomers and years of downloadable guests from other studios' worlds. It went on to become the best-selling fighting game ever made and a fixture of tournaments and living rooms alike. This SSBU quiz covers the whole package. There are questions on the roster and the stories behind its most requested characters, the DLC fighters and where they came from, the spirits system, the modes and rule options, and the music. A full run of questions is devoted to World of Light, the adventure mode, from its catastrophic opening to its bosses and endings. It is written for anyone who has spent an evening launching friends off the screen, whether you play casually or follow the competitive scene. Expect easy openers, a stretch on adventure mode, and a few deep cuts about how the game was made.
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Q 01Which fighter outruns Galeem's beams on a Warp Star to become the lone survivor in Smash Ultimate's World of Light?
Kirby
Kirby pushes the Warp Star to warp speed and vanishes just before the beams reach him. He then crash-lands alone in a canyon of the remade world.
Q 02Whose last request to Masahiro Sakurai, made before his death, was a Smash Bros. game for the Nintendo Switch?
Satoru Iwata
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's president, made the request before he died in 2015. Sakurai said he wanted Ultimate to be the best game he could make out of respect for him.
Q 03Smash Ultimate became the best-selling fighting game ever by overtaking the record of which 1990s arcade hit?
Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II had sold about 15.5 million copies across all its versions. Ultimate overtook that total in 2019, within a year of going on sale.
Q 04Which hero, the top pick in a 2015 fan vote, became the final DLC fighter added to Smash Ultimate?
Sora
Sora arrived in October 2021 after Sakurai met a Disney representative at an awards venue. Until then the team had assumed the Kingdom Hearts rights would be impossible to secure.
Q 05Which block-building game supplied Steve, whose arrival forced Smash Ultimate's developers to rework every single stage?
Minecraft
Minecraft's Steve mines materials and places blocks in mid-fight, so every stage had to be adjusted. Talks about the crossover had begun roughly five years before he arrived.
Q 06Which Mario character's exclusion as a playable fighter in Smash Ultimate sparked a Change.org petition?
Waluigi
Waluigi was confirmed at E3 2018 as a non-playable helper once again. The backlash grew loud enough that Nintendo of America's Reggie Fils-Aimé publicly acknowledged his popularity.
Q 07Which common Mario enemy, free to players who registered early, became the first DLC fighter in Smash Ultimate?
Piranha Plant
Piranha Plant joined in January 2019, chosen because Sakurai wanted to add diversity to the roster.
Q 08Smash Ultimate's eight starting fighters match the starters of the series' first game, released on which console?
N64
N64 players began with the same eight in 1999. Everyone else in Ultimate is unlocked through Classic mode, World of Light or simply by fighting battles.
Q 09Which Metroid villain, long called too big for Smash, was redesigned to stand upright so he could join Ultimate?
Ridley
Ridley had been a high-demand request for years. In 2008 Sakurai called adding him impossible unless the character's size was sacrificed.
Q 10Which villain could Smash Ultimate players unlock a few days early by beating him in a limited-time boss battle?
Sephiroth
Sephiroth, the villain of Final Fantasy VII, was the prize of the Sephiroth Challenge. His reveal trailer opens with him slicing Galeem in half.
Q 11Which rival of Galeem bursts from a crack in the sky leading an army of Crazy Hands in Smash Ultimate?
Dharkon
Dharkon forces Galeem to retreat and swallows the map in darkness. He also takes control of the spirits and fighters his rival was still holding.
Q 12Which longtime Smash boss becomes playable for one battle against fifty puppet fighters near the end of World of Light?
Master Hand
Master Hand joins the heroes once the light and dark spirits on the final map are balanced. His rampage through the puppets opens the path to the true ending.
Q 13Which mode from Super Smash Bros. Brawl did Sakurai use as the inspiration for World of Light in Ultimate?
Subspace Emissary
Q 21What term did Smash Ultimate introduce for characters like Daisy and Lucina whose moves are based on another's?
Echo Fighters
Echo Fighters can be shown in their own slots on the character select screen or stacked with the fighters they copy. Fans had long called such characters clones.
Q 22Which Donkey Kong series newcomer joined Smash Ultimate thanks to popularity in the Fighter Ballot?
King K. Rool
King K. Rool fights with a blunderbuss and a throwable crown. He growls like a real crocodile instead of speaking with a voice actor's lines.
Q 23Which Animal Crossing character, a mere helper item in the previous Smash game, became a full fighter in Ultimate?
Isabelle
The Subspace Emissary was the model, and Sakurai opened the new story with a cataclysm because he felt it would leave a greater impact on players.
Q 14Which song by Hideki Sakamoto, the vocal main theme of Smash Ultimate, underpins most of the game's original music?
Lifelight
Lifelight is sung by Erina Koga in Japanese and Abby Trott in English. An abridged version plays over the game's opening movie.
Q 15Which fire-breathing wyvern from Capcom's Monster Hunter series is the boss of Forest Hill in World of Light?
Rathalos
Rathalos is the first character in the series to appear as both a boss and an Assist Trophy, so he can also be summoned to fight on a player's side.
Q 16Which fighter, known for visions of the future, foresees his allies' doom just before Galeem strikes in World of Light?
Shulk
Shulk can only look at his comrades in shock before the beams land. In his own game the Monado sword is what shows him glimpses of what is to come.
Q 17After rescuing Mario in Smash Ultimate's World of Light, players choose to free Marth, Villager or which third fighter?
Sheik
Sheik, Marth and Villager each stand on a different starting route. Freeing one blocks off the other two, so the choice decides which way the journey begins.
Q 18In the city on the World of Light map in Smash Ultimate, several buildings are shaped like which objects?
Old Nintendo consoles
Old Nintendo consoles such as the Famicom, GameCube and Wii stand in for tower blocks. Another building resembles the company's headquarters in Kyoto.
Q 19Which monstrous form of the Koopa King, a hidden final boss in Melee, guards Molten Fortress in World of Light?
Giga Bowser
Giga Bowser was invented for Smash because Sakurai felt the regular Bowser had grown cuter and less menacing. Beating him here frees Bowser himself as a fighter.
Q 20Sakurai said only three fighters could plausibly escape Galeem in World of Light: the survivor, Palutena and who?
Bayonetta
Bayonetta and Palutena are also the last two fighters to be freed in the story. Both are placed right before the final battle.
Isabelle used to stand still and toss healing fruit to whoever summoned her. As a fighter she reels opponents in with a fishing rod.
Q 24Which Pokémon was the last newcomer revealed for Smash Ultimate's base roster, in a slot held open for Sun and Moon?
Incineroar
Incineroar was the one fighter not chosen when development began, because the Pokémon had not been created yet. The team simply left a space open.
Q 25Chrom finally became playable in Smash Ultimate with a moveset based on which fellow Fire Emblem swordsman?
Roy
Roy is the template, although Chrom's sword has no sweet spot. That makes him parallel his model the same way Lucina parallels Marth.
Q 26Smash Ultimate's first teaser, in March 2018, showed new fighters from which colourful Nintendo shooter series?
Splatoon
Splatoon's Inklings were the only new fighters on show. The teaser, part of a Nintendo Direct, did not even reveal the game's title.
Q 27Which returning Smash Ultimate fighter speaks with reused voice lines recorded by actor David Hayter?
Snake
Snake had his existing lines carried over rather than re-recorded. Announcer Xander Mobus, by contrast, came back to record new clips for the game.
Q 28Which living hat from Super Mario Odyssey accompanies Mario in Smash Ultimate, even joining in one of his taunts?
Cappy
Cappy gets tossed in a circle during Mario's side taunt, then caught and put back on his head. It is one of several appearance updates given to returning fighters.
Q 29Which Smash Ultimate fighter lost an animation showing a feathered Native American after complaints of stereotyping?
Mr. Game & Watch
Mr. Game & Watch's move copied Fire Attack, a 1982 handheld game about a cowboy defending a fort. Nintendo of America apologised and patched it out soon after release.
Q 30Princess Daisy made her playable Smash debut in Ultimate with a moveset inherited from which other fighter?
Peach
Peach hands Daisy her whole moveset, floating jump included. Daisy was unveiled at E3 2018, the first of the game's new near-identical fighters to be shown.