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How can we predict reveals?

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Kon

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I'm thinking we're going to get Diddy and a Newcomer this month (Palutena because of the Kid Icarus Focus).

The Newcomer reveals are ramping up, or at least they'll have to. If this game is coming out in Winter 2014, then we should expect a Newcomer every 2 months really. At least that's how I see it.

Diddy will be revealed alongside Tropical Freeze, and unless there are anymore big releases, that's all I see happening. I'm assuming Diddy will be shown independent of a Direct because Nintendo has covered TF enough as it is. We'll get Diddy probably the 13th, so we could very well get a Direct before or afterwards, and get a completely different veteran or Newcomer.
It's Sakurai. Sakurai won't confirm Palutena, at least not yet. He'll just keep us excited.

I would honestly not be surprised at all if Sakurai were to reveal Diddy in the middle of February because of DKC:TF japanese release and later that month he'll just show Dixie being also playable ;)
 

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As far as I see it the next newcomer is very liked to be Palutena. If the leak is true, Sakurai will want to get her out there asap so to not have anything not officially confirmed floating around. Diddy is plenty enough to promote DKC:TF anyways, bonus points if Dixie is paired with him, unlikely as that is. I do think the chances of a newcomer in February is decent, so I'm counting on Diddy and Palutena in February.
 

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There are too many magical princess-types in the new Smash. :U
4 ? I agree that Rosalina, Zelda and Palutena are magical princess-type, but are you counting Peach too ?
Like I said before, I'm waiting for the showdown between Palutena, goddess of ligh and Rosalina, guardian of the galaxy (light magic vs space magic), it has to be awesome !
 
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Probably been said before, but it is without a doubt now that anniversaries mean nothing.
 

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We can all agree that all Mario characters were revealed early just to get Rosalina out of the way. After all, he does whatever **** possible to be unpredictable. :troll:
 
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We can all agree that all Mario characters were revealed early just to get Rosalina out of the way. After all, he does whatever **** possible to be unpredictable. :troll:
Wonder what that means for Zelda, since he has 3 of 5 veterans (counting Sheik) revealed...guess it really depends how quickly Sheik and Ganondorf get revealed.
 

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Probably been said before, but it is without a doubt now that anniversaries mean nothing.
We shouldn't pretend to understand Sakurai. Watch him pull something on anniversary. You know it's like him to lull us into a false sense of security and then strike.
 

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Wonder what that means for Zelda, since he has 3 of 5 veterans (counting Sheik) revealed...guess it really depends how quickly Sheik and Ganondorf get revealed.
Do you get what this means for the Donkey Kong franchise? After Diddy's reveal, there is no one from the series left to confirm. So coming back to my previous post: Dixie on the way? ;D
 

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Oh, yeah, I definitely think we'll get Dixie around the same time as Diddy.

Because they're going to be the duo they were supposed to be in Brawl.
 
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Do you get what this means for the Donkey Kong franchise? After Diddy's reveal, there is no one from the series left to confirm. So coming back to my previous post: Dixie on the way? ;D
Or K. Rool or Cranky.
We don't know which of the three will show up.
 

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Y'know what would be cool, if one of the DK characters could throw barrels as a Special attack. I guess that would fit for Dixie or Cranky. Maybe they could be shown off instead of Diddy. But I have doubts of that being the case.
 

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Was changing the title really necessary?

We already covered that anniversary's mean nothing.
That was my doing. I'll remove the "-Ice Climber Anniversary not recognized" part of the thread title before the day is over.

Edit: Thread title has been updated.
 
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Strange choice, showing off Lucario, if it is.

Makes me think that Pokemon Trainer may be different this time around. Red would obviously be the better choice for the anniversary of a remake of the first Pokemon games rather than a Pokemon who wasn't even around for them.
 

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Sakurai posted this on miiverse:

"Lucario joined the battle for the first time in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which was released six years ago. The production staff of Brawl worked really hard to expand the character roster--without their efforts, Lucario probably never would have joined the battle."

So technically, Lucario is revealed in celebration of the anniversary of Smash Bros. Brawl
 

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oh yeah! todays the anniversary of brawl's Japanese release
 

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So apparently anniversaries can potentially be reveal dates for certain characters. This one was still completely unexpected though, having revealed a Pokemon character for Brawl's anniversary.

Predicting reveals, once again, has increased in difficulty and complexity.
 

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I think this does little for our database other than completely destroy it.

Anniversaries can now reveal characters that have practically nothing to do with them. :laugh:
 

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The day after I said Anniversaries mean nothing, Sakurai reveals a Brawl veteran on Brawl's anniversary. :laugh:

Can't complain though, I was really worried about him getting the axe. Time to update my sig. :awesome:
 

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So wait...nothing for 15th year anniversary of Smash 64, the game that started all this, no Pokemon for the release of X and Y...Pokemon vet for the 6th anniversary of Brawl?

Alright, let's just give up pardners.
 

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Y'know what would be cool, if one of the DK characters could throw barrels as a Special attack. I guess that would fit for Dixie or Cranky. Maybe they could be shown off instead of Diddy. But I have doubts of that being the case.
If any of the DK characters should have that as a special, it should be DK himself no question.
 

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Sakurai posted this on miiverse:

"Lucario joined the battle for the first time in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which was released six years ago. The production staff of Brawl worked really hard to expand the character roster--without their efforts, Lucario probably never would have joined the battle."

So technically, Lucario is revealed in celebration of the anniversary of Smash Bros. Brawl
Which is kind of strange because we got nothing more than a technique update for the 15th anniversary of Smash. No character reveal on 15th anniversary of Smash, but a character reveal on 6th anniversary of Brawl.

What's the conclusion? The reveal today was a proof Sakurai can still be unpredictable if he were interested in being unpredictable.

A question that comes to my mind now:
Does the reveal of Lucario mean we will now be getting 2 character reveals per month? It would make sense to increase the number of reveals per month if he were to reveal the whole roster before the release.
I guess we will see next month if the 2 characters per month will be what we can expect for the future months.
 

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How can we predict reveals?

We cant.

But actually, Lucario appearing in the game makes me think that there are not going to be cuts from Brawl to SSB4 or that there are going to be only a few cuts. I though that Lucario was going to be one of those Brawl veterans that was not going to return (Toon Link, Lucario, Lucas, Snake). But since two of my unexpected characters are confirmed. What you think about veterans of Melee that were cut in Brawl?

By the way the next character to be revealed is going to be R.O.B. or Ness, because... Why not?
 

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Didn't expect Lucario to be shown just yet. Well, either way it's cool to see him come back. So, does anyone think we could get more than one character again next month? Since that's been the case with both December and January. We also got two characters in October if I'm not mistaken.
 
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So technically, Lucario is revealed in celebration of the anniversary of Smash Bros. Brawl
*facepalm* How did I forget this?! I knew that Brawl was released on this day in Japan too…

It's rather odd that we got Lucario of all characters. So… we didn't get anyone from the original 12 for Smash's 15th Anniversary, we got NO ONE for the release of X and Y, and we get a character now? Huh…

I'm greatly confused.
 
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