Darkness Should Do Something

[Jotari]

Smash Bros. has a variety of elements, one of which is darkness, most predominantly used by Mewtwo and Ganondorf. Except Darkness doesn't do anything. Fire explodes blast boxes and thaws frozen characters, freezing freezes characters (of course), electric attacks have extra hit stun and extend freezing time too (apparently). While Darkness is a purely visual effect with its only use being the ability to power it up using stickers, that were exclusive to Ganondorf essentially making them just Ganondorf power up stickers. This just seems a little unfair to me. I'd like to see the elements do a little bit more too but Darkness is my biggest concern.

So what effect could Darkness have? One idea I have inspired by Hyrule Wariors is to reverse the Stale-move negation on Dark attacks. i.e. the more consecutive hits you get with these attacks the stronger they get. This would make some of these attacks a lot stronger but it would also make repeated use of them quite predictable. I think this would be a pretty useful bonus. What do you think? Do you have any ideas what the Darkness Element should do to become useful (or maybe some reasons why it shouldn't do anything other than look cool?).

 

[Godzillionaire]

Actually that more consecutive hit the more damage it does idea could work perfectly. White Pikmin also gets this effect, so it would make perfect sense for it to act like a sort of poison that increases when you do more darkness attacks.

 

[LunarWingCloud]

I would also support this but it would just need to be balanced accordingly.

 

[wingedarcher7]

Would definitely add an interesting aspect to the game. To be totally honest, I didn't even know that fire thawed people in ice and stuff. Don't you think that Darkness doing more damage each time would be much more conventional than what the other elements do though?

 

[Purin a.k.a. José]

I also think it should be a reverse Stale-Move effect, but balanced well!