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Munchlax eats the Competition away!

cast man232

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ive talked about thus subject numerous times with my cousins,and we all agree(well,one doesnt :mad:) but the subject is that in brawl,they are focusing too much on the litle things,like mario's jeens!!!!and im not saying that they shouldnt be updated,but still,when i looked at the item in this update it brought me back to the thought,so anyone agree?
 

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ive talked about thus subject numerous times with my cousins,and we all agree(well,one doesnt :mad:) but the subject is that in brawl,they are focusing too much on the litle things,like mario's jeens!!!!and im not saying that they shouldnt be updated,but still,when i looked at the item in this update it brought me back to the thought,so anyone agree?
Ok what are you talking about. Munchlax?

I wonder what this says about Lip (Lip's Stick reconfirmed as an item.)
Yeah most likely. That's definitely my guess.
 

cast man232

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Im talking about how detailed it is,i mean,they odnt haveto make it look so very real,it kinda annoys me i guess that they just put detail into the tiny things,and not most of the big things.
 

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O.o OH $H*^ !!!!! RUN MR SATURN, RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!


anyways,

Soo......what if somebody is already holding an item? Will Munchlax bloodlustingly kill anything in it's path to savour a bite of the tastey item in possesion? hmmm
 

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Im talking about how detailed it is,i mean,they odnt haveto make it look so very real,it kinda annoys me i guess that they just put detail into the tiny things,and not most of the big things.
You say that like it's bad. That's good. Detail buddy DETAIL! That is why Brawl is going to be such a great game. Sakurai is making sure that everything is perfect. Even Mario Jeans. And Lip stick. And i'm sure they're putting plenty of work into the big things.

Soo......what if somebody is already holding an item? Will Munchlax bloodlustingly kill anything in it's path to savour a bite of the tastey item in possesion? hmmm
Probaly just run into them and knock them over, making the item drop out of their hands. But that would be so funny if he ate you too.
 

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A thought occured to me. What if, Munchlax gains the properties of the item he swallows? Think of a Marill-esque effect, that as he continues walking he repeatedly damages the player he hits, but with the item's effect that he swallowed. So for example he swallowed Lip's stick, then the player he walks into gets the Lstick's damage effect! Complete with sound effect on hit, flower hat, and dmg over time :p

If it's not a weapon item, then maybe he just gets the item's effect on him, say he turns invulnerable with the star or metal with the metal box, or giant/small with the corresponding mushroom. But, he just does normal weak damage repeatedly just as Marill did. As he walks along, he just swaps new properties on whatever new item he eats. And uhm if he swallowed a pokeball...uh well....I guess it's still a half baked idea >.>

This would be very clever on the devs part though.

I hope no one already mentioned this because I didn't read all of the thread.
 

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I have a few theories on Muchlax:

He will push characters around a little at first while he's just starting out. He can be beat up relatively easily and kicked off, or if he can't find any items after a short period of time he'll give up and disappear.

But the more items he gets the harder it will be to stop him. He can run into people to give them minimal knockback to medium knockback and as his body gets bigger, his hitbox gets bigger. He will be able to hurt any character, even the character who released him (much like Wobuffet).
 

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A thought occured to me. What if, Munchlax gains the properties of the item he swallows? Think of a Marill-esque effect, that as he continues walking he repeatedly damages the player he hits, but with the item's effect that he swallowed. So for example he swallowed Lip's stick, then the player he walks into gets the Lstick's damage effect! Complete with sound effect on hit, flower hat, and dmg over time :p

If it's not a weapon item, then maybe he just gets the item's effect on him, say he turns invulnerable with the star or metal with the metal box, or giant/small with the corresponding mushroom. But, he just does normal weak damage repeatedly just as Marill did. As he walks along, he just swaps new properties on whatever new item he eats. And uhm if he swallowed a pokeball...uh well....I guess it's still a half baked idea >.>

This would be very clever on the devs part though.

I hope no one already mentioned this because I didn't read all of the thread.
No I don't think anybody has mentioned that yet. Really cool idea though. I could really see cool possibilities with this. But of course it wouldn't work for some items like pokeballs, guns, well maybe guns, and ATs. Other than that cool. Love to see him eat superspicy curry or what about the banana peel. He suddenly gets a banana suit and sings peanut butter jelly time.
 

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I love the expressions of the boy and girl in the BG. The dev crew are really going all out in stage detail.
haha yeah especially inthat last pic where he ate the item they just have that "wtf" look on there face haha priceless
 

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An animal crossing character will be revealed this week.
Don't make any absolute statements like that. Sakurai's updates are random to us and to predict a pattern would be a waste of time. Oh, and if Munchlax did get the ability of the item he ate, they would have told us he does.
 

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Whoever said the comment about the home run bat earlier, I agree. Munchlax can't be used strategically, but by random coincidence he will affect the course of the battle. If you're like 'aww yeah it's about to go down, im gonna win, im about to grab a hammer youre dead' and all of a sudden Munchlax eats it and your opponent lays the smackdown on you, they'll be thanking their luck.
 

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Whoever said the comment about the home run bat earlier, I agree. Munchlax can't be used strategically, but by random coincidence he will affect the course of the battle. If you're like 'aww yeah it's about to go down, im gonna win, im about to grab a hammer youre dead' and all of a sudden Munchlax eats it and your opponent lays the smackdown on you, they'll be thanking their luck.
YA, ya, that was uhh, that was me. it was me who said the thing about the bat. ya. so , ummm i just wanted to add that, just, y'know, say that it was me, who, uh, said that earlier and um, just y'know..
NEVER ADRESS ME AS ANYTHING BUT METROID MAN, BECAUSE IF YOU DO, WELL LET'S JUST SAY YOU WON'T EVER FORGET THE NAME AGAIN!

so, um ya... we cool?. yaaaaa, we cool, dont worry about it...... yet
 

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Hey who was THAT GUY that kept on saying his name was Meteor Man or Something I totally 4get his name?
 

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It's be cool if Munchlax's departure was by him pulling off what Snorlax did in the previous games by jumping on everyone.
It's be cool because the more Munchlax eats, the bigger he'll be and the more space he'll take up when falling on the players. xD
 

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It's be cool if Munchlax's departure was by him pulling off what Snorlax did in the previous games by jumping on everyone.
It's be cool because the more Munchlax eats, the bigger he'll be and the more space he'll take up when falling on the players. xD
I like it.

A pretty boring update, I just kind of yawned and went to sleep without thinking twice about it. It has me hopeful that they're getting the boring updates out of the way first so we can have a TOTALLY EPIC FOMG WEEK.

I hope so anyway.
 

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I thought this update was dissappointing. All he does is walk around and eat items. Then he goes away. Now that I think about it, it's a little funny. It's like when you summon an assist trophy and expect something epic, but you get Munchlux, which makes the situation anticlimatic.
 

Kelexo

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Well yeah kinda. But not officially official, like Metaknight was for a while, and Snake still is.
I saw someone on a diffrent forum trying to argue that Metaknight may have been demoted from playable character because the lack of a profile. This was about two days before the profile update finally went up, ironically.

METROID MAN said:
NEVER ADRESS ME AS ANYTHING BUT METROID MAN, BECAUSE IF YOU DO, WELL LET'S JUST SAY YOU WON'T EVER FORGET THE NAME AGAIN!
alright, sorry about that metroid guy.
 

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What are those two little blue poofs shooting from Munchlax in the last screen?
 

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So, if he eat pokeball, is that cannibalism?
XD

Anyways, this update isn't really much of anything to me. Munchlax was not a character I really cared for to be playable. (The only Pokemon I ever wanted playable was Cubone. -_-) However it's nice to see a Pokeball again, and deconfirmations are always nice. :p
 
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