So I thought of something that I thought people would find interesting. Doesn't pertain to Smash 5 I know but I thought it would be a nice way to reinvigorate interest in this thread.
Lets say you're warped back in time miraculously to the year 2012 and for some weird reason Masahiro Sakurai wants you to decide the roster for the upcoming Smash Bros game.
Take Smash 4's roster and add/cut characters as you see fit. The only catch is that said roster has to be exactly the same amount as Smash 4's roster; meaning 51 characters for the vanilla roster and 7 DLC characters with one of them being
given she won the Ballot.
My Roster
And the DLC
I don't have the Roster Maker program on me right now, but I'd do something like this.
- Smash 4 Base Roster
Cut Mii Brawler, Swordfighter, and Gunner. Replace them with a consolidated, single Mii representative of their actual games and have two leftover spaces.
Use one free space to make Mewtwo a base game character.
Use the other to add Chrom onto the roster. The base roster is now the same, exact Mii Fighters are replaced with a consolidated Mii, Chrom, and Mewtwo.
I'd then cut out Doctor Mario, Lucina, and Dark Pit and make them alts. Though, in Lucina's case, she becomes a Chrom alt instead of a Marth alt to be truer to Awakening. Despite this next part not being possible, I'd use these three spaces for unique characters (like I said, technically not possible, but hey, this is hypothetical anyway
). I'd now have three more free spaces.
Lucas and Ryu then come to the base roster, alongside Starfy as a newcomer.
- Onward to DLC.
Mewtwo, Lucas, and Ryu would be on the base roster, so that'd make three free spots. Cutting Roy would make four. Roy is cut.
Corrin, Cloud, and obviously Bayonetta are kept. The four new DLC characters would be Inkling, Henry Fleming, Shovel Knight, and King K. Rool. I'd add Decidueye, but he didn't exist yet.
The Switch port, however...
This is also assuming Ice Climbers still couldn't happen due to the 3DS, since presumably I'd have no control over that.
Like Decidueye, I'd put them in the Switch port as a bonus.
So yeah. I'd do something like that.