Grand Prix

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Spring Man after winning the Grand Prix, as shown in the April 2017 ARMS Direct

Grand Prix is an offline single-player or co-op mode in which the player attempts to defeat 10 fighters in a row, before (potentially) facing a final boss. It includes a mix of fights and sporting events. Biff commentates in between rounds, providing useful information to the player.

Plot

SPOILER ALERT! Don't read if you don't want to be spoiled.

The premise of this mode is that each fighter is trying to become champion of the ARMS Grand Prix. At the beginning of the mode, Biff explains the motivation of the fighter you chose. If the player chooses Dr. Coyle, she will introduce herself instead.

The mode itself doesn't have an explicit plot, although several events do occur during it.

After beating every other rival fighter, the player will eventually reach the Grand Finale against Max Brass, a veteran fighter who uses championship belts to form his elastic ARMS. Before long, you are thrust into battle, and, upon beating Max, the game ends; if the player is in difficulty level 4 to 5, however, Hedlok descends from above, brainwashing Max. The player must then fight Hedlok to win the Grand Prix; upon succeeding, Hedlok flies off, leaving Max unscathed, before the Awards Ceremony begins. The Grand Prix mode then ends.

On level 6 or higher, Dr. Coyle will teleport into the ring during Max Brass' introduction, and attack him. After a brief battle, Coyle knocks Brass out of the ring, and challenges the player to a fight. When Coyle is defeated, she calls her "masterpiece", Hedlok, and is willfully taken over by it. Like in the lower difficulties, the player must defeat Hedlok to proceed. If the player succeeds, Hedlok explodes, and Dr. Coyle teleports away, arms crossed. The camera pans over to see Max Brass, safely floating down on a pair of Parasols. He strikes a heroic pose for the camera as he lands. From here, the same ending occurs.

Structure and Difficulty

Difficulty levels

The Grand Prix has multiple different difficulty levels the user can select from. The difficulty scale starts at 1 and ends at 7, with difficulty level 1 being the easiest and difficulty level 7 being the hardest, similar to other Nintendo games such as Kid Icarus Uprising. The behaviour of the fighters, and the fights played at the end of the game, change with each difficulty level.

Structure of rounds

The structure of the rounds the player partakes in is as follows*, with small differences depending on the number of players:

Bold text indicates elements exclusive to co-op play.

	Match 1	Match 2	Match 3	Match 4	Match 5	Match 6	Match 7	Match 8	Semi Final	Exhibition	Grand Finale	VS Hedlok
Description	Fight vs. Any Fighter(s)	Fight vs. Any Fighter(s)	Either** when solo: V-Ball Hoops Skillshot When in co-op: V-Ball Skillshot vs. Any Fighter(s)	Fight vs. Any Fighter(s)	Fight vs. Any Fighter(s)	Either** when solo: V-Ball Hoops Skillshot When in co-op: V-Ball Skillshot vs. Any Fighter(s)	Fight vs. Any Fighter(s)	Fight vs. Any Fighter(s)	Fight vs. Any Fighter(s)	Fight vs. Springtron(s)	Fight Either** when solo: vs. Max Brass (level 1 to 5) or Dr. Coyle (level 6 and 7) When in co-op: vs. Max Brass and Any Fighter (except Springtron)	Fight Either** when solo: vs. Hedlok'd Max Brass (level 4 and 5) or Hedlok'd Dr. Coyle (level 6 and 7) When in co-op: vs. Hedlok'd Max Brass (level 4 to 7)
Stage	Player's home stage	Opponent's home stage	V-Ball, Hoops, or Skillshot stage	Opponent's home stage		V-Ball, Hoops, or Skillshot stage	Opponent's home stage			Same stage as Semi Final	Sky Arena	Sky Arena Night Version
Difficulty	All difficulty levels									Level 4 upwards with no losses a single round	All difficulty levels	Difficulty level 4 upwards; changes based on difficulty level

*No fighter will be fought twice when playing solo. In co-op, fighters may appear twice, but never twice as the main opponent.

**The same mode will not appear twice. For example, if a player plays Skillshot in Match 3, they will not play Skillshot again in Match 6.

All fighters are fought on their respective stage. The only exception is Match 1, however, which takes place at the stage of the fighter selected by the player 1. (Except for Max Brass, who only fights on his own stage during the Grand Finale.)

When you lose a match, you can rematch as much as possible, and save & quit in each round. Except in Springtron's match, it will skip to Grand Finale automatically.

When playing with two players, each round consists of two fighters, not one, with the main opponent shown in the introduction to the match and another selected at random, but not repeating in second role.

Rewards

Upon beating the Grand Prix at any difficulty, the player is granted access to Ranked Matches, allowing them to fight for a certain rank; the mode is otherwise inaccessible. Furthermore, upon beating Grand Prix at difficulty level 4 or higher, the player is shown an exclusive piece of artwork for each character, usually depicting them after obtaining the Championship Belt.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	グランプリ Guranpuri	Grand Prix
Dutch	Tornooi	Tournament
French	Grand Prix	Grand Prix
German	Grand Prix	Grand Prix
Italian	Gran Torneo	Grand Tournament
Russian	Гран-при Gran-pri	Grand Prix
Spanish	Gran Premio	Grand Prix
Portuguese	Grande Prémio	Grand Prix

Trivia

• Because Max Brass' stage of origin is the Sky Arena and can only be played in the Grand Prix towards the end when the player confronts him, whenever playing as Max Brass the first round will always be a fight with Spring Man in Spring Stadium.
• When playing co-op Grand Prix, the partner to Max Brass at the 10th fight will always be player 1's character.