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So Japan got popular characters like Palutena, Dark Pit, Roy, and Lucas.
West got Little Mac and Mewtwo

I feel we will probably get popular west DLC like K Rool and Isaac.
 

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Found this interesting in the reddit post.


_Falgor_
#IsaacForSmash+GS4 2 points 19 hours ago

Even the King K. Rool Mii costume was not a disappointment for Japanese fans?
I thought he was one of the most popular Nintendo characters in Japan, if not the most popular.
Here, a lot of people were extremely disappointed.

  • SurvivorZerg[S] 7 points 19 hours ago

    I understood the question now. Yes some Japanese fans really got disappointed KingK.rool didn't actually on the Smash but only Mii.
 
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Found this interesting in the reddit post.

_Falgor_
#IsaacForSmash+GS4 2 points 19 hours ago

Even the King K. Rool Mii costume was not a disappointment for Japanese fans?
I thought he was one of the most popular Nintendo characters in Japan, if not the most popular.
Here, a lot of people were extremely disappointed.

  • SurvivorZerg[S] 7 points 19 hours ago

    I understood the question now. Yes some Japanese fans really got disappointed KingK.rool didn't actually on the Smash but only Mii.
Good to know the feeling's mutual. If Sakurai doesn't listen to us, maybe he'll listen to them.
 

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Found this interesting in the reddit post.

_Falgor_
#IsaacForSmash+GS4 2 points 19 hours ago

Even the King K. Rool Mii costume was not a disappointment for Japanese fans?
I thought he was one of the most popular Nintendo characters in Japan, if not the most popular.
Here, a lot of people were extremely disappointed.

  • SurvivorZerg[S] 7 points 19 hours ago

    I understood the question now. Yes some Japanese fans really got disappointed KingK.rool didn't actually on the Smash but only Mii.
Hey, I think that's @Falgor on our own Smashboards.
 

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Your Reaction: K. Rool is DLC due to the ballot, but Sakurai believed that he stood out more and offered a more unique fighting style in his Kaptain persona which is why King K. Rool is a costume.

Would you guys be happy because K. Rool wasn't left out, or upset because it's the "wrong" K. Rool?
even it would be cool to see captain k rool a character, it still wouldn't make sense. When you first think of King K. Rool, You think of the crown, swollen eyed crocodile. Its the original version that is a well more known look for k rool. Even in the trophy it shows that King K. Rool ( not captain k rool ) is the MAIN antagonist for the Donkey Kong Series. I rather have the original look of king k rool but his moveset would be a mixture of everything. Including some new moves from smash.
 

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I wouldn't mind it being Kaptain K. Rool as I do really like him, but it doesn't feel right. Either way, as long as we get an actual playable K. Rool that isn't that mii costume, im fine.
 

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Just wanted to mention it, but the new Smashified just came out and it is
Isaac
of course. Does anyone think this will raise his popularity on the ballot? I'm going to be honest, this doesn't look that good. Which stinks since I was hoping for them to do him for so long.
 

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Just wanted to mention it, but the new Smashified just came out and it is
Isaac
of course. Does anyone think this will raise his popularity on the ballot? I'm going to be honest, this doesn't look that good. Which stinks since I was hoping for them to do him for so long.
What are you talking about? It looks great. The only problem is the eyes and the sternness which are nitpicks.
 

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Just wanted to mention it, but the new Smashified just came out and it is
Isaac
of course. Does anyone think this will raise his popularity on the ballot? I'm going to be honest, this doesn't look that good. Which stinks since I was hoping for them to do him for so long.
Meh
 
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That was probably it, idk why but it bothers me too much for some reason. Whatever, just me being nit picky.
I think the boots and gloves clash a bit too much, being a lot more detailed than the rest. The eyes, mouth, and I think the hair too seems a bit off. Maybe if the hair came more off the back of the head it wouldn't look like it's off center of his head.

But a great render overall. Also their first 3D one to boot.
 

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I think the boots and gloves clash a bit too much, being a lot more detailed than the rest. The eyes, mouth, and I think the hair too seems a bit off. Maybe if the hair came more off the back of the head it wouldn't look like it's off center of his head.

But a great render overall. Also their first 3D one to boot.
First fully 3D, they've used 3D before though.
 

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A lot of people here were nitpicky with K. Rool's Smashified ("Why didn't they use the Rare design?" "Why does he have no tail?" "Where's his golden belly?"), but both K. Rool's and Isaac's renders are still great overall.



Omni and team are such good artists, helping the two most wanted Nintendo newcomer characters get more visibility.
 

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Just wanted to mention it, but the new Smashified just came out and it is
Isaac
of course. Does anyone think this will raise his popularity on the ballot? I'm going to be honest, this doesn't look that good. Which stinks since I was hoping for them to do him for so long.
I don't think this will raise his popularity that much. Bomber Man was Smashified and his popularity hasn't gone up that much. And I agree, it looks a little odd to me, but it's mostly the face/eyes that bothers me. If the face wasn't done in 3D I feel it would have turned out better.
 
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Just wanted to mention it, but the new Smashified just came out and it is
Isaac
of course. Does anyone think this will raise his popularity on the ballot? I'm going to be honest, this doesn't look that good. Which stinks since I was hoping for them to do him for so long.
Honestly, no. Outside of diehard nintendo fans (and people on Smash Boards) I feel Isaac has the least support of all the characters at the "top" of the ballot
 

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Before we get off topic but I have to point out one part of the video:

(If anyone can tell me how to link the point in the video, I will edit this so it just has the point in the video)

11:12 Who is that in the white?! It looks like Picollo from DBZ
 

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Before we get off topic but I have to point out one part of the video:

(If anyone can tell me how to link the point in the video, I will edit this so it just has the point in the video)

11:12 Who is that in the white?! It looks like Picollo from DBZ
Maybe Ganondorf. This is the end of the video right? There are 3 of them, one is Ike, one looks like Ganondorf, and then the other one who kinda reminds me of Bomberman.
 
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Maybe Ganondorf. This is the end of the video right? There are 3 of them, one is Ike, one looks like Ganondorf, and then the other one who kinda reminds me of Bomberman.
The last "character" isn't actually a character, its just a statue. I think they were trying to make it look like Isaac, Ganondorf, and Ike were standing on top of the Venus Lighthouse.
 

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Top 5 are probably what, Wolf, King K. Rool, Isaac, and someone else, maybe Krystal or Bandana Dee. Isaac doesn't have the worst support out of them.
Very few normal players know who Isaac is. I didn't know who he was until people started supporting him on Smashboards.

K Rool has a lot of support from these people (good news :))
Wolf has support from people who played starfox plus people from brawl
Bandana Dee has had the recent Kirby games
And Krystal also probably has little support from average players, but I still would argue more than Isaac since Star fox is more popular than golden sun
 
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Also, according to SourceGaming's polls, Krystal is number 2 behind K. Rool. So she's more popular in JPN than here, so there's that to take into consideration. If Krystal really is up that high in JPN polls, I wonder if her and Isaac are roughly the same in total global votes.

We really won't know until the characters are finally chosen. I'm just hoping K. Rool is one of them.
 

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A lot of people here were nitpicky with K. Rool's Smashified ("Why didn't they use the Rare design?" "Why does he have no tail?" "Where's his golden belly?"), but both K. Rool's and Isaac's renders are still great overall.



Omni and team are such good artists, helping the two most wanted Nintendo newcomer characters get more visibility.
Speaking of this, didn't someone edit this render to have the golden belly and darker green skin of the Rare design? If not then with the Mii costume colours/textures you might be able to edit this to bring it in line with that design.
 

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Also, according to SourceGaming's polls, Krystal is number 2 behind K. Rool. So she's more popular in JPN than here, so there's that to take into consideration. If Krystal really is up that high in JPN polls, I wonder if her and Isaac are roughly the same in total global votes.

We really won't know until the characters are finally chosen. I'm just hoping K. Rool is one of them.
I think Isaac is still higher because Japan is a smaller country. And Isaac is at least semi popular in Europe as well.
 

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SourceGaming is looking into post-ballot popularity at the moment IIRC, and said that K. Rool was still top 5 over there based on early research.

If only because of timing, I don't think Isaac's Smashified will help him out much for the ballot. Early on, K. Rool had the designation of being one of their first characters, their first first party character, and released alongside other widespread news pieces like "Playtonic Supports K. Rool for Smash." Now, however, I think people are burnt out on Smashified (it has several thousand fewer upvotes on Reddit from the Banjo one, only a few dozen now), partly because of how many times they push artwork releases back, partly because they try to act coy and tease new releases in a Sakurai kind of way (one is enough for anyone), and partly because it's a less exclusive "club" now, so to speak, with way more third parties and even OCs getting chosen before requested first parties.

In general, I don't think anyone is going to make any big last minute surges in the ballot, it's more just a matter of whether the big contenders can keep their momentum in the home stretch and not fall behind. We have about six weeks left to keep up ours before we can rest at last and await an outcome.
 
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SourceGaming is looking into post-ballot popularity at the moment IIRC, and said that K. Rool was still top 5 over there based on early research.

If only because of timing, I don't think Isaac's Smashified will help him out much for the ballot. Early on, K. Rool had the designation of being one of their first characters, their first first party character, and released alongside other widespread news pieces like "Playtonic Supports K. Rool for Smash." Now, however, I think people are burnt out on Smashified (it has several thousand fewer upvotes on Reddit from the Banjo one, only a few dozen now), partly because of how many times they push artwork releases back, partly because they try to act coy and tease new releases in a Sakurai kind of way (one is enough for anyone), and partly because it's a less exclusive "club" now, so to speak, with way more third parties and even OCs getting chosen before requested first parties.

In general, I don't think anyone is going to make any big last minute surges in the ballot, it's more just a matter of whether the big contenders can keep their momentum in the home stretch and not fall behind. We have about six weeks left to keep up ours before we can rest at last and await an outcome.
That's great news, knowing K. Rool is still top 5 in JPN that we know of.

I think it might be too late in the game for anyone to get any sudden huge following, as well.
 

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A lot of people here were nitpicky with K. Rool's Smashified ("Why didn't they use the Rare design?" "Why does he have no tail?" "Where's his golden belly?"), but both K. Rool's and Isaac's renders are still great overall.



Omni and team are such good artists, helping the two most wanted Nintendo newcomer characters get more visibility.
my only problem with Isaac the shape of his face, its a bit too round.
 

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just saying, I think all the pre ballot characters should have been veterans. We would have two veterans from melee, and two veterans from brawl. Melee: Mewtwo and Roy. Brawl: Lucas and Wolf. Ryu is cool and all but to me he just feels so out of place. I think the ballot should be for only newcomers. just a thought
 

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So do you guys think K.Rool's amiibo will be store exclusive? I think that if he is, he will either be a Bestbuy exclusive(on account of being an edgy character), or a Gamestop exclusive(on account of being kind of retro)
 

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So do you guys think K.Rool's amiibo will be store exclusive? I think that if he is, he will either be a Bestbuy exclusive(on account of being an edgy character), or a Gamestop exclusive(on account of being kind of retro)
Considering his status, I doubt he'd be one chosen to be store exclusive. Isaac would seem to be a more likely candidate for that. Perhaps Roy and Lucas as well. (I think all the DLC character Amiibo will be released in the same wave, barring Mewtwo of course.)
 

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Considering his status, I doubt he'd be one chosen to be store exclusive. Isaac would seem to be a more likely candidate for that. Perhaps Roy and Lucas as well. (I think all the DLC character Amiibo will be released in the same wave, barring Mewtwo of course.)
I imagine most of the DLC characters to become exclusive
 

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So do you guys think K.Rool's amiibo will be store exclusive? I think that if he is, he will either be a Bestbuy exclusive(on account of being an edgy character), or a Gamestop exclusive(on account of being kind of retro)
I don't want the DLC characters are store exclusive, but I won't be surprised if Nintendo decides to make them exclusive. Even though amiibos are getting some what easier to find, its still a pain having to go to a specific store to and having to deal with a long line if you want a better chance at getting a certain amiibo.
 
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