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Ridley killed Mario. Ganondorf can't kill a boy in green tights or a Princess with no Authority.
As much as I would love for Rayquaza to be playable, I wouldn't expect it (or any other Gen 3 pokemon to be honest...) to be in the spotlight this time. I would be happy to be wrong though as Gen 3 is my favorite generation.
Exactly. And they don’t even care how many 1st gen Pokemon are playable in Smash Ultimate.Honestly just add (Captain) Toad and Geno since, as Smash 4 have shown, they don't care about how many reps a series has.
Throw in Paper Mario while you're at it too.
I wouldn't expect Rayquaza to be playable. Deoxys is obviously out of the picture, so it would probably come down to the 3rd generation starters, or another popular 3rd generation Pokemon who isn't a legendary.
1. If they wanted to put in a new SF rep it wouldn't be Vega
Jokes aside, Sceptile/Gardevoir are clear frontrunners for Gen 3 if it were to get a representative. I really feel like there's no other serious options.
There's also Blaziken to keep in mind.
I don't see why they wouldn't add either of them. Claw's agility and disjoints could work really well in Smash whereas Dictator would allow them to reuse Ganondorf FX assets for his psycho power. Besides, what's wrong with having antags rep your series in smash?
I made a post about this earlier, but here are some points for the three Pokemon newcomers:
If Ridley has happen, everything is possible, but be careful.
This is my opinion.
Rayquaza is also entirely too big.
This is different. If you wanted to may RQ fit, he'd be a snake and not a dragon. At that rate, you might as well just go for Arbok (or the gen 5 grass starter).All of Smashboards said:
No reason, but since the franchises that get multiple characters are mario, pokemon and fire emblem, people are used to that and they don't expect more than 1 DK rep.
I could play devil's advocate and come up with a few hypothetical motivations hal labs might have not to put both in, but at the end of the day the deciding factor is whether or not they want to bad enough, so no, there's not really any real reason.
I'm defintely only thinking base right now, have no idea what to think of dlc yet.
Vega isn't exactly what comes to mind as second pick for Street Fighter, that's more Ken, Akuma, Chun-Li or Guile territory IMO.
We know DK still uses his realistic voices.
Ah, my mistake then.
Lifetime sales aren't everything, hence why no one is expecting another Wii series rep. It's pretty impressive that we even got two. To answer your question more directly, the reason it's not happening is that there are other series for which it would probably happen first (even Kirby, since it's been consistently active for a while). And Kirby might not even get one, so two for DK in an installment that explicitly is meant to not have that many newcomers is not really a safe thing to stake your hopes on.
Unfortunately, the voice talents of Takashi Nagasako and Kenny James are nowhere to be heard.
Yes, goddamn this nettles me so much, lol. He's become so linked to a sword he never even had to begin with.
Lifetime sales mean nothing when you have six reps just cause.
1. No, he's nowhere near as popular as the first six world warriors and Bison.
Sakurai said not to expect too many new challengers, so I don't think Sakurai is going to add more than one character from DK when it's clear we're getting only slightly more newcomers. He'd want to cover his bases as much as he can for a wide range of series that have already been, and will be represented.
Ah, I get what you're saying. Loud and clear on all fronts.
Chalk it up to lack of creativity.
Ganondorf is kind of well-intentioned extremist turned evil for his own actions and his curse (his ever-evolving hatred for the Hylian Royal Family).
I know this is a late response, but...
Yes because sakurai has clearly shown that is a character does not have a future he is very likely to not put them in.
At the very least, Yoshinori Ono would like to see Bison/Dictator make it in.
I'm not saying they only work as echo fighters. I'm saying that the decision to make them echo fighters makes sense.
Good analysis money's on Mimikyu there's simply too much for it to ignore.
As does the decision to make Dixie one if it happens. There's a line of thinking that does mean it could work. Yes, it eliminates some of her unique things, but there's most certainly a chance it could happen.
