K. Rool is the main villain in the DKC series and DK64, 4 very well selling and highly praised games. He had some pretty epic boss fights (DKC1 and DKC2 in particular), and he and the Kremlings had more personality than Bowser and his minions back in the SNES an N64 days. He's bound to have a somewhat loyal fanbase based on these reasons and would probably be a good addition to SSB4 roster because the game needs more villains and heavy characters.

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Most of Nintendo's best character ideas came from the late 80's-90's. Nobody will know or ever want to know the Snowmads. King K. Rool is just that villain that had a good run and needs a spot in smash. If King doesn't make it... I just want more villains in smash, that's all.

IMHO Snowmads, koopas, goombas and shyguys are all far superior to Kremlings. And bowser far better than K.rool. I think this is partly because of the graphics and designs. The pre-rendered graphics might have seems great at the time (Though they've aged badly) But the pre-rendered characters often seemed fuzzy and less memorable than the crisp clear spirit designs of other games.

I like the old donkey kong country games, and have some nostalgia for them, but I'd have to say the new ones are better.

You could argue the originals were more innovative. The new ones only aim to innovate in terms of level design. But the old ones were never innovative games. They were a competent mash-up of pre-existing platforming ideas. But with some truly great music and graphics that did seem good at the time.

Because he just looks bad ass AND...he's the original nemesis for DKC. It would be like Mario fighting someone else other than Bowser.