Super Smash Mates U.B.E.R.

Super Smash Mates U.B.E.R. is the fifth installment in the Super Smash Mates series for the Snowtendo Swap.

Gameplay
U.B.E.R.'s main selling point is its insanely large cast, boasting a large number of both new and returning characters. Of these, the game also introduces the concept of "Waveform Mates", which are essentially clone characters.

Apart from its character count, the game also includes various mechanical changes that increase the competitive nature of the game.

Development
Development on the game is thought to have started in early 2017, and was split among different Snowtendo offices to make it faster. The Shops Island Snowtendo office was tasked with choosing the initial character roster and designing those characters. According to the head Shopper designer, the team "chose to axe anybody that was a 'literally who' scrub, and bring back some old favorites as well". This news annoyed many fans of said "literally who scrubs", while others praised the cutting to make room for more meaningful and interesting characters. One exception to this was Mr Cow2, who was kept on the playable roster after his introduction in the previous game. The Shopper designer also said "I made the choice to add controversial character Feey back into U.B.E.R. because he was one of my favorite characters in Jitsu".

He went on to say that many of the characters axed from the playable roster still appear in the game as Essences or Helpers.

Announcement
The game was announced in March 2018 with a trailer that showed off Kermit as a new playable character, much to just about everyone's delight.

In June, further details were revealed, including the inclusion of the Madagascar Penguins as waveform mates to The Four Unknown and the announcement of mr skeltal.

Announcements in August revealed Wikipenguino45, Evil Pengy, Sentinel (waveform to Kwiksilver), and Shadow Guy as characters, along with the Cityscape map.

Characters
Character slots taken: 54/60

Helpers
Helpers are released from Helper Trophies. They usually aid you in battle, but some of them are just an annoyance.


 * Akbaboy
 * Aqua Grabber - Floats above where the players are fighting and will shoot life preservers at them before attempting to swoop down and catch one with its claw to carry them to the upper blast line.
 * Aunt Arctic
 * Bucket
 * Cadence
 * Crockneg the Annihilator, Agent at Law - Runs around, stomping villages anyone he meets, then she will proceed to hit them with a "cease and desist".
 * Donal Tenorio - Waddles out and "fires" one of the players, launching them off of the map.
 * Doom Chef
 * Dubstep Puffle
 * The Ed - Rides the Meme Machine around the level for several seconds, damaging other characters while the Meme Machine's theme song plays.
 * Folly
 * Fooey
 * Frost Bite - Skates back and forth across the stage for a short time, making the ground slippery. If he makes contact with any fighters, they are briefly frozen.
 * Gariwald VIII
 * Glitterpants - Glitterpants hops into a cluster of penguins, opponents or not, and hoping to get fans, plays one of his (literally) stunningly vain songs to them. The vainness has strangely high launching capabilities.
 * Gozu
 * The Ice Finder - Unleashes a fire-extinguishing mist, obscuring players' vision. To properly tribute the late Finder's legacy, he is programmed to save any player that ends up walking off the stage.
 * The Inquisition
 * Jet Pack Guy - Darts across the screen on his Jet Pack.
 * Lavender - Rolls in on a tank and fires at players for a few seconds.
 * Lemon
 * Mailman - Waddles around the stage, dropping items out of his mailbag for a short time. If he is KO'ed, many items will fly out of his mailbag.
 * Metal Explorer
 * Medic - Heals the player who summoned it.
 * New Leader - Covers the screen with some of his famous ideas.
 * Penguin Band - Temporarily changes the stage's music and damages other players with their laser light show.
 * Piffle
 * PSA - Calls in a plane that crashes onto the stage. Will hurt the summoner.
 * Puffle Handler - Causes a puffle stampede across the stage.
 * Red and Blue
 * RocketSnail
 * Rogue Tvarkov - Appears out of nowhere to fire at opponents for a few seconds while going around in a circle before teleporting out of the way.
 * Rookie
 * Rory - Drills in a spot, dealing contact damage, before a new building springs up.
 * SnoX - Has one of three possible outcomes: Creating a fire helix, burning anyone over him; lightning bolts down the left and right sides of him, or freezes anyone within a small range of him.
 * Swiss Ninja - Much like his appearance in Brawl, he starts yelling at characters. However, if attacked, he whips out a bunch of weapons and starts shooting! (You can still KO him, though.)
 * Tar Tar Peng - Strikes enemies with the power of judicial review, mate!
 * Tobot Titan - Fires a gust of wind, blowing enemies away.
 * Tobot Tritan - Although Tritan retains his ultra-rare status, he has been significantly nerfed (so he doesn't deal stupidly large amounts of damage); instead, he remains idle in his position until an opponent is within range, at which point he begins a flurry of powerful attacks that can also catch any other opponents that approach it before launching them away.
 * Uberfuzzy
 * Wezzeti - Screams at the player about not resetting.
 * X-Treme Penguin - X-Treme Penguin suddenly appears, for only ten seconds, in his jetpack-miner's cart, drives in a straight line while shouting "YAHOOO!", and anybody hit by the cart is launched.
 * Yarr

Stages

 * Barhamados - A stunning travel through a nighttime city, one of Tropicalis's most famous.
 * Beacon
 * Box Dimension
 * Cityscape
 * Club Penguin Weekee
 * Couch - The Four Unknown's domain. The giant pillow will bounce you back far - use that to your advantage!
 * Comedy Club - A comedy club having a nighttime session. The real stage is in the background and takes place on a regular stage with a curtain backdrop and a microphone. There are no pits, instead having walkoffs. The foreground is the tables which host the audience, which will be filled with various characters (if essences are turned on, the audience is instead composed of generic penguins).
 * Dessert Zone
 * Dojo - Moving stage that changes from the Dojo to over the Volcano to over the Waterfall. Music also changes.
 * Escape from Protectors' Vault - A stage based off the climax to the 2017 game Kermit Quest and the adventures of Antarctica's Protectors. It takes place inside the vault of Antarctica's Protectors, which is in a state of emergency as if someone breached it. The stage is very large and separated into six areas, access to which are bordered by doors which automatically open and close semi-frequently. Scattered around the area is memorabilia related to the Protectors' adventures over the years such as a deactivated speeddroid and the Ray of Youth.
 * Everyday Phoning Facility
 * Great Darktonian Pie War - You're smack dab in the middle of the battlefield! Pies will fly in from both sides, making you flinch but otherwise dealing no damage. Occasionally, the original Darktan himself will appear and either use a burning or a freezing beam.
 * Herbert's Base
 * Iceberg - Slowly tilts from side to side depending how close a certain number of players are to the edges. Players have to balance out the berg to avoid sliding off.
 * The Migrator
 * Mister Bones' Wild Ride
 * PAPER FANON
 * Pizzatron - Players are small and on the moving Pizzatron 3000 conveyor belt. They have to dodge pizzas, flying toppings and flippers.
 * Planet Anemohs
 * Power4U Affair - Duke it out near the Time Agency's UFO-like final HQ. Watch out for enemy Super Penguins, including Hull and his Avatar Warmech V2!
 * Rockhopper Island
 * Sea Cheese Sea
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 * Square Islands - Fight on a tourist platform gliding through the islands. If you can get a hold of some of the area's tech, like the URAD and SEAS, you can turn the tables on your opponents!
 * South Pole Capitol Roof
 * Stage - Not only a stage, the stage. Takes place on the performance area of the Stage, which cycles through different plays, changing the layout of the battlefield. The possible plays include The Penguins that Time Forgot (Basic walkoff stage), Quest for the Golden Puffle (The inside of a pyramid with lots of hazards amd a treacherous bridge), Haunting of the Viking Opera (A viking ship battling against the weather), and Shadow Guy and Gamma Gal (A smaller version of Cityscape which Melmonst will occasionally break through).
 * Tallest Mountain

Items

 * Arrabbiata Pasta - Lights your mouth on fire, burning opponents.
 * Beta Hat - After being collected, a small group of penguins swarm the user, protecting them from attacks and knocking back other fighters who get too close for a short time.
 * Binch Cookie - Makes the user briefly invincible upon contact.
 * Cheese 1000 - Heals a small amount of the consumer's HP. Tastes like cheese and ink.
 * Coffee - Makes the user faster for a short time.
 * Confetti Rocket - Launches up into the sky, then unexpectedly comes down in a colorful explosion.
 * Eject Box - Breaks open when thrown, releasing various other items.
 * Fish
 * GoGo Vehicles - Collect all 5 to form DaiBouken. You get to strike enemies 3 times.
 * Jeff Cannon - Launches a single fish named Jeff. After being used, the cannon is useless and can be thrown.
 * Jetpack
 * Keysaber
 * Onion Pickle - Comes supplied with cannon. Once flung at a target, they get launched off the stage.
 * Quatran - Collect 4 cars to form a smaller replica of Quatran. The replica follows the user in the background until the special move button is pressed or a specific amount of time passes, at which point it engulfs itself in flames, launching opponents.
 * Smash Ball - Break it to launch your Final Smash. Make sure it's not a Fake Smash Ball, or you'll be launched!
 * Sticky Shoes - Can be picked up and thrown at an opponent, forcing them to wear them and causing them to be stuck in place. After a certain amount of attacks, they will be freed from the shoes.
 * Strudel
 * Time Watch - Speeds up the fighter who activates it and slows down everyone else.
 * Ultimate Tomato - Activating this item causes all existing items look like tomatoes and spawns random items that look like tomatoes. Even though they all look the same, each item does its respective action. Tomato.

Essences
"There's been a breach in the Fourth Wall! Someone's been tampering with the Fanon Universe's articles, and now a bunch of familiar penguins, places and things are reverting to their wikicode base forms, called "essences". Get in there and bring 'em back!"

- the description of Essences

Instead of trophies as in previous game, U.B.E.R. utilizes "Essences", which can power up fighters in their own "Essence" mode. "Augmented mates", playable characters with palette and stat changes that reflect the essence used, can be fought to obtain specific essences. There are three "types" of essences: rock, paper and scissors. These three are superior to each other in standard roshambo fashion. Lastly, "primary" essences are the main essence that a character can equip, and each primary essence can be supported by 1-3 secondary essences.


 * Chill & Orangey
 * Constellation System (Primary, Rock): Provides three secondary slots. A somewhat cartoon-esque yet stupidly overpowered set of war machines made by a bunch of nerds. Each part is owned by one of Antarctica's strongest countries, and they combine and stuff to destroy other stuff. Neat.
 * Dark Knight (Primary, Rock): Provides two secondary slots. A warped, evil version of Star Kirby12. How original. He uses a lance instead of a keyblade so... that's something?
 * Dancing iPod (Paper): Increases speed. A strange sentient mobile device that/who frequents the Night Club. He's said to be one of very few to be able to rival Cadence in dancing.
 * Darwin
 * Dr. Warp
 * Fat Pin
 * Flipplings
 * Furry Flats
 * The KD Band
 * Kerboommista (Primary, Scissors): Provides two secondary slots. One of Star's closest friends and the underdog hero of Operation Blackout. He uses a nifty bracelet that carries a bunch of different microguns in battle.
 * Lightpenguin
 * Lolz
 * Max 1537
 * Medic (Paper): Heal 5% every 5 seconds. A medic who has developed technology that can heal any injury on the spot, though he can often be the cause of injury to his enemies as well.
 * Meme Machine
 * Nexer6472 (Primary, Scissors): Provides three secondary slots. A friend-turned-enemy of Star and Person. He's been known to cause havoc around Antarctica in increasingly dangerous ways.
 * OxiPie (Paper): Start the battle with a smokescreen. The sticky mutant-pie masterpiece of the late Billy Mays. It's great for pie fights... not so much for eating.
 * Parf
 * Paper Fooly & Fuzzle
 * Party Hat
 * Pearface
 * Peng Guin
 * Penguin Super Suit (Primary, Scissors): Provides three secondary slots. Feey's really cool robot suit. It has a bunch of weapons and is almost indestructible.
 * Player and Puffle (Scissors): Increases speed of character 1.2x, effects of the Time Watch are extended. After the original Club Penguin's timeline began to be destroyed, this brave survivor and his puffle, equipped with a special leash augmenting his power, traveled through old locations and events to restore as much of it as he could. Of course, his efforts are futile because they are not canon.
 * Pirate Jet
 * Private Eastshield
 * Prof. Sling
 * Professor Prepostera
 * RocketSnail
 * Sam Rudi
 * Screenhog
 * Scrubbypingu
 * Shops Island FanonBall
 * Snellville Elder
 * Spider880
 * TurtleShroom
 * USA FanonBall
 * War Bots

wiibo
Snowtendo has confirmed that the wiibo for returning veterans from Super Smash Mates for Snowtendo 3DS and Vii N will continue to function in Super Smash Mates U.B.E.R.. They also confirmed that all newcomers as well as veterans who weren't in the previous game will receive wiibo.

Trivia

 * U.B.E.R. is thought to stand for Ultimate Battle of Everyone Relevant, but Snowtendo hasn't commented on this.
 * A knockoff version was made in Snowzerland called Super Swiss Bros Forever, featuring Kaiser Swiss Ninja, and many of his family members and allies. It also features some of his enemies as playable characters, but they are easy to beat, and anyone who plays those characters is logged in a Snoss database of potential rebels.