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I expect more top quality characters like Piranha Plant.



Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
Chun- Li

I agree!



MasonADC said: 

3. Joker from Persona 5 

Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well.

Anyways, here's a lowkey prediction no one is saying, y'all owe me $5 if I get this right:



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

lara croft
crash
fire emblem 3 houses main character
frog/glenn
urbosa



Sakurai seemed to imply the DLC characters were chosen at the start of development, since Rex "came out too late" to make the roster and the Mii costume is his way of adding Xenoblade 2 content in. That's probably also why ARMS got Mii costumes and an Assist Trophy. So, newer characters like Fire Emblem Three Houses are probably out. The only thing I'm curious about is if Spirits disconfirms a character or not (playable fighters have Spirits of some of their different costumes, so who knows).

1. Elma (there's a suspicious lack of Xenoblade Chronicles X music while 1 and 2 have tracks)
2. Geno (Sakurai has said he wanted him in Brawl, I believe. He might try again)
3. Shantae (Unlikely. WayForward was silent about her being in Smash, clearly under NDA since she's a Spirit. Now they're answering questions about her being a Spirit but silent about any questions about her being possible DLC. Probably nothing, but I was eying them before when they were uncharacteristically silent and it turned out to be a sign)
4. Steve or Banjo-Kazooie (I'm cheating here, but Phil Spencer has suggested he'd be okay working with Nintendo on this, but it's hard to say which it would be. Minecraft is one of the best-selling games ever and is huge in Japan and on Switch, but Banjo-Kazooie have history)
5. Bandana Waddle Dee (Technically created by Sakurai since he was in Kirby Super Star, Kirby hasn't gotten a new rep since Brawl)

Watch me be 0 for 5 when it's all said and done. XD



Medisti said:

Sakurai seemed to imply the DLC characters were chosen at the start of development, since Rex "came out too late" to make the roster and the Mii costume is his way of adding Xenoblade 2 content in. That's probably also why ARMS got Mii costumes and an Assist Trophy. So, newer characters like Fire Emblem Three Houses are probably out. The only thing I'm curious about is if Spirits disconfirms a character or not (playable fighters have Spirits of some of their different costumes, so who knows).

1. Elma (there's a suspicious lack of Xenoblade Chronicles X music while 1 and 2 have tracks)
2. Geno (Sakurai has said he wanted him in Brawl, I believe. He might try again)
3. Shantae (Unlikely. WayForward was silent about her being in Smash, clearly under NDA since she's a Spirit. Now they're answering questions about her being a Spirit but silent about any questions about her being possible DLC. Probably nothing, but I was eying them before when they were uncharacteristically silent and it turned out to be a sign)
4. Steve or Banjo-Kazooie (I'm cheating here, but Phil Spencer has suggested he'd be okay working with Nintendo on this, but it's hard to say which it would be. Minecraft is one of the best-selling games ever and is huge in Japan and on Switch, but Banjo-Kazooie have history)
5. Bandana Waddle Dee (Technically created by Sakurai since he was in Kirby Super Star, Kirby hasn't gotten a new rep since Brawl)

Watch me be 0 for 5 when it's all said and done. XD

The music tracks are exactly why  I think Elma is dlc as well. I made a bet about Bandana Dee not being in the game, so  I hope that prediction is wrong lol.  



I feel bad asking for more from Sakurai and his team, but since he still doesn't want to close the book on Ultimate.

I'm still fingers crossed that the tracklist of Xenoblade is not the complete one and that you can unlock more in the shop, because I really want X music and some better representatives from 2.

If not I would really like Elma there, with a Mira stage, with some focus on continents like Oblivia or Sylvalum to make it stand out from Gaur Plains.

The characters I really want tho, are Bandana Dee, the best companion of the lord and savior Kirby, and Lloyd Irving from Tales of Symphonia, is really weird that we only have one rep from Namco.

 

Anything else would be a bonus for me, I'm already quite happy with the characters added as Assist trophies like Black Knight from the Telius FEs, Fatal Frame and really cool Virtua Fighter throwback with Akira and the really nice spirits additions like Shantae, Baten Kaitos and Style Savvy.



Bandana Dee has no chance whatsoever for being DLC. That is the type of fighter that should already be in the base roster, or that one "bonus" character, which Piranha Plant already took up.

Sakurai isnt gonna make people pay money for unknown DLC characters and then have one of them be Waddle Dee. That would be absolutely inexcusable, and I think they know that too.



Bet with Intrinsic:

The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

flashfire926 said:
Bandana Dee has no chance whatsoever for being DLC. That is the type of fighter that should already be in the base roster, or that one "bonus" character, which Piranha Plant already took up.

Sakurai isnt gonna make people pay money for unknown DLC characters and then have one of them be Waddle Dee. That would be absolutely inexcusable, and I think they know that too.

I'm buying the pass day one, and I will be disappointing if Bandana Dee is one of the 5, but he has a surprisingly strong backing for him



I don't know why so many people mentioned FE:Three Houses. If Rex didn't make it because the game released too late and we can assume planning for DLC has already been done, then no way Three Houses is included already.

Smash includes mostly japanese characters. No correction, they're all japanese characters. This seems odd, maybe Sakurai only talks to reps from japanese companies. But if he decides to include western gaming icons, two come especially to the mind and can't realistically be excluded:

  • Rayman
  • Lara Croft

Both are classic and well known gaming icons and the owning companies are currently on very good terms with Nintendo. I would also add Doom Guy, but I don't really see him as an icon - he doesn't even has a name. Duke Nukem would be different, but I don't even know who owns the IP by now and his franchise crashed and burned in the last period of time.

For the japanese 3rd-parties, most of the companies that are on good terms with Nintendo have at least two representatives: Sega has Sonic and Bayonetta (yes, it's still a Sega property), Konami has Solid Snake and Simon (+Richter), Capcom has MegaMan and Ryu (+Ken). But Square only has Cloud, and Namco (the company working on Smash) has only Pac-Man. So maybe these two companies get another rep? For Square the above mentioned Lara Croft would be a rep, but also the Slime from Dragon Quest. Slime has a Spirit, no idea if that is deconfirmation. For Namco it could be DigDug, galaga, Xevious, Tekken or SoulCalibur.

Another japanese company would be Level-5, which has with Professor Layton and Yokai Watch two franchises that would fit very well into Smash.

I doubt any other 3rd-party has a shot. Certainly no indies, I'm actually surprised Shovel Knight got a support trophy. Spirits are something else, and I would like Sans from Undertale as a Spirit.

For Nintendo we are scraping at the bottom of the barrel already. But yes, Elma from XCX seems certainly like a glaring omission, and therefore I think she is DLC. Captain Toad seems also like a possibility, as is Toadette. Besides that I can't think of anyone standing out enough to justify 6€



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