Palette Swap (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

Palette Swaps in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate remain the same for the majority of the cast returning from the previous title, but characters such as Mario and Ike received new alternate costumes, while characters such as Peach and Samus received new palette swaps due to the addition of their Echo Fighters.

Unlike previous installments, palette swaps are now notated by "Color #." In addition, by selecting the character on the character slot, an additional menu can be brought up to display all the colors immediately, though the traditional method of selecting a palette swap via the left and right shoulder buttons is still retained.

Bayonetta
Half of Bayonetta’s costumes are based on her design from Bayonetta 2, while the other half are based on her design from Bayonetta. For the former half, she wields Love is Blue, which has blue attack trails. For the latter half, she wields Scarborough Fair (A Witch With No Memories in Bayonetta 2), which has red attack trails, and speaks English even in the Japanese version. Her Bullet Climax has slighty different sound effects for the two different costume types.

Bowser Jr.
Instead of alternate color schemes, Bowser Jr.’s alternate costumes consist of the Koopalings. Bowser Jr.’s Junior Clown Car is the only one with black eyes and horizontal orange “eye paint”, while the Koopalings’ Clown Cars have yellow mechanical eyes with vertical black “eye paint”. Aside from Roy and Morton, whose positions are swapped, the Koopalings are listed by the order they are fought in Super Mario Bros. 3.

Cloud
Half of Cloud’s costumes are based on his appearance in Final Fantasy VII, while the other half are based on his “Cloudy Wolf” design from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. He wields the Buster Sword in the former outfits and the Fusion Swords in the latter outfits.

Corrin
Half of Corrin‘s costumes are male, while the other half are female.

Hero
Half of the Hero’s alternate costumes represent different protagonists from across the franchise. The other half are recolors of the first four.

Ice Climbers
Popo and Nana switch positions for their red, brown, white, and orange costumes, AND they switch positions on the selection screen like they did in Melee.

Ike
Ike uses his ranger design from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance for half of his costumes, and his Hero design from Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for the other half. Each design was previously used for his appearance in Brawl and Smash 4, respectively.

Incineroar
Most of Incineroar's costumes can be connected to various real life wrestling personalities. This is most likely a reference to Incineroar's wrestler motive in both the Pokémon series and in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Inkling
Inkling alternates between a female and male version from the original Splatoon. Aside from the first and fifth costume, the costume colors match the respective port color.

Ken
Most of Ken‘s costumes seem to largely derive from his alternate costumes from Super Street Fighter II Turbo. The attributed references below come from that game unless otherwise specified.

Lucina
Lucina's alternate costumes are based on the color schemes of female characters from Fire Emblem: Awakening.

Olimar
Four of Olimar's costumes replace him with Alph, one of the protagonists of Pikmin 3.

Piranha Plant
For each costume, the container Piranha Plant sits in alternates between a pot and a pipe.

Ryu
Several of Ryu's costumes seem to derive from his alternate colors from Super Street Fighter II and Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix.

Shulk
With the exception of his first and last alternate costumes, all of Shulk's alternate costumes are based on the color schemes of his traveling companions from Xenoblade Chronicles. His hair color also now matches these characters.

Snake
Most of these are based on different camouflage suits worn by Naked Snake (a.k.a. Big Boss) in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

Villager
Villager's appearance varies greatly between costumes, with their eyes, hair, gender and clothing all changing. All of Villager's alternate costumes, with the exception of the yellow costume, are based on how the player may look at the start of a new game depending on how they answer questions asked by Kapp'n or Rover in Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk respectively. The shirts/dresses worn are named below.

Wario
Wario alternates between wearing his biker outfit from WarioWare and his overalls from the Mario and Wario Land games.

Wii Fit Trainer
Wii Fit Trainer alternates between the female trainer and the male trainer. Both of them are from characters from the original Wii Fit.

Zero Suit Samus


N/A Color that is original to Super Smash Bros. and doesn't have any particular reference.

Stats

 * There is a total of 616 alternate costumes.
 * The average number of costumes per character is 8.