About
The Smash Ball is a highly popular item from the Super Smash Bros series. Upon breaking it, the Smash Ball allows the player to perform a very special attack, known as the Final Smash. However, you could have a helpful or useless Final Smash depending on the character you play as.
Origins
Smash Balls were first seen in the third installment of the Super Smash Bros series, Super Smash Bros Brawl for the Wii.
Spread
When fans found out about Final Smashes, they started to do many things about the Smash Ball, such as making parodies, paper crafts, comics revolving around Final Smashes, animations and even hacking the game to replace existing Final Smashes with new ones.
Final Smash Predictions
Since the release the announcement of Super Smash Bros Brawl, people have been requesting characters to be in future Smash Bros games, however with all Smash Bros characters since Brawl having a Final Smash, some people started thinking of Final Smashes, as well.