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Raxxel said:
Did Link's Awakening get any spirits?
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Two, Link (primary) and Owl (secondary).
 
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AKA like 90% of all shonen protagonists lol. Not that that's really a bad thing....if done right.
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Tell that to Black Clover and Sword Art Online lol

Also, One Piece handles it pretty well, with maybe a little bit too much of "he's dumb sometimes for no reason" that's become a trope in anime recently.
 
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Wademan94 said:
So who in Three Houses has full body artwork aside from Byleth and the House leaders?
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Aside from both Byleths and both versions of Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude, off the top of my head there's also full body artwork for Sothis, the Death Knight, and the Flame Emperor.

Granted, however, they could always use the in-game portraits. Though it was for censorship and not for lack of full body art, Tharja's spirit uses her in-game portrait. So if that's an option, then pretty much every Three Houses character is fair game for spirits.
 
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Kirby Dragons said:
Even if we get first-parties, I'm not expecting Akira Howard to be playable. His game just came out, and he likely hasn't built up any support yet.
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Honestly I think the lack of support is more or less a negligible factor. Smash fans hardly supported Cloud, Ryu, Joker, or Incineroar yet they were chosen for Smash. Fan support won’t dictate, and I would argue it shouldn’t, everything.
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Daemon X Machina Spirits are a huge plus for Three Houses and Astral Chain characters. Can't say much about SwSh since it hasn't come out yet (I'll gladly take anything that boosts Zacian and Zamazenta's chances though).

Still, take this all with a grain of salt. MM2 doesn't have any Spirits yet (unless you count PP), and Peachette randomly got added in May. I think we can all agree that Spirits don't follow a strict pattern. For all we know, Three Houses Spirits could drop in the middle of Halloween because why not?
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I would agree, but there isn’t precedent for a random drop of spirits for a game several months after it has been out.

By no means do I think it’s a clear indicator of TH or AC getting characters in Smash, but I think it should be a discussion point that, here we are, looking at the spirits as a disconformation of playable picks for DxM, yet we don’t apply that to other characters because fans ask for them or like them. I’m not even trying to be condescending here, just pointing that out plainly.

Though, I’ve always thought Three Houses, Astral Chain, and Sword + Shield were top first party picks, so I could see any of them getting in through Fighter Pass 2. The final pick of the first pass is likely a 3rd party choice.

Have to wonder if it was pre-meditated to keep those spirits out in case there were additional picks made.
 
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Opossum said:
Aside from both Byleths and both versions of Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude, off the top of my head there's also full body artwork for Sothis, the Death Knight, and the Flame Emperor.

Granted, however, they could always use the in-game portraits. Though it was for censorship and not for lack of full body art, Tharja's spirit uses her in-game portrait. So if that's an option, then pretty much every Three Houses character is fair game for spirits.
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Ok. If we get a Three Houses Character, really who would it be? Regardless of individual fandoms and memes and personal attachment. Who’s the Marth? The Ike? The Corrin?

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Honestly I think the lack of support is more or less a negligible factor. Smash fans hardly supported Cloud, Ryu, Joker, or Incineroar yet they were chosen for Smash. Fan support won’t dictate, and I would argue it shouldn’t, everything.

I would agree, but there isn’t precedent for a random drop of spirits for a game several months after it has been out.

By no means do I think it’s a clear indicator of TH or AC getting characters in Smash, but I think it should be a discussion point that, here we are, looking at the spirits as a disconformation of playable picks for DxM, yet we don’t apply that to other characters because fans ask for them or like them. I’m not even trying to be condescending here, just pointing that out plainly.

Though, I’ve always thought Three Houses, Astral Chain, and Sword + Shield were top first party picks, so I could see any of them getting in through Fighter Pass 2. The final pick of the first pass is likely a 3rd party choice.

Have to wonder if it was pre-meditated to keep those spirits out in case there were additional picks made.
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Wasn’t a second and third pass supposedly approved right after Joker?
 
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SnakeFighter64 said:
Ok. If we get a Three Houses Character, really who would it be? Regardless of individual fandoms and memes and personal attachment. Who’s the Marth? The Ike? The Corrin?


Wasn’t a second and third pass supposedly approved right after Joker?
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That’s the first I’ve heard of that! I simply don’t think it’s hard to assume that the format of the first pass proved to be wildly successful for Nintendo, and I don’t see a logistical reason for them to break that format which brought such success the first time.

They’re a business after all. They do this to make money. A lot of other games follow that model as well, so it’s not a crazy take IMO.
 
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SnakeFighter64 said:
Ok. If we get a Three Houses Character, really who would it be? Regardless of individual fandoms and memes and personal attachment. Who’s the Marth? The Ike? The Corrin?
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I mean, it could be anyone's game. All 4 can get unique movesets due to their weapons and abilities, as well as a variant costume(Byleth's being his female version and the other 3 being their timeskip versions).
But yeah, it can be anyone's game depending on Sakurai and Intelligent Systems. They could go the basic route with Byleth, the marketing route with Edelgard, the popularity route with Dimitri or the surprise route with Claude.
 
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SnakeFighter64 said:
Ok. If we get a Three Houses Character, really who would it be? Regardless of individual fandoms and memes and personal attachment. Who’s the Marth? The Ike? The Corrin?


Wasn’t a second and third pass supposedly approved right after Joker?
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It's kind of weird because like Awakening :ultrobin::ultchrom:, there are two protagonists every route with Byleth always being one of them. The common sense answer is probably Byleth because of that. However, if Sakurai wants to do a completely different moveset, the three lords are the perfect opportunity for him, and we've seen how Sakurai likes to have moveset variety :ultpiranha:.
 
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Byleth is the pick, to me, that seems to fit the “blue haired swordsman” trope, yet would probably play like Marth except with Belmont-like whip skills. Has the potential to be pretty cool.

I’d just prefer Edelgard.
 
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Byleth is the pick, to me, that seems to fit the “blue haired swordsman” trope, yet would probably play like Marth except with Belmont-like whip skills. Has the potential to be pretty cool.

I’d just prefer Edelgard.
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Look I don't care who gets in, as long as they give me Shambhala.


Though real talk, Byleth probably fits the Robin (or Kris) more while the three lords fit the Marth (or Chrom) archetype, narratively speaking.
 
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Look I don't care who gets in, as long as they give me Shambhala.


Though real talk, Byleth probably fits the Robin (or Kris) more while the three lords fit the Marth (or Chrom) archetype, narratively speaking.
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My reasoning for Byleth being like Marth is simply based on how the characters have been treated. While Byleth COULD be given several skills with weapons they don’t focus on in cutscenes or the main story, I heavily doubt they’d give him/her anything but the Sword of the Creator.

At least, Byleth is portrayed with the Sword of the Creator, while Robin is heavily portrayed as a mage, Ike, Roy, Chris, Marth, Corrin, as sword users in their respective games.
 
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SnakeFighter64 said:
Ok. If we get a Three Houses Character, really who would it be? Regardless of individual fandoms and memes and personal attachment. Who’s the Marth? The Ike? The Corrin?
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Byleth retains importance as "the guy you play as" but I think they'd go for Edelgard due to
  1. Her different aesthetic
  2. Her different weapon
  3. Being the most marketed character, with some of the most popularity
But personally, I'd like Byleth since he's my favorite designed Fire Emblem character since the 2 Ikes. Plus, whipswords are rad as hell.
 
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Which is the Sakurai answer though?

My guess is probably Byleth.
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Going by Robin and Corrin being the last 2 non-Echo choices, you wouldn't be wrong to assume Byleth, but there are 2 possibilities that I see:

Robin, Corrin, and Byleth are the self-insert avatar characters, so you could say there's a potential trend

But Robin and Corrin are also both characters that are pretty drastically different from all of the Fire Emblem characters that came before them in Smash, which is something that I don't personally think you can say about Byleth (at least to the same extent as the other 2). Yes, they all use swords, but Robin primarily uses magic and Corrin's sword is a crazy chainsaw thing (also the whole turning into a dragon thing). Byleth would most likely use the Sword of the Creator, which does transform into a whip, but at the end of the day it's a sword. They could give Byleth some magic too, but the game really does put emphasis on them being a sword user (storywise anyway).

Basically what I'm getting at is that I think it would be Edelgard, there's definitely a bit of personal bias in that claim, Smash Ultimate has been very "give the fans what they want" and Edelgard was pretty much the most popular character in the game the second the game was shown off I think, she would also be very different, not just from other Fire Emblem characters, but also any other character on the roster in my opinion. Edelgard just feels like a perfect Sakurai storm in my opinion.
 
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Byleth would definitely fit the "Sakurai choice" in the sense that they are the main protagonists (they have the most focus collectively across all four routes and the pre-timeskip arc) and those are the characters he tends to lean on the most when first picking options from a game. With that said, I'm not sleeping on Edelgard either since Robin does show he's not adverse to deuteragonists and she definitely has a lot of merit due to how the story focuses on her.

Personal bias would lean me more towards Claude though, between his likeability as a character and his uniqueness as a bow user I'd be very happy to see him as a playable character.
 
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From what I've heard, Edelgard is also pretty fucled up so maybe she can somewhat count as an antagonist
 
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Shyy_Guy595 said:
From what I've heard, Edelgard is also pretty fucled up so maybe she can somewhat count as an antagonist
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Well yeah she's antagonistic for every other house that doesn't pick her, but that's not really what she's known for like say, any of the other villains on the roster.
 
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Opossum said:
Aside from both Byleths and both versions of Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude, off the top of my head there's also full body artwork for Sothis, the Death Knight, and the Flame Emperor.

Granted, however, they could always use the in-game portraits. Though it was for censorship and not for lack of full body art, Tharja's spirit uses her in-game portrait. So if that's an option, then pretty much every Three Houses character is fair game for spirits.
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Adding to this, Garon's portrait was used for his Spirit. Really they have no reason to not add TH Spirits right now, or, haha, unless... DLC
 
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