The following phases are legal in the PMBR 2018 Full Recommended Rules Set [1] In the past, the following phases were legal countermeasures, but are now prohibited: Brawl had a very fragmented and controversial community regarding which steps should be legal. As a result, the legality list of stages is significantly more chaotic than in the previous two games, with most of the stages being controversial in one way or another. In addition, the legal status of a level has been heavily influenced by the legality of Meta Knight, as it tends to obtain even more drastic benefits at many marginal levels. Therefore, tournaments that have banned Meta Knight tend to allow more stages than tournaments that have kept it legal. The competitive scene of Smash Ultimate fights with itself when it decides which steps are legal for competitive play. Each tournament organizer will have their own idea of which steps are legal and which are not, but these are usually the main steps you should see at events. In general, due to the wide variety between stages and types of scenes and the series as a whole, very few levels are balanced enough to be legal for professional competitive play, which is why the majority of stages are prohibited in all games. In most cases, each tournament organizer or smash community may have their own idea of what`s doable, and most will likely use different levels depending on where you go. Therefore, we recommend that you ask your local competitive community what their legal steps are before attempting to compete. Perhaps the most discussed rules in competitive ultimate are the absence of items and the specific levels to play at. There are over 100 stages in Ultimate, but not all of them are legal in tournaments, although there is no universally accepted list of stages at the moment. While Nintendo-sponsored events should have resulted in a defined set of rules, this was not the case. The legality of the stages refers to the playable status of the different stages of the general public tournaments.

There are many Community preferences in terms of stage selection, with no agreed standard in all regions as to what exactly constitutes a “legal phase”, so the legality of a stage may depend on the region in which the tournament is located. This is especially true for Brawl and Smash 4, as there is no officially standardized scene list. Pokémon Stadium 2 in Brawl, for example, was generally banned in the tri-state area, while tournaments in Texas generally allowed the scene to be a legal counter-election. The following stages have never been legal in the history of competitive melee: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has the most stages in the series and the ability to eliminate scene dangers, and has the potentially most legal stages of any smash game. Since the level list and danger switch were revealed, players and TOs have been discussing the game`s level list and have yet to find a definitive answer. Major tournaments have largely made a mistake by having relatively large stadium lists (eight to ten), but some regional tournaments have already been reduced to four to six legal levels. The following is Smash 64`s ban list for stages in tournaments. As of mid-2015, four levels – Dream Land, Hyrule Castle, Congo Jungle and Peach`s Castle – were legal.

Currently, Dream Land is the only stage that can be used in tournaments. However, as tournaments have moved from the vanilla version of the game to mod 19XX, in some tournaments such as GENESIS 5 or GENESIS 6, the Duel Zone and Final Destination levels, which were not available without piracy, saw some presence in doubles tournaments, although this is usually rare. The commonality of the characters can also play a role in which the phases are legal or prohibited. Also in Brawl, Meta Knight`s growing importance in the metagame meant that stage lists were becoming more restrictive in most regions. In the Tri-State region, Meta Knight was not excluded from tournaments and, as a result, the Tri-State tournament scene banned or restricted stages such as Delfino Plaza, Hallebard and Rainbow Cruise due to Meta Knight`s overwhelming power on these stages.