About r/smashbros
In its own words:
Welcome to Reddit's Smash Bros. community!
Community guide
r/smashbros (#720, about 1.5 million subscribers) is oriented around: Welcome to Reddit's Smash Bros. community! Recent activity samples show 20 posts/day in recent samples (~36% text, ~27% image, ~26% video). Public rules we collected include: Guidelines for Posting Media; Posting Guidelines; Competitive Guidelines; Advertising Guidelines; Relevancy Guidelines. Directory metadata files it under “Games”.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own channel or shop. Match posts to: Guidelines for Posting Media; Posting Guidelines; Competitive Guidelines; Advertising Guidelines.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag. Common flairs in samples include: Ultimate, Other, Melee, All.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jun 2, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 182 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/thenetherlands (#719) and ahead of r/JustGuysBeingDudes (#721) in our ranking.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/smashbros went up from 1,472,866 to 1,474,209 subscribers (+1.3K, +0.09%). That is about 31 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/smashbros talks about
Looking at the titles of 149 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “smash”, “bros”, “melee”, “game” and “character”. Other frequent themes are tipped, congratulations, singles, daily, discussion and winner. Recurring phrases include “smash bros”, “daily discussion”, “melee singles” and “super smash”. By format, 36% are text posts, 27% are images and 26% are videos.
Popular post flairs: Ultimate (70), Other (29), Melee (20), All (8), Art (7), Subreddit (7).
Activity and best time to post
r/smashbros gets about 20 new posts a day. The public archive holds 596,332 posts and 11,385,412 comments in total, about 19.1 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Monday (28 posts) and the quietest was Friday (12). Posting peaks around 06:00 UTC and is lowest around 09:00 UTC.
Rules of r/smashbros
The moderators of r/smashbros list 6 rules. In short:
- Guidelines for Posting Media
- Posting Guidelines
- Competitive Guidelines
- Advertising Guidelines
- Relevancy Guidelines
- Anti-Drama Rules
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/smashbros and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/smashbros have?
r/smashbros has 1,474,209 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #720 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,343 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/smashbros?
r/smashbros was created on Jun 2, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Nov 1, 2009.
How active is r/smashbros?
Moderately: r/smashbros gets about 20 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 596,332 posts and 11,385,412 comments. In a sample of 149 recent posts we counted 118 different authors.
When is r/smashbros most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Monday and the quietest Friday, and most posts arrive around 06:00 UTC, with the fewest around 09:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/smashbros about?
The community describes itself as: “Welcome to Reddit's Smash Bros. community!” Recent post titles often mention smash, bros, melee, game and character. Most posts are text posts (36%).
Is r/smashbros safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/smashbros as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/smashbros?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/smashbros accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 6 posted rules, starting with: “Guidelines for Posting Media”; “Posting Guidelines”; “Competitive Guidelines”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/smashbros?
Communities with similar topics include r/AnimalsBeingBros (6.9M), r/HumansBeingBros (6.8M), r/TheBoys (1.9M), r/EASportsFC (1.4M) and r/ffxiv (1.4M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/smashbros.