SAKURAI SHIELD SPECIAL - E3 DISAPPOINTMENT
A little note about Sakurai's shield mechanic - Sakurai's shield is the normal shield, except it has a little fancy E3 logo enscribed on it. Product placement? No, it's just a ********* to get you excited for the inevitable reveal of SSB4 at E3! Ohohoho!
Now, pressing the special input while holding out his shield has Sakurai's shield...dwindle? It's not dwindling, but Sakurai is fooling the foes into thinking it is, an outright disappointment of an E3 showing! The shield lifted by this acts like a normal shield, with damage done to it effecting the size even quicker and whatnot. Sakurai will even enter a false shield-broken state if he is attacked enough...that he can immediately attack out of, quickly setting up a piss trap if the stage is tilted or simply whacking the foe away with a quick attack. Sakurai's actual shield will be drained to half it's size (or to the point where it will instantly break after he lifts it up, if it was less) after this, slowly recovering.
As a bonus, whenever Sakurai attacks out of this shieldbroken state, he will exclaim "NO SMASH 4 FOR YOU!" with a jolly laugh.
For serious, the thread tends to cycle through groups of characters based on series. Maybe more characters will come up if interested users like you bring them up?