Gonna Post my Roster here with some notes if you guys want to discuss it.
Explanations:
- Gematsu + All Brawl veterans (not Snake, Squirtle, and Venasaur) + Ridley, Mewtwo, and Dixie
- Dixie instead of K Rool for reasons I won't state due to not wanting to cause a war, even though I want K Rool more.
- Ridley has sufficient evidence for playability status. He is the reason I made a 51 character roster instead of 48. Because of the evidence for him, Gematsu cannot be the final roster
- Mewtwo is Bomb
- Purple Outline = DLC Characters
- My character choices are to coincide with Games to be released in 2015 and beyond + to promote new titles
- Captain Toad
- To coincide with his game, very requested character, and now due to his Captain status, has great moveset potential
- Paper Mario
- Not sure about this one. I would love to see him, but also could see him just being a starting character in Smash 5
- Zelda Rep
- Whoever a major supporting character in Zelda U is
- Star Fox Rep
- Someone from Star Fox U. Krystal or Slippy maybe
- Unknown
- Could be Splatoon Rep
- Could be STEAM Rep
- Could be another Pokemon Rep
- Could have one more Unknown DLC character
- This Roster is meant to be a realistic view instead of what I would like to see, though, with this roster I would be beyond satisfied. I got Megman, Villager, and Ridley!
- Also, You can make the roster 50 characters instead of 51 and put Lucas as DLC instead.
I can safely agree with your entire final roster except for Dixie Kong simply because her big selling point--Tropical Freeze--may be too recent. Same with Lucas to a lesser extent, but I'll remain on the fence with these two for the time being. Outside of King K. Rool, there are several other possibilities that tend to suggest one thing or another outside the gematsu three. Dark Pit appearing at the end of Palutena's trailer and in her character poster may suggest him as a playable character. The Trophy quiz may tease at another Zelda newcomer (if one limits it to just the game Fi came from, it'd likely mean Ghirahim if that is the case, but I'm not going to grasp anymore straws). Or Sakurai's comments about resurrecting older franchises may even tease at a 100% strictly retro character even (Excitebiker/Mach Rider and Takamaru both come to mind among other things). And if I were to grasp some serious straws, I could technically even single out Jill or Isaac due to lack of Assist Trophies, though I find either of them highly unlikely regardless.
I guess for now, I am only saying that I do not fully agree with Dixie Kong or Lucas (especially if he winds up getting cut), but neither do I disagree that they shouldn't be in the game. But, hey? I stumbled upon a leak that says only Snake, Ivysaur and Squirtle will be cut, so let's wait and see what happens with him. For now, Ridley and Mewtwo seem to be locks to be added newcomers (though with Mewtwo, if he isn't in the final roster, then he'll be a lock for DLC).
As far as newcomers go, I completely agree with Captain Toad simply because he was teased as potential DLC. I don't think we'll get Paper Mario, though. I don't think Sakurai will go for two Mario DLC, and as cool as he might be, I don't think he's happening. I can see a Zelda rep if we don't get a newcomer in the final roster (it'd likely be Impa then, but who knows). Star Fox, I think is going to be out of the way, and the only way we'd get DLC from that series is if the next game introduces to us another highly significant character on the same page as Fox, Falco and Wolf (and even then, Krystal's games were hated by fans and critics, while Slippy just feels like a bit of a stretch). Your new IP reps seem like decent ideas for character DLC, but isn't Splatoon Second Party (I know Project: STEAM isn't)? And if Mewtwo is already in the Final Roster, Blaziken and/or Hawlucha seems to make the most sense for playable status (and no, there is no type clause in Pokémon; even if there was, I doubt Sakurai will take that under consideration when making DLC anyways; Blaziken and Hawlucha would fight drastically different than Charizard or Lucario anyways). Also, Lucas and Roy might make returns for DLC. So could Dixie Kong fit in if she doesn't get in the first time (she'd be more likely methinks than King K. Rool in the DLC department, anyways).
Other possible DLC based on existing franchises? Well...Hades would make a great unexpected entrance, wouldn't he? But beyond that, Captain Toad, Dixie Kong, Impa, Hades, Mewtwo (if he isn't in the first time)/Blaziken/Hawlucha, Roy, Lucas (if he is cut from the roster), Snake (a distant maybe, and only if a deal can be made with Kojima and Konami), and whatever new IP candidates we may wind up getting in the future.
