{"id":79566,"date":"2019-02-01T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/video_messing_around_with_piranha_plant_in_smash_bros_ultimate_for_science"},"modified":"2019-02-01T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:45:00","slug":"video-messing-around-with-piranha-plant-in-smash-bros-%ef%bb%bfultimate-for-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/01\/video-messing-around-with-piranha-plant-in-smash-bros-%ef%bb%bfultimate-for-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Messing Around With Piranha Plant In Smash Bros. \ufeffUltimate, For Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/64c41ab0ed0d8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/64c41ab0ed0d8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/video_messing_around_with_piranha_plant_in_smash_bros_ultimate_for_science\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2cT7FQGrfZg?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Piranha Plant has arrived in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/strong><\/a>, and it&#8217;s utterly, undeniably, unashamedly glorious.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/piranha_plant_is_now_available_in_super_smash_bros_ultimate\">earlier this week<\/a>, Piranha Plant joined the Smash Bros. roster as the first DLC character released for the Switch&#8217;s biggest fightathon. The release has been an interesting one; the arrival has generated a heartwarming amount of love for the character online (if you&#8217;re in our social circles, at least), but has brought with it some pretty alarming issues, too. If you missed the news, playing with Piranha Plant in All-Star mode has been known to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/some_players_are_experiencing_corrupted_save_files_after_using_piranha_plant_in_all-star_mode\">wipe players&#8217; save files<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, we&#8217;re completely enamoured of its bitey, leafy ways and our resident YouTube overlord Alex jumped at the chance to make a video all about it &#8211; <em>you know, for science.<\/em> To make sure the video was useful for you, <em>and to make sure the bosses were actually on board<\/em>, Alex takes you through some of the character&#8217;s most interesting battle techniques &#8211; its special moves are particularly interesting and could make it a serious contender at a competitive level.<\/p>\n<p><em>Make sure to give it a watch and let us know how you&#8217;ve been getting on with the character in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2cT7FQGrfZg?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Piranha Plant has arrived in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and it&#8217;s utterly, undeniably, unashamedly glorious. Yep, earlier this week, Piranha Plant joined the Smash Bros. roster as the first DLC character released for the Switch&#8217;s biggest fightathon. The release has been an interesting one; the arrival has generated a heartwarming amount of love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}