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Gamingboy's Predictions for Brawl: LUCAS CONFIRMED!

Gamingboy

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It is time. I have waited too long. I must get it all off my chest. It's time for my...

CHARACTER PREDICTIONS FOR BRAWL (that means this is not a list of people who I want to be in, it's who I think will be in



(by franchise)

*Means already confirmed when I made this list
! means that the character was confirmed after I made this list
^ means the character was deconfirmed after I made this list.
$ means character never officially deconfirmed or confirmed, but I no longer think will be in
? means possibly deconfirmed (suggested to be unconfirmed, but not totally. This includes ordinary trophies, icons and others)

If a character is surrounded by < >, it means the character I did not think would be in was confirmed to be in and fits into that franchise.

MARIO FRANCHISE (includes spin-off franchises like Warioware and the Yoshi games)
Mario*
Yoshi*
Peach*
Bowser*
Wario*
Luigi


(6 total, 5 confirmed so far)


Donkey Kong Country

Donkey Kong*
Diddy Kong*

(2 total, both confirmed)

Legend of Zelda
Link (Twilight Princess Flavor)*
Zelda (Twilight Princess Flavor)*
Ganondorf/Ganon

(3 total, 2 confirmed so far. Apologies to Sheik, I wish she were here.)

Pokemon Franchise
Pikachu*
Pokemon Trainer (Squirtle, Ivysaur, Charizard)*
Jigglypuff
Lucario
Mewtwo

(5 total, 7 if you have the Pokemon trainer instead represented by his pokemon instead. 2 confirmed, 4 if you have Pokemon in place of Trainer)

Kirby Series
Kirby*
Meta-Knight*
King Dedede

(3 total, 2 confirmed)

Metroid
Samus Aran/ZeroSuit*
Ridley

(2 total, 3 if Zerosuit is counted. 1 confirmed, 2 if Zerosuit is counted)


STAR FOX SERIES
Fox Mccloud*


(1 total, 1 confirmed. Apologies to Falco and Krystal, I want them in here, but I don't think that Nintendo thinks the Fox series will warrant more then the title character these days)

Fire Emblem
Ike*
Marth

(2 total, 1 confirmed)

Earthbound/Mother
Ness
Lucas!

(2 total, neither confirmed)


Other Nintendo Franchises
Pit*
Ice Climbers*
Mr. Game and Watch
Captain Falcon
Captain Olimar
Animal Crossingite?


(6 total, 2 confirmed, 1 possibly deconfirmed)

3rd Parties
Snake*
Sonic the Hedgehog
(Original) Mega Man

(3 total, 1 confirmed)


TOTAL: 36 total , 20 confirmed. (The confirmed as of 9-29 are the starters, with the exception of Snake. Lucas will be a starter.)

Please don't flame me. This was a tough process, I originally also had Mii, Sheik, Krystal, Baby Bowser, Little Mac and the Balloon Fighter in here as well, but I had way too much, so I had to cut them. And I only put in Lucario because I refuse to believe that Pokemon, Nintendo's most profitable franchise that does not feature a red-clad Plumber, would not have a rep from it's latest edition. I kept all the original 12 in (although, of course, the Link from SSB and SSBM was the OoT Link, but it's not like there are any major differences between the two).

Lucas has been confirmed, and will likely be a starter. I believe Ness will still make it in, as the wording that Sakurai used was rather vague about Ness.
 

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I like! You've got Lucario, Olimar...wait, ONLY Fox for the Star-Fox series? Come on! Falco and Krystal have high chances...for that, 8/10...well, at least you didn't push it as the perfect list, and admitted that it was only opinion...
 

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! what did you do with yoshi!!! he and wario needs his own franchise
 

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! what did you do with yoshi!!! he and wario needs his own franchise
What? He just put Yoshi in the mario series. Perhaps you're saying that because Yoshi isn't in his own series section. But i don't mind that, Yoshi did start in a Mario series game. Personally, i don't call even the DK series a completely different one from Mario >_>
 

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Yeah.. Wario is part of the Wario Ware Franchise.

Kudos on your Pokémon choices.. but I dislike Star Fox only having one rep. Fox and Falco at least.
 

CommanderGrit

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i think its nearly perfect! i mean it has Sonic, Olimar, Ridley, Jigglypuff! all my personal favorites.

If you just added Sheik and another StarFox rep, It would be absolutely perfect!
 

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Not very good...Some series are missing reps that a are assured...and might as well put DK with the Mario Reps if you added Wario and Yoshi to them
 

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Krystal and Falco were the last two to be removed before the Final List, BTW.

Only reason I didn't put them in was two-fold: 1. Space, 2. I heavily suspect that Fox's Final Smash will be having the rest of the Star Fox Team come and attack his opponents.
 

Luke Groundwalker

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Sakurai did say the roster is planned to be around 40 or so, yes. But that was a long time ago, Brawl possibly will have 50 in the final product, guessing if the roster will be double the size of Melee's roster.
 

BigRick

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Good list.

- Take out the Animal Crossingite, they simply won't make it as fighters
- Take out Dedede
- Take out Megaman

- Sonic has chances to be in there... depends of Sega

- Falco should be in there IMO. Or he might be replaced by Wolf...

- Dedede/Lucas and Olimar are very unsure
 

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If I'm going to go to 40, I'm going to need some documentation. I'd love to, but that number seemed oddly too high. If anyone can direct me to where he said that, I would so, so, so very gladly move that number up (because I already am second guessing my picks as well).
 

thejbr12

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The problem with finding the article, I believe, is that Sakurai said "40 or so" in that Japanese blog thingy that isn't even around anymore. I'm sure you could find an old thread somewhere on here that has a translated version, but I'd say that's the best you're gonna do.

As far as I'm concerned the number will be at least 40, for 2 reasons: 1. Sakurai's goal in Melee was 25 and they spaced out their time and made exactly 25 characters (though even he admitted that it happened "by accident"). Since he said his goal was 40 this time I expect it to happen again. 2. At the current rate of announcing characters there will be 1 every 2 weeks, so that means 5 more before Dec. 3rd. As long as they don't announce any more unlockable characters (because Snake will surely be unlockable), that means 24 starters. The ratio in Melee was 14 starters to 11 unlockable, so a close ratio for Brawl could be 24 starters to 18 unlockable. But that's my guesstimate.
 

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Well it's not sure that Sakurai will hit 40 characters... he might change his idea you if having too many crappy chars breaks the feel of the game.

And the 25 character thing didn't happen by accident... he added clones at the last minute to reach that number.
 

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The problem with finding the article, I believe, is that Sakurai said "40 or so" in that Japanese blog thingy that isn't even around anymore. I'm sure you could find an old thread somewhere on here that has a translated version, but I'd say that's the best you're gonna do.

As far as I'm concerned the number will be at least 40, for 2 reasons: 1. Sakurai's goal in Melee was 25 and they spaced out their time and made exactly 25 characters (though even he admitted that it happened "by accident"). Since he said his goal was 40 this time I expect it to happen again. 2. At the current rate of announcing characters there will be 1 every 2 weeks, so that means 5 more before Dec. 3rd. As long as they don't announce any more unlockable characters (because Snake will surely be unlockable), that means 24 starters. The ratio in Melee was 14 starters to 11 unlockable, so a close ratio for Brawl could be 24 starters to 18 unlockable. But that's my guesstimate.
That's very reasonable:)
 

thejbr12

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Well it's not sure that Sakurai will hit 40 characters... he might change his idea you if having too many crappy chars breaks the feel of the game.

And the 25 character thing didn't happen by accident... he added clones at the last minute to reach that number.
Lol, yeah, that's why I put "accident" in quotes. He said that in the Japanese blog thing earlier this year and I always thought that it was just to save face for cloning characters.
 

Gamingboy

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Lucas was confirmed, becoming the first of my predictions to be confirmed. I still stand by my Ness idea though, as the wording about Ness in the Lucas post by Sakurai was too vague to say that he is deconfirmed.
 

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-Add Krystal & Falco to the Starfox characters. Adventures, Assault, and Command have all come out since Melee, and sold decently, two more characters wont kill anyone.
-Add Bowser Jr. to Mario characters, he's been in every Mario game since Sunshine (if I'm not mistaken), if Toad doesnt make it, he should be in.

There are some more, less likely characters I would suggest but I'll leave it be, good list overall.
 

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add falco at least. krystal(i have never seen her, but to make people happy, she should be in the game) Lucas is confirmed(congrats on guessing right) and hopefully ness will be in. (question: is mr saturn in mother 3, if anyone here would know)

SONIC FTW!!!!!!
 
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