I placed a bet on Sceptile after the Greninja/Charizard reveal trailer. Why?
- We have a fire and water starter announced, it would be weird if Sakurai intentionally left out one of main starter types.
- Sceptile is the only grass type starter that would make sense including. How would Meganium and Serperior be playable? Also, generation 3 and 5 has never had a REP in the Smash-franchise.
- The remakes for Pokemon: Ruby and Sapphire were announced not long ago. Hoenn remains as one of the most popular regions in Pokemon to date.
- Sceptile has just received a new mega evolution and dual-type, grass & dragon. Also, Sceptile's design would make him a perfect combatant for the newest Smash. With his great speed and elusive Leaf Blade he would be absolutely perfect!
There's also some other options for new Pokemon in SSB4.
- Plusle & Minun. They would fit perfectly in Smash as a possible replacement to the Ice Climbers, should they be left out. The two was planned to be in Brawl, but they were cut out as some point. Plusle & Minun were also designed to represent double battles in Pokemon: Ruby and Sapphire, who has just received new remakes.
Mewtwo could be included in SSB4 because of his enormous fanbase, relevance in XY, inclusion in the newest Pokemon movie and because he has functioned as mascot for mega evolution.
- Hawlucha. Anyone that has heard about him probably has an idea of why he's likely to join Smash. Hawlucha is basically a wrestling bird with fantastic fighting and flying type moves. A possible moveset with Hi-Jump-Kick and the signature move "Flying Press" as a final smash could be possible.
I predict Jigglypuff to be cut in SSB4, mainly because her popularity has died over the past years. The only reason she was included was because she used to be popular in the Indigo League anime. Sakurai also stated at some point that he wanted to include characters that had a reasonable fanbase and were relevant to their franchise, which Jigglypuff is not.
Let's all hope that the Gematsu leak is incorrect, or that there is more characters that the leaker know nothing about.