Here's a fun speculation game.
Nintendo announces an
Echoes Pass for Smash Bros. Ultimate! For $14.99 you get 5 echo fighters/semi-clones of existing Fighters. What five characters would you want to see and who would they be echoes of?
For me, I'd like to see:
- Celica - echo of Robin without durability mechanic
- Standard and Smash attacks are with Beloved Zofia, attacks do damage between Levin and Bronze Sword
- Special Attacks conduct self-harm instead of using durability. With this standard attacks using magic are changed to remove the book and deal small self-damage. In return they do more damage.
- Black Shadow - echo of Captain Falcon using dark elemental attacks instead of fire
- Dixie Kong - echo of Diddy Kong with some specials changed
- Recovery becomes Hair Helicopter (Similar to Duck Hunt Dog's)
- Standard Special becomes Hair Whip (Similar to Piranha Plant's Standard Special but less ridiculous)
- Octoling - echo of Inkling, mainly cosmetic like Simon and Richter
- Bass - echo of Megaman, uses different special weapons with different elemental effects, centers more around darkness
- Standard Special: Shadow Blade
- Recovery: Treble Adapter (Similar to R.O.B.'s recovery)
- Side Special: Napalm Bomb
- Down Special: Skull Barrier
Oh buddy, you don't even!
1. Grovyle (echo of Greninja)
- Instead of Water Blades, he can easily use Leaf Blades.
Neutral B: Bullet Seed. Like Ivysaurs, only horizontal.
SideB: PMD Grovyle uses Shadow Sneak but he could go with Dig too to mix it up a little.
UpB: Quick Attack. Similar to Pikachu
DownB: PMD Grovyle also uses Substitute so yeah.
Final Smash: something fun with Luminous orbs.
2. Dry Bowser (echo for Bowser)
- would be slightly lighter than Bowser.
SideB: Bone toss. Rips a Bone out off his body and uses K. Rool sideB.
UpB: reconstruct. All his bones fly upward in a random order, carying people along with him before het reconstructs himself.
DownB: same as Bowser, but he Falls apart when he hit the ground, forcing him to rebuild himself. This gives him a handfull of I-frames, but he can't move.
3. Dixie Kong (Diddy Kong echo)
Neutral B: Bubblegum Gun. Works the same as Diddies but hit opponents are slowed down for a while.
UpB: Propellor. Uses her Hair similar to K.Rool's helicopter. Less powerfull but a bit wider.
4. Hades (Palutena echo)
- A bit heavier and Slower. His smash Attacks are borrowed from Sm4sh Gannon, but with Fire effect.
NeutralB: Hell reticule. The spheres are Slower, but they're ob Fire and deal more hitstun.
SideB: Explosive Hellfire. The flame grows for a while longer but deals less knockback.
UpB: Hellish Teleport. The Final hitbox deals damage, like Sheiks.
And at this point you realise making Echoes is hard.
5. 8-bit Mario.
- plays like Mario, but his animations are more blocky and resemble those from the original games.
DownB: Koopa Shell. Throws a green Shell that behaves like in Mario Bros. Counts as a projectile, not an item.
Final Smash: Starman. Imagine Mario Kart Starman.