Pilotwings
| Pilotwings Pilotwings | |||||||
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   Pilotwings as it appears inSmash. | |||||||
| Universe | Pilotwings | ||||||
| Appears in | SSB4 (Wii U) Ultimate | ||||||
| Availability | Starter | ||||||
| Crate type | Normal | ||||||
| Maximum players | 4 (Wii U) 8 (Wii U Ω form,Ultimate) | ||||||
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| “ | This stage is inspired by bothPilotwings andPilotwings Resort, which takes you on an aerial tour of the runway andWuhu Island as you battle. Be careful not to fall when the planes switch! | ” |
| —Super Smash Bros. 4 Official Site | ||
Pilotwings (パイロットウイングス,Pilotwings) is a stage inSuper Smash Bros. for Wii U andSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate. The stage is set in the third level ofPilotwings and Wuhu Island, the main world ofPilotwings Resort.
Stage overview[edit]
Combatants fight atop the wings of a red biplane as it flies through rings in the sky over a flat, 2D island. The top wings of the biplane serve as softplatforms, while the bottom wings are semisoft. The cockpit in the middle is a solid wall, splitting the lower half of the stage in two. The stage tilts as the plane makes turns in the air.
After some time, the fighters will be dropped onto a yellow monoplane which flies towards and over Wuhu Island. The wings of this plane form a semisoft platform. The rotors below the wings can be stood on, but this is risky to attempt, as their edges cannot be grabbed. When players are launched, they may rebound off the terrain off the island, which may KO them but can also save them when they would otherwise have continued past theblast line.Miis can be seen flying withRocket Belts fromPilotwings Resort.
The yellow plane will eventually make its way back to the first island and drop players onto the red biplane, starting the loop over again.
InUltimate, the rotors of the yellow monoplane can be grabbed, making fighting in that area notably safer. The stage will also make a warning sound whenever the planes transition.
Ω forms and Battlefield form[edit]
InSuper Smash Bros. for Wii U, theΩ form is set on a floating platform with the color scheme of the yellow plane which appears to have a design of aircraft structure at the bottom. LikeWuhu Island the stage tours the same area but take a different path. The planes can still be seen in the background.
InSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate, the main platform of the Ω form andBattlefield form is unique to these forms and aesthetically resembles the yellow plane of the normal form. It is also the same size and shape asFinal Destination andBattlefield, respectively. The three soft platforms of the Battlefield form are metallic and are also unique to this form.
Ω form inSuper Smash Bros. for Wii U.
Ω form inSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Battlefield form inSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Hazards Off[edit]
With hazards off inUltimate, the match remains on the red biplane for the duration of the match. The red plane also never tilts.
Origin[edit]
As a stage named after its series, it originates from bothPilotwings for the SNES andPilotwings Resort for the 3DS. The red biplane in this stage is the 'Light Plane' used inPilotwings, and the flat, 2D island is the runway from lesson 3 ofPilotwings. The island is also in lesson 7; however, lesson 3 takes place in the daytime, while lesson 7 takes place at sunset. The yellow plane is modeled after the mono-wing sea planes used inPilotwings Resort as it flies towards Wuhu Island. Wuhu Island first appeared inWii Fit andWii Sports Resort, and is also the main area inPilotwings Resort. It also appeared inMario Kart 7 as a track in the game.
The SNES incarnation ofPilotwings is notable for being one of the launch titles for the system in the US and, alongside worldwide launch titleF-Zero, was intended to show off a graphical effect known asMode 7, which allowed background layers to be rotated and stretched in a variety of ways akin to Sega's "Super Scaler" used in titles such asOut Run andAfter Burner, with the most well known use of the effect being to flatten out backgrounds to be used as faux-3D floors, an effect also replicated byMute City SNES.
The island from lesson 3 as it originally appeared inPilotwings.
The biplane as it originally appeared inPilotwings.
A plane flying towards Wuhu Island inPilotwings Resort.
Tournament legality[edit]
Pilotwings is banned in tournaments due to powerfulcamping spots on both planes, especially the yellow plane's rotors, as well as due to KOs being caused or prevented by the damaging terrain and tilting of the planes. The planes can also impact a character trying to recover, as they can tilt at the wrong moment.
Update history[edit]
1.0.6
- Added 8-player mode version of the stage's Ω form.
Fixed a visual glitch which caused some models to clip through the screen
Gallery[edit]
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U[edit]
Aerial view of the island fromPilotwings lesson 3.
Aerial view of Wuhu Island.
Link and Samus atop a red biplane above a runway.
The two planes meet.
Villager and Mario atop the yellow seaplane flying through Wuhu Island.
Peach and Fox on the yellow seaplane flying near a bridge.
The yellow seaplane flying near the 2D island.
TheWii Fit Trainer lying prone on the red biplane.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]
Bayonetta,Diddy Kong,Mega Man andPeach fighting aroundAlolan Exeggutor on the stage.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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 Japanese | パイロットウイングス | Pilotwings |
 English | Pilotwings | — |
 French | Pilotwings | — |
 German | Pilotwings | — |
 Spanish | Pilotwings | — |
 Italian | Pilotwings | — |
 Chinese | Pilotwings | — |
 Korean | Pilotwings | — |
 Dutch | Pilotwings | — |
 Russian | Крылья пилота | Pilotwings |
 Portuguese | Pilotwings | — |
Trivia[edit]
- There are some other small 2D islands spread across the ocean, although they never appeared in the originalPilotwings.
- The yellow plane fromPilotwings Resort has a full glass case over the cockpit, hiding whoever is flying the plane. The cockpit appears open in the respective game.
- The islands from bothPilotwings andPilotwings Resort are portrayed as existing in the same area of the ocean, but this is not true as neither neighbouring island can be seen in each game.
- InSuper Smash Bros. for Wii U, during the moment where the yellow plane flies over the volcano onWuhu Island, the plane engine stalls and the propeller comes to a near halt before resuming during the descent. This detail is not carried over to theSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate version of the stage.
- On the bi-plane section of this stage, the point rings take the form of the old design from the originalPilotwings, and as the stage changes to the yellow plane, the rings take on the new design fromPilotwings 64 andPilotwings Resort.
- TheSuper Smash Bros. Direct incorrectly referred to this stage as "Pilot Wings".
- Wuhu Island also appears as its own stage, using the same model as this stage, with some minor changes. These are the only two separate stages to share most of their background geometry aside fromBattlefield andBig Battlefield. The SNES Pilotwings island is not visible on the Wuhu Island stage, however.
- Inside the cockpit is a low-poly, textureless Mii head.
- InUltimate, the followingAssist Trophies cannot appear on this stage:Burrowing Snagret,Color TV-Game 15,Ghosts andKnuckles. Additionally,Marshadow cannot be summoned by aPoké Ball here.
 Pilotwings universe | |
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| Stage | Pilotwings |
| Item | Rocket Belt |
| Masterpiece | Pilotwings |
