How to unlock every character in smash ultimate
HOW TO UNLOCK EVERY CHARACTER IN SMASH ULTIMATE ASAP
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stop right there
we already know what you're thinking
you're thinking of going straight to the
comments and rating I'm knocking
characters that's not a pro thing that's
an easy thing for tiny baby children
gamers what is this a video for the
little baby guides calm well calm down
there big shot unlocking characters at a
quick rate is one of the most common and
earliest problems of competitive smash
see if you're organizing a big
tournament and you've promised 800
million friendly setups for your 11
billion competitors you gotta make sure
those setups have everything unlocked
for some tournaments organizers have
even had to ask volunteers to come in
beforehand and grind out those unlocks
in fact when smash ultimate was
announced a lot of big voices in the
competitive community asked Nintendo for
an option to pay for the fully unlocked
version and Sakurai said no so
speedrunning that character select menu
is still more important than you might
think and we've got all the frame
perfect ball clips and out-of-bounds
tricks you'll need to a hundred percent
this bad boy so fast that your eyes will
burst open like water balloons from the
raw g-force if your unlock rate okay
maybe not that fast but pretty fast and
don't worry you don't actually have to
learn any frame perfect' wall hacks now
it has been a calendar year since the
game came out making the topic a little
stale so we're gonna theorycraft and try
and throw in a few new best practices to
get characters it will add in some extra
stuff too you know just to keep things
fresh and if you're looking to speedrun
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now let's get moving first off you got
three basic ways to unlock characters
playing games of Smashing vs. mode
playing classic mode and if you're a
masochist slash JRPG fan world of light
world of light is easily the longest
method and requires you to put up with
stuff like that one map where there's
like six Inklings and they all have
missile launchers the second fastest way
is to play classic mode classic mode is
also the best way to target specific
characters e1 on lock once you be
classic mode a new character will pop up
and challenge you and
return to the menu beat them and you get
them you know the drill what you might
not know is the order for classic mode
unlocks and you're probably not gonna
guess it cuz it's total nonsense you
might expect the completing samus's
classic mode would get you Dark Samus
nope inkling because just as Samus is a
merciless bounty hunter raised by Birds
inkling as a merciless bounty hunter
raised by squids we haven't played
splatoon but pretty sure that's canon
luckily we've had a convenient
infographic for a while take a look at
first glance it's a little confusing and
it's also in Japanese so you got to
learn kanji okay not really all you have
to do is look at the pictures basically
each character's classic mode unlocks
the character under them if you already
unlocked that character then it'll
unlock the next character under for
example if you already unlocked the
nests and you play Kirby's classic mode
you'll unlock Jigglypuff so if you'll
want to unlock your main the quickest
way is usually to follow this chart but
some characters are quicker via the
versus mode like Zelda you can get an
idea by comparing this chart to this one
from redditor Mick Gustavo this chart
lists the order you unlock characters in
versus mode it's worth noting that
there's gonna be a 20-minute lead time
on versus mode unlock so if you wanted
to unlock Ness it might be faster in
classic mode even though he's the very
first versus online other characters
like Marth and Sheik are super fast to
unlock in world of light because they're
right at the start of the map and some
characters are far down every list and
just plain slow to unlock like cloud for
those characters the optimal versus
route is gonna be your best bet classic
mode might be the most fun and varied
way to unlock characters by yourself but
you want to go fast you need to go fast
and this third round is by far the most
optimal and fastest you understand yeah
come on the third route is based on a
simple principle with a few complex
parameters after playing a versus game
you'll unlock a character however to
make it so progression wouldn't feel too
fast
Nintendo put in two limits the first
limit is a 10-minute flat stop gap
between each character unlock you cannot
unlock a new character until you've
spent ten minutes in game but you can
get around this pretty easily
you just have to go to the home menu and
restart the software the second limit is
where things get weirder you have to
meet a certain rubric before you start
unlocking characters the community
doesn't agree just what the rubric is
but it's likely distance traveled time
spent in game or raw inputs recorded
combine these two limits and you've got
one accepted optimal strategy first you
create a 20-minute time game with
hazards off and all items off except the
bunny hood then you either set the match
to two player and use two controllers
Sakurai style or you put on a level one
CPU now you pick a nice long stage you
can run on some good examples are a mega
forum stages more eight hours Hyrule
Castle and Mario Bros now when the
community is split on what exactly to do
here you either should just run as much
as possible to cover the most distance
possible or you should basically click
as many buttons as possible so that you
log as many inputs as possible either
way it'll be kind of dull so maybe put
on a podcast to occupy your mind during
this incredibly menial task now you
should have satisfied the game's
parameters and can unlock characters now
create a one stock roll set and go back
into vs mode and immediately SD then
you'll get that classic Challenger
approaching warning and you'll get to do
your thing after you unlock to that CPU
you restart the software go into vs mode
SD again and rinse and repeat it's no
melee break the targets but hey we've
got some speed running optimization and
ultimate if you end up losing to the CPU
no shame it happens to everybody
well except us as all of you know we've
got tons of experience fighting the CPUs
but if you lose to the CPUs you'll
eventually get an option to rematch them
to unlock them it's in the corner of the
games and more screen and the game will
prompt to you when it first appears the
last thing to know is that if you do
this on a secondary profile sometimes
we're starting the software just won't
work in that case you've got to go back
to the time match and mess around some
more or just leave it on in the
background if this method starts to get
boring you can always mix and match you
can take a break and play a little
classic mode or world of light anyways
today's topic was a pretty simple one so
that's all we got
whether you're helping out a tio or
creating a new accounts or just got the
game we hope this helps you out no no we
are not done here we
and go faster we must go faster and by
God we will go faster excuse me to do
that we gotta go to the speedrunners the
world record speed run for unlocking all
characters in versus mode is held by
Jimmy caldera at two hours 59 minutes
and 34 seconds Jimmy called arrow made a
few important additions to the vs run
first during his 20 minute time match he
was sure to pick the fastest character
he had Foxx
that way he can travel more distance or
put out more inputs after he did the
20-minute time match he selected the
flat zone map just as go hit the screen
he SD by running off the stage you can
actually do this so fast that the timer
doesn't even appear then he played
Donkey Kong a heavy-hittin character to
get kills quickly but is 2 hours 59
minutes and 34 seconds the fastest we
can go with just four logs runs on speed
run calm this can be optimized further
the first optimization is simple play
banjo instead of DK if you have all the
DLC characters then banjo is the best
choice for killing CPU is early because
their AI brains aren't going to
understand how to deal with wonder wing
you just have to damage them a little
lure them to the side of the stage and
land a strong wonder wing
now the second optimization is tricky
and depends on one crucial fact that the
game needs distance traveled not inputs
this is still a contentious point
youtuber Austin John tested inputs and
running and found running more effective
however speedrunners thus far have been
using the input method not the running
method if it's all about travelling
distances then we can make the time
section more efficient by picking sonic
but Sonic's not a starter character we
hear you say that's true but to get them
you just have to beat Mario's classic
mode at the lowest difficulty even an
inexperienced Mario could complete
classic mode in less than 5 minutes then
you'll immediately unlock sonic who has
nearly two-thirds more run speed than
Fox 2.40 2 compared to 3.85 sonic has
about 1.6 times the speed of Fox
theoretically this means he'll cover the
distance Fox covers in 20 minutes and
roughly twelve and a half minutes that's
about seven and a half minutes we're
shaving off easily worth the five spent
in classic mode
take into account that Jimmy called
arrow had to do a 20-minute time match
twice during his run and we're
potentially saving even more time gotta
go fast so the new theoretically fastest
model we're proposing is to instantly
unlock Sonic through Mario's classic
mode from there we play with Sonic
during the 20 minute time match and
after this we switched to banjo to face
the CPUs now keep in mind this theory
isn't fully tested and speed and
distance measurements may work in
unpredictable ways but but but wait is
all this worth it
is it done locking characters the most
fun when done organically isn't it truly
best to see the Challenger approaching
menu after a free-for-all with friends
or a classic mode with your favorite
character and isn't there room for
compromise grinding to get some
characters and taking a break with more
fun game modes no no speed is what
matters and for one final tip on what
also matters is make sure you don't
waste any more frames and subscribe to
the channel right now optimal splits to
go with ringing the bell for
notifications followed by a like on the
video then a quick comment that goes
from top to bottom you won't have to
backtrack and scroll upwards see we've
got all the tips for optimization
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