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

[@Casual_PKBeats]

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[@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

[@EmeraldBucketFNF]

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

[@fuzzydude64]

Might be a Sakurai detail. Dragoon comes from Kirby Air Ride, and the pieces of Hydra and Dragoon are found exclusively in the City Trial mode. Sometimes red crates have a chance to drop normal red drops or a legendary machine piece (odds vary by spaen location). Sometimes one or both simply won't appear at all. My count was generally if one isn't found within the first 4-5 minutes of the match (assuming you're playing on 7), they're not spawning at all. Could be reference to the machines themselves.

[@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.

[@CanvasK]

I did some testing and looked at some code and found some things regarding Smash Balls. (only going to mention SSBU info) In normal matches it will spawn with 40 HP while in Training it will spawn with 10 HP. Every 1 second, its health will reduce by 2--if its health is 2.5 or less, it won't reduce its health. At a score of -3 or less, players will deal 2.55x damage to it while players with a score of +3 or more will only deal 0.55x damage (smaller numbers the more even they are). The wiki has been updated with this info as well as the info for SSBB and SSB4. Similar info was also added for Fake Smash Balls.

[@Casual_PKBeats]

I appreciate the hard numbers. I am curious about the training mode health, actually. In my testing, I used moves that did a little over 10% (up to 11.5% like in the video) and that wouldn't break the Smash Ball immediately upon it spawning. Do you think there are other factors at play there?

[@CanvasK]

@@Casual_PKBeats Simply because the 1v1 multiplier isn't a factor. Toon Link's Boomerang deals up to 9.6% without any other multipliers in play. Being less than 10, it thus won't break it from the get-go. However, stale/freshness is a factor. A fresh Boomerang deals 10.08%, which does break it. I'll have to update the wiki with the 1v1 info. I left it out as I figured there shouldn't be a scenario where 1v1 is active with items on (which disables 1v1), but seems Training is one such scenario.

[@Casual_PKBeats]

Ah, that makes a lot of sense! Yeah I feel like I've even gone over that in a video before, but it totally slipped my mind that the 1v1 multiplier was active in training mode even with items on. So does that mean that the Smash Ball just straight up ignores the 1v1 multiplier when calculating damage dealt to it? That's pretty interesting on its own, if so

[@CanvasK]

@@Casual_PKBeats I think it is just how breakable items (or maybe items in general, perhaps Assist Trophies too) interact with the 1v1 multiplier, or I guess don't interact. When I was looking at the values in memory it wouldn't decrease by the 1v1 amount and only by the base amount (or stale-queue amount). Another example is Crates which have 15 HP according to the files. Ike's FTilt deals 13.5% which, if 1v1 came into play (16.2%), would break it but it doesn't. I tried a quick test on Barrels but I feel like the "launchability" makes it weird. The wiki has an article about the 1v1 multiplier and the many things it *doesn't* affect such as knockback calculations, hitstun, hitlag, and shieldstun durations, countered attacks, etc. This may be another thing for the list.

[@Casual_PKBeats]

That's super interesting, I never knew items ignored it like that. Thanks for the info!

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@gingersolacemusic7590]

10:32 The capsules are a direct reference to the ones in Dragon Ball, which can contain anything of any size in a palm-size capsule. The Home-Run Bat's KRING sound is also directly pulled from Dragon Ball's impact sounds

[@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa]

i think ive only ever watched one youtuber be like 'sorry my voice sounds weird im sick :(' and actually sound any different

[@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

[@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

[@nathanflinchum1153]

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

[@CucuiKingGanondorf]

lol

[@sonicultimateyt1090]

I see what you did there

[@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

[@danieygameplays3231]

THE GAME IS NEARLY 7 YEARS OLD!?!?

[@MaxWelton]

7:47 uh…half the Levin Sword is clearly visible sticking out of the daybreak

[@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.

[@Majorrickyloc]

I always have a feeling when the smash ball is one hit. It’s normally when the smash ball has been hit a lot and hasn’t cracked. When that happens, it’s best to keep hitting it and you’ll normally get it

[@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

[@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"

[@randoncourter4923]

Goldeen

[@ahmajambe3879]

Goldeen

[@naseempacker700]

maybe im seeing things but something that i used to tell the difference between a floating smash ball and bomb is the smash bomb seems to actively float closer to the fight whereas you have to kinda chase down the smash ball

[@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.

[@majestyskitsYT]

Happy new year bro

[@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

[@holliwawa]

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

[@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.

[@ruie.34]

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

[@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.

[@ethanallred4254]

WE NEED MORE ITEM VIDEOS!

[@electrothecat07]

"How much does the smash ball have?" Me: I can one tap it as Sonic, so I guess very little

[@FluffyEmmy1116]

Considering im the type of girl to do competitive 1v1 rules for online mode with items on while maining piranha plant, you have a new subscriber. i consider myself an item enthusiast, and i know i learned a few new things here. looking forward to the rest of this series. keep up the good work

[@Fudgecaik]

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

[@nonobobo7017]

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

[@raindrop1016]

ABSOLUTELY CONTINUE THIS!!!

[@isneezelightning]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@amoura39]

Goddd I love hearing you talk in Japanese lol

[@sagacious03]

Interesting analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@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.

[@Xachpro5475]

Happy new years eve

[@DylanKatt]

HAPPY NEW CONSLOE YEAR, PKBEATS! 😃

[@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

[@Nio-s1z]

CONTINUE PLEASE (this is the most useful information ever)

[@Mxsfit11Six]

Happy New Year, PKBeats :)🎊

[@randomdude-u7i]

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

[@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.

[@Blibers]

Good vid man!

[@JoelTheParrot]

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

[@llikevaquitas]

FIRE VIDEO please make it a series

[@JollyGiant64]

Can't wait for the next video!

[@kraut_did_work]

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

[@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

[@ryanatorgamingroblox]

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[@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)

[@Erokingu]

Good start for the new year

[@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

[@ramO6713]

Happy new years!!!

[@AGuestSSBU]

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

[@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.

[@BlueBerryBoi-jg9tq]

10:34 battle cats

[@galaxiaknight]

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

[@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

[@Moss_Dude]

I remember back in brawl I had to get REALLY good against kirby's final smash becuse he could break it in a single hit with both side and down b

[@8CanadianBacon9]

Little Mac up smashing the Blast Box is definitely the strat

[@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.

[@hexhasgone]

To the question of the title: The answer is yes

[@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.

[@GuyPersonBobicus]

This is actually a useful fact!

[@Cave_Enemigo]

4:14 the actual "useless pokémon" is goldeen because the move "splash" is a move in pokémon that does no damage what-so-ever and goldeen uses that move.

[@ruthmcnally310]

The joke Your head

[@Cave_Enemigo]

@ruthmcnally310 you literally didn't need to reply to my comment, but eh, waste your time if it makes you feel better.

[@levicorazza2795]

3:31 is there anything that triggers the assist trophy to drop? i got a jab lock with bowser jab but dropped after 30-40% is it just random?

[@PotatoVinesauce2]

Love your videos

[@Crimson-Hat]

Explosive crate PSI magnet ness combo my beloved

[@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)

[@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

[@owencmyk]

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

[@Cosmicdeitty]

Happy new year gents

[@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.

[@BasementDweller_]

Interesting smash trivia.

[@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

[@armorbearer9702]

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

[@LucasDarkGiygas]

thanks for the video

[@almightyshoe02]

I really like your videos

[@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

[@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! 😊🎊🎉

[@henke37]

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

[@SlamBolts]

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

[@maxwellhavoc6996]

4:15 but mew is my favorite Pokémon 😢

[@finmin2k]

watching a nice smash video and get jumpscared by highlander gameplay

[@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?

[@manelisi13]

How much health does the smash ball have? YES

[@arzfan29]

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

[@lunarkomet]

I'm pretty sure that the item capsules are a dragon ball reference

[@Super64Legend]

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

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[@Lance-py3bj]

i’ve always wondered how much thx for telling me