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This is glorious! Is that a Pikmin I spot in the last 2 boxes? HahaI made a quick comic to illustrate how I think Sakurai will add Elma and Rex in Smash Switch.
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It was fun to make, and I hope you get a good idea on how I interpret both of their additions.
It would get pretty redundant if that was done with every character reveal...for the Inkling trailer it worked since it was meant to reveal Smash and going forward it would get more and more predictable since it's done as a way to surprise the audience...
So far I can see each game getting one character, sure...
There's actually 3 exceptions to the whole "new characters debuting after roster has been finalized likely won't get in" trend. These are Roy, Lucas and Greninja. The weirdest thing about that interview about how roster is affected by the trends of the time was the quote about how if Awakening was released six months later, Robin may not have made it in, and if it was six months early, they might not have even been considered according to Sakurai, yet a Pokemon X and Y newcomer was specificially stated to be the exception. What if that exception was made because of how iconic Pokemon is, thus making Greninja's inclusion high-risk, high-reward in terms of broad appeal?
I don't count roy cause he's a clone tho, Mother 3 was announced in like 2003 long before Brawl's project plan was made. Pokemon is weird because it has a consistent release schedule and brand new sets of characters every time, every time a new game is out the last characters are irrelevant so they have to plan ahead, xenoblade as a much smaller series and the games aren't set like pokemon so isn't really like that.
Unless his next Kid Icarus game has Pit going that high-tech, it'd make sense he'd use a toy mech to get a better understanding as to how Elma's Skell would work. The toy does look pretty close to it.
It's definitely possible. Other than the Skells, there's nothing like that mecha figure from recent games. The closest thing would be Custom Robo, but the last game was made over a decade ago.
Lin isn't as important and Cross isn't very unique and is barely a character, I couldn't see either of them getting in tbh
That's what I like to believe. But you never know.
True, but especially in Lin's case that's like adding Falco but not Fox. Cross is just so bland, it'd be literally the most disappointing character, I don't think ANYONE really wants cross lol
Cross is indeed bland, but I don't think their lack of personality has any bearing on their potential as a newcomer. They are the main character of the game. Period. It's ultimately up to Sakurai to decide. He'll either choose the main character with no definable traits or an actual character whose purpose is to drive the main story.
Cross might be the player's avatar, but considering Elma's prominence in the game, it can easily be argued that she's the real main character.Cross is indeed bland, but I don't think their lack of personality has any bearing on their potential as a newcomer. They are the main character of the game. Period. It's ultimately up to Sakurai to decide. He'll either choose the main character with no definable traits or an actual character whose purpose is to drive the main story.
Please understand the reason why I'm acting pessimistic is because there has been a lot of positive hype surrounding Elma lately. Gotta keep expectations low in case she doesn't get in.
Honestly, I know Xenoblade combat is complicated and they'd probably want to represent that in smash but I really hope elma doesn't have a gimmick, and if she does make it something simple like stance changing between guns and swords
Yeah Elma doesn't need a gimmick. I just wanted to throw some ideas into the pot since theorycrafting broken moves is pretty fun. In reality she'd be an agile dual sword/gun user with a focus on the swords. It's a shame that she can't make full use of how FMJ has a lot of positional attacks since there's no way a side attack could work in Smash, and that's the main problem I ran into when trying to craft a moveset. Obviously Shadowstrike has to be in there, but there's only so much you can do if you want to build around positioning when you only have back attacks to work with. Shadowrunner & Ghost Factory could work in there with Sliding Slinger to kind of pass through enemies to get behind them though.
I've always thought of sliding slinger as a launcher, her hitting them to send them up and maybe shooting them to keep them in the air for a second. She could then either jump out of it to follow up with a combo or keep running to get better positioning and escape a bad situation. The whole hit and run thing is how I've always imagined Elma's playstyle.
I never thought of using taunts to change stances, I've always thought it would be down B but that honestly makes a lot of sense. The whole changing weapons based on which special you last used honestly sounds like it'd be a little unnecessarily complicated for casual players tho so I feel like they wouldn't use that
Honestly it's no more complicated than characters that changed their entire movesets with a special...Probably would have a decently high skill cap, but there are a few characters already that take some getting used to when you first take them up, Shulk for example...
I think her fighting samus would be a cool idea tbh, maybe she mistakes her for a ganglion robot or something lol. And the trailer better have Lin and Tatsu talking with Elma over it too.
