Luigi Should Have A New Final Smash (Poltergust confirmed!)

[ToothiestAura]

Now we just have to guess how it works.

My guess is that Luigi can go around for a while sucking people into the Poltergust and that those inside take damage over time, and then when the FS ends the Poltergust spits them out far in whatever direction Luigi is facing.

 

[FalKoopa]

I edited the thread title as appropriate.

 

[Sun & Moon]

Just wait and see as Sakurai confirms the Poltergust as Luigi's down B, witch is being used while having the smash ball.

 

[SchAlternate]

Noice.

Wonder if other veterans will have their Final Smashes changed.

(I'M LOOKING AT YOU FALCO)

 

[GuyWithTheFace]

I think it means a fair few number of final smashes will be changed. Falco and Wolf both desperately need new ones, one or both of the Earthbound kids, assuming both return, will need a new one, and Pit's gonna need one that isn't so Palutena-centric, for reasons...

 

[PixelPasta]

I am so pleased that the goshawful Negative Zone is gone. It's about time for some Luigi's Mansion love!

 

[YoshiandToad]

Perfect. One of my few gripes about Luigi was his lack of Luigi's Mansion in his moveset. About damn time.

 

[Tepig2000]

Yay! Thank you Sakurai. Much better than Negative Zone.

 

[UltimateWario]

Thank gawd.

Now for people to start "speculating" that it isn't his Final Smash.

 

[Tepig2000]

Thank gawd.

Now for people to start "speculating" that it isn't his Final Smash.

They are already doing that.

 

[NocturnalQuill]

Bear in mind that it is possible that he's just using a special with the Poltergeist while he has a smash ball, or that both a special and final smash use it.

 

[SchAlternate]

Bear in mind that it is possible that he's just using a special with the Poltergeist while he has a smash ball, or that both a special and final smash use it.

Well, we've seen all of his other Special Moves return (Fireball, Green Missile, Super Jump Punch, and Luigi Cyclone), so that's pretty much out of the question...

 

[NocturnalQuill]

Well, we've seen all of his other Special Moves return (Fireball, Green Missile, Super Jump Punch, and Luigi Cyclone), so that's pretty much out of the question...

Never mind then. It's either his final smash or Sakurai is sadistic and made it a taunt.

 

[Banjodorf]

While not out of the question, unless we have right and left taunts now, I think you don't need to worry about that either, since his poses taunt is confirmed, the boat taunt is too, since it's bascially his character art, and I really can't see Sakurai getting rid of the classic meteor taunt.

So I'm pretty sure it's confirmed to be a Final Smash. Plus, Kirby's changed, and so did Pit's, so hey.

 

[FalKoopa]

Never mind then. It's either his final smash or Sakurai is sadistic and made it a taunt.

While not out of the question, unless we have right and left taunts now, I think you don't need to worry about that either, since his poses taunt is confirmed, the boat taunt is too, since it's bascially his character art, and I really can't see Sakurai getting rid of the classic meteor taunt.

So I'm pretty sure it's confirmed to be a Final Smash. Plus, Kirby's changed, and so did Pit's, so hey.

All 3 three of his taunts have been confirmed.

So any chance of the Poltergust being a taunt can be ruled out.

Still, too bad we didn't see it in action during the direct.

 

[Chaosmaster8753]

Since it's the Poltergust 5000, I wonder how some of its other functions from Dark Moon will work?

 

[MAtgSy]

Apparently Luigi's playable in the 3DS E3 demo. Here's a video showing his FS in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42wqmaJqlxI (2:54)

 

[Zero Suit Wario]

Apparently Luigi's playable in the 3DS E3 demo. Here's a video showing his FS in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42wqmaJqlxI (2:54)

Looks like he's sucking them in and shooting them out of the stage. I can't really tell though.

 

[[TSON]]

He spins around with a huge suction coming out of the Poltergust, hurting people w/ upward KB that are far-ish away and sucking people in that are close. Then at the end he aims the Poltergust up and non-chalantly shoots them out with high kb. It's flashy and wacky, it's probably my favorite FS.

 

[VictoryIsMudkipz]

His FS is definitely better this time around, and I'm soo happy Sakurai listened to that complaint

 

[Nitric Acid]

His FS is definitely better this time around, and I'm soo happy Sakurai listened to that complaint

Looks more like a nerf to me. You could easily go around and Up B everyone to death during his Brawl FS. This one seems to have abysmal range.

 

[ToothiestAura]

They just showed it on Treehouse, looks useful but its range is much smaller than his old one's.

 

[BandanaDee]

I like the old one better, was a lot more unique in my opinion and a lot more silly/funky. Though considering it ko'd shiek even though luigi used it as s/he was at 0% is pretty dang powerful, like before you'll need to get close and get them in your zone so to speak, just the sucking zone,

depends really the demo isnt clear, if you can aim the sucking then i think its a cool unique smash and better than the old one
but if its automated i'll be sad

 

[Twewy]

You better get away, otherwise...

Wow. One mirrion ghosts.

 

[Luigi#1]

The new one sucks.
[Badum-BOO]
Oh...that was just done...

 

[VictoryIsMudkipz]

Looks more like a nerf to me. You could easily go around and Up B everyone to death during his Brawl FS. This one seems to have abysmal range.

I'm not really caught up in its effectiveness, I know the one time I saw it, the FS was able to KO about 2 opponents at once which is good enough for me, but really I wanted and some others too wanted something that is easily relateable to Luigi's character and gaming history which is most likely the Poltergeist, so I wasn't all concerned on how it would work, because realistically usually items aren't even used outside of the first month of the game's release, but I was mainly concerned with the aesthetic of it visually. Call me whatever since I valued the visual more than the effectiveness, but this was one of the rare cases where it actually did matter, at least to me *shrug*.
Not to mention I did enjoy the effectiveness of his old FS, but the issue was I couldn't relate it to anything "Luigi"..