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title: "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – Amiibo dont unlock fighters"
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description: "Some bad news for those of you who were planning to unlock fighters via amiibo in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2018-11-26 12:45:15"
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Amiibo dont unlock fighters | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – Amiibo dont unlock fighters](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/super-smash-bros.-ultimate-amiibo-dont-unlock-fighters.jpg "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – Amiibo dont unlock fighters")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/super-smash-bros.-ultimate-amiibo-dont-unlock-fighters.jpg)Some bad news for those of you who were planning to unlock fighters via amiibo in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

## [](#why-u-no-unlock)Why u no unlock?

A streamer with an early copy of the game tried to use Ganondorf in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but apparently nothing happened. This confirms that you cannot unlock a fighter with amiibo in this game, unlike Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/Nintendo 3DS.

However, you can still use amiibo as Figure Players (FP) in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Figure Players can be trained and level up, they are a special type of CPU which you can bring to matches.

But as reported earlier unlocking all fighters should only take a couple of hours according to Nintendo anyway. But still it would be nice if it did something in the massive Spirit section, with roughly 700 that is a real lot to all unlock.

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