Otherwise, the character is certain to lose a stock. If swallowed, there is no way to escape, but there is a small window of time in which a character can get out of the fish's path. The fish can eat any number of characters in a single appearance, but it will always follow a set arc and will go after whichever character has been in the water the longest. The fish's tail is also capable of hurting characters, dealing 15% damage and giving significant vertical knockback. If the fish swallows a character, it will dive underwater again, meaning that character will be carried through the lower blast line and KO'd. The fish will only appear when there is water around the base of the stage, not when the stage is at the top of the mountain, or falling, or rising. It will pop out of the sea to eat any character that stays in the water at the bottom of the stage for too long. The Fish only surfaces when prey is to be had. The Ice Climbers are the only characters who can walk normally on the stage without sliding. Naturally, the floor is extremely slippery, especially when a character attempts to change direction rapidly. As well as that, certain pieces of the stage are destructible the blue ice in the middle can be shattered and the platform on the left can be broken at its hinge, making it vertical.Īn important thing to remember is that the edges of the bottom of the stage cannot be grabbed, as they are made of ice. Small icicles also form underneath the left part of the ceiling on the bottom and drop on unsuspecting players. Similarly, when the battle reaches the ocean, little segments of ice often float past, which are particularly useful for avoiding the giant fish. While the stage remains on the mountain, flying clouds will hover across the stage acting as a platform. After a while, the iceberg flies back up to the top of the mountain and the whole process is repeated.

As time progresses, the stage eventually sinks, due to extreme weight from the Polar Bear in the background. Eventually, the peak splashes into water, where a giant fish follows the iceberg and will rise below the surface and swallow the players and will dive underwater again, causing the player to lose a life, but only if they swim around for too long. The key factor to survival is to remain on the stage, as making contact with the mountain while the ice cap is moving will result in an instant KO on the right and high knockback and damage on the left (usually high enough that one will fail to recover and fall back onto the mountain). During the descent, everybody becomes much more floaty.

The stage begins on top of the mountain but quickly breaks to the point where it begins to slide down a hill.

Ice climber stage