Lucas' and Ness' PSI Effects in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 

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I always wondered why Ness' PK rockin in smash was purple/pink and not red blue and yellow. Your explanation makes more sense.

Kumatora used PK Thunder Omega *It didn’t hit anyone!* *I t d i d n ‘ t h i t a n y o n e!*

Ness' PK Fire trapping opponents was present in Smash 64, which released 7 years before MOTHER 3. It may be possible Sakurai had access to EarthBound 64 design documents at the time, but I think it's safer to say the similarities are coincidental. Also, PK Flash's particles change the longer it's charged in Ultimate, directly aping the appearance of its different levels in EarthBound. For example, the weak, barely charged version resembled PSI Flash α, but the fully charged version resembles PSI Flash Ω.

I think PK fire "trapping" opponents is a happy accident. In 64 Sakurai probably just wanted to emulate how the fire does damage to multiple opponents, and the mechanic of the fire hitting and burning for a few moments was the result.

Ninten should be his own character! "No, he should be an echo fighter" > People who don't know anything about Mother 1 Me:

When Lucas uses PK Starstorm, the background is different from Ness'. The closest match I could find is the background from the final Masked Man fight.

Underrated video. I’ve been hyped for these redesigns as a huge mother fan.

They changed all of Lucas' psi effects to be blue and yellow with pink glow to better resemble PK love it seems.

Ninten could have been a completely unique fighter, charging psi to use shields and lifeup to stay alive while racking up damage would be a very unique character!

I really love how they actually used the Mother series's attack animations for the PSI effects, it's a somewhat subtle reference but a really wonderful one.

very interesting! I didn't even consider the possibility that PK Love and PK Rockin were already represented in game. I like to think that it's used for smash attacks to represent their respective characters training themselves to use on a small scale.

I have recovered my brain cells

Ness and Lucas's attacks now resemble their original in-game look? Their partners join in their final smash? Now this is some fanservice I'm into

*it didn't hit anyone!*

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed

4:32 I'd actually say it's possibly the other way around, it's been green since Melee and that came out 5 years before Mother 3.

"and now, my son!" thanks to this video I can feel even more nostalgic when playing as ness or lucas, i'll open up a thesaurus and find a big word to call this video later but for know cool stuff this video was rockin (that double pun isn't good but i'm running out of ideas) great high quality song choice for the outro

i like the theory that says that ness and lucas have the worst offensive psi in terms of cost to power ratio since they're the least experienced in using psi, so since pk rockin and pk love are just uncontrolled bursts of psi energy, they just use their moves along with their punches and kicks

The Final Smashes may contain Smiles and Tears instead of Battle Backgrounds, but that's even more awesome!

Man I love Mother 3 so much, but I wish I was actually good with Lucas in Smash Bros. I love these little nods so much.

This is probably the best video I’ve seen for Smash Ult. Information about my mains :))

I also noticed that in the final smash of ness you can see the two circles that rotate around the melodies that are playing

Great video Lodac!

I think PK Flash being green is actually original to Smash Bros, it just became canon in Mother 3. Ness' PK Flash in Melee was also green, and Melee released five years before Mother 3. If anything, it's Mother 3 PK Flash referencing Smash Bros PK Flash.

looking back at it now i like how much effort and detail into characters barely anyone knows

They actually changed the color of lucas's pk love attacks to light blue and yellow sakurai really pays attention to detail

Finally someone noticed! Thanks for making this and spreading the word!👌❤️

They put so much detail into this game. Every single tiny little thing is a reference to something.

Wow I didn't notice this stuff before. The psi looks so much better now

Funny enough is that Ness’ Psi Rockin in Smash has the exact same design as it does for his hypnosis attack in Earthbound

That was a fun video to watch! You have a good eye for detail!

I've been looking for this vid for EVER

Hi Ness main here despite never playing earthbound till recently once I did I noticed stuff like Flash and I also noticed it while playing the mother 3 fan translation its nice to see Ness mains are as hated as people say they are

That last one for some reason made me feel.....happy

Lucas’s PK Starstorm Background Changed it references the Video Drugs from Mother 3 now, I don’t remember which one specifically

0:36 HE DIDN'T HAVE A PEEPEE

Flash was green in Melee too

The background when they cast pk starstorm is awesome.

Ness is the best.... All I'm gonna say

Thanks for the vid Lodac!

Thanks for this PSI analysis

Actually the background used for Lucas's PK Starstorm is a reference to the final battle in Mother 3, "Battle against the Masked Man" *cries*

Thank you so much for posting this...

I would be happy if they substitute Ness's Up B, Down B, Side B, and Final Smash. Since Ness never learned PSI Fire, PSI Magnet And PSI Thunder or PSI Starstorm ._. . Down B could be lifeup, and it would work just like PSI Magnet. The Final Smash could be PSI Rockin Ω. Now for side B, and Up B...I dont know. Since Ness's PSI selection in Earthbound wasnt that big. (Actually, maybe side B could be PSI Shield, that would reflect the projectiles. its a posibility.)

I pk exploded

Mostly every PSI comes from Kumatora

So beautiful

lucas' pk starstorm background is now masked man/mani mani statue

PK Love is Lucas's True Final Smash. Others are just Standart PSI Attack. But PK Love is Kind of non existing unused content.

In Earthbound, PK Fire does damage and that's it, exactly like Lucas' PK Fire in Smash. In Mother 3, PK Fire burns and does lingering damage, exactly like Ness' PK Fire in Smash. *Sakurai what the fuck*

They did In fact change his Smash attacks to blue instead of Purple in the final build of Smash Ult. I Main the PK Kids so it’s really nice that they put the visual effects of the PSI Attacks

Ssf2 has done this for a long time (since 2017)

i always thought the background in lucas's FS was the one in the final boss (masked man)

That ending song though

RIP mole crickets pp

I'm thinking M3 made flash green based on Melee, which is where Ness first had it in smash. as to why it's green there, maybe they saw it was going to be green in EB64, or just made it green instead of white to stand out a bit more. Or possibly sakurai or somone else on the team thought of the "pale green light" enemies like the kraken used and attributed it to flash, since those enemies also use flash

Technically every moves with PSI Particules that Ness and Lucas cast already have pk names written on Official Stretegy book or In Game, for exemple Lucas Up smash is name PK Shash Geyser since atleast smash 4, Ness dash attack in melee was named PK Push, but then was change for PK Hand Stamp in ultimate. My last exemple will be that they both have thier throw named PK Throw. Theses info are easy to find on the internet or in game

People should've went to this video instead of mine, nice working covering this stuff.

great video! ive seen you in Kids from Eagleland

Wait, you're the guy who did all those MOTHER 3 Extensions!

Great detail

Extra thing, Ness' PK Starstorm is slightly stronger than Lucas' because Earthbound has two stages, Starstorm Alpha and the stronger (but ultimately pointless) Starstorm Omega, while Mother 3 only has Starstorm Alpha.

Neat discovery!!!!

Even though I don't owe ultimate I love that my baby boi ness fot so many changes TvT

NICEU NICEU! VERY NICE LODAC-CHAN!

Lodac nice video for PSI

I don't think the PK Flash being green is a reference to Mother 3. It's been like that since all the way back in Melee, which came out before Mother 3.

Wait, wasn't PK Flash green in Melee, 5 years before Mother 3? I know it was in devolpment during that time but I beleive Melee is it's first appearance as being green. Correct me if I'm wrong plz.

Great video!

Whaat how did I get on a Lodac video!?

Garnet: Blue Diamond Is Gonna Swipe Twilight's Roses! 2:00 Steven Universe: But How Can We Fight Blue Diamond Until She Ran Back To Homeworld? 2:07 Garnet: Help Us Say " Blue Diamond No Swiping! " 2:12 Garnet: Say It With Us! 2:17 Garnet And Steven Universe: Blue Diamond No Swiping! 2:23 Garnet And Steven Universe: Blue Diamond No Swiping! 2:26 Garnet And Steven Universe: Blue Diamond No Swiping! 2:33 Blue Diamond: That's Enough This Is Fighting! *Blocks PSI With Toes* 2:37

Me before playing Mother: huh now the Smash games have two weird element kids Me after playing Mother: dude why didn't they add Duster instead

Ness will make a Fire inferno

Are we not going to talk about how ness could have survived WoL if he used teleport a?

Also, the reason why pk flash is green, is becauss pk flash gamma (in earthbound) you can see some greenish turquoise?

Pk fire gamma in earthbound is imo the closest to the smash texture

I feel bad for that mole cricket...is that normal?

4:32 I’m pretty sure flash in mother 3 was green because it was green in smash

Okay, let's take a moment and say that this ...... Is epic..

I have lucas and ness unlocked I love their psi but reckvering with pk thunder is kinda hard

its so sad they put in lucas over kumatora... he pretty much only uses her psi too :(

00:03:58 PSI Magnet Omega doesnt sound correctly. Type: Video bug report

Woah dude

Remember to slaughter that like button, boys

Hiiii I'm Ness :)

In brawl doesn't ness say "PK Pulse" When you use his neutral Special?

Mother 2 forever

UPDATE: Lucas's PSI has been changed from pink to blue now to match PK Love more closely!

The details

0:00 music?

Totally random but I fucking hate PSI/PK Thunder so much bro 😭 it almost always misses

Yo, whered you get that ending song?

Does anyone knows a tutorial for backgrounds like Earthbound?

What is the intro music

so does psi magnet ness hurt people now or nah

Hmmm 😏 guess what I have pre order smash bros Ultimate

Yey ness 4life

I hate Ness players. Lucas is the best of the two. ZeRo said it himself