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Just as the title says.
I aim this specifically for supporters of a certain owl.
Yes, the so-called "Decidueye supporters". You are all mostly riding a bandwagon that is poisonous for the speculation. For a lot of people, this character is all but confirmed to make a playable appearance in Smash Switch. And even though the character has it's charms, I don't want it to just happen 'just because'.
I also get it that with each Smash game, we are more than likely to get a new Pokemon character over any other established Nintendo franchise. It's the way it has always been, and with so many workable Pokemon characters and with so many new games being released, I can see why.
But, Pokemon is much bigger than just the newest additions. Especially since the last few years. And also, Smash isn't following any criteria whatsoever adding characters, except of 'what is popular sells'. And guess what? Pokemon is popular enough to sell itself.. It doesn't NEED Decidueye's inclusion to be whole.
Why? Not because it's a Grass type, and a Starter Pokemon and from a new game, it will be a playable character! It worked for Charizard yes, but not even his companions of the past, Squirtle and Ivysaur made it back. This is something that has to be remembered well, cause Squirtle and Ivysaur (and their evolution lines) are just as iconic and important as ever!
And yes, Greninja made it in but it was due to careful observation and picking. Up till today, Greninja was almost as 'forced' upon us as Lucario was back in the day. And believe me, Lucario support was LOUD back in Brawl!! Very loud infact, and it was also appearant that Lucario was favored by GameFreak themselves, and was heavily supported.
Decidueye has none of these factors, and really doesn't stand out all that much. And this Pokemon bandwagon has been riding since forever. We've had it with Sceptile (even though that Pokemon is actually COOL AS ****!), and even the likes of Zoroark and Victini. It's ugly and ungeniune support, much like how mostly everyone excepted Chrom to 'just appear' because he was the main Lord of Awakening. And to Chrom's defence: I've seen far more genuine support for Chrom than Decidueye.
Pokemon is a monsterously giant franchise with a lot of potential playable characters. We've had the massive successes of Pokemon Go for example that has made the first generation of monsters more iconic than ever. And we've had the awesome success of Pokken, which could also serve as a great inspiration for Smash characters, excisting or newcomers. These facts also cannot be overlooked so quickly.
Greninja is now well established as one of the more popular Pokemon, and certainly deserves it's spot in Smash Bros. Am far less conviced that Decidueye has this lasting appeal, especially since a NEW Pokemon game might show up when Smash Switch shows up it's face from the developer's work table.
I do not hate the owl, but I do hate the bandwagonist behaviour of it's supporters. And I want it to die before it actually becomes a thing, and speculation becomes a boring repeative cycle pattern again where we all just say the same **** untill we hope it happens. There's a reason why Sakurai embraced 'the unexpected' characters so much in Smash 4... It was probably because expectations are probably one of the biggest hype killers ever. I daresay that's even the reason we got the likes of Cloud and Bayonetta for DLC instead of King K.Rool, who was heavily "expected". It just doesn't work like that. And circle jerking won't make it anything better.
Thank you for your time reading this, let's have a great time speculating togheter without toxic bandwagoning behaviour!
I aim this specifically for supporters of a certain owl.
Yes, the so-called "Decidueye supporters". You are all mostly riding a bandwagon that is poisonous for the speculation. For a lot of people, this character is all but confirmed to make a playable appearance in Smash Switch. And even though the character has it's charms, I don't want it to just happen 'just because'.
I also get it that with each Smash game, we are more than likely to get a new Pokemon character over any other established Nintendo franchise. It's the way it has always been, and with so many workable Pokemon characters and with so many new games being released, I can see why.
But, Pokemon is much bigger than just the newest additions. Especially since the last few years. And also, Smash isn't following any criteria whatsoever adding characters, except of 'what is popular sells'. And guess what? Pokemon is popular enough to sell itself.. It doesn't NEED Decidueye's inclusion to be whole.
Why? Not because it's a Grass type, and a Starter Pokemon and from a new game, it will be a playable character! It worked for Charizard yes, but not even his companions of the past, Squirtle and Ivysaur made it back. This is something that has to be remembered well, cause Squirtle and Ivysaur (and their evolution lines) are just as iconic and important as ever!
And yes, Greninja made it in but it was due to careful observation and picking. Up till today, Greninja was almost as 'forced' upon us as Lucario was back in the day. And believe me, Lucario support was LOUD back in Brawl!! Very loud infact, and it was also appearant that Lucario was favored by GameFreak themselves, and was heavily supported.
Decidueye has none of these factors, and really doesn't stand out all that much. And this Pokemon bandwagon has been riding since forever. We've had it with Sceptile (even though that Pokemon is actually COOL AS ****!), and even the likes of Zoroark and Victini. It's ugly and ungeniune support, much like how mostly everyone excepted Chrom to 'just appear' because he was the main Lord of Awakening. And to Chrom's defence: I've seen far more genuine support for Chrom than Decidueye.
Pokemon is a monsterously giant franchise with a lot of potential playable characters. We've had the massive successes of Pokemon Go for example that has made the first generation of monsters more iconic than ever. And we've had the awesome success of Pokken, which could also serve as a great inspiration for Smash characters, excisting or newcomers. These facts also cannot be overlooked so quickly.
Greninja is now well established as one of the more popular Pokemon, and certainly deserves it's spot in Smash Bros. Am far less conviced that Decidueye has this lasting appeal, especially since a NEW Pokemon game might show up when Smash Switch shows up it's face from the developer's work table.
I do not hate the owl, but I do hate the bandwagonist behaviour of it's supporters. And I want it to die before it actually becomes a thing, and speculation becomes a boring repeative cycle pattern again where we all just say the same **** untill we hope it happens. There's a reason why Sakurai embraced 'the unexpected' characters so much in Smash 4... It was probably because expectations are probably one of the biggest hype killers ever. I daresay that's even the reason we got the likes of Cloud and Bayonetta for DLC instead of King K.Rool, who was heavily "expected". It just doesn't work like that. And circle jerking won't make it anything better.
Thank you for your time reading this, let's have a great time speculating togheter without toxic bandwagoning behaviour!