I’ve taken an interest into Smash leak hunting and made compiling recent “leaks” into a hobby of sorts. After venting about all the fake leaks presented here, I was approached by an “industry insider” who told me they knew most the roster. Of course, fake “industry insiders” and “sources” are commonplace here, but I decided to listen anyways.
Alongside their roster claims they mentioned some other things that have been proven correct, but that doesn’t really mean much. You’ll just have to take my word for it. I don’t know who their source is or how they got this information, but they have it. Of course, there’s the possibility that this is all fake and my “industry insider” is catfishing me or something, but I figure it’s better to share this information.
My source told me that there’s an industry for this s*** (corporate espionage and leaks), and that the full roster is out there somewhere. My source doesn’t have that though, so you’ll have to do with info from a not-completed version of the game. This info supposedly comes from a game tester or something if it’s true. There may be more characters, but I wouldn’t get my hopes up. You can believe this information or laugh at it, do what you want. Anyways, here’s what I was told.
-The E3 build of the game was 1 build behind the current one (but it had a lot of characters removed), but is now 2 builds behind. Before E3 there were about 3 different builds of the game. The first build had most of the characters, but there have been characters added as the builds progressed. There should be 1 or 2 more builds before final polishing occurs.
-Sakurai’s statement of “don’t expect too many newcomers” is true to a fault. There are less unique newcomers than Brawl and Smash 4, but the roster is padded out by Echo Fighters. Most of them weren’t added until after the unique fighters, so they are definitely an afterthought for this roster.
-The unique fighters are Simon, Steve, K. Rool, Ashley, Geno, the Chorus Men, the SOPHIA Tank from Blaster Master, and Lip from Panel de Pon
-The echo fighters are Isabelle (Villiager), Dark Samus (Samus), Octolings (Inklings), Chrom (Ike), Dixie Kong (Diddy Kong), Ninten (Ness), and Shadow (Sonic)
-Fountain of Dreams, Poké Floats, and Delfino Plaza all return, and new stages include Dracula’s Castle, The End, Gangplank Galleon, Star Road, Sophia the 3rd, and a Panel de Pon stage
-New assist trophies include Sephiroth, Zero, Boshi, Tetris, Karate Joe, and Ayumi Tachibana among others
-Decidueye, Incineroar, and Primarina are all Poké Ball Pokemon, sorry to everyone who wanted them.
-A new item is the Triple Star from Kirby Squeak Squad. You have to collect pieces of a map (they look like stickers from Brawl apparently) to use it. You can then launch three “super stars” (think the stars shot from the regular star rod, except they hit as hard as the warp star). You can lose it if you’re hit hard or combed though.
That’s all I know. I can’t answer any questions as I have nothing else to present. Hope you guys look forward to the game coming out. I know I am!