In honor of Super Smash Bros. coming to the Nintendo Switch, what is your favorite stage from the first 5 games in the Super Smash Bros. series? Explain why!

my favorite super smash stage would be the nintendogs stage, all them cute dogs just to look at while battling other users

Hyrule, Poke Floats, and Corneria will always be the best to me. All of them originated in Melee, but I think Hyrule and Corneria are in Brawl and Wii U. Hyrule's great because no one ever dies because of the sheer size of the stage and blastzones, also it's fun to fight near the bottom of the level. Corneria's fun because of the unique shape of the stage, but I kinda hate the Arwings that shoot at you.

Poke Floats is fun because it's Poke Floats.

My favorite is Fountain of Dreams from the Melee days.

I really hope they find a way to get it into Ultimate and are just saving it for a final reveal :/

legacyme3: Well, there is still like 35 stages that are still yet to be determinant, which includes Fountain of Dreams, and who knows, Nintendo may just add Fountain of Dreams. Knowing Nintendo, they might have another Direct sometime between now and December (which will probably be sometime in September) and announce every stage that will be in Smash Ultimate, just like they did with the Characters during the E3 Direct.

TheFadedWarrior : Actually, Hyrule was introduced in Smash 64, but it was skipped Melee & Brawl, but came back in Smash 3DS/Wii-U, and planning to be on Ultimate.


Although the best thing for me is that 5 of my 6 favorite stages has been confirmed so far to be in Ultimate (which makes me happy), the only one that is still yet to be determinant is Jungle Hijinxs, which I do see being added to the game, although it's hard telling though, because I can't see into the future.

My favorite one is the giant stage from Sm4sh with the little pond up at the top... (I don't play a lot of Smash, but this map was always my favorite because it means as a Yoshi main, whose a simple character, there will be less fights on top of me)

IgorBird122 : Turns out, I'm thinking of Temple, not Hyrule. Hyrule Castle is completely different than Temple, my bad.

legacyme3 : Not sure on why my last post didn't summon you.

TheFadedWarrior : It's alright. When you said Hyrule, I always think about the Hyrule Castle stage from 64, 3DS/Wii-U, and Ultimate

thing1 : You talking about Palutena's Temple? Because that's the only stage I know from that Smash that's a giant stage with a pond of somekind, unless it's another stage I'm missing.

IgorBird122 :

Going to need you to cite your sources on that one.

I know that around 80-85 stages have been confirmed, but we've also figured out almost "EXACTLY" what stages those are. The exceptions for "confirmations" are the new Final Destination (that we've yet to actually see, at least on the wiki), a New Donk City based stage, and one of the Pictochats (whether it's 1 or 2, or a compilation of the two, similar to what the Mega Man stage is).

Anything more than those 80ish stages is unconfirmed, and just speculative (for example, I'd be shocked if Miiverse came back).

I also know that based on what has been said, some stages will be omitted. I'm praying FoD isn't one of them.

legacyme3 : Well, by doing the math, the reason I came up with 35 is that. Ok, out of all the stages that were introduced in Smash 64, Melee, Brawl, and 3DS/Wii-U (after looking at the official Smash Wiki page), that would total 125 stages, and now take away all of the already confirmed stages which is 84 stages (so far), that leaves 41 stages, and now you take out all the duplicate "Battlefields" and "Final Destinations" (basically, they are the same stage with the same name in each game, just painted with a different background) which is 6 stages, now that leaves the 35 stages that are still yet to be determinant (and mostly how I got the 35 stages).

Sakurai did state that not all of the stages are going to make it into Ultimate, and some of those stages will get the dreaded cut, which does include like I mentioned the duplicate Battlefields and Final Destination, as well as like you mentioned, Miiverse will more in likely make the cut because of Nintendo discontinuing the Miiverse channel on their systems, and also 1 or 2 of the Flat Zone stages will also get the dreaded cut, and maybe a few additional stages will be cut as well. Also, although this might just be my opinion though, but maybe, we may see another stage or 2 be added into SSB Ultimate, which if that's the case, I can see that another Pokemon stage will be added in (probably something to do with the Alola region in the Pokemon franchise).

So, for your favorite Fountain of Dreams, I also personally hope they don't cut it as well. because when I used to have a GameCube and played Melee, I really liked the Fountain of Dream stage as well for some apparent reason, probably the bright colors to my young mind at the time.

My favorite stage is Shadow Moses Island. I honestly have no clue why, it might just be the nostalgia. I played that stage as a kid all the time in Brawl. 

My favorite stage is the Pokemon Stadium from Melee. I loved it as a kid, because Pokemon was my favorite series. It's nostalgic for me, and for that reason it remains my favorite to this day.

My favorite stage is probably the Duck Hunt stage. Despite actually getting somewhat annoying with the stage hazards, it's still really fun since it's very straightforward, isn't a walkoff stage, and has some of the best music.

My favorite stages from SSB are Final Destination, Hyrule Castle, Castle Siege, Onett and all of the Pokémon Stadium/League stages. While I usually like to play on the non-chaotic, omega version of most stages, these are a few I make exceptions for, unless of course I am playing casually with items on, in which case no stage is off limits.

Temple and Pokéfloats are way on up there on the list. I don't have an absolute favorite, but those are at the top.

I'd also like to say I think it's really cool how every stage can have a flat and triplat "omega" and "battlefield" version. Some visual variety in triplats is a very welcome addition.

For a long time, and still with SSBU, the Hyrule Temple is my favorite. It offers a large map (which I personally love) and gives the players multiple areas to battle. I also like the Pokemon battle area too. 

And I always play omega version, because I just don't like when everything is moving around quickly and random things are knocking you off the stage. 

m0ssb3rg935 : I love Pokefloats, I'm so disappointed that they didn't include it in Smash Ultimate.

I've always found myself going to Fountain of Dreams when i played Melee. So I would say Fountain of Dreams is probably my favorite smash bros stage.

My favorite stage is the Umbra Clock Tower. It's the setting for what I consider to be the most epic beginning for any video game ever in Bayonetta. You could only imagine my excitement when Bayonetta was added in Smash 4 as DLC. (Then obviously making it's return in Ultimate)