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Mine is Jinx from League of Legends. The game was already one of the most played games in the world but Arcane exploded its audience well past anyone who’s ever played the game. Arcane became the third most award winning show of all after the Simpsons and Mickey Mouse after only two seasons and 28 episodes. While the second season wasn’t as universally loved as the first, the show still connected with a ton of people in a way that most other media hasn’t been able to. I think she’d be the perfect character for the Joker spot as the first big surprising DLC character. Both Joker and Jinx were pretty big in general pop culture but their weaker Nintendo ties caused a lot of people to dismiss them.
For me, it's Estelle Bright from Trails in the Sky.
Pokemon
We can already imagine it because it already exists.
For a new Earthbound stage I would personally like the Devil’s Machine from the end of the game.Pokemon
Galar Pokemon Stadium (Pokemon Sword and Shield)
Mesagoza (Pokemon Scarlet and Violet)Every game since Melee has had a basic two-platform Pokemon Stadium-esque stage, a pattern I see no reason to break. I could have done a generic “Pokemon Stadium 3”, but considering the importance of gyms to Gen 8, doing a more themed version seemed fitting (and it’s not unprecedented, seeing as Kalos League is basically PS3 already). It would look more or less like the mod pictured above, maybe a little bigger because it looks really small. Like the other versions of the stage, there would be four transformations; Fairy, Fighting, Poison, and Psychic, representing the legendaries of Galar (Zacian, Zamazenta/Urshifu, Eternatus, and Calyrex).
Area Zero Underdepths (Pokemon Scarlet and Violet)Mesagosa is an important location in S/V, it being a stage is hardly a bold choice. It would be a stage in the same vein as Saffron City and Fourside, where you fight on the roofs of buildings. I’m not sure if it would have much in the way of hazards; at most, it would be fairly unobtrusive like on Saffron.
Safari Zone (HeartGold and SoulSilver)I’m gonna be honest, something in my gut is telling me they won’t add Area Zero in the actual Smash 6. No real evidence, just vibes and Sakurai’s tendency to go for early game stages. I want to be wrong, of course, so I added it in addition to Mesagosa. Designing it is also a bit of a concern, because we could very easily have another Great Cave Offensive. I’m instead imagining it akin to Garreg Mach, with stage transitions where you gradually go deeper and deeper into the caverns.
Spear Pillar (Diamond and Pearl, returning from Brawl)Because I burnt two stages on Paldea, I contemplated not going for a “throwback stage” at all, but I figured if any series was to get too many stages, Pokemon would hardly be the worst offender (besides, plausibility already went out the window on this). The safari zone is an iconic location in the first half of the series I’m surprised they haven’t done yet, and it’s depiction in Smash would be an amalgam of all the different versions of the area from previous games (as well as similar locations like the Great Marsh and the Indigo Disk). The reason it’s mentioned as being from specifically HGSS is because it would incorporate the modularity of that version of the zone; instead of a floating platform taking you between different locations, the stage itself would morph (maybe even having multiple biomes at once?)
With two Sinnoh games releasing since Ultimate, Spear Pillar’s return is obvious. Those games reminded me how weird Smash’s version of Spear Pillar looks - it barely looks like the version in the games. It has the same layout and hazards, but would be made to look more like it does in BDSP and Arceus.Prism Tower (X and Y, returning from Smash 4)
Similarly, Z-A forces my hand. I would bet my life savings this stage will be in the next Smash game.Earthbound
Saturn Valley (Mother 3)
Onett (Earthbound, returning from Melee)I went for Saturn Valley because it’s one of the few recurring areas in the series. I’m not going to pretend this is a particularly bold choice, I remember rumors they would add this stage to Ultimate, but Earthbound is the first series that I couldn’t justify giving two new stages so I had to be a bit more careful here. This would take a bit more from the Mother 3 version of Saturn Valley, mostly because Earthbound has had two fairly well received stages in previous Smash games while Mother 3 has the generally reviled New Pork City. I’m not sure what the gimmick would be here, but it would be a wacky one.
Onett is an iconic stage, I don’t think I have to justify bringing it back. I strongly considered bringing back Magicant instead, but a few things dissuaded me. Having Mother 1 Magicant and Mother 3 SV would mean Earthbound, the most popular game in the series, wouldn’t have a stage and that felt wrong. It would also be a bit weird to not have an urban EB stage, that feels like a fairly core part of the series in Smash.F-Zero
- Aeropolis (F-Zero GX)
Similarly, only one new F-Zero stage. Aeropolis is a mostly arbitrary choice: I wanted a location original to GX, and Aeropolis looked most interesting so I chose it. I’m imagining it as a sequel to Big Blue, that feels more interesting than another floating platform stage.
- Mute City (F-Zero, returning from Smash 4)
Another reason I made Aeropolis similar to Big Blue was as an excuse to not bring back Big Blue lol. I like the stage, but I don’t want all the returning stages to come from Melee. Mute City is the most iconic F-Zero location, and F-Zero 99 helps justify adding a sprite-based F-Zero stage.
Pokemon tends to be the exception when it comes to the early game rule. Saffron City is the middle of the game and Silph Co. in particular is more mid-late when you actually get in there. Spear Pillar is late-game and basically the climax of the story, same with N's Castle, and Kalos is the Endgame. Prism Tower is the only area that's early.Mesagoza (Pokemon Scarlet and Violet)
Area Zero Underdepths (Pokemon Scarlet and Violet)Mesagosa is an important location in S/V, it being a stage is hardly a bold choice. It would be a stage in the same vein as Saffron City and Fourside, where you fight on the roofs of buildings. I’m not sure if it would have much in the way of hazards; at most, it would be fairly unobtrusive like on Saffron.
I’m gonna be honest, something in my gut is telling me they won’t add Area Zero in the actual Smash 6. No real evidence, just vibes and Sakurai’s tendency to go for early game stages. I want to be wrong, of course, so I added it in addition to Mesagosa. Designing it is also a bit of a concern, because we could very easily have another Great Cave Offensive. I’m instead imagining it akin to Garreg Mach, with stage transitions where you gradually go deeper and deeper into the caverns.
It's more of a "Restart". Basically, Rewind makes Tracer disappear and then makes Tracer reappear back in the spot where she was 4 or 8 seconds ago and it restarts her Ammo and Health as it was 4 or 8 seconds ago(which means she won't always be fully healed or fully reloaded). Which means depending on how the player played, Tracer could appear close near to where she and the opponent are with some of her health and ammo back or she could re-appear on the other side of the map with her ammo and health refilled if she practically rushed over to the enemy to attack them, but then got hit by a strong attack in the way while rushing.
Her rewind just puts her back in time to whatever position or state you were like 7 seconds ago. And this ability has a cool down you have to wait every time you use it. On Overwatch for the ability to not be to broken too she has like the lowest health in the game so she has to make up for her low health with the rewind mechanic to balance it. So I imagine in smash she probably be super light if she somehow joined smash. Also as gimmicky as it sounds I thought it be intersting if she had to depend on her rewind ability to recover on stage as well, which would leave her open to dying too if you already recovered with rewind and is now on a cool down. Tracer could really be one of the highest learning curves characters to play in high play in smash I imagine cause of some of this weaknesses as helpful as the rewind ability can be if used right too.
In this world, nothing is certain except death, taxes and Crashboards.
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Tracer's recall ability allows the player to rewind their location back about 3 seconds as to undo that mistake. In return, she regains lost health (175 HP is her max HP) and reload her entire clip. Fits as she is one of the lowest health characters for high risk and reward if you can control the pacing to pick off heroes. However, that ability runs on a 12 second cooldown compared to blink's recharge of 3 seconds. Seconds for cooldown in any engagement feels like an eternity at times.
Just censor things like with Snake in Ultimate.
On the other hand, Pyra and Mythra's designs were touched up a bit before being added to smash, but Sakurai kept their boob physics for whatever reason. Snake and ZSS were also "un-nerfed" in Brawl before being changed in Ultimate. Might just depend on what they feel might fit a given game's art/asset direction, to a certain extent at least.
Technically speaking, only Pyra's was.
Tom Nook. He's always relevant and a big name in Animal Crossing which has recently exploded in popularity, I think he's in the running for serious consideration.
Funnily enough, I had a similar idea for a stage based on Wyndon Stadium, but with a few different types (those being Fighting. Ghost/Dark, Fairy, and Dragon) and Gigantamax Pokemon appearing as stage hazards.Pokemon
Galar Pokemon Stadium (Pokemon Sword and Shield)
Every game since Melee has had a basic two-platform Pokemon Stadium-esque stage, a pattern I see no reason to break. I could have done a generic “Pokemon Stadium 3”, but considering the importance of gyms to Gen 8, doing a more themed version seemed fitting (and it’s not unprecedented, seeing as Kalos League is basically PS3 already). It would look more or less like the mod pictured above, maybe a little bigger because it looks really small. Like the other versions of the stage, there would be four transformations; Fairy, Fighting, Poison, and Psychic, representing the legendaries of Galar (Zacian, Zamazenta/Urshifu, Eternatus, and Calyrex).
A Xenoblade echo fighter.
) or Nia (for Mio) stand out as popular fan favourites akin to in a way.
They could also be funny and make Pneuma as a non-switch version of the Aegis that combines bits of both (even if it doesn't make much sense)A Xenoblade echo fighter.
More likely than we think, especially if we get one of Noah and Mio, but not both.
Alvis (for
I know that your statement is positive toward these two, but I think we need to stop giving validity to this claim. Especially for Captain Falcon - for all intents and purposes, F-Zero 99 is a new game. I understand it's not the big industry shaking AAA F-Zero title people want, but it is a game and enough to say the series is not totally dead and buried. Mute City and Big Blue also get to show up in the best selling Switch game, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Captain Falcon probably has more going on nowadays than Fox does, to be honest. So I think lumping him in with this is just outwardly wrong.
I’d love Nia and she’s my favorite Xenoblade character but her getting in as a Mio echo is dependent on Mio getting in as a solo character and not a team with Noah, that’s certainly possible but I’m not super confident that’s the direction they’ll go. I’ll definitely be happy if they do since I like both Mio and Nia. I’d also love to see a unique Nia as a sort of Rosalina-esque beast master with Dromarch or her later unique moveset.A Xenoblade echo fighter.
More likely than we think, especially if we get one of Noah and Mio, but not both.
Alvis (for
Well, it was Off the Hook for a while, but it feels like that idea has really taken off here over the last few months. I imagine the idols, or the sentiment of any unique Splatoon character, is still somewhat overlooked in the wider sphere of influence but it does seem to be gaining traction.
Vaati. Would be so damn happy if he was added.
Disagree with Nia over Mio, Nia has so much potential on her own, and has her own unique moves that having her be an echo of Mio, someone who also has her own unique set of skills that Nia doesn't share, would seriously hinder both characters in terms of uniqueness.A Xenoblade echo fighter.
More likely than we think, especially if we get one of Noah and Mio, but not both.
Alvis (for
It could be even considered middle of the game since you can’t go to that area until the gym battle despite the city being accessible.
I legitimately thought it was my vacation rental's wi-fi sucking ass. Many such cases.
My guess is Octolings as a Inkling echo are almost a sure thing and I could easily see a second unique Splatoon fighter between Callie & Marie, Off the Hook, and DJ Octavio in addition to the Octolings. I feel like they’d all offer something unique. If it were my choice, I’d go with Octavio because he’s the most visually distinct and I’m always a fan of more villains but I could see any of them making it.
Oh man, who on my most wanted list ISN'T a dark horse pick at this point basically lmao
Now this is the kind of mod I love seeing! Though I would still want to see how Nintendo themselves would do it, this is definitely worth looking at in the meantime.
I’m really hoping that the Ultimate mods can be carried over to Switch 2. There’s a ton of other character model/voice swap mods I’d love to make but I don’t want to spend too much time if I’m not going to be able to play them once I unplug my Switch for the Switch 2. Glad to see moveset mods are getting better. Now they just need to make interesting stage mods. Brawl’s stage mods were so much more interesting in my opinion.
Is Reimu that niche? Touhou's pretty big in Japan, right? At least in my mind, she's one of the obvious possible future indie picks alongside Shovel Knight, Shantae, and the Hollow Knight MC.
