Sandbag

“	Sandbag exists for one reason only: to get smashed in the Home-Run Contest. Pound on Sandbag as much as possible in the time allotted, then swing for the fences as you compete for the longest home run of all time. Getting hit doesn't hurt Sandbag at all. As a matter of fact, it loves to see players wind up and let loose.	„
	~ Melee Trophy Statement

“	An item that appears in the Home-Run Contest, where the goal is to do lots of damage to Sandbag, then send it flying as far as you can. It also appears in the regular game. If you smash it, a storm of confetti and items will burst out. Sandbag doesn't feel pain, though; in fact, it's happy to be of service.	„
	~ Brawl Trophy Statement

“	This little guy is great for getting in some practice against. In Home-Run Contest you'll send it flying, and in normal battles it has a habit of dropping items when you lay into it. Sandbag seems pretty content with being your punching bag, so it'd almost be mean not to go all out on it.	„
	~ North American Smash 4 Trophy Statement

“	This little guy is pretty good to practise with! In the Home-Run Contest, the goal is to attack Sandbag and then whack him as hard as you can to send him flying! He even appears in normal matches, where you can hit him to get lots of food and items. Don't worry, though - he loves to help out. It doesn't even hurt him at all!	„
	~ Europe Smash 4 Trophy Statement

Background

Sandbag is a character from the Stadium game Home-Run Contest in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. 4, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It also appears as an item during matches in Brawl, SSB4, and Ultimate.

Sandbag made its debut in Melee, alongside the new Home-Run Contest event. In the mode, players are given ten seconds to hit Sandbag as far as possible using a Home-Run Bat. Sandbag is given a visible damage percentage in this mode, as to allow players to estimate how far it will travel when hit by the Home-Run Bat.

Sandbag is considered a character, allowing the game to record its damage percentage and allowing players to grab it. Sandbag can also be controlled by a human player through the use of the debug menu. However, a majority of its moveset is not programmed, as it is not intended to move or otherwise act as a standard combatant. As a result, attempting to attack, midair jump, or shield with it will cause the game to freeze. In addition, Sandbag cannot be KOed, even after passing the blast lines, and it can eventually crash the game if it falls too far beyond them, as the game will eventually be unable to calculate its position on the screen. As Sandbag lacks animations for moving and jumping, it uses its idle stance for such movements.

General Information

Name: Sandbag

Origin: Super Smash Bros. Melee

Sex: Sexless

Age: Unknown

Classification: Sentient Sandbag

Status: Alive

Alignment: Neutral Good (A sentient Sandbag that merely wishes to help out the fighters by letitng them try all their moves on him)

Codex Statistics

Tier: Unknown-E, Higher with Items

Cardinality: Unknown

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Unknown: Lower Reality level (Is a sentient Sandbag who doesn’t physically attack), Higher with items (Can KO the Smash Fighters who can fight Master Hand, who also fought and defeated Tabuu with the rest of the cast who one-shotted Master Hand and whose defeat caused the subspace realm to be destroyed the subspace realm contains worlds from the world of trophies including objects like the subspace gun which can infinitely render space. Fought Galeem and Dharkon the former of who commands hundreds of Master Hands. Master Hand is the creator of the Smash Bros. universe, his equal Crazy Hand is the personification of destruction in the Smash Bros. universe. Is the link between the real world and the imaginary world of the Smash Bros. Universe. The Smash Bros. universe is the "World of Imagination", being noted to be imaginary in comparison to reality. With the lower reality being this large)

Durability: Unknown: Lower Reality level (Can take any hit in smash without any ill-effects, even from the most powerful items such as the home-run bat)

Striking Strength: Unknown: Lower Reality Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown: Lower Reality Class

Travel Speed: Unknown

Attack Speed: Unknown with Faster Than Light Attack Speed (It’s items can tag fighters like Kirby, who avoided beams from Galeem's, which can reach alternate space-times and separate time periods)

Reaction Speed: Unknown

Stamina: Likely Limitless (Has no real biological functions as it’s a living sandbag)

Range: Standard Melee, Higher with items

Intelligence: Unknown (Has shown to be sentient, as it picks itself up and is aware of its role but beyond that has no real intelligence feats)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Inorganic Physiology (Is a sentient sandbag), Dimension Manipulation (Can interact and harm beings such as Mr. Game & Watch), Resurrection (Self-Resurrection, Resurrection of the Deceased; All smash characters that have fallen in battle turn back into trophies, allowing them to be resurrected), Non-Standard Interaction (Can harm beings like Mr. Game & Watch who is the embodiment of a primordial substance, can harm Floow), Summoning (Can summon items when hit).

Resistance to Pain (Consistently stated to not feel pain at all from any attack), One Hit Kill (Even attacks that induce one hit kill it’s unaffected by)

Summoning (With Assist Trophies, and pokeballs), Weapon Mastery (With banana peel), Explosion Manipulation (With Barrels, blast box, bob-omb, bombchu, bomber, capsule, cracker launcher, crate, fake smash ball, gooey bomb, hocotate bomb, motion-sensor bomb, smart bomb, spiny shell, warp star, X Bomb), Plasma Manipulation & Light Manipulation (With Beam Sword), Homing Attack (With Beastball, reappears near an opponent after being thrown and targets them, covered in flames), Animal Manipulation (With Beehive, if attacked or thrown at a player, it summons bees that attack the player that attacked it or was hit by it. With Cucco, if attacked or thrown at a player, it summons various Cuccos that attack the player that attacked it or was hit by it), Black Hole Creation & Gravity Manipulation (With Black Hole, creates a massive black hole, dragging all items and players nearby in), Transformation (With bullet bill, transforms the user into a Bullet Bill and launches them in a specified direction, dealing big damage to anyone they hit along the way), Statistics Amplification (With Bunny Hood, increases the user's movement speed, jump height, and falling speed, killing edge, a sword that deals x2 more damage and knockback when glowing), Invisibility (With Cloaking Device renders the user mostly invisible and makes them immune to damage), Death Manipulation (With Death's Scythe, instantly KOs opponents at high percentages), Paralysis Inducement (With Deku Nut, when thrown, damaged, or after a short time (even if held), nearby characters are stunned (if grounded) or launched (if aerial)), Healing (With Fairy Bottle, recovers an excess of 100% damage, but only if the user's damage is 100% or more), healing field, once thrown, it will open up and will heal anyone standing on it, healing sprout, sticks to fighters and gradually heals them, maxim tomato, the third most powerful recovery item, healing up to 50% damage (in the original Super Smash Bros., it can heal up to 100% damage), team healer, heals teammates when thrown at them, food, each type of food recovers a different amount of damage and heart container, strongest recovery item, recovering up to 100% damage (in the original Super Smash Bros., it can reset player health to 0%)), Fire Manipulation (With fire bar, fire flower, hothead, superspicy curry, causes the user to constantly shoot short-range fireballs and be incapable of walking slowly), Passive Attack Reflection (With Frankling Badge, temporarily makes the wearer immune to projectiles by automatically reflecting them), Ice Manipulation (With Freezie), Limited Flight (With Golden Hammer, acts the same as the regular Hammer, though faster, more powerful and with the ability to float, parasol, reduces the holder's falling speed, allowing them to glide slowly left and right, potentially improving recovery, rocket belt, can be equipped and used to increase upward momentum at will, similar to R.O.B.'s up-special, Super Leaf, gives the user raccoon ears and tail. Allows the user to float in mid-air using the jump button), Air Manipulation (With Gust Bellows, blows gusts of wind at other players to push them away), One Hit Kill (With Home-Run Bat, able to one-hit kill anyone that comes into contact with it's full swing), Energy Projection (With Killer Eye, when placed, can fire energy beams in the direction it faces, ray gun, fires blasts of energy that have infinite horizontal range, super scope, can shoot a total of 48 small rapid-fire pulses of energy or charge 3 large blobs of energy), Lightning Manipulation & Size Manipulation (With Lightning Bolt, when touched, shrinks all opponents, super mushroom, enlarges the character, poison mushroom, shrinks the character), Metal Manipulation (With metal box, turns the user metallic, increasing their weight and falling speed, while also reducing the chances of flinching), Rage Power (With Rage Blaster, fires a blast of energy. The higher the percent a user has, the more damage it does), Mind Manipulation (With Ramblin' Evil Mushroom, a mushroom will grow on the opponent's head, reversing the left and right controls), Smoke Manipulation (With Smoke Ball, once thrown, spews smoke around its immediate area), Time Manipulation (With timer, slows down all opponents), Spike Manipulation (With Unira, attaches to the stage once thrown or attacked and pokes opponents that come near)

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Equipment

Item	Description
Assist Trophy	When picked up, after the character lands on the ground, they will perform a short animation and summon a random character to aid them in the fight.
Back Shield	Defends the wearer from attacks towards their back.
Banana Gun	Ejects the banana out of the peel and the player is left with the banana peel after using it.
Banana Peel	Once thrown, trips opponents that touch it.
Barrel	Once thrown, struck, or landed on a slope, may roll across the stage and damage what it hits before breaking. Has a one-in-eight chance of exploding.
Barrel Cannon	Once thrown or it lands on a hill, grabs and launches the first character it hits. Disappears very quickly.
Beam Sword	Starting in Melee, gets longer when swung depending on character. Peach has a rare chance of plucking one when using Vegetable.
Beastball	Reappears near an opponent after being thrown and targets them, covered in flames.
Beehive	Can be thrown at opponents. If attacked or thrown at a player, it summons bees that attack the player that attacked it or was hit by it.
Beetle	Can be thrown towards an opponent, and the item will grab the opponent and fly off into the air with them. Can be reversed by hitting it.
Black Hole	Creates a massive black hole, dragging all items and players nearby in. Throws the opposite side of user's orientation.
Blast Box	Very poor throwing distance. Explodes upon taking 30% damage or a flame attack.
Bob-omb	Very powerful explosive. If not grabbed within a few seconds of its appearance, it lights its own fuse and begins walking around, exploding on any character it meets. If it doesn't meet a character it will blow itself up after a while. Peach has a rare chance of plucking one when using Vegetable.
Bombchu	Can move up walls and across floors and ceilings. Explodes on contact with opponent.
Bomber	Explodes in the player's hand when used. Only affects enemies.
Boomerang	Can be thrown at and grabbed by opponents. Returns to the thrower unless intercepted. Gains power when caught.
Boss Galaga	Carries foes upward to the top of the screen. Can be destroyed by attacking it.
Bullet Bill	Transforms the user into a Bullet Bill and launches them in a specified direction, dealing big damage to anyone they hit along the way. After a set distance, the user returns to normal. Can be reflected.
Bumper	Can be placed on the stage or (starting in Brawl) set in midair, where it will knock away characters that touch it. If two or more are present, they can be used to momentarily trap characters by bouncing them back and forth.
Bunny Hood	Increases the user's movement speed, jump height, and falling speed.
Capsule	Contains a single item. Has a one-in-eight chance of exploding.
Cloaking Device	Renders the user mostly invisible and makes them immune to damage (but not knockback).
Cracker Launcher	Shoots explosive fireworks. Limits the user to walking and a single jump, and automatically dropped from any flinch.
Crate	Contains many items. Has a one-in-eight chance of exploding when thrown, or hit with enough force to break.
Cucco	Can be thrown at opponents. If attacked or thrown at a player, it summons various Cuccos that attack the player that attacked it or was hit by it.
Daybreak	Appears in three pieces that must be collected all at once; characters can lose pieces from their possession when hit or KO'd. Once one character has all the pieces the weapon assembles in their hands, which they can then use at their discretion to fire a giant laser across the stage, almost guaranteed to KO anyone it hits.
Death's Scythe	Instantly KOs opponents at high percentages.
Deku Nut	When thrown, damaged, or after a short time (even if held), nearby characters are stunned (if grounded) or launched (if aerial).
Dragoon	Appears in three pieces that must be collected all at once; characters can lose pieces from their possession when hit or KO'd. Once one character has all the pieces the Dragoon is assembled and flown into the stage for a one-hit KO ram attack.
Drill	Allows the wearer to fire a large drill.
Fairy Bottle	Recovers an excess of 100% damage, but only if the user's damage is 100% or more. Otherwise, can be thrown, but will heal anyone hit who meets the prior requirement.
Fake Smash Ball	Flies around the stage, similar to the Smash Ball. Characters can break it in order to activate. Once broken, it will explode.
Fan	Fastest-swinging battering item. High shield damage.
Fire Bar	Causes fire damage. Grows shorter with each successful attack.
Fire Flower	Produces a continuous stream of short-range fire.
Flipper	Once thrown, halts in the air and bops characters that run into it.
Food	Each type of food recovers a different amount of damage. Can be produced in large numbers by Peach Blossom.
Franklin Badge	Temporarily makes the wearer immune to projectiles by automatically reflecting them. Can be knocked off.
Freezie	Slides across the stage, freezing characters when struck by it. Can be destroyed before being picked up.
Golden Hammer	Acts the same as the regular Hammer, though faster, more powerful and with the ability to float. May be a dud Squeaky Hammer that deals no damage at all.
Gooey Bomb	When thrown, attaches to characters and can transfer to other characters that pass by. Explodes after a certain time or if attacked when not on a character.
Grass	When picked up, another item appears in its place.
Green Shell	When thrown, attacked, or landed on, slides across the stage and damages everything it hits. Can be stopped by jumping on it.
Gust Bellows	Blows gusts of wind at other players to push them away.
Hammer	One of the most feared items in the game due to its range, damage, and knockback. However, it limits the user to walking and a single jump; the user cannot even choose to drop the item. May randomly lose its head and become useless.
Healing Field	Can be thrown on the ground. Once thrown, it will open up and will heal anyone standing on it.
Healing Sprout	Sticks to fighters and gradually heals them. Can be transferred on contact like the Gooey Bomb.
Heart Container	Strongest recovery item, recovering up to 100% damage (in the original Super Smash Bros., it can reset player health to 0%).
Hocotate Bomb	A bomb shaped like the Hocotate Ship that will fly off, and then crash down after a set time.
Home-Run Bat	An extremely powerful item. Its forward smash is among the most powerful attacks in all four games, being a one-hit KO in every one. As a throwing item, it maintains its high knockback and is a semi-spike. In Brawl, forward smash uses a unique animation. It becomes stronger when hit on the tip.
Hothead	Follows the contours of the stage once thrown. Grows in size and damage but lasts for a shorter time when hit by flame or electric attacks.
Killer Eye	When placed, can fire energy beams in the direction it faces. Hitting it flips it around.
Killing Edge	A sword that deals x2 more damage and knockback when glowing.
Lightning Bolt	When touched, shrinks all opponents. Can backfire and shrink the user or enlarge all opponents.
Lip's Stick	Flowers opponents. Has a limited supply of short-range spore projectiles produced on f-tilt or f-smash.
Master Ball	Just like the Poké Ball, but it is guaranteed to release a rare or Legendary Pokémon.
Maxim Tomato	The third most powerful recovery item, healing up to 50% damage (in the original Super Smash Bros., it can heal up to 100% damage).
Metal Box	Turns the user metallic, increasing their weight and falling speed, while also reducing the chances of flinching. Can be activated by pickup or by direct attack; indirect attacks will either destroy it (in Melee) or do nothing (other games).
Motion-Sensor Bomb	Attaches to the stage once thrown; characters that approach it after a short time cause it to explode.
Mr. Saturn	Walks around the stage and can be knocked about by attacks. Deals massive damage to shields when thrown, but only minor damage otherwise.
Ore Club	An extremely powerful club made of stone that produces tornadoes when swung. Grants super armor when used as a forward smash.
Parasol	Reduces the holder's falling speed, allowing them to glide slowly left and right, potentially improving recovery.
Party Ball	Once activated by being thrown or damaged, it floats into the air and opens, dropping its items.
Pitfall	Embeds itself into the ground once thrown; characters that approach it after a short time will be buried or Meteor Smashed. Can also be thrown at an opponent directly for the same effect.
Poison Mushroom	Slides across the stage. When touched, shrinks the character.
Poké Ball	Once thrown and lands on the ground, unleashes a Pokémon to aid the user.
POW Block	When thrown, it causes an earthquake, launching all characters (including the player) straight up if on the ground. Can be used three times.
Rage Blaster	Fires a blast of energy. The higher the percent a user has, the more damage it does.
Ramblin' Evil Mushroom	A mushroom will grow on the opponent's head, reversing the left and right controls.
Ray Gun	Fires blasts of energy that have infinite horizontal range.
Red Shell	When thrown, attacked, or landed on, slides across the stage and damages everything it hits. Aims for nearby characters and avoids sliding off edges.
Rocket Belt	Can be equipped and used to increase upward momentum at will, similar to R.O.B.'s up-special.
Rolling Crate	When thrown, struck, or landing on a hill, it will roll across the stage and damage what it hits without breaking, though it will break with enough force. Can be stood on.
Sandbag	When attacked, produces items.
Screw Attack	Turns the holder's jumps into Screw Attacks. In Melee, applies for as long as the holder keeps the item, and a forced Screw Attack will be applied to those the item is thrown at. In Brawl, applies until the item wears off and does not need to be held in-hand once picked up.
Smart Bomb	Produces a large explosion when thrown or attacked. Has a chance to be a dud, though it can still explode if hit or thrown again.
Smash Ball	Flies around the stage. Characters must break in order to obtain. Once broken, player presses their neutral special button to use their Final Smash. Will fly off-stage after a short period if not obtained and used.
Smoke Ball	Once thrown, spews smoke around its immediate area. May stick to opponents.
Soccer Ball	Cannot be picked up. When attacked, it careens in the knockback direction with high damage and knockback.
Special Flag	Can be held above the user's head for a long period to gain either a KO point in a timed match or a stock in a stock match. Unlike other items, this one will always be dropped if the user is hit while holding it.
Spiny Shell	Commonly known as the 'Blue Shell'. Hovers above a player before dropping onto them and exploding. Can be dodged, or it can hit someone other than its intended target on descent.
Spring	When idle, repels characters when touched depending on whether it is upright or sideways.
Staff	Shoots a beam. The farther the opponent is, the more damage it deals.
Star Rod	Has a limited supply of long-range star shots produced on f-tilt or f-smash.
Steel Diver	A smaller gun-like version of the Steel Diver from the self-titled game for the Nintendo 3DS. Fires a torpedo which travels slowly at first. Deals no shield damage whatsoever.
Super Launch Star	Can be set in midair, where it will attract and launch any characters that get too close to it. The launch has the potential to KO fighters.
Super Leaf	Gives the user raccoon ears and tail. Allows the user to float in mid-air using the jump button.
Super Mushroom	Slides across the stage. When touched, enlarges the character.
Super Scope	Can shoot a total of 48 small rapid-fire pulses of energy or charge 3 large blobs of energy.
Super Star	Bounces across the stage, and makes whoever it touches invulnerable to all damage and knockback for a short time. Users can still be KO'd if they fall off the stage with it.
Superspicy Curry	Causes the user to constantly shoot short-range fireballs and be incapable of walking slowly.
Team Healer	Heals teammates when thrown at them. When thrown at opponents, can heal or damage them at random. Only appears during team battles.
Timer	Slows down all opponents. Can backfire and slow down the user, or slow down the entire game.
Unira	Attaches to the stage once thrown or attacked and pokes opponents that come near. Can be set or reset with a direct attack; indirect ones do nothing.
Warp Star	Once picked up, the user flies into the sky and then crashes down with an explosion. Can be steered slightly, and if there are platforms above, will land there instead of the starting point.
X Bomb	Creates a cross-shaped explosion that spans most of the screen.

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Notable Techniques

• Item Drop: Every time it is hit, it has a chance to drop a random item. The chance could be an explosion that harms the opponent.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Sandbag will sit around allowing itself to be hit, once it’s hit an item will fall out of it, with some of them being instantaneous explosions that can tag and KO the smash characters.

Weaknesses: Loves to be hit and will not directly attack back.

Note: The attack that Tabuu used to one-shot the entire Smash cast is far above his regular attacks and this is further proven in-game as when he uses this same attack it one-shots whoever is on-screen thus arguing that they should not scale to Tabuu because he one-shotted them is not accurate as it's with a very specific attack.

Battle Records

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