I'm starting to become more favourable towards Erdrick's potential inclusion. Just one more thing I want to know before he has my support, what potential moves can he bring that would make him stand out from everyone else and basically the general gist of how his moveset can turn out
If you take some of the spells and skills from the games and try to translate them into Smash, you can come up with all kinds of stuff. Here's some ideas.
Zap - Calls down a lightning bolt that strikes in front of him. Can be charged into
Kazap, which instead of being a single focused strike, would be like a big lightning shower that rains down from the sky.
Sizz - Creates a wave of fire that rolls across the ground. Can be charged into
Sizzle, which I guess would act similarly to regular Sizz, but it's a bigger wave that also rolls backwards after touching an edge or something.
Kaclang - Turns Erdrick into an invulnerable iron statue at the cost of making him unable to move. For the sake of Smash, I'll say that this move can be cancelled out of at any time. It's a purely defensive move with no real use as an attack, but you can drop down onto your rivals sort of like Kirby's stone if you want
(it wouldn't do much damage or knockback, though). To balance the fact that you're completely invulnerable while Kaclang is active, it'll wear off on its own, and you can be picked up like a crate if you're not careful.
Snooze - Casts a spell that puts rivals to sleep. That's really all it does, so I guess that's it.
Fizzle - Casts a spell that temporarily locks a rival's special moves from use. That's the only way I could translate this spell into Smash. To balance it, maybe make it hard to land, or have it not last very long at low percents or something.
For the attacks above, I stuck to the ones Erdrick actually uses in his game, but they could also reach for some recurring sword skills throughout the series if they wanted to. Here's ideas for some of those.
Miracle Slash - If it worked anything like how it does in DQ Heroes, I suppose Erdrick would imbue his sword with a sparkling light that lasts temporarily. While the move is active, every attack he lands with his sword would heal a little bit of damage. Another option is to have it be just one slash that heals a little bit of damage. Either idea could work, I think.
Falcon Slash - If it worked anything like how it does in DQ Heroes, Erdrick would perform a forward moving strike that temporarily makes an after-image of sorts mimic his every move. Another option is to have it be one slash that causes an after-image to strike afterwards. Maybe it could be used to string together combos if Falcon Slash left Erdrick free to move while his after-image finished the second strike, thus enabling him to move into position for a possible follow-up attack.
Gigaslash - Perhaps this could be used as his forward smash. At the start of the animation, Erdrick quickly raises his sword into the air as it gets struck by lightning. He then does a powerful spinning slash with a blade of holy electricity that reaches pretty far forward. It would be a pretty unique smash attack as it would first hit above him, and then in front of him. It could also just be his Final Smash.
Gigagash - Would most likely be Erdrick's Final Smash if Gigaslash wasn't. It's basically a more powerful version of Gigaslash.
There's also the possibility that Erdrick could wield a bunch of different weapons in his moveset, possibly even equipping them outright, but this post is already long enough, so I won't get into all of that.
There's a ton of different directions one could take in creating a moveset for Erdrick, so I'd be very interested to see what Sakurai would do.
Edit: Lol,
TheYungLink
's post is way better than mine. Seriously, great job! I didn't even have to bother!
