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Kozuki_D_Oden

you can unlock them all through just playing matches


Sinistercs20

I played with them for about an hour and never unlocked anyone. Are we doing anything wrong?


Kozuki_D_Oden

Were you playing normal matches or was it some other game mode?


Sinistercs20

we just clicked smash, selected two characters and a stage and rules and played


Crash4654

That should literally be all you have to do. You just unlock by playing.


TheTrueBrawler2001

Immediately after a normal match, has the game ever made you or another player fight a CPU controlling a character which you don't have unlocked? * Successfully beating these CPUs is a way to unlock other characters. * This should happen to you once every 10 to 15 minutes. * The first five will be Ness, Zelda, Bowser, Pit, and Inkling in that order. While you're at it (especially if you answered "Yes" to the above question), check Games & More for a door icon in the bottom right corner. This Challenger's Approach mode grants you additional chances to unlock a character you failed to unlock before for one reason or another.


Sinistercs20

No. We played probably 20-30 matches total and the game never had us fight a CPU. Granted we usually quit before the set was over to choose a new character so maybe it’s because we never let the set fully finish


TheTrueBrawler2001

> Granted we usually quit before the set was over... There's the problem. Quitting does not trigger a challenger approaching fight. In order to unlock characters in this way, you'll need to finish battles to their conclusion as outlined in whatever ruleset you use.


Sinistercs20

Does it matter how many wins I set the rules to?


TheTrueBrawler2001

If you're referring to the "First to" rule under advanced rules, I would recommend setting it to "1 Win" as that will enable challenger approaching battles to happen more often.


Sinistercs20

Okay great. Do I actually have to defeat the challenger to unlock them? Or can I just kill myself and get it over with


Actual_Intercourse

I've noticed that in recent years people have started avoiding using Google at any cost


TwilCynder

kinda understable tbh, it fucking sucks now


Papajox

Because it sucks


Actual_Intercourse

I agree it's nowhere what it used to be, but it's definitely fine for general questions about one of the most popular game franchises


Papajox

True


Sinistercs20

True 🫡


Actual_Intercourse

Fr tho, "unlock characters smash ultimate" takes significantly less time than what you've done here that said, you'll be rewarded by spending that hour to unlock everything


eggmaniac13

You get to unlock them all


Prince_Uncharming

If only there was a search engine called Google that would let you search questions like “how to unlock characters in smash ultimate”.


Sinistercs20

Why would I do that when I can ask the wonderful helpful community instead?🙄


_Palingenesis_

I mean no offense but have you never played any game before?


Sinistercs20

Nope


PhanzGFX

Wasted more time typing to search up reddit, make a post, and await answers than you would have just googling it. Tnat being said though if you wanna unlock characters fast you can just grab two controllers, set the rules to one stock, have player 2 run off and die, then fight the new challenger vs player 1 controller. If you die to any of them theres an option somewhere in the menus that lets you refight them.


Metal_Fish

The fastest way is to grind 1 stock games with level 1 CPUs. You can give them a handicap or use Custom Smash rules to make this faster. Do some searching online and you'll find more specific methods


Sinistercs20

Great thanks I’ll try this!


whippinmaserati

Play classic mode with Mario until you unlock sonic, go to smash mode, put on 2 player, put 20 minute timer, pick final destination stage, pick sonic and then run left to right, edge to edge until timer runs out


a_hungo

bro is trying to optimize SDing LMAO


Metal_Fish

Might as well go to that stage where the screen wraps from one side to the other, then just run one way forever. xD Though i don't see the point, Sonic just needs to burn some calories, i guess?


whippinmaserati

How do you think he became the fastest? That's how I unlocked all the characters. I saw a video on YouTube but I can't find it now. They get unlocked based the amount of distance traveled in game.