Nintendo's next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate character is Byleth Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Nintendo's next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate character is Byleth While Cuphead, Rabbids and Altair get costumes. News by Tom Phillips Deputy Editor Updated on 16 Jan 2020 47 comments Nintendo has announced the 80th character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as... Fire Emblem's Byleth. Byleth. If you're not familiar, Byleth is the blue-haired protagonist of last year's bestselling Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Both male and female variants of the character will be playable when they arrive as DLC on 28th January. Owners of Smash Ultimate's Fighter Pass will get the character automatically, or it'll cost the usual $6 separately. A fresh level based around Three Houses' Garreg Mach Monastery comes with the character. It's a rotating stage with various areas of the Monastery featured, including the Marketplace, Bridge and Cathedral. Each features its own selection of characters from the three houses. You'll also get a new Three Houses themed Spirit board, plus 11 music tracks including a new arrangement of the game's main theme in both English and Japanese. Smash Bros. boss Masahiro Sakurai revealed the character during a 35-minute livestream you can rewatch in full below. Also announced? Another set of Mii costumes is on the way, including Ubisoft's Rabbids and Altair from Assassin's Creed, plus a bunch of new Mega Man designs. A new Cuphead costume will include a music track, meanwhile. Watch on YouTube Finally, there was word on the next season of characters to come as part of a Fighters Pass Vol. 2 offering. Six more fighters - one more than last time - will come as part of this although, once again, you won't know what they are ahead of time. (Also, Sakurai said all six characters have already been chosen - so there's no point making further suggestions to him on Twitter.) Vol. 2 will be available to pre-purchase from 28th January. Those who do so will get an exclusive Breath of the Wild Mii costume featuring Link's Ancient armour set. Watch on YouTube Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More News Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 60 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 4 Google announces cloud gaming Chromebooks less than a fortnight after Stadia shutdown GeForce Now preinstalled. 11 Latest Articles Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 60 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 4 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store