Speed Weed summed it up perfectly but I personally lean more along the lines of OG PS because we don't really have precedent for MMO characters. It might just seem like a technicality as it's far from the only unrepped genre, but MMOs do have a tendency towards main characters without a name, set design, and even defined class/skillset, so I wonder if Sakurai even considers the genre viable to represent as a fighter.
True, for the most part. The Avatar characters for Phantasy Star Online and Online 2 do have default designs and default names. And Sega uses them very often for their trailers and promotional stuff.
As for their movesets, that really depends on their weapon or class, and compared to most MMOs, there's actually not a lot of options. For the normal classes, each weapon only has 11 Photon Arts or "Moves", aside from Dual Blades which has 7, Jet Boots which has 4, and Rod/Talis/Wand which use Techniques instead of Photon Arts. If they dedicate a character to one weapon, they only need to choose the 4 Photon Arts that would work best in Smash, or in Jet Boots' case, they don't need to choose. And in Force/Techter's cases, they have 7 Techniques for each element, a few that can be ignored since they are Boosts/Heal moves, and use a Charging/Charge system like Robin's B-Special, Hero's non-Down-B Specials and Sephiroth's B-Special for different Techniques, as well as some Techniques for their regular attacks.
Compared to most MMOs where your characters have a whack ton of Moves to choose and use, PSO2 doesn't give a whole lot. Heck, in the case for Hero, Phantom and Etoile, each of their weapons only has 4 Photon Arts like Jet Boots and in New Genesis' case, each weapon only has 3 Photon Arts so far. So it wouldn't be hurting the character much if they chose a weapon and stuck to the Photon Arts that would work best in Smash.
