Is Super Smash Bros a Platformer or Fighting Game?

[SmoothCriminal]

dtewi said:

SmoothCriminal said:
It's neither. It's not similar enough to traditional fighters (Street Fighter, Soul Caliber, ect.) to be in the same genre, but it certainly isn't a platformer. Instead, it created it's own genre, the Brawler.

*coughs*

Yeah, it's a fighter with platforming elements.

How so?