Super Smash Bros. Ultimate/Spirits

Spirits
In previous games from the Super smash Bros. Series, you used to collect trophies, and in Super Smash Bros. brawl, you also collected stickers. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, they replaced Trophies for another collectible, called "Spirits". It's like a better version of the stickers from brawl. Spirits are characters and things from various game series (represented by Artworks or renders) that makes your fighter stronger by increasing your Power and defense, and also giving a bonus ability or item.

Starting spirits
Once you start the game, you'll automatically receive a weak spirit just so you can have something. But there are other Spirits you can get for free for having save data from certain other games:


 * If you have save data from Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and/or Pokémon Let's Go, Eevee!, you can get the Partner Pikachu and/or Partner Eevee Spirit, respectively. They're both Ace class Spirits, so it's good to have them at the start. But don't worry if you don't like Pokémon, they can be obtained by other ways later.
 * If you have save data from Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition, you will get the Tockles Spirit. It's also an Ace class Spirit, so it's good to have it at the start, though its also available to get through some other ways.
 * If you have save data from Persona 5 Strikers, you will get the Sophia Spirit. It's also an Ace class, but there's no demo for Persona 5: Strikers, so you have to buy the game if you want to start with this one.
 * If you have save data from Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection, you will get the Arthur Spirit. It's the same thing as the Sophia spirit, in which there's no demo so you need to buy the game.
 * By having 5000G or more, you finish one of the Challenges of the game, and the prize is the Yakuman Spirit. The thing is, if you bought either or both Fighter's Pass DLCs, you will automatically finish two Challenges. One is for having a certain number of songs, for which you receive Gold as a reward. With the Gold you get, you will automatically finish the other challenge and receive the Spirit.

How to get spirits?

 * Fighting Spirit battles is the main way. You can do these in the Spirit board or The Adventure mode, but once you got a Spirit that has a fight you can go to your collection and fight them again at any time for a highscore. It's good for training If you are New to the game. Spirit fights Will be explained in more detail soon.


 * You can also buy them in the shop. The stronger the Spirit, the more expensive it'll be


 * Summoning them. By sending a Spirit for the real World, you lose the Spirit but receive it's core. You can summon spirits by mixing cores.

Spirit battles
Spirit battles are what replace event marches from previous games. In a Spirit battle, you'll fight a character that is similar to the Spirit they're being possessed by in some way. To further represent the Spirit character, effects or even other characters also appear in most of the Spirit fights.

If you want to stand a chance to many of the fights you need to equip the spirits you have. There's two types of equippable spirits: Primary and support

There's 4 classes of spirits:


 * Novice: the weaker spirits with easy battles


 * Advanced: a bit stronger and harder than Novice class


 * Ace: Challenging fights for strong spirits


 * Legend:The hardest and strongest spirits of the game