fan game, it saw the addition of fan characters. The roster for the original Super Smash Flash was selected by Greg Cleod9 McLeod himself because SSF did not start development as a Super Smash Bros. These characters conform a roster chosen beforehand by the games' developers themselves. They can be divided into starter and unlockable, which distinguishes whether characters can be played right away, or whether they need to be unlocked.

In the Super Smash Flash series, characters can be sorted into playable and non-playable, which distinguishes whether characters can be used or not.Ī playable character is the one whose actions are directly controlled by a player.