What if Smash Had a Rivals Feature?

[Dededekage Kira]

What if Smash had a Rivals feature similar to Street Fighter where the characters have a dialogue in a short cutscene before starting to fight during Classic Mode, what interactions and rivalry ideas would you have?

 

[Quillion]

What if Smash had a Rivals feature similar to Street Fighter where the characters have a dialogue in a short cutscene before starting to fight during Classic Mode, what interactions and rivalry ideas would you have?

Considering that many of the bigger Nintendo protagonists don't talk, I'm not so sure such a feature would work.

I'm more in favor of special team victory poses myself. Like where if you have two characters on the same winning team, they do a special victory pose.

 

[UserKev]

Dialogue wouldn't really work but you can showcase rivalries through unique taunts before the battle. Mario and Wario could taunt each other and lightly shoulder charge at each other, resulting in a match.

 

[Quillion]

Dialogue wouldn't really work but you can showcase rivalries through unique taunts before the battle. Mario and Wario could taunt each other and lightly shoulder charge at each other, resulting in a match.

That would probably work better in a tailored "Arcade Mode" like I'm suggesting Ultimate's Classic mode be separated into.

Not so much in Vs. Mode where spawn points are so different from stage to stage.

 

[Perkilator]

I actually had sort of a “rivals” system in mind for my Smash 64 fantasy roster. Essentially, the characters on the bottom (denotes by italics bold) are the rivals to the characters on top in 1P Game. If you clear 1P game as any of the eight starting characters without using continues, you fight their rival in an unlock match.

Mario​	Donkey Kong​	Link​	Samus​	Yoshi​	Kirby​	Fox​	Pikachu​
Luigi​	Bowser​	Marth​	Mewtwo​	King Dedede​	Ness​	Captain Falcon​	Meowth​