Poké Ball

Poké Ball
Poké Ball in Super Smash Flash 2.
Universe	Pokémon
Appearance	Super Smash Flash 2
Item class	Helping
Description	Releases a Pokémon to fight alongside you.

The Poké Ball (モンスターボール) is an item in Super Smash Flash 2 hailing from the Pokémon franchise.

Overview

When a Poké Ball is thrown, it deals 7% damage to opponents hit, and upon landing on a platform, a randomly chosen Pokémon is released. Each Pokémon has a unique effect generally intended to assist the player that threw the Poké Ball, such as attacking their opponents, inflicting different effects on them, or providing helpful items. There is also a 1.5% chance for the Pokémon summoned to be its "Shiny" variant, which has a unique color scheme and is accompanied by a rainbow flashing effect and pinging sound upon being released.

A variant of the Poké Ball item, the Master Ball, functions very similarly, except it has its own unique lineup of Pokémon that can be summoned.

List of Pokémon that are released from Poké Balls

These are the Pokémon that are randomly released after opening a Poké Ball:

Pokémon	Name	Description	V
TBA	Venusaur	Uses Frenzy Plant, creating powerful tree roots around itself.	Beta 1.4
	Charizard	Uses Flamethrower on both sides, burning opponents close to it.	0.7
	Blastoise	Uses Hydro Pump directly on one side that pushes and damages opponents backwards.	Beta 1.0
	Beedrill	Attacks in a swarm using Take Down.	Beta 1.0
	Meowth	Jumps into the air and uses Pay Day, which creates swirling of damaging coins around it.	Beta 1.0
	Electrode	Charges and uses Explosion, heavily damaging and launching very far any character around, but it can also fail to explode.	0.8a
	Alolan Exeggutor	Heavily drops itself onto the ground with Dragon Hammer to crush opponents.	Beta 1.0
	Hitmonlee	Uses Jump Kick to deliver a strong strike to the opponent closest to it.	0.6
	Koffing	Uses Smokescreen to cover a portion of the stage with smoke.	0.6
	Weezing	Uses Smog to create a cloud of gas that damages opponents that come near it.	Beta 1.0
	Chansey	Uses Softboiled to create seven eggs that will either heal for 10%, contain an item, or explode.	Beta 1.3.1
	Staryu	Flies around looking for an opponent and upon finding them, it remains stationary and attacks with Swift, shooting a stream of damaging stars.	Beta 1.0
	Magikarp	Uses Splash, which basically does nothing.	0.7
	Ditto	Uses Transform to turn into the character that released it, attacking with the same moveset.	Beta 1.0
	Porygon Porygon2 Porygon-Z	Uses Tackle, which makes it rush rapidly towards one side and strike any opponents on the path. They differ in that, the higher the Pokémon is in the evolutionary line, the stronger its attack is and the rarer its chances of spawning are.	Beta 1.0
	Snorlax	Uses Body Slam, which makes it jump very high to quickly fall very fast, now bigger, damaging any opponent.	0.8a
	Chikorita	Uses Razor Leaf consecutively on one side, leaving its rear completely safe.	0.6
TBA	Cyndaquil	Uses Flamethrower to shoot a stream of fire forward from its back.	Beta 1.4
	Pichu	Thrice, it will leap into the air and use Thunder Wave, which creates a circular electric field that surrounds Pichu and damages opponents in the proximity.	Beta 1.0
	Bellossom	Continuously uses Sleep Powder, which makes any nearby opponent fall asleep.	Beta 1.0
TBA	Marill	Uses Tackle to run forward and continuously push back opponents that come in contact with it.	Beta 1.4
TBA	Unown	Uses Take Down to attack in a large group flying diagonally.	Beta 1.4
	Wobbuffet	Stays in one place and uses Counter, becoming an active hitbox that damages opponents that come in contact with it.	Beta 1.2.3
	Gligar	Rushes and uses Fury Cutter to attack a single opponent up to 5 times in rapid succession. Its pursuit of said opponent ends if it misses once.	0.6
	Heracross	Flies around the stage. Upon touching an opponent, it will grab them and use Megahorn, tossing them upwards.	Beta 1.0
	Delibird	Uses Present and throws food, but it can also throw Rocket bombs.	0.7
	Seedot	Appears and uses Bullet Seed as it marches, damaging opponents.	Beta 1.0
	Shroomish	Stays in one place and periodically uses Poison Powder, releasing a cloud that damages opponents over time.	0.8a
	Metagross	Uses Earthquake, shaking the ground. The tremors bury opponents and later launch them away.	Beta 1.0
	Chatot	Flies from side to side on the whole stage, using Chatter, that releases waves that damage opponents.	0.8a
	Garchomp	Uses Draco Meteor, which causes rock meteors to plummet on the stage, launching opponents upwards in contact.	Beta 1.0
	Snivy	Uses Leaf Tornado, getting surrounded by spinning leaves that damage opponents in the proximity.	Beta 1.0
	Tepig	Uses Heat Crash, running at high speed while engulfed in flames dealing fiery damage to the opponents it may strike.	Beta 1.0
	Klink	Targets after a single opponent and, after catching them, repeatedly damages them with Gear Grind.	Beta 1.0

Unconfirmed Pokémon

This section contains information of a formerly confirmed feature. The original source that confirmed the subject has otherwise become obsolete, outdated or deprecated and has yet to be reconfirmed by an official modern source.

Pokémon	Name	Description
N/A	Scizor	Moves forward while using Metal Claw, striking opponents and dealing moderate knockback.

Removed Pokémon

This section contains information pertaining to unused content. The subject was never implemented or was removed, cut or altered at some point of its development, and this section pertains to its original implementation.

Pokémon	Name	Description	V
	MissingNo.	Covers the entire screen with a Windows "Blue Screen of Death", leaving players unable to see each other and the stage they are fighting in. Removed in Beta 1.0.	0.7

Origin

Official artwork of the Poké Ball.

The Poké Ball is a central item throughout the Pokémon franchise, orginating from its debut games. It is used by Pokémon Trainers to catch wild Pokémon, store caught Pokémon, and conveniently carry them. During battles, Pokémon are sent out by trainers by throwing the Poké Ball into the battlefield, which releases the chosen Pokémon with a burst of light. To catch a wild Pokémon, the trainer must throw an empty Poké Ball at them, causing it to open up and close with them inside, though this may fail if the Pokémon breaks out before being fully caught. Several different types of Poké Balls exists, which generally increase the likelihood of catching a wild Pokémon in specific conditions or have additional effects on the caught Pokémon.

Shiny Pokémon are variants of Pokémon introduced in Pokémon Gold and Silver. They are distinguished only by their unqiue colorations and are accompanied by a flash of stars or light and a pinging sound when encountered in the wild. Their rates of appearance vary between games but tend to be incredibly low, though as of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, they can be increased upon acquiring the Shiny Charm item.

Gallery

Screenshots

Ness about to throw a Poké Ball at Luigi while taunting on Jungle Hijinx.

Link, Zelda, Mario, and Peach holding Poké Balls on Hylian Skies.

Naruto throwing a Poké Ball at Simon on Saffron City.

Early designs

Mario throwing a Poké Ball on Battlefield.

Poké Ball's early design on Waiting Room.

Bomberman standing next to a Poké Ball on Mushroom Kingdom III.

Designs

Poké Ball's first early design.

Poké Ball's second early design.

Poké Ball's third early design.

Pokémon

Alolan Exeggutor.

Beedrill.

Bellossom.

Blastoise.

Chansey.

Charizard.

Chatot.

Chikorita.

Delibird.

Ditto.

Electrode.

Garchomp.

Gligar.

Heracross.

Hitmonlee.

Klink.

Koffing.

Magikarp.

Meowth.

Metagross.

Pichu.

Porygon.

Porygon2.

Porygon-Z.

Seedot.

Shroomish.

Snivy.

Snorlax.

Staryu.

Tepig.

Weezing.

Wobbuffet.

Trivia

Togepi and Metang appearing in the SSF2 demo v0.9 intro.

• Poké Balls also appear in the on-screen appearances for Pikachu, Jigglypuff, and Pichu, in which the respective fighter is released from one, and on the stage Pokémon Colosseum, in which background Pokémon are released from them.
• Out of all the Pokémon that can be released from a Poké Ball, only Charizard and Pichu are playable characters in the official Super Smash Bros. games.
• During the development of Beta and just prior to his resignation, former developer Alex Tid Knowles ripped many animated sprites of Pokémon from Pokémon Black and White and spent about a week programming them into the game as incomplete designs for summonable Pokémon. These include Onix, Chansey, Goldeen, Mew, Marill, Yanma, Unown, Scizor, Slugma, Celebi, Flygon, Combee, and Vespiquen. It is unknown whether any summonable Pokémon fully added in Beta were a part of this project.
  • Notably, Onix and Marill had custom sprites and scripts related to their functionalities, implying that they were the most developed of these Pokémon prior to Tid's resignation.
  • Sprites of several other unsummonable Pokémon could also be found in v0.8, including Ditto, Togepi, Plusle, Minun, and Metang, with all except for Plusle and Minun later appearing in the opening movie for v0.9. It is unknown whether these are related to Tid's aforementioned project.
  • Out of all of these Pokémon, Chansey, Ditto, Mew, Marill, Unown, and Celebi were later fully implemented as summonable Poké Ball or Master Ball Pokémon with custom sprites. Similarly, Scizor was teased during a development stream but not yet released. Whether any more of these Pokémon will be fully implemented is unknown.
• Due to complications with some bugs, Poké Balls, Assist Trophies, Bumpers, and Explosive Tags were initially disabled for demo v0.9b and were added back in patch 0.9.1.1965.
• Prior to Beta 1.2, due to the Master Ball item functioning differently, the Poké Ball could be used to summon Legendary or Mythical Pokémon such as Arceus or Victini, which had rarer chances of appearing. These Pokémon were moved to the Master Ball's lineup upon it being reworked to function like the Poké Ball.