Pirate Ship
Pirate Ship (海賊船,Pirate Ship) is a stage inSuper Smash Bros. Brawl. The stage is loosely based onTetra's pirate ship fromThe Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, but with many changes to facilitateSmash's gameplay. The main setup is a slightly curved main platform, representing the main deck, and two upper platforms, representing the mast of the ship. Characters canswim in the surrounding ocean.
It was released as the finaldownloadable familiar stage forSuper Smash Bros. for Wii U on September 30th, 2015, and also reappears inSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate as a familiar stage. The stage notably uses the cel-shaded artstyle ofThe Wind Waker as opposed to the realistic style ofBrawl, which carries over into its future appearances; inUltimate, it more closely resembles the style ofThe Wind Waker HD.
InBrawl andUltimate, the unlock battle forToon Link is fought here. InBrawl, the stage is unlocked along with Toon Link himself. InUltimate,King K. Rool's unlock battle inWorld of Light is also fought here, as a reference to Gang-Plank Galleon, his own pirate ship in theDonkey Kong Country series.
Stage overview[edit]
All fighters battle aboardTetra's cruising ship that slowly passes though the Great Sea; players can freelyswim in the water with few major risks beyond the inherent potential of drowning. However, the stage is technically scrolling to the left at almost all times due to the motion of the ship; players standing on the ship will not have their position shifted by the scrolling, but players and items (such asBumpers andParty Balls) in the air or the water will slowly drift towards the rightmost blast zone. Any player that swims or is dragged into the front of the pirate ship while in the water or is meteor smashed towards the bottom of the back of the ship will take 20% damage and be automaticallyOHKO'd via a very powerfulmeteor smash. Fighters withtether recoveries can also be meteor smashed due to their tether reaching out far enough for them to swing towards the water and thus into the front of the ship (this is substantially less likely to happen inUltimate due to water now interrupting tether recoveries, causing a player to begin swimming the instant they touch the water, though the aforementioned scrolling might carry a player into the front of the ship anyways if they are do not react in time to swim away or jump out). A smaller boat, theKing of Red Lions, occasionally makes an appearance by sailing from the right side of the stage, and acts as a platform that players can stand on; much like the main ship, players standing on the King of Red Lions are not affected by the stage's scrolling. The head of the boat creates a smallwall, briefly allowingchain grabbing inBrawl. However, the King of Red Lions will eventually leave the screen; players that remain for too long on the boat will be carried past the sideblast line as it departs.
The ship occasionally travels past an enemy lookout that fires bombs at the ship. Anyone that comes in contact with the bombs will take heavy damage (20-55% inBrawl and 35% inSmash 4 andUltimate) and highknockback, enough toKOMario below 40% inBrawl if hit point-blank. InSmash 4 andUltimate, the bomb's power is severelynerfed fromBrawl; the knockback is now fixed and is too weak to KO anyone. The ship will also run into a small rocky island from time to time, giving players a newly-shaped piece of terrain to fight on. If characters run into the front of the ship while it is colliding with the island, they will take 10% damage, but there is no meteor effect unless the player is trapped underwater between the rock and the ship beforehand. The ship will eventually right itself as the island sinks, returning the stage to normal.
There is a catapult at the front of the ship that will come up from the deck on occasion. Anyone who is standing on it will be sent flying when it fires. It deals no damage but highknockback. InBrawl it can KO as low as 50%, but inSmash 4 andUltimate it has less knockback doesn't start KO'ing until well past 100%. The efficacy of the launch depends on where the character is: counterintuitively, being on the bucket tends to yield the least distance and often ends up throwing the character into the ship (negating almost all of the knockback), whereas being on or in front of the frame launches at a higher angle, missing the ship and thus allowing for a more consistent KO.
Another hazard is that a storm will sometimes cause a cyclone to come from the background, throwing the ship high into the sky, eliminating the option to swim around near the ship. This also throws the King of Red Lions into the sky if it is on the screen at the time, causing it to disappear along with anyone unlucky enough to have stood on it while it was flipped upside-down. The ship will fall back down after a short time and land back in the water. While the ship is rising or falling, the stage will not scroll (so players and items in the air will not drift towards the right blast zone); furthermore, while the ship is falling, the players experience reducedgravity.
Ω forms and Battlefield form[edit]
InSuper Smash Bros. for Wii U, theΩ form is set on an enemy lookout platform with the Pirate Ship sailing across in the background, with the ship's design more closely resembling that of the actual ship inThe Wind Waker. Players cannot swim as the water lies below the lower blast line. The weather also occasionally changes, but that does not affect the gameplay.
InSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate, the Ω form andBattlefield form are set on a similar platform to the Ω form inSSB4; however, the skull structure is now gone and it is resized and reshaped to matchFinal Destination andBattlefield, respectively. The threesoft platforms of the Battlefield form resemble the soft platforms on the mast of the ship in the normal form. UnlikeSuper Smash Bros. for Wii U, the weather does not change and the ship does not appear in the background, despite neither affecting the gameplay.
Ω form inSuper Smash Bros. for Wii U.
Ω form inSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Battlefield form inSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Origin[edit]
This ship is taken fromThe Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, although, like the boat fromRainbow Cruise, it is much smaller, shorter, and narrower. After Link's sister,Aryll, was kidnapped by theHelmaroc King, Link sailed to theForsaken Fortress onTetra's ship to save her. During the trip, he was challenged byNiko, a pirate. This ship came back later in the game during the search for the thirdGoddess Pearl. The pirates stole bombs onWindfall Island, intending to get the treasure from Outset Island in the morning unaware of a curse on the sea preventing morning. Link managed to hear the password, and then came back on the ship to be challenged one more time and then get the bombs and beat the pirates to the treasure on Outset. This ship appeared a final time at the end of the game to rescue both Link and Tetra after they defeatGanondorf. The ship came back at the beginning and end ofThe Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Like inSmash, the ship also has a catapult: it was used inThe Wind Waker to launch a boulder at the Helmaroc King and to launch Link towards the Forsaken Fortress.
The smaller, red boat that appears on the right is known as theKing of Red Lions, which is actuallyHyrule's king in disguise. He can talk, and assists Link during the events ofThe Wind Waker. InThe Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, when Link conducts theBallad of Gales with hisWind Waker, a cyclone comes and transports Link to his destination: the cyclone that comes in this stage could be a reference to Ballad of Gales being played.
Also fromThe Wind Waker are the enemy look-out towers with cannons that fire bombs at Link if he sails too close, which can occasionally be seen in the background of this stage and act as a stage hazard. The Ω form of this stage takes place on top of one of these enemy look-out towers also.
Tournament legality[edit]
Pirate Ship is universally banned in all three of its appearances. There are various hazards that interrupt gameplay such as the catapult on the ship, the bombs that target players, and the front of the ship. Various places also promotecamping such as the King of Red Lions and the rock that appears, and characters with longTether recoveries are heavily nerfed, as their momentum causes them to swing into the ship's hull and get unrecoverablyMeteor smashed. When stage hazards are turned off inUltimate, the stage remains banned as the slant on the ship can still block projectiles, and the water disturbs gameplay.
Trophy[edit]
- Pirate Ship
- A ship commandeered by Tetra that sails to the far corners of the deep blue sea. When Link gets on board, he is challenged with a test given by the pirate underling Niko. In that test, Link must learn to use jumps and rope swinging to get through an obstacle course and reach Niko. If successful, he receives the Spoils Bag and bombs.
:The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
:The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Glitch[edit]
The Olimar grab glitch is a glitch inSuper Smash Bros. Brawl. It involvesOlimar andDonkey Kong. To perform it, Olimar and Donkey Kong must be at the back of the Pirate Ship. Olimar must then perform agrab on Donkey Kong in a specific spot on the ship. If done correctly, Donkey Kong should clip in and out on the ground while thePikmin is latched onto him. Like theIke grab glitch andKing Dedede grab glitch, the reason this happens its because the big character does not have any space when grabbed. When this happens, the animation of the character twitches, shakes, or flinches in two poses, causing the character to not break free from the grab.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
 Japanese | 海賊船 | Pirate Ship |
 English | Pirate Ship | — |
 French | Vaisseau pirate | Pirate Ship |
 German | Piratenschiff | Pirate Ship |
 Spanish | Barco pirata | Pirate Ship |
 Italian | La nave dei pirati | Pirate Ship |
 Chinese (Simplified) | 海盗船 | Pirate Ship |
 Chinese (Traditional) | 海盜船 | Pirate Ship |
 Korean | 해적선 | Pirate Ship |
 Dutch | Piratenschip | Pirate Ship |
 Russian | Пиратский корабль | Pirate Ship |
 Portuguese | Barco Pirata | Pirate Ship |
Trivia[edit]
- The rain on this stage is not rendered in 3D; it is actually just 2D sprites falling in the foreground and background, similar to theDistant Planet stage. This can be viewed by pausing the game and tilting the camera.
- If aRolling Crate is inserted between the rock and the ship, the game will emit a loud buzzing noise.
- InSuper Smash Bros. for Wii U, all of the music tracks for this stage are shared with otherThe Legend of Zelda stages. This makes it one of three stages to share music with other stages, the others beingSuper Mario Maker andBig Battlefield.
- Pirate Ship is the only downloadable stage that does not add new music.
- Pirate Ship andMiiverse are the only downloadable stages in all ofSuper Smash Bros. 4 that are not inSuper Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS. Masahiro Sakurai stated that the Pirate Ship was intended for the 3DS version, but it was scrapped because it was unable to function on the console.[1] Possible data for the stage was found inversion 1.0.6data mining.
- Pirate Ship is the onlyBrawl stage that was available as downloadable content inSmash 4, as well as the only DLC past stage that did not originate from the originalSuper Smash Bros.
- Unlike in the actual stage, the Pirate Ship's trophy uses its actual model fromThe Wind Waker.
- When factoring in its availability inBrawl,for Wii U, andUltimate, Pirate Ship is one of three stages that has been a unlockable stage, a DLC stage, and a starter stage; the others areDream Land andDuck Hunt.
- There exists a glitch where a player would possibly fall through the ship during the section where it crashes into the rock.[1]
- This includes falling through the catapult when the ship is sailing as normal.
- InUltimate, the followingAssist Trophies can only appear on the Battlefield and Omega forms of this stage:Nightmare,Kapp'n, theSquid Sisters and theGhosts.Devil cannot be summoned on this stage at all. Additionally,Marshadow can only be summoned on the stage's Battlefield and Omega forms.
References[edit]
| Stages inSuper Smash Bros. Brawl | |
|---|---|
| Starter stages | Battlefield ·Bridge of Eldin ·Castle Siege ·Delfino Plaza ·Distant Planet ·Final Destination ·Frigate Orpheon ·Halberd ·Lylat Cruise ·Mario Circuit ·Mushroomy Kingdom ·New Pork City ·Norfair ·PictoChat ·Pokémon Stadium 2 ·Port Town Aero Dive ·Rumble Falls ·Shadow Moses Island ·Skyworld ·Smashville ·Summit ·WarioWare, Inc. ·Yoshi's Island |
| Unlockable stages | 75m ·Flat Zone 2 ·Green Hill Zone ·Hanenbow ·Luigi's Mansion ·Mario Bros. ·Pirate Ship ·Spear Pillar |
 StarterMelee stages | Brinstar ·Corneria ·Onett ·Rainbow Cruise ·Temple ·Yoshi's Island |
| Unlockable Melee stages | Big Blue ·Green Greens ·Jungle Japes ·Pokémon Stadium |
| Stage Builder | Sample Stages ·CD Factory ·No KO |
| Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary | Midair Stadium ·Skyworld ·Sea of Clouds ·The Jungle ·The Plain ·The Lake ·The Ruined Zoo ·The Battlefield Fortress ·The Forest ·The Research Facility I ·The Lake Shore ·The Path to the Ruins ·The Cave ·The Ruins ·The Wilds I ·The Ruined Hall ·The Wilds II ·The Swamp ·The Research Facility II ·Outside the Ancient Ruins ·The Glacial Peak ·The Canyon ·Battleship Halberd Interior ·Battleship Halberd Exterior ·Battleship Halberd Bridge ·The Subspace Bomb Factory I ·The Subspace Bomb Factory II ·Entrance to Subspace ·Subspace I ·Subspace II ·The Great Maze |
| Stages inSuper Smash Bros. 4 | |
|---|---|
| Both games (new) | Battlefield ·Boxing Ring ·Duck Hunt ·Final Destination ·Gaur Plain ·Midgar ·Super Mario Maker ·Suzaku Castle ·Umbra Clock Tower ·Wily Castle |
| Both games (familiar) |  Dream Land (64) ·Hyrule Castle (64) ·Peach's Castle (64) |
| 3DS version (new) | 3D Land ·Arena Ferox ·Balloon Fight ·Dream Land ·Find Mii ·Gerudo Valley ·Golden Plains ·Living Room ·Magicant ·Mute City ·Pac-Maze ·Paper Mario ·PictoChat 2 ·Prism Tower ·Rainbow Road ·Reset Bomb Forest ·Spirit Train ·Tomodachi Life ·Tortimer Island ·Unova Pokémon League |
| 3DS version (familiar) | Brinstar ·Corneria ·Jungle Japes · Distant Planet ·Flat Zone 2 ·Green Hill Zone ·Mushroomy Kingdom ·WarioWare, Inc. ·Yoshi's Island |
| Wii U version (new) | Big Battlefield ·Coliseum ·Flat Zone X ·Gamer ·Garden of Hope ·Jungle Hijinxs ·Kalos Pokémon League ·Mario Circuit ·Mario Galaxy ·Miiverse ·Mushroom Kingdom U ·Orbital Gate Assault ·Pac-Land ·Palutena's Temple ·Pilotwings ·Pyrosphere ·Skyloft ·The Great Cave Offensive ·Town and City ·Wii Fit Studio ·Windy Hill Zone ·Woolly World ·Wrecking Crew ·Wuhu Island |
| Wii U version (familiar) | Kongo Jungle 64 ·Onett ·Temple ·Yoshi's Island ·75m ·Bridge of Eldin ·Castle Siege ·Delfino Plaza ·Halberd ·Luigi's Mansion ·Lylat Cruise ·Mario Circuit (Brawl) ·Norfair ·Pirate Ship ·Pokémon Stadium 2 ·Port Town Aero Dive ·Skyworld ·Smashville |
| Other | Ω form ·Stage Builder |
| Stages inSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate | |
|---|---|
| New stages | Battlefield ·Big Battlefield ·Cloud Sea of Alrest ·Dracula's Castle ·Final Destination ·Garreg Mach Monastery ·Great Plateau Tower ·Hollow Bastion ·King of Fighters Stadium ·Mementos ·Minecraft World ·Mishima Dojo ·Moray Towers ·New Donk City Hall ·Northern Cave ·Small Battlefield ·Spiral Mountain ·Spring Stadium ·Yggdrasil's Altar |
| Returning stages from | Dream Land ·Hyrule Castle ·Kongo Jungle ·Mushroom Kingdom ·Peach's Castle ·Saffron City ·Super Happy Tree |
| Returning stages from | Big Blue ·Brinstar ·Brinstar Depths ·Corneria ·Fountain of Dreams ·Fourside ·Great Bay ·Green Greens ·Jungle Japes ·Kongo Falls ·Mushroom Kingdom II ·Onett ·Pokémon Stadium ·Princess Peach's Castle ·Rainbow Cruise ·Temple ·Venom ·Yoshi's Island ·Yoshi's Story |
| Returning stages from | 75m ·Bridge of Eldin ·Castle Siege ·Delfino Plaza ·Distant Planet ·Figure-8 Circuit ·Frigate Orpheon ·Green Hill Zone ·Halberd ·Hanenbow ·Luigi's Mansion ·Lylat Cruise ·Mario Bros. ·Mushroomy Kingdom ·New Pork City ·Norfair ·Pirate Ship ·Pokémon Stadium 2 ·Port Town Aero Dive ·Shadow Moses Island ·Skyworld ·Smashville ·Spear Pillar ·Summit ·WarioWare, Inc. ·Yoshi's Island |
Returning stages from | Boxing Ring ·Duck Hunt ·Gaur Plain ·Midgar ·Super Mario Maker ·Suzaku Castle ·Umbra Clock Tower ·Wily Castle |
Returning stages from | 3D Land ·Arena Ferox ·Balloon Fight ·Dream Land GB ·Find Mii ·Gerudo Valley ·Golden Plains ·Living Room ·Magicant ·Mute City SNES ·Paper Mario ·PictoChat 2 ·Prism Tower ·Reset Bomb Forest ·Spirit Train ·Tomodachi Life ·Tortimer Island ·Unova Pokémon League |
Returning stages from | Coliseum ·Flat Zone X ·Gamer ·Garden of Hope ·Kalos Pokémon League ·Mario Circuit ·Mario Galaxy ·Mushroom Kingdom U ·Pac-Land ·Palutena's Temple ·Pilotwings ·Skyloft ·The Great Cave Offensive ·Town and City ·Wii Fit Studio ·Windy Hill Zone ·Wrecking Crew ·Wuhu Island |
| Other | Ω form ·Battlefield form ·Final stage (World of Light) ·Stage Builder ·Training |
 The Legend of Zelda universe | |
|---|---|
| Fighters | Link (SSB ·SSBM ·SSBB ·SSB4 ·SSBU) ·Sheik (SSBM ·SSBB ·SSB4 ·SSBU) ·Zelda (SSBM ·SSBB ·SSB4 ·SSBU) ·Young Link (SSBM ·SSBU) ·Ganondorf (SSBM ·SSBB ·SSB4 ·SSBU) ·Toon Link (SSBB ·SSB4 ·SSBU) |
| Assist Trophies | Tingle ·Skull Kid ·Midna ·Ghirahim ·Moon |
| Bosses | Ganon |
| Stages | Hyrule Castle ·Great Bay ·Temple ·Bridge of Eldin ·Pirate Ship ·Gerudo Valley ·Spirit Train ·Skyloft ·Great Plateau Tower Underground Maze (Adventure Mode) |
| Items | Heart Container ·Bunny Hood ·Deku Nut ·Fairy Bottle ·Cucco ·Bombchu ·Beetle ·Gust Bellows |
| Enemies | Bubble ·Cucco ·Darknut ·Like Like ·Octorok ·Peahat ·ReDead ·Stalfos |
| Other | Bulblin ·Dark Link ·King Bulblin & Lord Bullbo ·King of Red Lions ·Koume & Kotake ·Majora's Mask ·Navi ·Phantom ·Sacred Land ·Tetra ·Yiga Clan |
| Trophies,Stickers andSpirits | Trophies (SSBM ·SSBB ·SSB4) ·Stickers ·Spirits |
| Music | Brawl ·SSB4 ·Ultimate |
| Masterpieces | The Legend of Zelda ·Zelda II: The Adventure of Link ·The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time |
| Related content | Fire Bar |
