Except that most, if not all, of his "leaks" were guessed by someone else first. To me it looks like he picked through everybody else's predictions and chose what he thought were the safest bets. Which is why he missed K. Rool and getting close to half of the other characters so far. Now all I am waiting for is a complete miss when one of his "safe bets" is flat out wrong.
I disagree. K. Rool was a
far more popular character choice in leaks than Simon Belmont. Like way more popular. In fact, Simon was almost never discussed before Verge became super confident in him. He made it cool. And there’s no way that that was a safer bet than K. Rool.
Especially before e3, when Snake hadn’t even been revealed. Speaking of which, people really undersell Vergeben getting Snake and Ridley. People were not confident in Snake at
all before he was announced. Konami was not okay, and the original reason Snake was added (request of Kojima) seemed to be irrelevant due to Kojima being forced out of Konami. And Ridley was considered a pipe dream by most people. I mean if you looked at the Ridley thread before Ultimate was unveiled, it was sad. They were extremely defeated.
I feel like hindsight reeaally effects people’s judgement of Veg. You don’t need to take everything he says as gospel, but I genuinely find it foolish to doubt that he knows what he’s talking about. There’s a reason 99% of leaks copy him. And why hardly anyone even mentioned Simon until Verge made it cool. And why everyone assumes Ken and Incineroar are the next in line for Smash. He’s earned his street cred. And while I don’t take anything he says as 100% confirmed, I do think that it definitely comes from a place of knowing and that he should be taken seriously.