How nice of you making a such strong personal preferences and trying to alter our preferences over Lucario VS Mewtwo. Showing your preferences about the past and then for the future is really what fanboys would do. In reality, you don't care about Lucario the whole time. You'd better hope they don't reveal Purin. She isn't as popular as Mewtwo and her Brawl status is what helped her staying in, same goes for Lucario. If they do the only way you'll be playing Mewtwo, is if you're playing Melee. ^_^
I'm done with you.
-This post is laughable. I've repeatedly said I don't care about Lucario being back or not, Mewtwo's back that's all that really matters. If Lucario comes back great. If not oh well, I could care less. And if I'm reading this correctly you're saying that Jigglypuff will be in Smash 4 because of her brawl veteran status? You can't be serious. No, Jigglypuff would be in Smash 4 because she has been in smash since 64. That means she's been in every title to date. Lucario on the other hand does not share that same status. He's only been in brawl and he's going to need more than just that to be smashing in the next title. And yeah, you're probably reading and saying "WELL MEWTWO's ONLY BEEN IN MELEE!" While that is true, if you think for a moment that would place him and Lucario at equal veteran status. Okay now what are the determining factors of who gets in?
1.) Relevancy
2.) Popularity
3.) Can the character effectively represent the new titles in the franchise?
1.) Mewtwo wins here. He's been postered in Generation 6 by gaining his third movie, making him relevant to anything Pokémon related at the moment. Lucario's relevancy is nearly non-existent when compared to Mewtwo's.
2.) Mewtwo wins here also. His new form has skyrocketed his popularity, even though he was still popular to begin with. The backlash Sakurai got was also another result of Mewtwo's popularity, he isn't going to make the same mistake twice. Lucario is popular, yes that's a fact. But is Lucario popular enough to compete with Mewtwo's popularity? That's almost a rhetorical question.
3.) Mewtwo wins yet again. The form makes this question a instant yes for Mewtwo. Lucario doesn't have a single thing to do with the new releases. So he can't even touch Mewtwo in this argument, let alone make the cut before him.
- I'm not making these things up. They are all valid reasons as to why Mewtwo will make the Smash 4 roster and also why Lucario might be facing a cut. When Smash 4 is released I'll have fun playing as Mewtwo on my Wii-U and If I feel a little nostalgic I'll play him in Melee too. And while were on the subject of nostalgia I guess I'd play a little brawl to pay my dues to the unluckily cut Lucario. ^_^