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Well, I can't say for sure (maybe only him can). Its really weird to see the trophy and the mii costume with different designs.
I believe Sakurai chose that costume since it is the one that most associate King K. Rool with.
The Rare design is the classic look from the multimillion selling games people all around the world played.
Well, you are right about Ridley. I confess that at first he really looked a bit off to me. But I got used to him.The Rare design is the classic look from the multimillion selling games people all around the world played.
The Paon design is from semi-obscure spin-offs released during the franchise's unstable post-Rare pre-Retro era.
The K. Rool Smash trophy is just a reused model from the Brawl era, he wasn't going to redesign a character from scratch for a trophy of a character that hadn't appeared since 2008. What he did do was when faced with selling the character in costume form, he went with the design most people actually like and recognize. In a world where this is a playable Smash fighter:
I really cannot imagine K. Rool's classic design not fitting in the game's style.
You took the words out of my mouth!
I didn't say Waluigi was excluded solely because of Sakurai not knowing of his popularity. I may have forgotten to add that there were other reasons why he was not in, which you may have said. Just wanted to point that out. But it may seem that if Waluigi wasn't included because he did not have much potential for whatever reason, that may be a difference between him and K. Rool, who does have potential. Not saying Waluigi didn't have potential, just probably not as much as K. Rool. I could be wrong.
I don't think I said it was a good thing. I just said they got mad. I didn't mention them sending death threats or whining and screaming. I am sure you know we aren't like that, are we, guys?
Well, we kinda should be, shouldn't we? We are a pirate krew, the Kremlins Kutthroats! Death threats and screaming should be our thing!
Exactly. Although he's not the pretty boy anime type character, he's VERY popular in Japan too."- K Rool was another very popular character worldwide, though less so in Japan than other regions."
fake. we know K. Rool is really popular in Japanalso some of the things this guy "knows" seem very suspicious.
Why the disappearance? Nothing's confirmed yet.
The only thing I can think of that would genuinely surprise me is if he kept the moveset 100% tied to the blunderbuss and based the majority on it.
The most likely scenario, in my opinion, would be that K. Rool uses the crown throw and maybe one of the other usual speculated moves (probably the blunderbuss), but the rest is either completely made up or loosely inspired by some aspect of the character that Sakurai latches onto and builds off of (much like Diddy himself, with the banana toss and Monkey Flip just being made-up moves that fit the character, but aren't really pulled from any part of his usual toolkit).
I agree with this a lot, I feel like K. Rool will have a mish mash of actual move's from his game appearances and odd original moves that "fit" his character..I can see him being portrayed as more of a bruiser than we think. In fact i can see his Blunderbuss being completely omitted and him having a moveset pimarily taken from his original appearance with made up stuff thrown in.
Are you talking about the original game? Because he never rolls it along the ground in that.
I guess you're right. It always looked like it was closer to the ground to me.
Maybe he can throw his Kaptain's hat? That would be weird, yeah. But I agree with you. I prefer an alt with the Kaptain outfit too.
I agree with both parts of your post. Sakurai is very creative when it comes to move sets. Like when Pac-Man came out and I first seen his grab was a reference to Galagia. I would have never thought of doing that. To your second point, yes I think people are too caught up with the claw attacks stuff. Even though he is a crocodile, he’s not some primal beast. He’s smart and he fights dirty with all of his fancy gadgets. Sure he can be a heavy hitter. The best example would be his DKC1 fights when he ran threw the stage and then after the fake out defeat his hopped around and went ape on the Kong’s haha.
I've always hated the idea of the ground pound, frankly. I think a bellyflop from Donkey Kong Land would be a suitable down air, but something more unique should be his down special, like the Klaptrap barrel or a steel keg shield that absorbs electricity and becomes a hazard. All in all though, I think his moveset will be fairly predictable, like most characters'. Even Ridley's is basically just Bagan's build with some flashy modifications made like the fireballs bouncing.
There's no way it'd happen and it probably shouldn't happen but it would be hilarious if K. Rool got the Kirby treatment and had a persona modeled after every fighter.
Why?
I still believe he is going to be in. The video is primarily referring to Smash 4. It does end on a rather optimistic note, after all...
