Legal levels can be divided into three categories: a neutral/starter phase, which is always played in the first game, a counter-selection phase chosen after the first game of a set that gives some characters slight advantages, and forbidden levels that cannot be selected at all for various reasons. Choose your favorite music for the fight scenes and set your background music with My Music. Plus, you can now choose the music you want to play on the Final Destination Stage and Battlefield levels. Put your favorites in the queue or try something new by pressing the Y button when selecting the step! The following levels have never been legal in the history of competitive hand-to-hand combat: there is a different list of levels depending on which part of the game you are in. There are starting levels that can be selected before the start of the game: the starting levels are selected in game 1 of a set. A randomly selected player will reach the first starting level, then the other player will reach two starting levels and finally the first player will reach the last starting level. Prohibited levels cannot be selected at all. Levels can be locked for a variety of reasons, including: This is a guide to all levels of Super Smash Bros Ultimate (SSBU) on Nintendo Switch. The legality of the scene and a list of all tournament laws and prohibited stages can also be found here. Read on to see what levels are used in competitive play! You can also see other levels used in some tournaments, including Fountain of Dreams and Dream Land. Some tournaments even allow Minecraft World. Every tournament, whether it`s a local or major tournament, has its own list of legal steps, so always check it in advance. Counterpick levels can only be chosen after the first part of a set, for example after games 2 and 3 of a best-of-3 set.
Levels in this category tend to give some characters a slight, even overwhelming, advantage over others, so it wouldn`t be fair to include them in the neutral list. These levels can often (but not always) be selected for counter-selection purposes, hence the name of the category. In the past, the following levels were legal counter-choices, but are now prohibited: The Smash Ultimate contest scene competes with itself when it comes to deciding which levels are legal for competitive play. Every tournament organizer will have their own idea of which steps are legal and which are not, but these are usually the main steps you should see at events. Since the competition scene is still quite young, and due to the large number of stages and the possibility of eliminating stage rides, there is no generally accepted list of stages. For this reason, some tournaments use forbidden levels in others. If the losing player chooses a counter-selection phase, the winning player can sometimes prohibit one or two levels that he does not counter or on which he won in the set. The list below is an estimate based on recent Ultimate Majors. It is assumed that all levels that are not listed are generally prohibited. Although Small Battlefield hasn`t played many tournaments since its inception due to the lack of offline tournaments, the phase is considered legal at the moment and can be used as a replacement for the two Pokémon stages. The legality of Minecraft World is debated due to the ability to choose certain forms, but the lack of offline tournaments since its inception has inhibited the discussion to some extent. Northern Cave and Hollow Bastion are other recently released milestones that have been considered potential replacements for the Kalo and Smashville Pokémon League, respectively.
The legality of the scene refers to the playable status of the different levels in traditional tournaments. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, with the largest number of levels in the series and the ability to eliminate scene hazards, has the potentially most legal levels of a Smash game. Since the release of the level list and the hazard selector, players and OTs have debated the list of levels for the game and have not yet found a final answer. The major tournaments have largely been wrong on the side of the lists of relatively large levels (eight to ten), but some regional tournaments have already been reduced to four to six legal levels. As with Brawl, there is no unified stagelist for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, with some differences and disagreements over scene categories between areas. The following table generally uses the most commonly accepted legality for each step. In general, all levels fall into one of three categories: In most cases, each tournament organizer or Smash community may have their own idea of which ones are achievable, and most will likely use different levels depending on where you`re going.
Therefore, we recommend that you ask your local competitor community what their legal steps are before attempting to enter a contest.