Fox (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

This article is about Fox's appearance in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. For other uses, see Fox McCloud.

Fox (フォックス) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, representing the Star Fox series. He was revealed during the E3 2018 Nintendo Direct on June 12th, 2018. He is classified as Fighter #07.

Moveset

Attributes

• Fox is among the fastest characters in the game, in terms of both movement and attack speed, due to being one of the lightest fighters in the game. His quick attacks also provide him with strong combo potential. However, like with most lightweights, Fox might have a hard time trying to stay on the stage.
• Fox has gained a new Final Smash, named Team Star Fox. It is a trapping attack where he will call upon his team to fire at the opponent with the lasers of their Arwings.
• Fox can Wall jump.

General Moveset

Note: The gifs used are not accurate representations of their standard knockback settings from 0%

Attack	Damage	Description
Jab - Jab / Straight / Rapid Kick / Rapid Kick Finish	Jab: 1.7% Straight: 1% Rapid Kick: 0.6% Rapid Kick Finish: 2%	Two punches from each hand, transitioning into his Flurry Attack - a fast barrage of kicks - and ending with a roundhouse kick from the opposite leg. The first two punches can jab lock.
Grab & Pummel - Grab Kneebutt	Pummel: 1%	Grab: Reaches with his right hand. Pummel: Repeated knee strikes.
Edge Attack	9%	A sliding dropkick.
Front Floor Attack	7%	Does a kick on either side of him.
Back Floor Attack		Punches forward and kicks backward.
Trip Attack	5%	Whips his legs 360-degrees around him before getting up.
Dash Attack - Jump Side Kick	Full hit: 6% Late hit: 4%	A flying side kick.
Aerials
Neutral Aerial - Fox Kick	Full hit: 9% Late hit: 6%	A Sex Kick.
Up Aerial - McCloud Flip	First hit: 5% Second hit: 10%	A two-part upward attack as he does a somersault; first hit is a tail whip, followed by a heel kick.
Forward Aerial - Tornado Kick	Hit 1: 1.7% Hit 2: 1.2% Hit 3: 1.7% Hit 4: 2.7% Hit 5: 4.8% Landing hit: 2%	An incredibly fast quintuple axle kick. Fox will slightly hover for the entire duration of the attack.
Back Aerial - Reverse Spin Kick	13%	An aerial back kick.
Down Aerial - Air Drill	Total: 28% Hits 1-6: 2.3% Hits 7-12: 1.9% Hit 13: 2.8%	A multi-hit downward corkscrew kick.
Tilts
Up Tilt - Back Kick	Foot - If the opponent is grounded: Full hit - 8% / Late hit - 6% If the opponent is airborne: Full/mid hit - 7% / Late: 5% Leg - If the opponent is grounded: 6% If the opponent is airborne: 6%	A scorpion kick while doing a handstand. Its hitbox is split between his foot and his leg.
Forward Tilt - Fox Whip	Straight forward: 6% Angled up/down: 7%	A quick roundhouse kick that can be angled. It has Priority over most attacks, allowing it to ignore or trade with other moves, but will not cancel out projectiles. It can also move Fox slightly forward.
Down Tilt - Fox Tail	Close: 8% Far: 7%	Sweeps the ground with his tail while rotating his whole body.
Throws
Up Throw - Close Range Blaster V	Throw: 2% Shots: 2%	Thrusts the opponent upwards and fires three shots from his Blaster.
Forward Throw - Smash Elbow	Hit: 4% Throw: 3%	Launches the opponent with an elbow strike.
Back Throw - Close Range Blaster H	Throw: 2% Shots: 2%	A version of the Up Throw, where Fox instead hurls the opponent backwards before firing three shots.
Down Throw - Close Range Blaster Down	Throw: 1% Shots: 2%	Another version of the Up Throw, where Fox instead slams the opponent to the ground before firing three shots.
Smash Attacks
Up Smash - Flip Kick	Full hit: 16% Late hit: 11%	A bicycle kick that can hit on either side of Fox.
Side Smash - Leg Shot	Full hit: 14% Late hit: 11%	A butterfly kick. The late hit can be used for Edge-guarding, as it can hit opponents who are hanging on the ledge.
Down Smash - Ground Kick	Feet hitbox: 14% Leg hitbox: 12%	A split kick that hits on either side of Fox. It makes his legs briefly intangible.

Special Moves

On-screen appearance

Fox will eject himself from his Arwing as it flies away.

Idle Poses

Taunts

• In the Up Taunt, Fox will exclaim "Let's go!".
• During the Down Taunt, Fox will cry out "Come at me!"
  • The Down Taunt can also be used to activate the secret Star Fox Smash Taunt in Corneria, Venom, and Lylat Cruise.

Up Taunt

Side Taunt

Down Taunt

Victory Screens

• For Fox's first victory screen, he will say "This is Fox. Returning to base."
  • If he fought Falco, he will instead say "Better luck next time, Falco."
• In the second screen, Fox will say "Mission complete."
• Fox's third screen recreates an animation from the original Super Smash Bros. that he performs when he's selected in the Character Select Screen.

Aesthetic

• Fox's design is an amalgam of his previous looks from Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, as well as his new appearance in Star Fox Zero. A few original elements are also added, such as his headset being full gray and the texture of his boots being smoother.
• Opponents and items hit by the Blaster shots will have a small puff of black smoke come out of them with each hit, as if they are being burned.
• Fox's headset scouter has visible motion graphics. This can be easily seen at the end of his victory screens.

Classic Mode: Spaceborne Smash

All fighters in Fox's route either come from other planets or are known to travel through space. The song "Main Theme - Star Fox" will play during the end credits.

Clearing Fox's route allows him to unlock any of the following in order: Captain Falcon, Zero Suit Samus, Peach, Falco, Daisy, Bowser Jr., Wolf, and Mewtwo.

Round	Opponent	Stage	Music	Notes
1	Samus	Brinstar	"Title Theme - Metroid"
2	Giant Rosalina & Luma	Mario Galaxy	"Egg Planet (Remix)"
3	Meta Knight	Halberd	"Meta Knight's Revenge"
4	Giant Dark Samus	Frigate Orpheon	"Star Fox Medley"	Zero Suit Samus is a CPU ally.
5	Olimar	Distant Planet	"Stage Select - Pikmin 2"
6	Wolf	Venom (Omega form)	"Star Wolf (Brawl)"	A reference to their teams' dogfight on Venom near the end of Star Fox 64 / Lylat Wars.
7	Bonus Stage
Final	Master Hand (and Crazy Hand on Intensity 7.0 and higher)	Final Destination	"Master Hand" (against Master Hand) "Master Hand / Crazy Hand" (against both Hands)	A possible reference to Andross's boss fight in Star Fox 64 / Lylat Wars.

Role in World of Light

Fox was among the fighters that were summoned to fight the army of Master Hands.

In the first cutscene's beginning, Fox orders the cast to "[not let] a single one get away!", aiming his Blaster at the Master Hands before Galeem unleashed his beams of light across the universe. He was vaporized offscreen, placing him under Galeem's imprisonment along with the other fighters, excluding Kirby. A Puppet fighter of Fox is later seen among the rest of the cloned characters.

Fox is one of the few mandatory unlocks in The Light Realm, as freeing him will allow access to the Red Switch that opens the path to the Temple sub-area, as well as opening a path blocked by rocks. He can be found in a heart-shaped lake area.

Fox later appears with the others witnessing the final battle against Galeem and Dharkon. He also appears in the bad ending where Galeem wins, witnessing the world become engulfed in light.

Fighter Battle

No.	Spirit	Type	Power	Stage	Song
07			3,700	Corneria (Omega Form)	"Star Fox Medley"

Palette Swaps

Default	Based on his appearance in Star Fox Zero.
Black	His “Dark Fox” costume, as named on the Brawl DOJO!!. It also resembles a cross fox.
Red	Based on Fox's Player 1 costume from the Versus Mode of Star Fox: Assault, as well as Falco’s appearance in that game.
Green	Based on Fox's Player 4 costume from the Versus Mode of Assault.
Orange	Resembles Falco's appearances in Star Fox 64 and Star Fox 64 3D.
White	N/A
Yellow	Resembles Fox's Player 3 costume from the Versus Mode of Star Fox: Assault.
Purple	Resembles Wolf O'Donnell, with the fur now more prominently purple to further differentiate the two. Also resembles a silver fox.

Gallery

Fox's fighter card

Fox's unlock notice in World of Light

Photo from Sakurai's Twitter celebrating the anniversary of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Photo from Sakurai's Twitter celebrating the anniversary of Balloon Fight

Photo from Sakurai's Twitter celebrating the anniversary of Star Fox 64 / Lylat Wars

Photo from Sakurai's Twitter celebrating the anniversary of Star Fox Adventures

The inside of Fox's Arwing during his Final Smash

Video

Trivia

• World of Light marks Fox's first and only time being an Unlockable character.
• Fox is one of nine characters to have unique dialogue in a victory screen when a specific character is present ("Better luck next time, Falco."); the other eight are Falco, Wolf, Palutena, Dark Pit, Robin, Lucina, Simon, and Sephiroth. Among them, Fox is the only Starter.
  • Strangely, this line was not found in the Sound Test until the version 8.0.0 update.
• Fox is the only Starter Character that can perform a Smash Taunt.
• Despite getting a new design, the afterimages of Fox Illusion reuse his models from Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. He shares this oddity with Falco Phantasm.
• Fox's entry in the Super Smash Blog quotes his old Down Taunt ("Come on!"), which is odd as Fox now says "Come at me!" in Ultimate.

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Star Fox universe
Characters	Fox McCloud (64  · Melee  · Brawl  · 3DS/Wii U  · Ultimate) Falco Lombardi (Melee  · Brawl  · 3DS/Wii U  · Ultimate) Wolf O'Donnell (Brawl · Ultimate)
Side Characters	Assist Trophies	Andross  · Krystal
	Mii Fighter Costume	Fox McCloud
	Background characters	Fox McCloud  · Falco Lombardi  · Slippy Toad  · Peppy Hare  · Krystal  · ROB 64  · Wolf O'Donnell  · Leon Powalski  · Panther Caroso
	Miscellaneous	Arwing  · Wolfen  · Great Fox
Stages	Sector Z  · Corneria  · Venom  · Lylat Cruise  · Orbital Gate Assault
Item	Smart Bomb
Music	List of Music (Star Fox series)
Collectibles	Trophies	Melee Trophies  · Brawl Trophies  · 3DS Trophies  · Wii U Trophies
	Stickers	List of Stickers (Star Fox series)
	Spirits	List of spirits (Star Fox series)
	Masterpieces	Star Fox 64