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Snorlax (カビゴン, Kabigon in Japanese language versions) is a fictional creature in the Pokémon media franchise. It is a Poké Ball Pokémon that appears in all six Smash Bros. games.

Powers & Abilities[]

Snorlax is a huge, bipedal, dark blue-green Pokémon with a cream-colored face, belly, and feet. Its body is composed of mostly its belly, where most of its fat reserves accumulate. Its head is large, with small, pointed ears and two pointed teeth protruding from its lower jaw. It has large, hind feet with three claws and a circular brown paw pad, and its arms and five foreclaws are short.

Snorlax is often found in mountains and forests. It wakes up only to eat and seldom for exercises. It is not a picky eater, as its strong stomach allows it to eat even moldy food without feeling any ill effects. When hungry, it is not satisfied until it consumes 900 pounds of food. Snorlax is docile enough to let children and small Pokémon bounce on its large stomach. It evolves from Munchlax when leveled up with high friendship.

In Super Smash Bros.[]

As a Poké Ball Pokémon[]

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Snorlax's sprite in Super Smash Bros.

Snorlax uses Body Slam as its attack. Snorlax jumps in the air and disappears off the screen. Snorlax will then inflate itself and descend towards the bottom of the screen. Any character that makes contact with Snorlax will take damage. Snorlax also destroys certain things on a stage. It will destroy Items like Bob-ombs and Motion-sensor Bombs. If Snorlax gets hit by an attack that's strong enough before it jumps, it will jump diagonally. Snorlax's attack does not harm the summoner.

In Super Smash Bros. Melee[]

As a Poké Ball Pokémon[]

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Snorlax in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Snorlax returns in Melee with exactly the same functionality. However, it does not jump diagonally when attacked before jumping.

As a stage element[]

A giant balloon of Snorlax (in actuality the 3D model of Snorlax used in Pokémon Stadium for Nintendo 64) is one of the many floating and bending "platforms" that comprise the Poké Floats stage. The balloon's belly raises and lowers as if "breathing".

As a trophy[]

Snorlax features as a collectible trophy, unlocked as one of the 100+ trophies that can be collected randomly during normal play, such as in the Trophy Lottery and throughout the various Single-player Regular Matches. It reads as follows:

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Snorlax love to sleep and love to eat: these portly Pokémon get grumpy if they don't get 880 pounds of food per day. After snacking out, they always nap. They have cast-iron stomachs and can eat moldy and even rotten food with no digestion problems. They are the heaviest Pokémon on record, weight in at over 1,000 pounds.

Note that this trophy description is anachronistic; following Melee, even heavier Pokémon were introduced, with the current record-holder for Pokémon weight being Groudon at 2,094 pounds (several glitch Pokémon, namely "Missingno." and "h Poké", are even heavier, weighing in at up to 6,099 pounds, but this is likely non-canon). It is now lighter than four other Pokémon (one of two forms) making it the sixth heaviest canon Pokémon including alternate forms.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl[]

As a Poké Ball Pokémon[]

Snorlax returns in Brawl with exactly the same functionality, making it the only Poké Ball Pokémon other than Goldeen to appear in all three installments with an attack not changed or given to another Pokémon. Oddly enough, its baby pre-evolution (Munchlax) is also in Brawl.

As a Trophy
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The Snorlax Trophy

A Sleeping Pokémon. It's the ultimate loafer. Sometimes children like to play on top of its big belly. Once in a slumber, not even the hardest rain or the fiercest wind will wake it. Snorlax recovers health and restores its physical state by sleeping, and it proves daunting with its damaging Snore attack. Snorlax is the king of Sleeping Pokémon.

In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS[]

As a Poké Ball Pokémon[]

Snorlax returns in Smash 4 with the same functionality.

In Smash Tour[]

Snorlax appears as a blue item: when selected, it prevents the user from being launched as a result of being KOed or due to the effect of other items like Zinger and Dillon.

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Trophy Description[]

In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, the Snorlax trophy is obtained by clearing the "Fitness Junkie" event at normal or hard difficulty.

NAThis sleepy, Normal-type Pokémon is huge! It eats more than 900 lb. of food every day. Most of the time not spent eating is spent sleeping. That big, round body comes in handy when it's brought onto a Smash Bros. battlefield—the Body Slam attack will send anyone who gets hit flying into the air!

PALSnorlax is often referred to as the Sleeping Pokémon, and there's a good reason for that! This giant loafer spends almost all its time snoozing, getting up for just long enough each day to scoff up a tidy 400kg of food. In this game, it soars into the air and uses its Body Slam attack, smacking into fighters like a giant wrecking ball.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[]

As a Poké Ball Pokémon[]

Snorlax returns as a Poké Ball summon with the same functionality, making it, along with Goldeen and Mew, the only Poké Ball Pokémon to appear in all five installments with an attack not changed or given to another Pokémon.

Snorlax can neither be summoned on Pac-Land nor Super Mario Maker.

As a Spirit[]

Snorlax also appears as an Advanced-class Support Spirit, which can be found in the Light Realm portion of World of Light. It can also be found as a random encounter from the Spirit Board or from the shop.

Its spirit battle is a timed Stamina Battle against a giant King K. Rool with 500 HP who doesn't prefer to move. The Autoheal battle condition is a reference to Snorlax's ability Leftovers, which allows it to recover some HP after each turn in the main Pokémon games. The stamina battle condition represents a typical Pokémon battle. The second battle condition references to Snorlax being unable to move unless woken up with a Poké Flute.

Trivia[]

  • Snorlax is the only Poké Ball Pokémon to appear in every Smash Bros. installment that actually attacks when summoned.

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