While I'm not sure if old mechanics will ever come back, I'd really appriciate shield-dropping (holding shield and dropping through platforms, kinda tight) and edge cancelling aerials* on platforms making a return. Ultimate's platform play feels really lacking - the platforms feeling sticky is a key reason, but there's also not a lot of options if you're on a platform and an opponent's underneath looking to shark.
There are still some options, and VoiD did a pretty informative video on them:
As for other mechanics, please rework the buffer a bit Sakurai. It does not work well with the short hop macro at all.
*(Doesn't help that edge cancelling is a thing for specific moves in Ultimate, but not universal.)
It's worth noting that the FS Meter was an attempt at doing something similar - and there was some pre-release hype surrounding them (although the gap in FS' effectiveness remains honestly too large IMHO - Peach just presses a button and gets a free damage swing and stage control in her favor, Jigglypuff's really doesn't work as the devs intended. So yeah, FS Meter's not really used that much). So this idea has precedence behind it.
Also, the number of Pokeball Mons / ATs have grown so large that you're realistically not going to see a specific Mon / AT all that often in more casual settings. That's a good reason to include selectable Assists and at least allow people to experiment with the idea (like FS meter).
(That said if they do this they better nerf Keldeo just a tad so that the unicorn horn swing doesn't cover half the ****ing screen I swear.)
Melee was a 2002 title in the EU, so it counts, right (and so does the rest of the GCN launch titles like LM1)?
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