Say, do we know how strong the Japanese side of Krystal support really is? because Smash Ballot is a global thing, and certain choices may be made to reward different regions. K.Rool is the likely global pick, but from what I've heard Krystal seems like the likely Japanese newcomer pick(though I could be mistaken)
Just a thought
Oh, I can answer you on this -- Out of 10+ Japanese articles regarding the famitsu news and the future of DLC (That's around 800 posts), I have seen ~10 people mentioning Krystal.
I did some research regarding Japanese community on DLCs partly due to how much impact the Famitsu column has done to the Wolf community (the Japanese remained certain for Wolf's chances tho) here, since I have to see about Wolf support in Japan to reassure our chances.
That above conclusion is made while looking for Wolf's impression, so I may have missed a few posts
But when talking about Star Fox, 90% people would care about Wolf before anything. I do see a few comments on Krystal, but they are mostly made in the form of "I want her in", instead of "her chances are good".
Or may I sum up the findings:
- Japan community focuses much more on veterans, as we already know.
- The community thinks that at least 3 more characters will be added, and at most 12.
- Veterans wise, most comments points to Wolf, and occasionally some on Snake, but in the form of "I want him back", instead of "He has a chance".
- Other character choice wise, the community thinks that it will be heavily based on the Western community, like how we think otherwise.
- For 1st Party newcomers, they mostly agree King K Rool, Banjo Kazooie (for some reason is considered 1st party), and Paper Mario has a high chance.
- For 3rd Party newcomers, most of them points to Arle. Also to note she seems to be extremely popular.
- Some of them seems to hate on characters heavily supported in the Western community like King K Rool, Banjo Kazooie etc.
- Krystal appears as "probable" on newcomer inspections, along with ones like Dixie Kong, Bandanna Waddle Dee.
- Goku requests does appear, but with frequency same as Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton (only one of them seen)
I've yet too see any poll in the Japanese community tho, other than that one Sourcegaming did.
So yeah, I can't be too accurate on this, but there isn't TOO MUCH support for Krystal from where I've seen.