I've written way too much to counter anti-Shantae arguments in the past. Here is some random stuff I've written that you might find useful for your video:
As for positive arguments in favor of Shantae,
TheRickyWill
has a post in here with a lot of excellent hype essays about why Shantae deserves to be in Smash, and I recommend you look at that. I've written the following:
If you look through my
comment history on reddit, you will find a lot more that I have written, but what I've copied into this post is the meat of it.
You are welcome to use whatever I have. You don't even have to cite it if you don't want to - all I care about is bringing in more votes for Shantae.
Man, those Etika polls. K. Rool not even making top 5 right now? Insanity. Whatever you think of Etika, we know he's a Shantae supporter, and this is likely the last big push for her before the ballot closes in a couple days. Shantae is sitting comfortably at #4 right now on his very large polls, so let's make sure she stays there and makes his final top 5 poll. He will probably release some video about the top 5 before the ballot closes, and as long as Shantae makes the cut, Etika could be the last prominent YouTuber to show her some love before the ballot closes.
For anyone curious, if you look at vote scores across his three ballots, here is the current top 5:
1. Snake 2984
2. Shovel Knight 2964
3. Inklings 2445
4. Shantae 2313
5. Banjo-Kazooie 2142
The placements seem fairly stable right now, but the vote totals are constantly climbing, so definitely make sure to keep up the support for Shantae - vote on your phone too! Snake and Shovel Knight are neck and neck, but haven't ever actually swapped places for as long as I've been watching.
On a side note, I hope that Yacht Club is sending Tamaki a check in the mail, because he really gave Shovel Knight a huge revival in the ballot by going all in with his reputation on that bogus rumor. Fortunately Shantae seems to be holding her own in spite of that.
Here are the next 6-10:
6. Wolf 2072
7. Sora (?!) 1733
8. K. Rool 1681
9. Isaac 1545
10. Rayman 1521
Wolf is only about 50 votes behind BK, but he seems to be staying there. Poor K. Rool though - what happened to him?? I haven't seem him lose a poll this badly since, well, ever. Also where on earth did Sora come from? The only time I've seen him get that many votes was on one poll that didn't have IP protection, and it was a case of totally blatant vote tampering. Every other poll I've ever seen shows his support as negligible. I know this one does have IP protection, but still, it makes you wonder...
Ice Climbers get honorable mention at #11. There is a big gap between them and the next candidate, and the next candidate is Goku, so anyone not mentioned here is doing really badly in this poll.
I'm not sure what to make of these polls - the vote counts are so huge already, and the results look pretty different from most other polls. It's a testament to the strength of Shantae's popularity that her results here and elsewhere are so consistent. Whether this poll is reliable or not, it could have a pretty decent impact on last minute voting.
Wow though, GUYS THE BALLOT IS ALMOST DONE! Go vote in Etika's poll and on the ballot on literally every device you have that connects to the Internet. In just three days all the campaigning is done, so let's finish strong.
Links to Etika's poll including Shantae:
http://strawpoll.me/5619261
Links to the other ones if you want to see results (he broke it up over 3 separate polls since he couldn't fit all the choices into one):
http://strawpoll.me/5619260,
http://strawpoll.me/5619263
Link to the smash ballot (as if you can't find it yourself):
https://cp.nintendo.co.jp/us/
I am pretty glad that Shantae has had so many awesome supporters spreading the love for her, especially all of you here. She's a character that looked like she was going to be a total long shot, and now she's polling in the top 5 everywhere minus Japan, where she's got a rapidly growing presence. That could not have happened without you guys putting out Miiverse posts, and fan art, and supporting messages, and online votes in the poll and ballot, and everything else. Whatever else happens on October 3rd, I'm gonna be raising a drink to you guys. Rock on.
