Elec
Smash Apprentice
my thoughts on this, any character that isnt mentioned will likely return, as much as i want jigglypuff to be axed from the roster.
most vulnerable:
dark pit and lucina are just blatant clones, they were supposed to be alt costumes anyways so they probably will be. cloud is a third party meaning that they have to get square's rights again to add him in, and seeing as to how little song representation its unsure if he can get in.
slight chance of the axe:
ryu feels out of place in smash 4 so i can see that as reason for him being cut but capcom is so cool with crossovers he can make it back. corrin feels off to be, she doesnt give off that vibe that the other fe characters do, which represent the era of fe games they come from, marth being the (super) famicom games, roy being the gba games, and ike being tellius games. fates is often grouped with awakening due to the same artstyle and mechanics of the games and we already have robin who represents that era. however she is pretty unique with that dragon thing so she could stay for that reason. doc may seem like a blatant clone at first, but he actually plays differently from mario with a couple of different hitboxes and a different down b, along with trading speed and mobility for sheer strength. however even despite that, i can still see him becoming an alt of mario.
will probably stay down:
pichu was just a joke character, and ivysaur and squirtle arent as favored as charizard. there would also be too many pokemon otherwise. snake on the other hand is an interesting case, with whats happened with kojima and the metal gear franchise, it almost seems impossible to bring back snake. but knowing how greedy konami is, sakurai could probably just bribe konami to bring snake in to smash.
has reason to not suffer the fate:
bayonetta is a game series that has become exclusive to nintendo as of late so there is no real reason to cut her from smash, even despite her being unfun to fight and provocative a bit. mewtwo, lucas, roy were all previously cut characters that came back as dlc, it doesnt rly make sense to me to cut these characters again, especially when mewtwo is completely original, lucas has a lot of different moves, hitboxes, and properties than ness, and roy plays a lot more closeup than marth with his sweetspot being the hilt of his blade.
rise once more:
ice climbers were only cut due to 3ds limitations, sakurai will most definitely add them back into smash 5. wolf though, despite him having an almost unique moveset compared to fox and falco other than specials and landmaster, just never got brought back. however he did have a really solid campaign during the ballot and due to his veteran status it almost seems like theres a nice chance of him coming back.
EDIT: forgot young link , toon link exists so i doubt he'll return anyways
most vulnerable:
dark pit and lucina are just blatant clones, they were supposed to be alt costumes anyways so they probably will be. cloud is a third party meaning that they have to get square's rights again to add him in, and seeing as to how little song representation its unsure if he can get in.
slight chance of the axe:
ryu feels out of place in smash 4 so i can see that as reason for him being cut but capcom is so cool with crossovers he can make it back. corrin feels off to be, she doesnt give off that vibe that the other fe characters do, which represent the era of fe games they come from, marth being the (super) famicom games, roy being the gba games, and ike being tellius games. fates is often grouped with awakening due to the same artstyle and mechanics of the games and we already have robin who represents that era. however she is pretty unique with that dragon thing so she could stay for that reason. doc may seem like a blatant clone at first, but he actually plays differently from mario with a couple of different hitboxes and a different down b, along with trading speed and mobility for sheer strength. however even despite that, i can still see him becoming an alt of mario.
will probably stay down:
pichu was just a joke character, and ivysaur and squirtle arent as favored as charizard. there would also be too many pokemon otherwise. snake on the other hand is an interesting case, with whats happened with kojima and the metal gear franchise, it almost seems impossible to bring back snake. but knowing how greedy konami is, sakurai could probably just bribe konami to bring snake in to smash.
has reason to not suffer the fate:
bayonetta is a game series that has become exclusive to nintendo as of late so there is no real reason to cut her from smash, even despite her being unfun to fight and provocative a bit. mewtwo, lucas, roy were all previously cut characters that came back as dlc, it doesnt rly make sense to me to cut these characters again, especially when mewtwo is completely original, lucas has a lot of different moves, hitboxes, and properties than ness, and roy plays a lot more closeup than marth with his sweetspot being the hilt of his blade.
rise once more:
ice climbers were only cut due to 3ds limitations, sakurai will most definitely add them back into smash 5. wolf though, despite him having an almost unique moveset compared to fox and falco other than specials and landmaster, just never got brought back. however he did have a really solid campaign during the ballot and due to his veteran status it almost seems like theres a nice chance of him coming back.
EDIT: forgot young link , toon link exists so i doubt he'll return anyways
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