I honestly think we are going to receive some sort of PC representative in this pass. WoW, LoL, something from Valve are all larger contenders in my eyes. I know LoL and WoW have VERY large fanbases that probably don't have a lot of cross over to Smash. Would be a good group to grab as I guarantee they would be interested if they got sort of representative in the game.
Compared to Geno, those characters feel like the polar opposite. Small fanbase within Smash, but huge in the gaming world. While Geno is the opposite of that. I could be over estimating Geno in Smash fanbase as I never looked at numbers.
Anyone who talks about Smash speculation semi-regularly knows about Geno. You aren't overestimating anything my friend, Geno is just that big a deal for this fandom.
That said, I have to heavily disagree with this 'PC Rep' idea because....well, PCs don't have a rep. That's kinda the idea, that you can play just about anything on a PC. You can narrow that down to a Valve Rep or an Epic Games Rep, but even then it's not very likely.
There are very few characters that were put into Ultimate that had absolutely no demand, if any. Very low demand doesn't have many as well. As much as anyone might argue, the only characters that didn't have a decent amount of request or demand are
,
, and
.
is to Ultimate as
was to Smash 4: Left field pick that no one really asked for or wanted but learned to love them anyway.
is to Ultimate as
was to Smash 4: People generally had enough of Fire Emblem and anime-esq sword wielders, but we got more AND had to pay for them.
is unique in this situation because it's less about her and more about her franchise. Up until the announcement in March, the demand for an ARMS rep in Ultimate was about 5% of the general community for requests, and I feel like that is being generous. The game was dead for a while and most folks had moved on if they even played it at all as a lot of people found it to be too 'Nintendo' of a game to play consistently. However, once it was confirmed we were getting an ARMS rep, she was essentially the #1 request outside of people wanting Spring Man just to shatter multiple fan rules at once.
People may argue that
or
weren't heavily requested but they would be wrong. Isabelle is the most popular (or at least was, idk about still, I don't touch AC) character in Animal Crossing and Villager getting in Smash 4 would obviously bring chatter for Isabelle. Incineroar was much more popular in the West than people would like you to believe as Decidueye spiked and then kinda dribbled down in popularity while Incineroar either stayed in place or increased, and his overseas appeal was massive. Also, Pokemon have never really been about requests anyway, more about getting a new one each iteration of Smash...which is also why thinking a Gen 8 mon is in FP2 is stupid as hell.
Pokemon Generations have been skipped in Smash previously and they have only ever been in the base game. I suppose this COULD change with DLC, but considering that Sakurai was talking about pleasing fans with the DLC and how a new gen Pokemon is what everyone EXPECTS and not what they WANT I think a single shill pick in the pass is enough for now.
