Classic Mode is a 1-player mode in Super Smash Bros. Melee. The player chooses a single character and a difficulty level, then battles through 11 different stages, eventually meeting up with Master Hand. The battles and the order in which they are take place are, for the most part, completely random (other than the basic layout, which is elaborated on in the below section).
Classic Mode Stages[]
Stage 1[]
This stage is a 1 vs. 1 Regular Battle. There is a 5 minute time limit.
Foe | Level | Knockback given | Knockback taken |
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0 | 0.60x | 1.75x | |
2 | 0.85x | 1.20x | |
4 | 1.00x | 1.00x | |
7 | 1.00x | 1.00x | |
9 | 1.20x | 0.90x |
Stage 2[]
This stage is a 2 vs. 2 Team Battle. There is a 5 minute time limit.
Stage 3[]
This bonus stage is Target Test. There is a 2 minute time limit. This stage is not affected by the difficulty level.
Stage 4[]
This stage is a 1 vs. 1 Regular Battle. There is a 5 minute time limit.
Foe | Level | Knockback given | Knockback taken |
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2 | 0.75x | 1.40x | |
5 | 0.90x | 1.10x | |
8 | 1.00x | 1.00x | |
9 | 1.15x | 0.85x | |
9 | 1.34x | 0.70x |
Stage 5[]
This stage is a 3 vs. 1 Giant Battle. There is a 5 minute time limit.
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Stage 6[]
This bonus stage is Snag the Trophies. There is a 2 minute time limit. This stage is not affected by the difficulty level.
Stage 7[]
This stage is a 1 vs. 1 Regular Battle. There is a 5 minute time limit.
Foe | Level | Knockback given | Knockback taken |
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3 | 0.85x | 1.30x | |
6 | 1.00x | 1.10x | |
5 | 0.90x | 1.30x | |
6 | 1.00x | 1.10x | |
8 | 1.10x | 0.90x |
Stage 8[]
This stage is a 1 vs. 10 Multi-Character Battle. There is a 5 minute time limit.
Foes | Level | Knockback given | Knockback taken |
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1 | 0.60x | 4.00x | |
3 | 0.70x | 2.60x | |
4 | 0.80x | 2.00x | |
5 | 0.90x | 1.55x | |
7 | 1.10x | 1.20x |
Stage 9[]
This bonus stage is Race to the Finish. This stage is not affected by the difficulty level.
Stage 10[]
This stage is a 1 vs. 1 Metal Battle. There is a 5 minute time limit.
Metal Foe | Level | Knockback given | Knockback taken |
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1 | 0.80x | 1.80x | |
3 | 0.90x | 1.30x | |
5 | 1.00x | 1.00x | |
8 | 1.10x | 0.85x | |
9 | 1.25x | 0.68x |
The battle always takes place on Battlefield, and no items appear in this stage.
Stage 11[]
This match is a Boss Battle. There is a 5 minute time limit.
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Crazy Hand will appear if the difficulty is set to "Normal" or higher, and if the player has cleared the rest of the mode in under 18 minutes.
Types of battles[]
Regular battle[]
All characters except Ganondorf, Roy, and Mr. Game & Watch are eligible to fight the player throughout the mode's three 1-on-1 battles, with their home stages listed below. In this mode, neither Pokรฉ Floats nor any Past Stages are used. In Stage 1 on Very Hard Difficulty, the opponent will wear its third alternative costume. In Stage 7 on Hard or Very hard, the computer will usually try to avoid the player at all costs, sometimes by walking off the screen. During the fight with Mewtwo, the theme for Pokรฉ Floats will play. During the fight with Marth, the Fire Emblem theme will play. As for the fight with Yoshi, the Yoshi's Story stage has the theme for the Yoshi's Island 64 stage as its alternate music.
Character | Stage(s) | |
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Bowser | Princess Peach's Castle | Battlefield (if unlocked) |
Captain Falcon | Mute City | Big Blue (if unlocked) |
Donkey Kong | Kongo Jungle | Jungle Japes |
Dr. Mario | Mushroom Kingdom | |
Falco | Corneria | Venom |
Fox | Corneria | Venom |
Ice Climbers | Icicle Mountain | |
Jigglypuff | Pokรฉmon Stadium | |
Kirby | Fountain of Dreams | Green Greens |
Link | Great Bay | Temple |
Luigi | Mushroom Kingdom | Mushroom Kingdom II (if unlocked) |
Mario | Princess Peach's Castle | Rainbow Cruise |
Marth | Great Bay | |
Mewtwo | Pokรฉmon Stadium | Final Destination (if unlocked) |
Ness | Onett | Fourside (if unlocked) |
Peach | Princess Peach's Castle | Mushroom Kingdom II (if unlocked) |
Pichu | Pokรฉmon Stadium | |
Pikachu | Pokรฉmon Stadium | |
Samus | Brinstar | Brinstar Depths (if unlocked) |
Yoshi | Yoshi's Story | Yoshi's Island |
Young Link | Great Bay | Temple |
Zelda/Sheik | Temple |
2 vs. 2 teams[]
Below is the list of all the teams the player can fight in Classic Mode. Both the characters for each team and the stage fought on is listed. There are a total of 29 teams. All playable characters aside from Zelda/Sheik and Roy can fight alongside the player. Allies all use their first alternate costume. On Very Hard Difficulty, the first opponent wears its third alternative costume. When fighting a team of Mario and Bowser on Battlefield, the theme for Princess Peach's Castle plays.
Stage | Teams | |||||||||||
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Battlefield | Bowser + Mewtwo | Bowser + Peach | Bowser + Zelda | Mario + Bowser | ||||||||
Big Blue | Captain Falcon + Falco | Samus + Captain Falcon | ||||||||||
Brinstar | Samus + Fox | |||||||||||
Corneria | Fox + Falco | |||||||||||
Fountain of Dreams | Kirby + Pichu | |||||||||||
Fourside | Ness + Mewtwo | |||||||||||
Great Bay | Link + Young Link | Marth + Link | Zelda + Young Link | |||||||||
Green Greens | Kirby + Jigglypuff | Kirby + Pikachu | ||||||||||
Icicle Mountain | Kirby + Ice Climbers | |||||||||||
Kongo Jungle | Donkey Kong + Fox | |||||||||||
Mushroom Kingdom | Link + Luigi | Luigi + Dr. Mario | ||||||||||
Mushroom Kingdom II | Mario + Peach | |||||||||||
Mute City | Fox + Captain Falcon | |||||||||||
Onett | Ness + Peach | |||||||||||
Pokรฉmon Stadium | Pikachu + Jigglypuff | Pikachu + Pichu | ||||||||||
Temple | Link + Zelda | Peach + Zelda | Zelda + Marth | |||||||||
Yoshi's Island | Yoshi + Ness | |||||||||||
Yoshi's Story | Yoshi + Luigi |
Giant battle[]
Just like the teams, the giant characters the player fights are picked randomly from a group that has already been predetermined by the game. All playable characters aside from Zelda/Sheik and Roy can fight alongside the player. The first ally uses the second alternate costume, while the second uses the first alternate costume. Interestingly, this list includes every single Mario character overall, including sub-series (but oddly, not Peach). During the battle against Giant Young Link, Saria's Song plays.
Giant Character | Stage |
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Donkey Kong | Kongo Jungle |
Mario | Princess Peach's Castle |
Dr. Mario | Mushroom Kingdom |
Luigi | Mushroom Kingdom II |
Bowser | Fountain of Dreams |
Captain Falcon | Mute City |
Jigglypuff | Pokรฉmon Stadium |
Link | Great Bay |
Yoshi | Yoshi's Story |
Young Link | Temple |
Multi-character battle[]
Just like the teams, and the giant characters the player fights, the multiple-character fight is picked randomly from a group that has already been predetermined by the game. This level consists of 9 chosen characters consisting of 10 multiples of themselves. During the battle against 10 Donkey Kongs at Jungle Japes, the theme for Kongo Jungle plays.
Character (ร 10) | Stage |
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Donkey Kong | Jungle Japes |
Mario | Rainbow Cruise |
Luigi | Mushroom Kingdom II |
Captain Falcon | Mute City |
Jigglypuff | Pokรฉmon Stadium |
Pichu | Pokรฉmon Stadium |
Kirby | Fountain of Dreams |
Mr. Game & Watch | Flat Zone |
Ness | Onett |
Metal battle[]
All characters except Ganondorf, Roy, and Mr. Game and Watch are eligible to appear as a metal character in this 1-on-1 battle against the player. The stage will always be Battlefield.
Rewards[]
- Clearing as Mario without using any continues will challenge the player to defeat Dr. Mario, where victory results in unlocking him.
- Clearing with any character on any difficulty will challenge the player to defeat Jigglypuff, and beating it results in unlocking it.
- Clearing with 10 characters will challenge the player to defeat Young Link, and beating him will unlock him.
- Clearing with all starter characters will challenge the player to defeat Marth from the Fire Emblem series. The challenge against him will also occur if the player gets a Game Over using every starter character.
- Clearing with Marth will challenge the player to defeat Roy.
- Clearing with all 24 characters will challenge the player to defeat Mr. Game & Watch.
- Clearing with Mr. Game & Watch will unlock the Flat Zone stage.
- Clearing with all characters gives the player the Donkey Kong Junior Trophy.
- Clearing on Hard or Very Hard without using any continues gives the player a trophy of Master Hand.
- Clearing on any difficulty with any character will give the player a trophy of the character used based on their appearance in one of their games. Both Zelda and Sheik's trophies are obtained simultaneously.
Trivia[]
- Oddly, Ganondorf will never appear as an enemy fighter, nor will Mr. Game & Watch outside of the Multi-Character Battle. Roy will never appear at all. Sheik will also never initially appear, only ever as a transformation for Zelda, who will never appear as an ally. Despite their absences, they all have the necessary intro poses programmed into the disc. [1]
- Each stage will never have the same character as an opponent character or ally as the player's character.
Gallery[]
See also[]
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