I am a sucker for dragons, so I tried so hard to make Charizard my main in Smash 4. However after a few hundred matches, I realized that I wasn't having the fun I used to with Charizard because he was too basic. I felt like I was doing the same thing in every match since every attack he sends opponents too far away to connect with anything. Charizard can be fun still, but I pretty much only play him in casual play now sadly. In SmUsh, he's part of Pokemon Trainer and I don't like playing with
Squirtle because he feels even more repetitive when I played him in Brawl. Ultimate seems to let the combos be more interesting though so perhaps I should give him a shot again.
I've always been curious about Ivysaur though, and he seems kinda fun. However with that said, I'd rather just play with Charizard, but it's usaully better to play with the other two, and handicapping yourself to just one of the 3 is a big problem. I also would rather learn other fighters than learn these 3.
Cloud is in a very similar situation to Charizard since Cloud is the easiest character I've ever picked up, and Charizard is very close to being the easiest to pick up. Since I felt like I was good with Cloud, I decided to focus my efforts on learning other characters to see if I wanted to play them..... Then I just never got in the mood to play with Cloud again. Perhaps someday I'll pick him back up because his Advent Children costume looks amazing, and he is pretty fun to play. Though I don't care for Cloud as a character because I haven't play FF7 and all I hear that he does is sulk 24/7..... and he crossdressed that one time.
I love staying in the air in every game I play, Smash is no different. However a character that forces me to stick to the ground caught my attention, along with his incredibly fast speed. I do like underdog characters, so he was a consideration. However, after playing him enough, I've decided that I don't think I could main Little mac. However he is a very important tool in forcing myself to use ground options more, which I can then apply to other characters to make me more well rounded.
Ganondorf and Ike played similar roles where they would force me to focus on the enemy, instead of fiddling around with my controls. Good to start off a few matches with them to get into the right mindset to play a human, then to swap to a character and mess with that character's gimmicks. However in SmUsh, Ganondorf is just way too fast and big for me to actually get that because he's just too good. Ike is still solid in SmUsh to make me watch the opponent though.
Corrin - Swords, and dragons, at the same time!? Count me in..... even if this dragon looks like a weird alien..... He's a bit on the slow side. One of the characters I did 100 matches with. On paper he should be super fun like the Marth clones, but better because of more interesting specials. However in practice, something just feels off, but perhaps that could be overcome with practice. However, would it be worth it when there's other characters in the roster that I probably would want to use more?
Love Ninjas. In Sm4sh Greninja felt a bit too sluggish because of the startup of his moves, but I might give him a chance again in SmUsh if I have the time (which I probably won't). Also Greninja's tongue grosses me out. If only I never knew that his badass scarf, was actually a gross tongue. Loving a character is important to maintaining motivation to play the character after all, and that deterred me from playing Greninja for a while in Sm4sh. Sheik just feels like they have perfect gameplay and
everyone more competitive players seem to have fun playing against my Sheik. Unfortunately outside of Smash, Sheik is a pretty forgettable character so that's one less area to draw motivation from. Though her awesome looks and perfect gameplay puts her in the running for a main/secondary just because of how good they are.
Robin - Magic, swords are things I'm a sucker for so I like Robin in theory. And I love wearing the hood, IF I COULD! However in Sm4sh he's too slow, and in SmUsh I just haven't touched him yet (but fought a freind multiple times so I can see him being fun). I'm worried that he may lack enough combos/setups to actually be worth using. I had such high hopes for Robin because he just looked so cool with his entrance in his reveal trailer.
Miis - They have awesome gameplay and are stylish as hell. Couldn't play with randoms in Sm4sh so I can't main them because of that there. However in SmUsh they are available but there's too many characters I prefer to play above them..... Also they removed my favorite swordfighter costume from Sm4sh, the Rathalos armor. Perhaps I'll pick them up much later, but it has been fun playing them randomly and beating people with lack of matchup knowledge with my swordsman.
Love of robots, having some childhood memories of ROB, and him being a solid projectile user with a weird gameplay style definitely cements him in one of the characters I want to be good with. In Brawl I didn't have time to play him. In Sm4sh I tried to play him, but felt helpless when getting combo'd and at the time I couldn't handle that so I took a break but never came back to him. SmUsh I picked him back up and I've been kicking people's butts with him despite not having a ton of experience with him. The combo problem doesn't bother me ever, unless I'm fighting my Pikachu main friend. Though matches between my rob and his Pikachu get rather close anyways. R.O.B. just feels so incredibly versatile, that I feel that he will always be at the very least, a secondary.
Shulk - He just feels too slow in Sm4sh, especially when compared to Cloud who has similar range. I did decently well with Shulk in Sm4sh but I gave up after a while despite it feeling cool to play him. In SmUsh I haven't touched him much at all because I know he'll probably be very hard to learn how to use properly. While I don't like having a braindead character like Charizard, Shulk seems like he'd be a bit too tricky to learn how to use properly. Also my fingers probably aren't fast enough to do something like a short hop, fast fall nair, while trying to change the monado art at the same time. Perhaps someday if I have the time I may try him again.
Toon Link - Because Link is the character I learned Smash off of and I love Wind Waker. Figured he'd be easy to pick up and use as well. Nope, Toon Link is one of the characters I struggle to use in Smash. He just plays way too differently from normal Link for me to use him properly. I'd need to give him more time, but I might default to the other Links instead since I'm used to their playstyle more.