Eh I don't take offense to him losing, but the responses are discouraging, and sometimes justwrong. Calling Rayman vanilla in any sense is just wrong. The dude is a limbless wildboy, it's not like he's the video game version of a straight-man in a sitcom. I'd love to see any of Rayman, Bomberman, Banjo, and Crash make it, I just feel like 3rd party character's popularity is constantly held back by fans that refuse to give them the time of day.
On a different topic, I've been hearing about PSASBR 2 rumors for quite some time now. Rayman seems to be a semi-popular pick for many of it's fans. Idk how I'd feel about him being in PSASBR instead of Smash, I hated the first ones gameplay, and tbh I'm a Nintendo fan before PS, but if it happened I know I'd buy it solely to play Rayman in a fighting game.