How Much HEALTH Does a Smash Ball Have? - Smash Ultimate Item Trivia

[@Casual_PKBeats]

As some of the comments are mentioning, yes, the Smash Ball also has an underdog system where it takes less hits to break for someone in last place and vice versa! I neglected to cover it since the Smash Ball section was already going on a lot longer than I anticipated, but it really should've been brought up to some extent (even if it makes calculated the exact Smash Ball percent way more difficult). So, if you've ever felt like it's taken way too much to break a Smash Ball, that's probably why. If you're in the lead and start attacking it really close to its spawn time, then it's kinda bulky. Happy New Year's, everyone!

[@TramiNguyen-oi3kp]

Happy New Year, Smash fans!

[@JediSteve-J3-]

Probably could have also used spirits to see the higher end of HP

[@alsims2007]

smash ball health is far more involved than I thought it would be. any idea if the health resets if someone knocks it out of you?

[@mskl4199]

HEY YOU!!! If you walk or run past a barrel or crate whatever it is and try to pick it up after you passed it at the right frame, you will play the animation where you had picked it up, but the character is picking up nothing and after the animation is over, you go back to your idle pose. Also Happy New Year!

[@jaridshinner1210]

no game is fun when someone wins all the time!

[@blu3g]

"How much health does the Smash Ball have?" The answer is an infinite amount when I try to break it and almost none when my friend hits it

[@CertifiedRectangle]

That just means you were already winning

[@blu3g]

@CertifiedRectangle I assure you, I wasn't

[@nyacho_]

It's 50/50, either it breaks or it doesn't

[@rolfknappmann]

100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% true!

[@adendawe8031]

666 like leZ goooo

[@elkarlo1593]

The dragoon and daybreak both actually have a chance to not spawn at all in some matches to make them more elusive of sorts, it's explained in the Brawl Dojo and nowhere else

[@Themoo_atcows]

Now here else?

[@arzfan29]

Does it chamge based on how many items are active? If not you could turn on nothing but those 2 and occasionally get matches with no items

[@herothecrow994]

I imagine the reason Freezies and Pitfalls can't come from grass is probably because whatever process happens to automatically consume powerups and food would also cause whoever picks it up to freeze/get buried, and they didn't want the grass to randomly ruin your game with no warning. It was probably a situation where they could have made them work fine, but decided it was a niche enough case that it wasn't worth it to fix.

[@KaitouKaiju]

Yeah they could have had you just hold them

[@xraenon1664]

Considering the game also likely treats frozen and buried as status conditions, it would make sense the code for the grass would auto-apply it.

[@SamLabbato]

it also unintentionally adds some randomness to it, where sometimes you just don't get anything

[@xraenon1664]

@@SamLabbato I don’t think it works like that. At least from my experience in Smash, it seems things like that are generally programmed to always result in something if they can. It’s only when all the possible options are externally hard-coded out of the pool of results that nothing comes out of it.

[@UnknownSpooky]

*Brawl tripping flashbacks*

[@Happymbm]

8:54 Ganondorf casually kicking a crate with an exploding Electrode on it is very much a Ganondorf thing to do

[@Themoo_atcows]

*crate

[@Happymbm]

@Themoo_atcows Lol, thanks

[@Themoo_atcows]

@@Happymbm no prob dude

[@SebTheSamMarten]

As a Dorf main... Yes.

[@Bryce_the_Woomy_Boi]

We always see people talk about final smashes, but never the smash ball itself

[@jeremypanjaitan4039]

they always ask wheres smash ball and never hows smash ball

[@evancraftgc6271]

Oh hello there Bryce, entirely unsurprised to see you here!

[@gamesier2400]

Yeah man where are the balls i won't play a Game if It doesnt have balls in it

[@speedymatt1236]

Nor the Ditto Pokémon.

[@Vexlev0]

Gah why are you literally everywhere

[@meltingrocket89yt]

I’ve always been so curious about how final smashes health worked, especially because sometimes you just get that final smash in game that just refuses to break no matter how much you hit it

[@Libops]

Final Smashes health? Do you mean the Final Smash meter?

[@KubickQ]

@@Libops the ball from the title of the video

[@Libops]

@KubickQ Ohh they said Final Smash instead of Smash Ball.

[@banana9494]

@@Libops Final smashes don't have health so they were probably talking abt the smash ball

[@MasenDorfman]

I be hitting them with revenge incineroar f smash and it doesn’t break

[@Dergy]

Silly fact: In training mode, you can only spawn in one Boss Galaga at a time. However, breaking a crate in the same mode has a chance to drop multiple, bypassing the goofy limit

[@peytonthompson3921]

There’s a fun “game mode” I like to play with friends where we turn item spawns to max and only include smash balls and fake smash balls. This way it’s a literal minefield and every attack puts you and everyone near you at risk of blowing up. We included the smash ball because if you can tell which “smash ball” is the real one, you deserve the final smash.

[@waffler-yz3gw]

i have one where theres super low launch speed, high spawns, only fake smash balls, and 999 hp. it actually becomes a really fun game of positioning and projectile usage as you try to explode the fake smash balls near your opponents while avoiding all the oens swarming around you

[@Yonu-o9e]

The fake smash ball and the normal smash ball have different textures; the fake smash ball has an inverse smash logo on it.

[@iSomeDood]

@@Yonu-o9e We included the smash ball because if you can tell which “smash ball” is the real one, you deserve the final smash.

[@alexskocy9948]

​@iSomeDood most players can tell the real and fake smash ball apart. I remember doing this with posion and regular mushrooms and I had more difficulty in that than i ever have trying to figure out if a smash ball was real or fake

[@iSomeDood]

@@alexskocy9948 uh okay

[@skeletorthebest7204]

No mention of the fact that the smash ball breaks slower for the winning player, and faster for the losing player?

[@Casual_PKBeats]

This is definitely something I should've brought up, it slipped my mind with how much longer the Smash Ball section was going on compared to everything else. But yes, it does seem to break faster for someone in last place (and I'd imagine vice versa). I'll probably give that a little touch in the next episode, just to be thorough!

[@savzarororororororora]

This needs a correction. Like immediately! I’d like this fleshed out in complete detail. I’ve been in first and out well over 40% into a smash ball. I almost disliked this for the fact all the info you gave is basically useless

[@Casual_PKBeats]

@@savzarororororororora I agree it should have been added, but it's not like everything I said was useless. The fact that the health decays overtime is still very interesting and is an important factor, and the numbers gone over in the video are still a good baseline for even playing fields. I'll be covering more details in a followup video, but the main takeaway being "the health changes drastically overtime" was probably the biggest factor to me anyways, since I felt a lot of people didn't know that

[@KaitouKaiju]

​@@savzarorororororororaWell it is trivia not gameplay tips

[@Thequack4741]

​@@KaitouKaijuexactly lol

[@MrFlame-zk5cy]

2:54 personally id assume that its 36% because thats a multiple of twelve which we established was the training mode HP so it being scaled down to 1/3 in training mode makes sense

[@EGOyarzoH]

Another fun fact related to the assist trophy is that if you manage to get an assist trophy item in the air with villager and then use their neutral b before touching the ground, villager will put the item in his inventory, being this probably one the most unnecesary and stupidly hard way to put something into villager's inventory

[@kribby2168]

I love how much content smash ultimate has been providing for you channel for nearly 7 years now, it just goes to show how much love and effort was put into this game

[@kagerisu]

Another thing to note is during a match a losing player (one that has less stocks or points) will be able to break smash balls easier. The opposite is true where a winning player will have a harder time breaking smash balls

[@nathanflinchum1153]

9:46 I dunno it sounds like a blast to me tbh

[@CucuiKingGanondorf]

lol

[@sonicultimateyt1090]

I see what you did there

[@LrdSqk]

10:42 I'm pretty sure the capsules are designed to look like the ones used in Dragon Ball? Unless those are a play on something else, which wouldn't surprise me knowing Toriyama

[@cullenhutchison6528]

You can tell the difference between the real and fake Smash Balls while they are rolling around even without the sound (which is honestly too similar for me to reliably differentiate) because they are completely asymmetrical, so they will never resemble each other when rotated.

[@x_MoonlitShade]

The fake smash ball is literally a mirrored/flipped smash ball rotated 90 degrees. Since the rotation doesn't matter when they're rolling on the ground, with them both rolling around on the ground it is quite nearly impossible to tell them apart. You’re crazy thinking that’s a better way to tell them apart than the sound pitch difference lol. Is it impossible to tell them apart while rolling? No obviously not, if you have time to examine it and think about which it would be, but in a match? not likely lol

[@cullenhutchison6528]

@@x_MoonlitShade Skill issue (If the thin line is clockwise of the larger gap, it's real. If not, it's fake.)

[@DemiCape]

@@x_MoonlitShade The moment a fake smash ball spawns in I immediately knows that it is a fake smash ball, that is how easy it is to tell them apart. The thick line on the real smash ball is tilted upwards while on the fake the thick line is tilted sideways. Very easy to see.

[@x_MoonlitShade]

@ yeah…. For the floating variant. Durrrrrrr. We’re talking about one laying on the floor, able to roll around. Idiot.

[@Qualske]

What about when the smash ball refuses to break for people? Literally seen the Ball tank hits and refuse to break them just goes away...

[@SnesM3ss]

Maybe it's due to balancing? Perhaps it has more health for a player that is doing better in a particular match?

[@SnesM3ss]

It does, check the pinned comment.

[@Qualske]

@@SnesM3ss my comment was made before the pinned lol.

[@SnesM3ss]

@Qualske Yeah, I didn't see it before I replied to yours lmao.

[@donkylefernandez4680]

Having more players feels like it should increase the hp of the ball as well. Since the likelihood of it being attacked is exponentially increased per player

[@varietychan]

4:06 speaking of the master ball, I believe the item description says it has a higher chance of spawning a mythical pokemon, does that mean it has a chance to spawn a normal pokemon?

[@intensellylit4100]

Goldeen

[@whackareal]

Goldeen

[@varietychan]

Stopping the chain before it starts, I don't need my notifications filled with replies just saying "Goldeen"

[@PlushYamaxanadu]

7:54 I have been playing this game since launch and I don't think I have ever seen a futuristic crate or futuristic barrel...

[@woah6204]

same. didn't even know that they existed. only the normal wooden ones and present ish ones

[@Srelathon]

The Capsule also seems highly likely to be a reference to the Capsules from Dragon Ball, as they share a remarkably similar shape, including the button on the top.

[@Randallroks]

A little known fact about the smash ball is that the ball is a lot easier to break when it's the losing player that hits it. The winning player instead needs to hit more times to break it. This was a thing they added in smash 4. And when I say easier to break it's like the ball has less hp for the losing player. I don't know the specifics.

[@AGuestSSBU]

one of my favorite brawl memories was learning that characters stay on rolling crates and watching my friend go barreling off stage

[@ruie.34]

This is gonna be such an awesome series. Items rarely get any real attention. Thank you!

[@speedymatt1236]

Suggestion for a future video: Properties of the Ditto Pokémon fighter clone. I wonder if you can capture all 7 fighters plus the Ditto clone in some of the final smashes… Also, you should include unique item interactions with the ice climbers and the animal crossing fighters.

[@Yellowsam4145]

Honestly I never though about the health of the smash ball, I thought it was random. It having health explains why sometimes it just won't break due to hitting it with low damage attacks.

[@Laaks]

@14:05 I think it's much easier to see the mirrored Smash Bros Logo on the fake than to hear that difference

[@arzfan29]

I mean, dragon ball also has small capsules labelled capsule that open with a button and store bigger things inside of them

[@majestyskitsYT]

Happy new year bro

[@sylvaticriver5428]

I want to add another fact to the assist trophy one. Characters who have ground attacks that translate over to air attacks (megaman jab/nair/ftilt, steve utilt/uair, steve jab/ftilt/nair) can start these attacks as aerials while holding an assist trophy, and as long as they're not in endlag, they can start another one while grounded and holding the asisst trophy by just holding the button down. so for example: pick up an assist trophy with nair as steve, and then just hold the A button, and you'll be free to move, jump, and attack. You can even change from jab to utilt by jumping and doing an uair.

[@armorbearer9702]

(10:17) This is so cool! I wish DK's down special allowed him to summon a barrel.

[@realitant]

My friend gave me the advice, "always be the second guy to hit the smash ball." 15 years later it's cool to see how spot on that advice was

[@rudycusson4582]

The smash balls have way more health when your winning, when your losing its more likely you break it

[@holliwawa]

Love when one video is so good it's all I need to subscribe

[@pustulioyo]

This is one of the more fascinating videos you have done recently. I have always wondered about this because sometimes It seems like the damn thing won't break and then sometimes it takes one very weak hit to break it.

[@raindrop1016]

ABSOLUTELY CONTINUE THIS!!!

[@KratosAurionPlays]

I literally couldn't tell the difference between the pitch of the real smash ball and fake smash ball lol

[@gabrieltellez8148]

As far as I can tell, the grass would make the item instantly apply and it would be strange if it applied something to the person who pulled out the item

[@thewolfmanhulk2927]

This was very insightful, you have gained a new subscriber, thank you for this video. I will check out more from you, glad smash wiki referencing you, and your efforts to experiment and find this information is appreciated.

[@Nukatha]

I feel like Sakurai explained at some point between Brawl, Smash 4 Miiverse, and Ultimate that Daybreak/Dragoon sometimes just don't spawn in a given match, and it's intentional.

[@DoctorNovakaine]

It feels like items rarely get attention in Smash so I'm glad to see a series like this that gives some information or fun facts about them.

[@henke37]

The grass not allowing for freezies and pitfalls is obviously to prevent you suffering from the effect yourself.

[@Fudgecaik]

Happy new year Pkbeats I love your content and can’t wait for 2025

[@HProtagVtuber]

The answer is...1 million hp when you are spamming attacks on it but only enough hp for an opponent to cough on it and it pops.

[@isneezelightning]

wow, neat idea! excited to see even more of these little item trivias

[@richardbradbury5164]

9:15 idk if this is true but you can also see them (or a different version of them idk) in one of the levels of Kirby RTD's white wafers.

[@sparkoflife5720]

11:40 I feel like the reason it doesn't pull those two items is because all of the other "consumable" items (like the metal box and mushroom you showed) get automatically used, so maybe the Freezie and Pitfall would've just activated on the user? Though, they're also throwable items, and none of the other throwable items, like Bob-Ombs, do that, so idk.

[@JamichaelKing-ns2hn]

I love playing smash bros, but this has been on my mind the whole time I've played it, I'm glad you're making this video it really helps

[@varietychan]

11:07 I'm not sure if this fact is in Smash Ultimate, but I recall the camera actually moving to make the grass be on screen when it spawned.

[@Oretal]

It’s very funny that you choose Pyra for the capsule segment hehe. The bomber segment was so cruel, always on the edge of death… also the built in slowmo was really good for your ending line of that segment

[@AdrianHereToHelp]

Maybe the grass can't spawn the freezie and the pitfall because it would be automatically applied to the player just like food and buffs, which would feel a bit cheap

[@Xachpro5475]

Happy new years eve

[@E1ns_2wei]

I think the Grass doesnt spawn Freezy and Pitfall is because some lazy employe coded it to always "equip" effects, meaning it would also straight up freeze or bury you and instead of actually making an exception in this case they just decided to not spawn it at all.

[@Nio-s1z]

CONTINUE PLEASE (this is the most useful information ever)

[@erikh5512]

I think I actually learned it from this channel a while ago. But it's worth noting for anyone who reads this that the assist trophy does more than just give you more landing lag. It actually gives you more end lag on any aerial you do while holding it

[@sagacious03]

Interesting analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@8CanadianBacon9]

Little Mac up smashing the Blast Box is definitely the strat

[@Mxsfit11Six]

Happy New Year, PKBeats :)🎊

[@nonobobo7017]

i don't watch that much smash content nowadays but i do really love your videos, they're awesome man

[@jinxed8294]

Looking forward to the new series! Happy New Year Mr. Beats!

[@jeremyleyland1047]

I feel like the smash ball also has a damage multiplier depending on stocks so if you are down a stock you do 1.25 damage to the ball where if you are a stock up you do 0.75

[@randomdude-u7i]

this is a video i feel like I've been missing for a while

[@kerokerocola99]

Pretty sure the capsules were inspired by Dragon Ball's capsules. Hell, they looked the same before Wii U, where they redesigned them to be "chubby", which I believed was done to avoid them looking like the ones from DB

[@KaitouKaiju]

Dragon balls capsules themselves were inspired by gachapon

[@buriedpet]

This was interesting, even though I’ve only played melee before. Definitely want to see the rest, hopefully as one long video once it’s all out. (You’ll get better algo push from that too)

[@Blibers]

Good vid man!

[@Erokingu]

Good start for the new year

[@piranhabones]

It would be interesting to see how exactly the smash ball works in a regular match, since it doesn't have a specific amount of hp but rather chooses a threshold to break for each player. Like, someone who has a 3 stock advantage and is at 0% will have much more trouble breaking it, while someone at their last stock and at 120% will break it with pretty much any attack

[@DylanKatt]

HAPPY NEW CONSLOE YEAR, PKBEATS! 😃

[@kraut_did_work]

I'am happy to see a new video topic with hopefully short upload pauses

[@arcticdino1650]

An item fact I know is that the motion sensor bomb originates from Perfect Dark and Goldeneye, with it's design in different versions of Super Smash bros resembling one of the two games versions

[@hexhasgone]

To the question of the title: The answer is yes

[@llikevaquitas]

FIRE VIDEO please make it a series

[@ramO6713]

Happy new years!!!

[@apollorock3r244]

9:18 Funny enough, the first time I heard of these items was in the first Super Monkey Ball, which was used on the goals. 10:37 I always thought the Capsules were originally from Dragon Ball Z when I was young. XD Happy New Year! 😊🎊🎉

[@Ryzer235]

I thought the golden ball confetti item thingy was a reference to Kirby, as they appear quite frequently in those games. Interesting to see it’s an actual Japanese object as well!

[@alexskocy9948]

3:25 you can mash Z to drop the assist trophy if this ever happens to you same thing csn be done with the hammer if the head falls off and you don't want to carry the stick around for like 15 seconds

[@pustulioyo]

Okay, that fact about Robin and the Daybreak makes me ask more questions. Why is he the exception with that? Is it because, at least partly, the Levin Sword Is programmed as a usable item since Robin can lose the sword and other people are definitely capable of grabbing said discarded sword and throwing it as an item? In that case, does this mark one of the few circumstances where a character is capable of holding two grabbable items? I'd like to see some experimenting done with that since he was clearly the exception when it came to holding the Daybreak.

[@forshovelry2705]

I’m 90% confident that the amount of health the smash ball has is dependent on a comeback mechanic. When you’re winning, it feels impossible to break. When you’re losing, you often one shot i

[@andrewslater9258]

Smash ball hp probably work mostly on force value rather then raw damage so attacks with high launch power are more effective in breaking them.

[@jamesdosdall8391]

I'd be interested to see some tests to verify if this is true or not, but I can NEVER break the Smash Ball as Lucario specifically. I think maybe it calculates the damage he deals to the Smash Ball as if he was at 0 aura regardless of what percent he's actually at.

[@JoelTheParrot]

8:00 ...THE CRATE COSMETICS ARE STAGE DEPENDANT?!!?!

[@perseusgaming365]

I think the reason grass can't make freezie and pitfall because those are negative effects, and if pulled would be applied to the person grabbing the grass.

[@kipper1668]

Penny: wow, we always thought the smash ball breaking had some randomness to it. Playing Brawl growing up it would sometimes break in a single hit and aometimes take forever to break... assuning Brawl has similar mechanics, seemsit wad just about timing! Nice vid and happy new year!

[@BJGvideos]

Penny?

[@khguy27]

My guess for the grass not working with the pitfall or freezie is maybe because they're debuffs? Like picking up a grass and immediately getting put into the ground or frozen in place would discourage people from using them in actual matches? Does the poison mushroom work from the grass?

[@justsomeguyfrom-redacted-]

Ok so I learned a thing about the smash ball that works for me, 3 heavy hits so I found me hitting, letting my foe hit it and push it to me so I can hit it for the last time (I’d like to note I used this since Brawl but this is likely not identical today and as shown by the video- this only works if everyone is rushing it down on its spawn)

[@HarrisonAndrews]

I feel that the smash ball also has some sort of under dog system in place because people at the disadvantage always seems to get it no matter how many time people with the advantage hit it

[@Super64Legend]

Happy New Year, PKBeats!!! I will soon be a content creator myself so I hope to soon reach your level next year!!! 🤩

[@Cosmicdeitty]

Happy new year gents

[@galaxiaknight]

(happy new years!) I would indeed like to see more of these videos

[@CarbonMalite]

It always felt like the Ult Smash Ball was on a timer before allowing players to break it. HP decay over time makes sense

[@MockySocky]

I come to your channel to watch some more random and interesting facts, then my device decides that you’re subscribing to this dude instead of scrolling through his latest videos. So ig I’m now one of your subscribers now lol. (Recently found your content and have been enjoying loving it, so I was already considering on subbing anyway)

[@GuyPersonBobicus]

This is actually a useful fact!

[@user-km2hz1ku6w]

Does the health reset after the smash ball is knocked out of somebody? And how much damage is actually required to do that?

[@velvetbutterfly]

I know it doesn't reset but I don't know how it gets dropped

[@owencmyk]

According to the wiki, the Smash Ball has 42% health starting out

[@FragileJesseLord]

4:08 I hate when people complain about Zoroark and goldeen being in the masterball because they're not legendaries. The masterball doesn't ONLY catch legendaries, it just has a 100% catch rate. You can use it on anything.

[@yugureyt]

Unexpected TF2 gameplay. This is now a TF2 video

[@JollyGiant64]

Can't wait for the next video!

[@SlamBolts]

This is why I love Smash Bros so much. Sucha crazy sandbox fighting game. I should play it more

[@CiromBreeze]

I swear the Smash Ball also takes differing damage depending on who's winning. Losing players can often easily break the ball in a single hit, while winning players often have to batter it for a while.

[@mxl33e]

The bee hive item doesn’t despawn in a custom stage when in wind straight up. It’ll keep bouncing and blinking