Match strategy guide/Emeralds

The seven Chaos Emeralds spawn at random spots on the map, and stay there until someone collects them. When someone with an emerald gets hit with no shield, they drop all their emeralds along with their rings and weapons.

By collecting all seven emeralds, that player will gain both Invincibility and Super Sneakers for 20 seconds, and the emeralds will also immediately respawn on the stage like before.

Collecting emeralds

• Search the entire stage for emeralds. Many of the spawn points are out in the open, but many of them are behind corners, scenery objects, or in small passages that aren't often used. The more of the stage used, the more likely emeralds are to be found.
• Emeralds are lost when hit. Keeping a shield is essential to managing to collect all seven emeralds, because it's not reasonable to expect to pick them all back up when hit. Check all the random monitor locations often to keep a shield at all times.
• High knockback weapons, such as Scatter, Explosion, and Rail, are great for stealing emeralds from other players. Knocking them far from their stuff makes grabbing the emerald in their pile of loot easier.
• Remember that all of the emeralds are necessary to gain the benefits, so by holding onto just one emerald, all the opponents are prevented from getting the benefits. If a single opponent has 6 emeralds, hold onto that last emerald.
• The Emeralds are not your lifeline, above all else you should get points, and you're better off doing that whenever you can rather than only for the 20 seconds you have of Emerald power, point is, you don't need them to win.