Reveal Trailer
The trailer starts in Delfino Plaza at night with the Princess Peach being thrown at the ground as a gritty hand picks her up by the blouse holding her, revealing Dark Samus, and as Peach attempts to let her grip go while Dark Samus is about to smash her against a wall, however, a mysterious object of light intercepts through the grab scraping Dark Samus barely missing her but returning in a curved boomerang arc clashing against her hand and forcing her to release the grip, dropping Peach on the ground as they look at the source of the attacker, a voice is then heard and the camera pans to a shadowed figure with two golden pigtails dangling around as she speaks "Hold it right there! Will you attack a beautiful and defenseless princess? Unforgivable! I am the Pretty Guardian who fights for love and for justice!
I am Sailor Moon! And now in the name of Moon I'll punish you!"
As Sailor Moon does her iconic punishing pose, the splash tagline reads as "Sailor Moon Will punish you!", finishing her catchphrase as Sailor Moon dropkicks right on Dark Samus' head, knocking her out and the guardian landing on the ground and the scene is cut with an in-game montage showcasing her moveset and abilities before focuses back on Dark Samus who was defeated by Sailor Moon as she screams "Moon Healing Escalation!", releasing a beam of light sending Dark Samus away to the sky and Peach gets up looking grateful while Sailor Moon looks back at her, winks and jumps on the sky, juxtaposing between the moon covering her silhouette.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate x Sailor Moon
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate x Sailor Moon is the name of the collaboration between Nintendo and Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon franchise along with content from Toei Animation's anime series, both from the original series and it's reboot, Sailor Moon Crystal. This collaboration, in the form of paid downloadable content, casts Sailor Moon as a playable character for the first time as part of the Fourth Party Fighter Pass Vol. 3, along with a stage originating from the series, music, cameos, spirits and many more. While the character herself and the spirit artworks retain the original anime style, the stages, some of Sailor Moon's attacks and part of the music's design are kept both from the manga and Sailor Moon Crystal.
Sailor Moon is the second character of the Fourth Party Fighter Pass, following after the first one being Blue, from Nick Jr.'s Blue's Clues.
Franchise Overview
Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン, Bishōjo Senshi Sērā Mūn, originally translated as Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon and later as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon) is the japanese shōjo manga written, illustrated and published by Naoko Takeuchi, run throughout the Nakayoshi magazine from 1991 to 1997, gaining so much traction it has earned an anime adaptation produced by Toei Animation and broadcasted in Japan from 1992 to 1997 in the form of 5 seasons which is the more common and known version of the series. After that the series skyrocketed into popularity making it one of Toei's best selling franchises through earning a myriad of merchandise, live action spin offs, musicals, a reboot under the name of Sailor Moon Crystal, also published by Toei Animation, making the titular character one of the most prominent and iconic superheroes and anime characters due to her recognizable design. The franchise also revolutionized the magical girl genre and as of today the series are still highly growing up and will always be remembered as a classic.
Sailor Moon revolves around the adventures of a junior high school student named Usagi Tsukino living a double life as she transforms into the legendary Sailor Moon, who leads over a group of guardians named Sailor Senshi, each representing a planet of the Solar System, searching for the magical artifact, the Legendary Silver Crystal and fight against villains to prevent them from thwarting the crystal and dooming over the Planet Earth as each season she follows through a new adventure.
Character Pack No. XX
Sailor Moon
| Sailor Moon in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | |
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| Universe | Sailor Moon |
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| Availability | Downloadable |
Usagi Tsukino would be your normal, common and average cheerful, ditzy, happy-go-lucky and clumsy crybaby junior high school girl studying in Azabu Juuban who is in reality living a double life as a superheroine being the eponymous Sailor Moon. One day, Usagi is approached by a magical speaking black cat named Luna as she reveals that she is the incarnation of the legendary Sailor Moon and by granting her a magical brooch, awakening Usagi as with it she can transform into her alter-ego Sailor Moon, destined to save the Planet Earth from the evil forces of the Queen Beryl, finding the Princess Serenity and leading a group of other Sailor Senshi representing their respective planet who, much like Moon, each one of them were reincarnated into a dormant civilian living in Tokyo who would be later awakened as their true form.
Gameplay
Sailor Moon is a playable character added into Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, taking her appearance and design from the original anime series as she is labelled as Fighter XX of the Fourth Party DLC pass. For the sake of simplicity, Sailor Moon will be referred as Usagi Tsukino throughout her appearance in Smash. Usagi brings most, if not all of her power-ups, artifacts and attacks attained throughout the series into Smash.
Sailor Moon fits the archetype of average projectile zoner character as she doesn't particularly excel in any stat but she isn't hindered by terrible stats either. Usagi functions as a long-range zoner in the form of two solid projectiles, giving her opponents a tough time to approach her and she doesn't fall short in attack power as all of her Smash Attacks are highly capable of KOing opponents at early high damage and most of her tilts and weak attacks strategically place her opponents into spots that allow Usagi to land combos, coupled with her slightly above average speed, making her threatening to deal with in the right hands.
Despite that, Usagi does lack on the defensive side as after you get past her long range and projectiles she can be quite defenseless and her low weight does not help her from preventing being knocked away and juggled around. Most of her attacks also, while quick startup, suffer from notable endlag which punishes her if she fails to land a move correctly.
| Attribute | Stat |
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| Can Crawl? | Yes |
| Can Wall Jump? | Yes |
| Can tether? | Yes |
| Weight | 81 |
| Dash Speed | 1.654 |
| Walk Speed | 1.229 |
| Jump Height | 40 |
| Air Speed | 1.974 |
| Fall Speed | 1.75 |
Alternate Costumes
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Default |
Resembles Sailor Mercury. | ||
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Resembles Sailor Mars. |
Resembles Sailor Jupiter. | ||
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Resembles Sailor Venus. |
Resembles Sailor Chibi Moon. | ||
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Resembles Sailor Pluto. |
Resembles Queen Serenity. |
Moveset
 Neutral Special
Moon Tiara Action |
Usagi throws her tiara forwards, becoming a frisbee of light that travels in in an arc at a decently rapid pace that comes back at her like a boomerang. However if the tiara catches an opponent, they'll be trapped in a halo of light binding them for 2 seconds, giving Usagi enough time to react and punish the opponents. Can be reflected, healed with and pocketed. Usagi cannot summon another tiara until it returns back to her.
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 Side Special
Gorgeous Moon Meditation |
Usagi pulls out her Moon Rod and aims it at the enemy by charging and holding down the Side B input. Until it's fully charged, it allows Usagi to unleash an array of rainbow lights spiraling forwards that can be angled at the player's choice. It reaches a similar distance to that of R.O.B.'s Robo Blast. The more charged the attack is the less further it'll travel but deals more damage. Although it hardly has knockback properties it can be used to gimp recoveries.
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 Up Special
Sailor Planet Power |
Usagi starts concentrating as a halo of light covers her of which the player can charge which affects her distance similarly to Hero's Woosh. If barely charged, it won't send her far away albeit makes up for a great out of shield option but if fully charged sends her rocketing at a fairly large distance as she leaves a trail of light behind.
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 Down Special
Sonic Cry |
Usagi starts feeling overwhelmed at the battle and kneels down, crying in despair releasing a sphere of supersonic waves that come out of her odango covers pushing and damaging opponents away with low knockback. The move can reflect both physical and special projectiles and comes out as early as frame 3.
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 Final Smash
Starlight Honeymoon Therapy |
Usagi tackles the opponent and sends them to a cinematic cutscene where she summons the rest of the Inner and Outer Senshi as all of them attack the opponent at unison with their respective moves (Mercury's Shine Aqua Illusion, Mars' Burning Mandala, Jupiter's Sparkling Thunder, Venus' Love Kiss, Chibi Moon's Pink Moon Heartache, Pluto's Death Scream, Uranus' Shaking World, Neptune's Deep Submarine and Saturn's Silence Glaive) and finishing with Sailor Moon's Starlight Honeymoon Therapy blasting the opponent away.
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Stage: Crystal Palace
| Sailor Moon Crystal Palace | |
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| Universe | Sailor Moon |
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| Home Stage | Sailor Moon |
| Availability | Downloadable |
| Max. Players | 8 |
Crystal Palace is one of the most important settings in Sailor Moon. Built after the former Tokyo city, right in the Juuban District, home of Usagi Tsukino, the Crystal Palace was ruled under the Neo Queen Serenity and the King Endymion during the 30th Century, also housing the rest of the Inner Senshi and Outer Senshi, such as Sailor Pluto guarding behind the Space-Time Door in the deepest parts of the palace, which are the only people allowed to enter in. As the name indicates, the Crystal Palace is mainly built of an indestructible and impenetrable material.
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the Crystal Palace serves as Sailor Moon's home stage, composed of a flat walk-off layout with the exception being the Roof, the size between Boxing Ring and Coliseum with two invisible barriers covering both blast zones, each area sharing the same trait similar to the King of Fighters stage, usually coming with floating platforms and stage hazards, matching those of Battlefield coming in around. The Crystal Palace serves as a travelling stage that cycles through 4 areas: the Entrance, the Ballroom, the Roof and finally the Space-Time Door, cycling back to the Entrance.
The Ballroom consists on a large room with a few platforms scattered around it and a massive chandelier with two stories is placed in the middle of the stage where fighters can stand on them, similarly to the light fixture in the Boxing Ring stage where it's considerably high to be unreachable with some characters but not high up the blast room. Opponents knocked out that respawn will always be atop the chandelier. Likewise, the chandelier can take damage which will cause it to swing both sides violently knocking opponents around and with a strong impact it'll fall to the ground and collapse, crushing fighters underneath it, and once the stage cycles back to the ballroom, the chandelier will be repaired and hanged again. The stage then cycles onto the Roof. As character cameos, Tuxedo Mask/King Endymion, Neo Queen Serenity (if Sailor Moon is not fighting in the stage), Chibiusa and the cats Luna, Artemis and Diana spectate and cheer up on the fighters.
The hazardless version of the stage only consists on the Entrance, with the columns and their platforms standing still erect but cannot be destroyed. The blast zone walls are removed. The Omega version of the stage consists on a platform made of colorful crystals with the palace shown in the background.
Cameos
| Sailor Mercury | Sailor Mars | Sailor Jupiter | Sailor Venus |
| Neo-Queen Serenity* | Sailor Chibi Moon | Tuxedo Mask | Luna, Artemis & Diana* |
| Sailor Uranus | Sailor Neptune | Sailor Pluto | Sailor Saturn |
Note: Characters marked with an (*) mean that they do not show up if Sailor Moon is fighting on the stage.
Spirits
Note: Some of the Spirit Battles might contain spoilers for the series. Follow with viewer's discretion.
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| Spirit Ability | Conditions | |
| Star Rod Equipped (Start battles with a Star Rod. Swing it to launch projectiles.) |
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| References | ||
| The cat’s spirit battle has you fight against a Lucario, an Incineroar and an Isabelle to refer Luna, Artemis and Diana respectively. Also appropriate that they're all small due to them being regular house cats. Each cat is wielding a Star Rod, referring to the many rods and weapons they grant to the Sailor Senshi to help them out in their battles. They’re fought in Onett to resemble the Tsukino’s house where they reside most of their time. | ||
| Spirit Battle | ||
| Spirit Ability | Conditions | |
| Lip's Stick Equipped (Start battles with a Lip's Stick. Hit an opponent with it to slowly drain their health.) |
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| References | ||
| Tuxedo Mask’s spirit battle starts with a fight against Sailor Moon who will avoid conflict whenever possible and over time, a Joker, who bears a striking resemblance with Tuxedo Mask will show up to “help” Sailor Moon out. Since Joker is holding a Lip's Stick to refer the roses he often throws to interrupt the battle whenever Sailor Moon is on perils, he literally throws the Lip’s Sticks instead of using them. After 30 seconds of battling Sailor Moon, Joker will show up to parody how Tuxedo Mask seemingly always arrives late to a battle. The stage, Fourside resembles the Osa-P's Jewelry Store where he first appears and Sailor Moon is first awakened and fought against a Youma to save Naru and her mother. | ||
| Spirit Battle | ||
| Spirit Ability | Conditions | |
| Item Gravitation (Draws nearby items closer.) |
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| References | ||
| Naru’s spirit battle is a fight against Daisy, who shares a similar haircut and color scheme through her teal alternate costume. Daisy won’t attack at all and will run away from the Player as far as possible due to Naru being a normal civilian with no special powers at all. The battle is timed for 30 seconds as you need to defeat her before Sailor Moon appears, which will instantly end the battle.The stage where she is fought in, New Donk City, resembles the jewelry store Osa-P she and her mother reside in. Naru's spirit ability being Item Gravitation closely parodies how she is seemingly always a target for youma to attack her. | ||
| Spirit Battle | ||
| Spirit Ability | Conditions | Assists |
| Bomber Equipped (Start battles with a Bomber. Raise it up to cause a huge explosion.) |
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| References | ||
| Queen Beryl’s spirit battle consists on a fight against a giant Palutena who shares a similar appearance and four Dark Samuses to resemble the Four Shitennou who assist her. The stage of choice is Reset Bomb Forest to allude the Dark Kingdom and how the battle between her and Sailor Moon seems to reset everything back to normality. The Assist Trophies as an Item Tidal Wave call back to the Youma she constantly summons to fight against Sailor Moon. (The possible Assist Trophies you can get themselves even reminisce the Shitennou to a degree). Queen Beryl's Spirit Ability granting you a Bomber possibly refers to the bombs used to kill the Sailor Senshi during the scene before her battle. | ||
| Spirit Battle | ||
| Spirit Ability | Conditions | Assists |
| Undamaged Attack & Speed ↑ (Slightly increases attack and move speed while at 0% damage.) |
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| References | ||
| The Sailor Starlights’ spirit battle consists on a fight against a Little Mac, a Robin and a male Corrin, referencing how Seiya (left) is usually an athletic and strong guy, Taiki (right) being the brains of the trio and Yaten (center) sharing a similar appearance and hair color as Corrin. Due to the three of them being a famous singing group, they’re fought in Boxing Ring being the closest thing to a stage display, with Meloettas spawning from Poké Balls and the Squid Sisters periodically assisting on the battle. If the player defeats all 3 opponents, they’ll be replaced by a Bayonetta, a Zero Suit Samus and a female Corrin, respectively, referencing as to how they took the disguise of 3 guys but after they transform, their true gender and identity are revealed. | ||
Mii Costumes
Sailor Moon, much like Banjo & Kazooie and Byleth, doesn't bring anything from her company specifically other than the Luna-P hat, instead bringing a total of 10 costumes and 5 hats, some of them revolving around fellow magical and heroine girls with a huge focus on Mii Swordfighters. A lot of Sega related costumes have also been brought as well. The Hats also come in as a free addition alongside the DLC.
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Luna-P Ball X 
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Kero X 
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Don-Chan X 
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Hello Kitty X 
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Aggretsuko X 
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Arle Nadja X  
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Ulala X  
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Aigis X 
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Taokaka X 
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Cooking Mama* X  
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Lara Croft X 
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Hatsune Miku X 
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Sakura Kinomoto X
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Atsuko Kagari X 
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Hat Kid* X 
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Note: Both Cooking Mama and Hat Kid receive a Mii Costume Deluxe in a similar way as Sans and Cuphead, each coming with their own tracks, Let's Cook in Cooking Mama's case and Your Contract has Expired in Hat Kid's case. Several spirit events were eventually also hosted representing the Cardcaptor Sakura, Vocaloid, Persona 3, Tomb Raider, Little Witch Academia, Cooking with Mama and A Hat in Time series.
Trivia
- Credit to IncarnateParanoia (t∣b∣c) for letting me use one of his templates as an inspiration, as well as laying out the base template of the Spirit Tables before altering it myself.
- Naru Osaka is the only civilian character who is completely unrelated to the rest of the cast that appears as a spirit. The reason of this is that the author has taken a liking to her and felt she was quite iconic to the series and on her own.
- The reason as to why the Crystal Palace was served as the series' stage instead of other more iconic ones is that the author has considered others such as the Hikawa Shrine, the Game Center Crown or even the Juuban Public Middle School is because the author felt there were many city-based stages and had the need to divert into something more unique.