1) Infinite's Launch Roster - 9
While most additions are in the realm of obvious (Isaac, B. Dee, Octoling, Waluigi, Crash, Eggman, Howard, Impa and Dixie) or decently common characters (Ashley, Medusa, Jill, Leon, Takamaru, Galacta, Sami and Anna) the cast that doesn't fit much into these groups are ****ing amazing, the Stylist isn't much of my liking but it does have a point for being relevant, Barista is not the option I would go for Rhythm Heaven but he sounds more interesting than the Chorus Kids, Marshal, Tibby or Karate Joe, Grovyle & Celebi are perfect, it makes me sad that the next real Smash will have a boring ass Gen 9 Pokemon because I will love to see representation from Pokemon spin-offs, DJ Octavio is very cool even for me, someone who doesn't like Splatoon, I will gladly take Octavio over Octoling in any situation, Reimu is a crazy good pick, I love Touhou 6 (Just 6 bc I didn't play the rest), other than that, the potential is crazy for her and I will probably main her to an extent, Marin like the Stylist isn't much of my liking, I would of rather had Skull Kid or Tingle as a new Zelda newcomer, however Marin sounds interesting, and she represents one of the most popular Zelda games, Crazy Dave is a similar situation from Reimu, crazy potential, popular IP and from my liking so yeah, pretty satisfied with Dave, Ms. Pac-Man isn't a character im crazy for but, she does represent quite a lot of things + she adds another rep for an already repped franchise which I loved from Ultimate and Infinite, Iori is probably my favorite pick in this game, I like Reimu, Dave, Crash, Waluigi and Eggman more but Iori is kind of special, since I discovered this project earlier in january Iori magically became part of my top 10, he is such a good idea I never thought of for some reason.
2) Season 1 + King Boo - 7
Starting of with King Boo, he might be my favorite from this category, interesting Mario character, good villain and amazing moveset potential, overall I also love strange additions like this, Zagreus is... weird, very weird I don't see how Zagreus out of every indie character will get in over Frisk, Quote, Shovel Knight, The Knight or Shantae, so yeah, I never played Hades so theres that, Phoenix is choice I support because he is too iconic and Nintendo related to not have at least represented with an assist or costume, I will give props to Phoenix because he brought an Amingo costume although that isn't character related, Sakura is pretty unknown to me, I don't think I've even seen gameplay for the Saturn Sakura Wars, however, Sega characters are something that I think we need more, even if I'll take people like Kiryu, Axel, Beat, Arle or Ristar over Sakura, finally, Agumon, he is kind of there for me and nothing else, at least is cool that he can now beat the **** out of Pikachu, both Jin and Rock are amazing, they are my most wanted echoes probably so yeah, they bump out the score of the pass quite a bit
3) Season 2 DLC - 8
Starting us of with Sol Badguy, I'm not very invested in GG but Sol seems so much fun to use + Fighting Game characters are always good, very good choice overall, Lara Croft seems like one of the most obvious additions of all time so I wouldn't give her much credit for that, still props for the Master Chief and Gex costumes, Lloyd ****ing sucks and thats all, Geno seems like a good choice but I feel he has lost interest, I don't find as good of a reason to add Geno to Smash than I did 3 years ago if that makes sense, finally, Ratchet & Clank, in simpler ways, I would of prefered Kratos but Ratchet gets the work done well, Ratchet alongside Sol makes the pass worth it, with Lara and Geno being nice additions for legacy reasons.
I'm not very excited about season 3 right now, I feel like Nightmare, Red, Doomguy and Ahri already made this pass the best out of the 3 so I don't see much reason on going crazy with the other 2, specially since the next one is strictly first party and I only see Xenoblade Guy 3 getting in.