Official Smash Ultimate Discussion

[ToddCam]

I never intended to spread any misinformation and I always welcome being proven wrong. It has been a very long time since I read up about this and it does seem a lot of new evidence has come to light that alters the story to a great degree. My apologies for not refreshing myself on what has come to light.

Ah, no! I wasn't singling out anyone, or accusing anyone! I meant that people misremember things and then spread them, e.g., Sakurai said no clones! That sort of thing. No worries.

 

[ZagarTulip]

As a fan of unlocking and achieving, I would honestly not mind if there was unlockable character costumes in this game, I feel it is very possible actually.

 

[StrangeMann]

It's here.

Today's Fighter
#01: Mario
Mario is an all-around fighter who uses his wide variety of techniques to respond to any situation. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, he shows up in his Wedding tux and his Builder outfit, and Cappy even makes an appearance!

I can't believe Mario is in the game.

Wow!
This is some shocking information. I honestly thought Mario was a goner! Thank goodness he's confirmed to be returning!
I really hope we actually get new information from pics of the day in the future, but it's looking more and more that pic of the day is reviewing all of the fighter videos until they are all done.

 

[Tree Gelbman]

There's a leak on 4Chan claiming Travis Touchdown is in base game.

 

[Bradli Wartooth]

It's here.

Today's Fighter
#01: Mario
Mario is an all-around fighter who uses his wide variety of techniques to respond to any situation. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, he shows up in his Wedding tux and his Builder outfit, and Cappy even makes an appearance!

I can't believe Mario is in the game.

So it would appear we might have many days of Luigi's nose ahead of us as far as Fighter of the Day goes. I had hoped they would at least give us a little more information about something they do. Like a little tidbit about a change from the last game or something. They might still slip some new info into some of the characters, but it isn't going to be much. Can't wait to hear what they say about Pichu tho

 

[Will]

It's here.

Today's Fighter
#01: Mario
Mario is an all-around fighter who uses his wide variety of techniques to respond to any situation. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, he shows up in his Wedding tux and his Builder outfit, and Cappy even makes an appearance!

I can't believe Mario is in the game.

Man, I can't believed they brought him in! He was a big arcade hit in 1981 and 1983, glad they're going back to their roots.
He has his hammer, right?

 

[Bowserlick]

Oh honey dripping badger!

There are going to be two months worth of the Smash Dojo Ultimate showing off character profiles already showcased.

 

[Shroob]

There's a leak on 4Chan claiming Travis Touchdown is in base game.

Hey, it's something.

I just want fake leaks to play with.

 

[Deathcarter]

Five Fighters:



These icons are sooooooo sweet!!!

 

[StrangeMann]

Oh honey dripping badger!

There are going to be two months worth of the Smash Dojo Ultimate showing off character profiles already showcased.

Appears to be so.
Really unfortunate, because It doesn't appear we are getting new information until the next Nintendo direct if that's the case. Oh well.

 

[Chandeelure]

Wow!
This is some shocking information. I honestly thought Mario was a goner! Thank goodness he's confirmed to be returning!
I really hope we actually get new information from pics of the day in the future

We have more than 60 fighters and like 200 or more Items/Assist Trophies/Pokemon/Stages

They have enough stuff to show until the game is released.

I obviously think we will get new stuff, but not much tbh.

 

[Will]

There's a leak on 4Chan claiming Travis Touchdown is in base game.

What the **** does base game even mean?

 

[Shroob]

What the **** does base game even mean?

Non-DLC

 

[Chandeelure]

What the **** does base game even mean?

Not DLC.

Also, Roger, post the leak, please.
I want to see it, I'm bored.

Or did you post it?
Because my computer just shows a big space with nothing in your post haha.

 

[Bradli Wartooth]

Since we're all wrapped up in these beautiful icons, are there any icons you really like that belong to a character you don't care to play?

I really like these ones but I have little-to-no intention of playing these more than the rare casual match.


I guess I could potentially play Wolf. I just don't intend to as it stands.

 

[DaybreakHorizon]

There's a leak on 4Chan claiming Travis Touchdown is in base game.

I raise you one even better:

Spoiler: 4chan leak

Actual Smash Bros. leaker here. Figured I'd drop it out there since no-one will believe it anyway. Screencap this thread.

About a month before the game releases, they're going to announce two things at the same time. The first, is Dragonball FighterZ on Switch. Yes, it's really happening, people have asked for it enough at this point that Nintendo is wanting to appeal to fighting game fans on the Switch looking for something more challenging than ARMS but less complicated than other fighting games.

The second thing they will announce, is Freiza as the last third-party newcomer to the series. Sakurai loves picking unexpected characters (he was very aware of the desire for Ridley before Smash for Wii U and 3DS was announced but decided it was too obvious), and thinks that Freiza would be a more "exciting" and original choice over Goku. I heard a rumor that this may coincide with some actual Dragonball Z/Super announcement too but that might've just been office rumors, I can't actually confirm it.

 

[Arcadenik]

Wonder when they will make the new "You must recover" update.

 

[Murlough]

For someone who claims isn't actively against Meowth, you sure are acting like it.

After all you did say you would react "venomously" if a new 1st Gen Pokémon got in Smash.



It seems to me that you see Meowth as an "1st Gen Pokémon" whereas I see Meowth as "the cat Pokémon from the anime".

My first exposure to Pokémon was the anime. I liked it. I talked about it with some friends in high school in the late 90s/early 00s. We loved talking about Team Rocket and how funny they were. Meowth quickly became my favorite Pokémon because of the anime. I don't care if it is weak in the Pokémon games or in the anime. I just liked the Pokémon itself. I love cats (I have 8) so I am biased towards Meowth. I like that Meowth is a talking cat Pokémon. I like that Meowth is a wisecrack.

I didn't even get Meowth in the games until LeafGreen -- my first Pokémon game was Gold but it didn't have Meowth in it like I thought (I picked Gold because I like gold and I like how Ho-Oh looks). My boyfriend knows I am a fan of Meowth. I made it no secret. He got me a Meowth plush and an Alolan Meowth in a Great Ball toy. He even got me a couple Meowth from Wonder Trade. I was so excited to finally get Meowth in that Magikarp Jump game. My boyfriend asked me if Meowth was in Pokken DX (I bought it 2 days ago) and I said no. I bought it because Decidueye is in it and I wanted to play as Decidueye in a fighting game since it's looking unlikely he would be playable in Smash.

I don't care if Meowth is an 1st Gen Pokémon. I don't care if Meowth is a Normal-type Pokémon. I don't care if Meowth is just a plain old cat. I like Meowth because it is Meowth. That's why I am a staunch supporter of Meowth being playable in Smash since pre-Melee. I will always be on Meowth's side.

Reading. Compehension. Roger asked "if a Gen 1 mon got in AND no new Gen 7 mon did, how would people react?" If THAT happened I would react venomously. If Meowth and Lycanroc got in I wouldn't be angry in the slightest. If Meowth gets in great, just don't blow off another gen to do it.

I see Meowth as a Gen 1 mon because he's a gen 1 mon. This is a fact. I don't really have anything else to say about this other than I stopped watching the anime in Gen 3.

Dude....its great you love Meowth, as I already said I genuinely have no hate towards him. Interpret what I've said however you like but its a fact that I don't hate Meowth. I hate Genwunners and Gen 1 pandering. Having a 10:1 ration for Gen1:Every other Gen, as a Pokemon fan, infuriates me. That doesn't mean I hate every gen 1 mon or person who likes Gen 1.

 

[Will]

Non-DLC

They could've just said he was in the game. Text-based leaks are so trashy. "My sources said" this, "my sources say" that, I don't wanna hear from some dude with a wacky username, I want the actual sources to come out. They're already speaking anonymously and making it go through another anonymous user, it's not like they're gonna be tracked down. How do they even get these leaks, do they just ask some dude who's the Tom Holland of the gaming industry and spills the beans every time?

 

[Imadethistoseealeak]

There's a leak on 4Chan claiming Travis Touchdown is in base game.

I hope that's you smiling with joy that Travis is in the game

 

[Dukeofdeath5]

What the **** does base game even mean?

Wait somebody already said it.

I am going to hijack my own post to say I'd be hype as **** if Travis actually got in

 

[Chandeelure]

Wonder when they will make the new "You must recover" update.

Still better than Luigi's nose or the thing we got now hahaha.

 

[Jdaster64]

There is no issue. This is just another legal thing that Smash fans have no idea about. These guys attempted to make a Pac-Man clone, rename it "Ms. Pac-Man" to skirt copyright issues. It didn't, and Namco took them and Midway, their publisher, to court. Now Namco owns Ms. Pac-Man entirely, because the character was not sufficiently different enough to legally distinguish itself as a unique IP.

Not that the crux of this is incorrect, but per one of the devs' GDC talk on the making of Ms. Pac-Man, GCC had a finished mod of Pac-Man called "Crazy Otto" that as a result of a settlement with Atari over a previous mod they made of Missile Command, they had to get express permission from Midway to be able to publish. As a result, GCC ended up working with Midway to finish the mod, reskinning it as the "Ms. Pac-Man" we know now; the game's code is at least partially owned by GCC, but the character is definitely Namco property.

All that's to say, Ms. Pac-Man shouldn't have any legal red tape (above whatever goes into any other third-party representation), and I'd love to see her represented as an Echo/alt.

 

[Capybara Gaming]

So I just found out that on Boxing Ring, the Ice Climbers' "stage name" is "Bone-Chilling Duo."

I wonder what the names for Pichu, Young Link, Snake, Pokémon Trainer, Wolf, Inklings, and Ridley are?

 

[Ze Diglett]

Don't know if this has been posted here yet (holy **** there's a lot of people here what are we all doin' havin a party? Am I invited)? But uh

I stole this from a Discord.
Go at it

This is gonna be kinda boring, considering they're in my sig already, but...
Loyalty main since Melee, fits my playstyle damn near perfectly, no further explanation needed.
One of my secondaries from Smash 4, I just love how he moves and how janky his overall toolkit is. I also love how wacky he is with his frame-by-frame movement and overall quirky personality, so he's a truly unique fighter that I don't intend on dropping.
I only got into this bloke a couple of months ago after thinking about using him for years, and turns out, he's super fun! He looks basically unchanged in Ultimate (outside of losing the overly complicated footstool combos, which I could've gone without anyway), so I'll definitely be sticking with him this game.
I'm just now realizing how much I missed out by basically never touching this character back in Brawl (or maybe I wasn't, considering how bad he was back then). Squirtle in particular looks super fun with how fast and strong he is, Ivysaur looks like fun as well with its long-ranged vine whips and beefy bulb attacks, and Charizard could be fun as well, even if I didn't like using him in Smash 4 - and if he isn't, well, it's not like there's anything forcing me to switch off of Squirtle/Ivysaur anymore.
They look really fun, and if they're truly as quick and mobile in the final release as they look in the demo, then they'll be just my speed! They also have an interesting gimmick with the ink, and I do love unique fighters.

And, of course, if Geno gets in, I'm swapping Inkling out for him. Nothing against the squidkid, but Geno's an insta-main for me as he's the only character I've ever really wanted in Smash since I first played SMRPG. It'll be hard relegating Mewtwo to a secondary slot, but for Geno, I think I'd do it.

 

[Arcadenik]

What the **** does base game even mean?

Oh, the base game is the game without DLC or before DLC.

There was a time when all games were base games. Ahh... memories.

 

[Tree Gelbman]

I hope that's you smiling with joy that Travis is in the game

It's not.

He's one of the least likely characters of all characters. So the fact he'd even be considered is laughable let alone being in the base game.

But more power to you for liking him and keep supporting him. Maybe if there's a ballot for this one you guys can win it like Bayonetta did hers.

 

[Will]

So I just found out that on Boxing Ring, the Ice Climbers' "stage name" is "Bone-Chilling Duo."

I wonder what the names for Pichu, Young Link, Snake, Pokémon Trainer, Wolf, Inklings, and Ridley are?

The Biggest Baddie

 

[Wyoming]

We Brawl dojo bois

Hyped for widescreen 2.0

 

[DarkFalcon]

So I just found out that on Boxing Ring, the Ice Climbers' "stage name" is "Bone-Chilling Duo."

I wonder what the names for Pichu, Young Link, Snake, Pokémon Trainer, Wolf, Inklings, and Ridley are?

If Ridley isn't "The cunning God of Death" I will be sad

 

[Icedragonadam]

Today's Smash Blog Post

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[Will]

So, the most curious question of them all: Will we finally have four taunts?

 

[Dukeofdeath5]

Today's Smash Blog Post

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So are all the blog posts gonna just reiterating what they said at E3?

 

[Will]

So are all the blog posts gonna just reiterating what they said at E3?

We got over two months worth of E3 posting, not unless they wanna include the stages, in which case they could probably buy enough space until the game even comes out.

 

[Idon]

So, the most curious question of them all: Will we finally have four taunts?

God, I hope so. Forward and back taunts would be so easy.

I'm still waiting on my Guile taunts like putting on and taking off shades.

 

[StrangeMann]

So, the most curious question of them all: Will we finally have four taunts?

We know there’s only 3 taunts still from the e3 demo unfortunately

 

[Shroob]

Show me your moves vs Pika Pika vs Hiiiiiiiiiii vs WOOMY, FIGHT

 

[Verde Coeden Scalesworth]

Please do not post media-only posts. Add some context and other content instead.

 

[DarkFalcon]

Show me your moves vs Pika Pika vs Hiiiiiiiiiii vs WOOMY, FIGHT

There's gonna be so many Woomy's in this game. Debating maining Inklings just for the Woomy.

 

[NonSpecificGuy]

I gotta say I absolutely love how this game is representing a LOT of the Zelda games with its individual designs of its characters.

Breath of the Wild:

Twilight Princess/Breath of the Wild:

A Link to the Past/A Link Between Worlds:

Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask:

Ocarina of Time:

Wind Waker/Minish Cap/Four Swords/Four Swords Adventure/Phantom Hourglass/Spirit Tracks/Tri-Force Heroes:

Really makes me hope Impa is in and that she uses her Skyward Sword design. I love this so much. That is how you pay respect to your Franchises legacy right there.