An update on the Nintendo Switch news feed has narrowed down the release date of the Piranha Plant fighter coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
According to the post - which is a reminder to claim your Gold Points before the end of January, so you can receive the Piranha Plant fighter for free - the classic Super Mario enemy will become available “around” February. Prior to this, the free DLC was locked in for early 2019.
If you haven’t already claimed Piranha Plant, the download code to redeem the character will be emailed to you within 72 hours once you’ve purchased Ultimate from the eShop or claimed your Gold Points manually with a physical copy of the game.
If for some reason you won’t have the chance to take advantage of this offer, there's no need to worry. Nintendo will be making it available for standalone purchase once this promotion ends. Here’s the confirmation from the Nintendo support page:
The Piranha Plant DLC will be available as a standalone purchase in 2019 (exact date TBD). It is not included in the Fighters Pass.
Are excited about Piranha Plant being added to Ultimate? Tell us below.
[source siliconera.com]
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Still saying he’s dropping on Feb. 15th, the same day his amiibo comes out.
my favorite flower for Valentines Day?
oh, Nintendo! 😍😍😍
I will treasure her forever!
I'm so excited to play another troll character, already maining Wii fit and Duck Hunt Dog, and peach..... Gotta add him now!
Makes sense, seeing as its amiibo is due in February. It’d be weird to have an amiibo with zero functionality released.
@CharlieSmile Did... did you just assume piranha plant's gender? 😱
@Aerona
Shepdawg1 and CurryPowderKeg79 did the same thing, why did you only @ me?
Sucks that this isn’t also bundled with the Fighters Pass for late buyers. A bit cheap to do that, in my opinion.
Other than that, Piranha Plant is my most anticipated fighter, hope it drops first or second week of February.
@CurryPowderKeg79 Comment of the day! Gonzo is a real world star.
@CurryPowderKeg79 Damn it, my name's Seymour, and now my tag in Smash can be eaten by a god forsaken plant. I already get that referenced enough!
Looking forward to use this character. Though it seems it will be a grounded based character? According to in game data, it has quite some landing lag on it's aerials.
People on social media complaining that they didn’t know how to get Piranha Plant:
Be sure to spread the word so everyone can get their hands on this lovely plant boy!
@Aerona aren’t plants...both?? Like stamin and pistil??
@Aerona - Don't plants have all the equipment to be considered both "sexes" anyway?
I mean, basically any assumption is the right assumption.
@SpottyBulborb beat me to it.
I find it funny how people are trying to give Piranha Plant a gender, yet forget that genders are so backwards in the Mario world that Toadette isn't even considered a man nor woman.
Bowsette for Smash
Kinda figured this, thanks to the amiibo release date. Would be kind of weird to get an amiibo for a game and not have any functionality for it.
Just had a random thought, thinking about amiibo. Joker is most likely getting his own amiibo, and it's going to be an absolute pain to get a hold of one.
Given the Amiibo comes out February 15th I imagine the character might launch on or before then.
Plant Gang rise up
@CharlieSmile Ha, never. I let that happen once before with Birdo, then she proceeded to wreck me in the grand finals of a tennis match. Toadette gets no pity from me -_-
@Regpuppy pre-orders are a thing tho
Awesome. I can't wait to be awful with him but still keep playing him because he's hilarious.
already enter the code for it, can't wait to see it in february!
@Ttimer5 how is Peach a troll? If anything Daisy is.
Also. Bowser Jr.
@LUIGITORNADO
How is any character a troll? They all have their fans and all awesome in their own ways. I for one love playing as Bowser Jr. & The Koopalings. And Daisy, Isabelle, Mewtwo, etc...
@LUIGITORNADO well somebody obviously needs a nap. Always fun to get randomly insulted by some edgy bro dude on the interwebs.
And here I was thinking Luigi was supposed to be the nice brother. Mamma Mia!
@GyroZeppeli Piranha Plant will still be sold seperately, just not for free.
I’m mostly looking forward to the amiibo 😁
@Hinade I know that, I was saying it was a bit cheap of them to not bundle it with the Fighters Pass because late buyers would have to pay about the same amount as each character in the FP combined together just to get all the fighters.
Never got the code, emailed Nintendo but get no response
Bet: if this character is trash, NO ONE will be praising it anymore. Personally I still don’t get why people are acting like this is the best character they’ve added to Smash, but whatever.
@Big_Ounce
Because the majority of Smash Bros fans have a weird, gross, idolization of Sakurai and will praise anything he does, even if it's wasting time creating characters nobody asked for like Piranha Plant and Fire Emblem Clone #56. There's such an extraordinary variety of characters and mascots from not only Nintendo's history, but other 3rd party publishers and it's a shame we don't see more variety.
@Paraka
„Don't plants have all the equipment to be considered both "sexes" anyway?“
Not necessarily, kiwi plants for example are either male or female.
@CurryPowderKeg79
„This is awesome i love him in The Little Shop Of Horrors.“
Well, Audrey2 is a „mean green MOTHER from outer space“, despite of a more male voice, but nevertheless, it‘s a really great film! Have the vinyl somewhere, should hear it again.
@Sandro89
What‘s your problem? Just because someone tell‘s an „it“ a „she“, after it was told a „he“ twice he/she propagates feminist bs? Just ignore it, but don‘t fill the comments with anti-feminism bs, please.
@EvilLucario Get outta here with that meme! I'd delete the creator of Bowsette's account if I had the power to.
@LilDoggo48
I was saying troll as in fun to mess with people. They are legit fighters, but just funny to see on screen. Wii fit and Duck Hunt are especially. They do things that just keep kill characters and are funny to watch (like villagers tree, duck hunts can, Wii fits.... Everything.)
@DenDen never got a code either! Registered my physical version several days ago...
@FNL Even if you delete all FE characters, "Troll" characters (idk what you can even count as troll) and Echo Fighters it would still leave you with around 50 completely unique characters. Stop acting like there's 70 clones and only 4 unique characters.
@geheimxy
Sakuraidolizer Joins The Battle!
@Aerona @CharlieSmile I've always seen Piranha Plant as a "she"
Around February's been locked down since the November Direct. Give us some actual news, please!
Not really bothered about playing as a plant.
There's a news update in the actual game thay says it will be out in February as well. Also, since the Piranaha Plant amiibo isn't out until February 15, I wasn't expecting it till then.
I like how the plant skips being played in Mario Kart, Golf, etc and jumps right into Smash. Should be a fun character to use.
Mannnn, I’m piped.
I'm gonna main him.
Piranha Plant will be available immediately after the Nintendo Direct.
Whenever Nintendo Life says something that isn't actually news, I usually post a comment that just says:
"news"
in quotation marks. But it looks like they made it so I can't do that anymore, so I'll just say this: This is not news. They've used that wording before. Anyway, now that my posting ability has been limited, I'll be clicking on less articles.
Mario better watch out. The Plants are taking over!
I can’t wait! I’m looking forward to matches of all PP 😂
@SpottyBulborb @Paraka actually, while many plants sprout bisexual flowers, flowers can come in male and female variants.
Some plants feature even completely-male and completely-female specimens!
Hoooowhee- this is gonna be fun!
Even if the plant turns out bad it's still far more creative than Dude With Sword #528.
@Aerona @CharlieSmile @CurryPowderKeg79 well, given that Piranha plants FS turns it into into Petey Piranha its safe to say its most likely a question that will never be ansered given that Petey Piranha's gender seems to change depending upon game & region
from the wiki:
Petey has a different gender depending on the region. In English language versions, the Piranha Plant is male as his various bios refer to Petey Piranha as a "he" as well as in-game by a Pianta in Super Mario Sunshine, his first appearance. In French, however, Petey is female and her name is "Flora Piranha", derived from "Flora", a female name. In German, there seem to be inconsistencies about Petey's gender. For example, the plant is referred to as male in the trophy description of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but is referred to as female in the character description of Mario Strikers Charged. In Italian, Petey is male, derived from Pipino, an uncommon Italian name. In Spanish, he is male in most games but female in New Play Control: Mario Power Tennis, sharing her French name. In the Japan-exclusive Super Mario-Kun, Petey is depicted as a female, a mother of several Piranha Plants.
In Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Kersti refers to Petey Piranha as an "it". His trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl also refers to him as an "it".
Will be fun to try this character out when it's launched.
@CurryPowderKeg79 Classic movie
Piranha Plant is going to be my most used character until Joker comes out.
@CharlieSmile I'm not sure how that's relevant. The item itself is not out, so there isn't amiibo in my collection, or on store shelves, without functionalility in its associated game.
@EvilLucario or the unknown mother of Bowser jr instead
Talking seriously, i hope im not the only one, feeling really uncomfortable with those rumoured smash characters. I mean minecraft guy ... uff i dont know.
@personauser0893
I see. Thanks for the heads up. I'll be sure to keep that in mind for the future.
@Venus_Adept Hopefully that rumor will turn out to be false. I know Minecraft is popular but IMHO it hasn't earned a spot in a game like smash. I'm up for pretty much any Nintendo, SEGA, Capcom, Bandai/Namco, etc character potentially being included, but stuff like say Minecraft or FortNite shouldn't be anywhere Near Smash! (Ecspecially when the former is known to have a pretty toxic creator and the later has been subsequent to multiple lawsuits and may be guilty of money laundering for criminal organizations)
But yea, any other characters would do nicely!
Still kinda confused why Sakurai went with a generic Piranha Plant instead of Petey Piranha. It's like if they added a generic Koopa instead of Bowser Jr. in Sm4sh.
@LilDoggo48 Totally agree with you. Lets wait untill someone tell us those was a bunch of horrible lies and horror stories for kids that dont eat all the food or dont clean his bedroom.
( I Know my english suck, hope you can understand me)
@LilDoggo48 "[People who play RPGs are] "depressed gamers who like to sit alone in their dark rooms and play slow games." -Hiroshi Yamauchi 3rd President of Nintendo from 1949-2002
@Mrtoad I mean
Can’t wait until my main comes out around February! Though I prob won’t take him online much until he’s been out for a bit, as a lot of people will be experimenting with him so he’ll prob be fairly common...
@ShadJV At least observe those fights, to learn the strengths and weaknesses of PP, as well as analyze the tactics that people use when playing as PP, as well as when they play against it.
@LilDoggo48 Well, i think his Death Stare in MK want to have a word with you...
#Topic:
Neat, but to be honest i can't wait for Joker...
I was looking at the fighter pass today, release Feb 2020, I assume thats the end date, but when do we get Joker!!
My wonder is when comes out the last dlc fighter? Because if is 2019 dec or 2020 we can actually dream with a 8 gen pokemon right? Or maybe sakurai surprise us with another fe dude of the 3 houses.😈
Pd got nothing against fe characters, im maining Lucina.
@SmileMan64 oh I’ll be playing online during that time, just not as Piranha Plant. So of course I’ll see all that.
@Shepdawg1 I'm with you there, but Imma ctually vote for Feb 14th, a day before. Would makes sense to give people time to update their games and get acquainted with him for like a day before allowing amiibo fighters for him.
I hope Solaire from Dark Souls/Remaster is apart of the fighter pass 😁.
@CharlieSmile Probably because they know you’re a female user. Their comment reeks of irony poisoning.
@CharlieSmile Her, Him....... Plant.
@Gridatttack his attacks are weird in the air (even though all of them are really weird) its almost like Little Mac level. I can't say for sure until the fighter is released.
@TheLightningYu @eltomo let's just hope the dlc fighters aren't Bayonetta- level broken/banned
@FNL There's more variety in this game than in any other fighting game I've ever seen... Piranha Plant only adds to that.
Sure, we all have our wishlist for fighters. I could probably drop 50 names here for potential future fighters... but honestly it's unrealistic to expect more at this point.
Who would you add to the game if you could to give the game more vatiety?
@-DG I just wanna see Ms. Pac Man in the game
This is more or less them reiterating what they said before about Petey taking around 2 months to release. I'm thinking they mean either late January/early February or late February/early March, presumably the latter. Either way, I stand by my earlier prediction that they'll release him during a Direct, unless we get one soon.
Wait, there's a code? I thought he'd just show up....
@CharlieSmile She could definitely be a faster version of Pacman with maybe different projectile moves.
Personally I'd love to see Geno, Paper Mario, Waluigi, Kamek, Ganon, Majora, Marx, Dixie, Cranky Kong, Meowth, Porky, Tails, Knuckles, Zero, Chun Li, Crash, and Bomberman added into future Smash games.
I know it's unrealistic to expect more characters at this point, but if Smash continues this trend of having more fighters in every game, then I hope some of these characters get in.
Can plants have genders?
Dionaea Muscipula more like.....
Piranha Plant.
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