Nikki
Nikki as she appears in Nikki's Travel Quiz.
Universe	Swapnote
Debut	Swapnote (2011)
Smash Bros. appearances	Ultimate
Most recent non-Smash appearance	Swapdoodle (2016)
Console/platform of origin	Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo eShop)
Species	Mii Human
Gender	Female
Designed by	Kotori (human design)
Article on MiiWiki	Nikki

Nikki (ニッキー, Nikki) is a character making her debut as the female host and mascot of Nintendo's messaging applications, Swapnote and Swapdoodle. Originally created to give tips and rewards, she has since appeared in other Nintendo media, such as Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone!, the Japanese Nintendo News Section, a costume in Super Mario Maker, and her stand-alone game Nikki's Travel Quiz.

Origin

Nikki introducing the player to Swapdoodle.

In Swapnote, Nikki (as a Mii) would introduce the player to the application, give tips, encourage the player, and provide Nintendo-related news updates - when the app stopped functioning online, she sent players a goodbye letter. She later appeared in Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone! where she would give an art lesson on drawing a Goomba as Spotpass DLC. Nikki performs the same roles as her two previous appearances in Swapdoodle. She has since appeared in the Japanese Nintendo News Section and her own title Nikki's Travel Quiz, being redesigned from a Mii to a 2D illustration, and given two new friends: a panda and a cat. (the latter of whom is depicted in her Spirit artwork) After the discontinuation of the Nintendo 3DS, she has seemingly been phased out in favor of another, similarly designed, mascot character named Amelia N., who informs players of new features introduced in hardware updates on the Nintendo Switch news tab through articles written in-character.

Nikki's design is based on her 2D look as opposed to her Mii appearance. She is located on the bottom left of the screen while drawing, similar to her appearance when drawing in Swapnote.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

As an Assist Trophy

Nikki drawing a pinwheel with Duck Hunt, Kirby, and Rosalina & Luma on Skyworld.

Nikki appears as an Assist Trophy. When summoned, she appears in the foreground and uses her pencil to make a random drawing that attacks players. She will draw three pictures total with no repeats. Afterwards, she waves then disappears.

• Bullet Bill: Deals strong damage and knockback as it rushes off stage.
• Monster: Breathes fire, dealing strong damage and knockback. The fire will always come out straight forward, upwards at 40 degrees, and then downwards at 40 degrees.
• Ghost: Chases after foes and paralyzes them.
• Flock of Birds: Charges upwards towards opponents, launching them vertically.
• Pinwheel: Spins, blowing opponents away.
• Smash Ball: She draws a Smash Ball which fighters can attack to activate their Final Smash. It can be drawn even if the item is turned off in the rules. Its properties are largely copied from real Smash Balls, such as how long it stays in play and it causing damage to itself. However, some properties are copied from Smash Balls in Super Smash Bros. 4, such as its max speed and how long it will hover between fighters and how quickly (0.8 units/frame and 180 frames (3 seconds) respectively in Smash 4 vs 0.85 units/frame and 20 frames (1/3 seconds) in Ultimate).

Each drawing has the same relative odds of appearing except for the Smash Ball, which has a fixed 10% chance of being the last drawing.

Nikki has a spawn chance of 38/2086. She cannot be summoned on the following stages in a standard versus match (applies only to the base form unless noted otherwise):

Nikki cannot be summoned if the following items are active and vice versa:

• Items: a third Daybreak part, a third Dragoon part, and Smash Ball.
• Poké Ball Pokémon: Palkia, Togepi, Victini, and Zoroark.
• Assist Trophies: Andross, Devil, Flies & Hand, Moon, Nightmare, Nintendog, Skull Kid, Squid Sisters, Vince, and Yuri Kozukata.

Spirit

No.	Image	Name	Type	Class	Cost	Ability	Series
1,260		Nikki		★★★	1	Shield Durability ↑	Swapnote Series Nintendo Letter Box Series

Gallery

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  Artwork of Nikki as a SSB4 Mii Gunner, from Nintendo UK's website.
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  Nikki as a Mii Gunner in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS alongside Takamaru.
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  Artwork of Nikki as an Assist Trophy in Ultimate.
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  Nikki on Jungle Japes, a stage where she ironically cannot be summoned on.
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  Nikki drawing a monster on Spirit Train.

Names in other languages

Language	Name
Japanese	ニッキー, Nikki
English	Nikki
French	Nikki
German	Nikki
Spanish	Nikki
Italian	Nikki
Chinese (Simplified)	Nikki
Chinese (Traditional)	妮琪, Nikki
Korean	니키, Nikki
Dutch	Nikki
Russian	Никки

Trivia

Official Nikki Mii as a Mii Gunner

• Nikki is the first Assist Trophy to not originate from a video game, instead appearing from a messaging application.
• Though she does not otherwise appear in Super Smash Bros. 4, official artwork of Nikki as a Mii Gunner was created as a promotion^{(dead link)} for the game's amiibo.
  • As an official Mii of Nikki exists, it is possible to create a Mii Fighter out of her.
• Nikki is the only Assist Trophy that cannot be used in Ultimate's Final Destination. This could be because her drawings would be difficult to see due to the stage's dark background.
  • Despite this, she can still be summoned in Final Destination's Battlefield form.
• Nikki is the only method to make a Smash Ball appear outside of the item randomly spawning.
  • She is also the only assist character with this trait. However, she is the second assist character to be a method of getting a Final Smash, the first being Victini.
• Formerly, a glitch would occur on skirted characters where the pinwheel would cause their skirts to be distorted due to the windbox. This was fixed in 3.0.0.
• Since her appearance on the lower left-hand corner is fixed no matter how the camera moves, Camera Controls are unavailable when the player pauses the match.
• Like Vince, her function as an Assist Trophy in Ultimate is similar to the bosses Ado and Adeleine from the Kirby series; all of these characters remain away from the battlefield, instead drawing a series of foes to fight in their stead.

• Assist Trophies
• Swapnote universe