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Here are the stages I would pick if I were directing Ultimate (WARNING: LONG POST)

All New Stages
1. New Donk City Hall
2. Super Bell Hill
3. Bowser’s Castle
4. Coconut Mall
5. 25m
6. Gangplank Galleon
7. Great Plateau Tower
8. Tal Tal Heights
9. SR388 Landing Site
10. Skytown
11. Baby Bowser Bash
12. Castle Dedede
13. Floral Fields
14. Resolution Road
15. Zoness
16. The Great Hoenn Sea
17. Melemele Island
18. Condor’s Peak
19. Temple of Mila
20. Opera House
21. Octopus
22. Kid Icarus NES
23. Golden Pyramid
24. City Escape
25. Studiopolis
26. Hocotate Freight
27. Gyromite
28. Main Street
29. Internet Square
30. Jogging
31. Pictochat X
32. Vega Stage
33. Moray Towers
34. Dracula’s Castle
35. Doshin the Giant
36. Mementos (DLC)
37. Yggdrasil’s Altar (DLC)
38. Spiral Mountain (DLC)
39. King of Fighters Stadium (DLC)
40. Garreg Mach Monastery (DLC)
41. Spring Stadium (DLC)
42. CP7’s stage (DLC)
43. CP8’s stage (DLC)
44. CP9’s stage (DLC)
45. CP10’s stage (DLC)
46. CP11’s stage (DLC)

All Old Stages
1. Battlefield and its two variations
2. Final Destination
3. Peach’s Castle (64)
4. Kongo Jungle (64)
5. Hyrule Castle (64)
6. Super Happy Tree (64)
7. Dream Land (64)
8. Saffron City (64)
9. Mushroom Kingdom (64)
10. Princess Peach’s Castle (Melee)
11. Rainbow Cruise (Melee)
12. Kongo Falls (Melee)
13. Great Bay (Melee)
14. Temple (Melee)
15. Brinstar (Melee)
16. Yoshi’s Island (Melee)
17. Yoshi’s Story (Melee)
18. Fountain of Dreams (Melee)
19. Green Greens (Melee)
20. Corneria (Melee)
21. Venom (Melee)
22. Pokémon Staidum (Melee)
23. Onett (Melee)
24. Mushroom Kingdom II (Melee)
25. Brinstar Depths (Melee)
26. Poké Floats (Melee)
27. Big Blue (Melee)
28. Fourside (Melee)
29. Flat Zone (Melee)
30. Delfino Plaza (Brawl)
31. Figure-8 Circuit (Brawl)
32. WarioWare, Inc. (Brawl)
33. Bridge of Eldin (Brawl)
34. Frigate Orpheon (Brawl)
35. Yoshi’s Island (Brawl)
36. Halberd (Brawl)
37. Lylat Cruise (Brawl)
38. Port Town Aero Dive (Brawl)
39. Castle Siege (Brawl)
40. Distant Planet (Brawl)
41. New Pork City (Brawl)
42. Skyworld (Brawl)
43. Shadow Moses Island (Brawl)
44. Luigi’s Mansion (Brawl)
45. Spear Pillar (Brawl)
46. Flat Zone 2 (Brawl)
47. Green Hill Zone (Brawl)
48. 3D Land (for 3DS)
49. Golden Plains (for 3DS)
50. Paper Mario (for 3DS)
51. Gerudo Valley (for 3DS)
52. Spirit Train (for 3DS)
53. Dream Land GB (for 3DS)
54. Unova Pokémon League (for 3DS)
55. Prism Tower (for 3DS)
56. Mute City SNES (for 3DS)
57. Magicant (for 3DS)
58. Arena Ferox (for 3DS)
59. Reset Bomb Forest (for 3DS)
60. Tortimer Island (for 3DS)
61. PAC-MAZE (for 3DS)
62. Living Room (for 3DS)
63. Find Mii (for 3DS)
64. Tomodachi Life (for 3DS)
65. Mushroom Kingdom U (for Wii U)
66. Mario Galaxy (for Wii U)
67. Mario Circuit (for Wii U)
68. Skyloft (for Wii U)
69. Coliseum (for Wii U)
70. Gamer (for Wii U)
71. Garden of Hope (for Wii U)
72. Town and City (for Wii U)
73. Wii Fit Studio (for Wii U)
74. Boxing Ring (both games)
75. Gaur Plains (both games)
76. Duck Hunt (both games)
77. Wrecking Crew (for Wii U)
78. Pilotwings (for Wii U)
79. Wuhu Island (for Wii U)
80. Wily Castle (both games)
81. Mario Maker (for Wii U)
82. Suzaku Castle (both games)
83. Midgar (both games)
84. Umbra Clock Tower (both games)

I don’t know who can acceptfully hear this, but it needs to be said: if an Assist Trophy was part of Vol. 2, the community discourse would ONLY GET WORSE.

Because characters that people normally overlook would be shafted in favor of characters who were ALREADY PROGRAMMED FOR ASSISTANCE ROLES (yes, even base game Spirits would be shafted). People would put sticks up their ***es and claim Assist Trophies should “always” take priority simply because they’re now suddenly possible.

Is this the future you want to live in? One where Assist Trophies are all that matter and people blame Sakurai when he doesn’t do it again?

I just realized; the villains of the two respective series wouldn’t work story-wise in M&L Paper Jam. At most, I could see them as super bosses.

Your reaction if this was Ultimate’s DLC lineup;

-Frank West & Piranha Plant (early purchase bonus for Smash Ultimate, made able to separately purchase upon release date)

Vol. 1
-Joker (Pack 1)
-Hero (Pack 2)
-Banjo-Kazooie (Pack 3)
-Euden (Pack 4)
-Terry Bogard (Pack 5)

-Byleth (early purchase bonus for Vol. 2, made able to separately purchase upon release date)

Vol. 2
-Min Min and Echo Fighter Ninjara (Pack 6)
-Sora (Pack 7)
-Crash Bandicoot (Pack 8)
-Scorbunny (Pack 9)
-Sakura Shinguji and Echo Fighter Sakura Amamiya (Pack 10)
-Bandana Dee and bonus fighter King Boo (Pack 11)

I like how after a certain point in Persona 5, we learn, literally, that the real treasure is the friend we make along the way.

I for the life of me will never understand why Jill and Shuma-Gorath remained as DLC in UMvC3’s original release. The other 12 extra characters, who were planned to be DLC, had to be shipped to Ultimate due to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami messing up the schedule.

DanganZilla5 What a coincidence! I was watching a review of the original Dead Rising.

MOTHER****ING FFXVI

AND IT'S IN A MEDIEVAL SETTING

8 and 1/2 months since I’ve been outside for more than a day…my god.

I’m honestly shocked that Crimson Viper wasn’t recycled into MvC:I.

I sense a Pokemon design!

If Rumble Falls came back in Ultimate, do you think it’d be updated to more closely resemble Ultimate’s Kongo Falls?

On the topic of bosses, I made one for Ho-Oh if it was a boss in Ultimate.

Man...looking at Giga Bowser in Classic Mode makes me think he was only put there to fill a Classic Mode quota when there's several other fighters whose Classic Mode he'd fit right in.

What I mean is:

We've reached Day 500 of our fixed RTC schedule, and the topic might surprise you.

Poor Sakurai…he legit loves working on his characters, yet people can’t stop giving him crap for a specific character after nearly eight months.

You know, this makes me want a Fire Emblem Warriors sequel that takes place mainly during the time skip in Three Houses.

I’d like to see Scorbunny as a sort of tomboyish girl.

Quick

What would be a good trailer scenario for Sakura Shinguji?

I just had an epihany; if Spring Man were an early purchase bonus (alongside ), fans of him out there wouldn't have to worry about as much debate if ARMS were still the first Vol. 2 character.

And speaking of ARMS characters, I personally think it would've been cool to see Ninjara as an Echo of .

I still can't get over this Arle render. It's just so good.

I'm surprised that there's no collaboration between Super Mario and Dragalia Lost, the latter of which ALSO has its anniversary this month.

Dwayne Johnson and his family just tested positive for COVID-19.

2020 doesn't need to claim any more celebrity lives, so we can only pray Dwayne and his family make it through.

Inb4 there's eventually a Pokémon Blossom and Pokémon Breeze, featuring a flower-based Legendary and a cloud-based Legendary, respectively, as the game mascots.

Know what's a missed opportunity? Not calling Greninja's trailer "Who's that Pokémon?" when they used "Together, We Ride" for Robin's trailer.

If I could make a cartoon series, it would be a magical girl series. Tonally, it'd be a mix between the silliness of Precure and the OW THE EDGE of Madoka Magica.

I just thought of an Evil Team for my dream Pokémon game; an organization called Team SCAR. SCAR stands for Status Conditional Ailment Research, and they use a mafia as a cover for their research.

Reaction: the next Pokémon game has Gym Leaders based around gameplay mechanics.

1. The first Gym Leader is a daycare lady who uses baby Pokémon
2. The second your Professor, who uses Pokémon of the Grass, Fire and Water types

After that, you're free to tackle each Gym at your own accord. The Gym Leaders you face are:

3. An aspiring chef who always equips his Pokémon with Berries during his battle
4. A former member of the evil team who uses Pokémon that evolve or have evolved via Friendship with him
5. A meteorologist who utilizes the fake weather around her, using all Castforms along with a Landorous and a Sligoo
6. A pop star whose Pokémon specialize in sound-based moves when she's not on stage
7. An ailing doctor who specializes in status effects for his research
8. An old wife and husband who specialize in gender-dependent Pokémon
9. A firefighter who specializes in HM moves, mainly for his rescues
10. A dojo master who specializes in stats, always the last Gym Leader you face; both people and Pokémon are his students

yyyyyyyyyyUP, this is dry season all right.

But I can handle it. I've been through Sm4sh DLC dry season and Kingdom Hearts dry season.

We;re 30 minutes into Gamescom opening night and ONE piece of gameplay has been shown so far.

Imagine if we get a Dark Souls character...and Scorbunny is the next character after that.

I freaking CALLED it in the Spirit Battle thread.

I know we all clown on the "my uncle works at Nintendo" meme, but to be honest...I'd actually love it if my mom worked there, purely so I can indirectly be associated with my childhood icon.

The late 2000's-mid 2010's were a dark time for kids' media. I would know because I'm a veteran from that era.

This bears as much exposure as possible: JP-centric characters deserve as much recognition in Smash speculation as West-centric characters do.

Here's how I'd write a tutorial script:

-How To Play-

Welcome to Super Smash Bros.! In this game, fighters launch their opponents off the screen to K.O. them.

THE END.
(Just kidding!)

Tilt the left control stick left or right to move. Tap it quickly to dash. Tilt it up to jump, and then again to double jump (the X and Y buttons work, too).

Press the Attack button to attack; multiple consecutive presses allow for a combo. Tilt the LCS forward, up or down in conjunction with Attack to do a Power Attack.

Once the opponent takes enough damage, quickly tap the LCS with Attack to launch them with a powerful Smash Attack (The right control stick works, too)! The higher their damage, the farther they fly.

Once you get launched yourself, don't throw in the towel just yet. Tilt up and press the Special Move button to recover back onto the stage!

There are four types of Special Moves; you use them by pressing the Special Move button without tilting...or tilting to the sides...or tilting up (as mentioned earlier)...or tilting down.

Press the Shield button to block attacks when needed. Your shield breaks after a while...which leaves you vulnerable.

Tilt the LCS in any direction while shielding to dodge attacks. You can also dodge by pressing the Shield button in the air.

Don't let an opponent's shield daunt you! Press the Grab button (whatever the case) when close to them, and tilt the LCS in any direction to hurl them!

Press the Attack button near an item to pick it up. When called for, press Attack again to use it or press Grab to discard it.

One special item, the Smash Ball...is used by attacking it until it shatters and pressing Special without tilting to unleash a devastating Final Smash!

Show 'em what you're made of!

You know what the Sakurai presentations have been doing wrong all this time?

None of them use the iconic How to Play music during the moveset demonstrations.

You know, Dragalia Lost could greatly benefit from a Switch port.

Let’s imagine for a second that this was Ultimate’s base roster:

-Inkling (revealed in March 2018 Nintendo Direct)
-Simon (revealed at E3 2018)
-Richter (65ε, revealed alongside Simon)
-Crash Bandicoot (revealed at E3 2018)
-Ridley (revealed in August 2018 Smash Direct)
-Shadow (38ε, revealed in August 2018 Smash Direct)
-Dark Samus (4ε, revealed alongside Shadow)
-King K. Rool (revealed in August 2018 Smash Direct)
-Isabelle (revealed in September 2018 Nintendo Direct)
-Caeda (revealed in November 2018 Smash Direct)
-Alph (40ε, revealed in November 2018 Smash Direct)
-Ken (60ε, revealed in November 2018 Smash Direct)
-Incineroar (revealed alongside Ken)
-Piranha Plant (revealed in November 2018 Smash Direct)