Is there any potential for platform fighters beyond the "knockback-based" type?

[Quillion]

As we all know, most platform fighters nowadays are knockback-based, taking inspiration from Smash while moving it in new directions.

But could there be other ways to score wins in a platform fighter? I know Smash has an optional Stamina mode, but I do remember playing the Digimon Rumble games, which were health-based platform fighters. There are even some even more unconventional platform fighters like Nidhogg, where you die in one hit and continuously respawn after some time. But it seems that the knockback-based platform fighter is dominating all other potential sub-subgenres. No doubt developers will find new ways to take the platform fighter genre to the mainstream, but I'd like to know what and when that can happen.

That said, I hope the "super-based" platform fighter as attempted to be pioneered by PlayStation All-Stars stays stillborn.

 

[AlRex]

I know of one that existed before Smash: the Outfoxies. https://youtube.com/watch?v=LTFfli9O2nU
Basically it’s more about the use of the environment, found weapons, and a smaller version of Killer Instinct’s lifebar style.

 

[Quillion]

I know of one that existed before Smash: the Outfoxies. https://youtube.com/watch?v=LTFfli9O2nU
Basically it’s more about the use of the environment, found weapons, and a smaller version of Killer Instinct’s lifebar style.

Fun fact: that game was also made by Namco, while Bandai Namco is now the co-developer of the Smash series as of Smash 4.