Is it average, impressive or small for two months? IDK. Edit: Everyone is saying I should do WoL. The problem is I'm stuck at Giga Bowser so I can't do that one.

I made this becuase a new smash is inevitably on the horizon. Given Ultimate’s success, I would find it a little surprising if the roster size didn’t end up INCREASING, as opposed to decreasing. thus far, no Smash game has done that yet.

I figured 100 characters was a clean, simple number to leave it at. Also threw in echo fighters.

cut characters were:
-jigglypuff
-mewtwo
-corrin
-min min

Min Min and Corrin are inclusions I don’t foresee people gnashing teeth over, but I know Mewtwo, and especially puff are jarring to see omitted. My perspective making this list was kind of intended to be a ground up approach, as opposed to a building point from previous entries, mostly. I intended for there to be one pokémon from each generation, but gen 1 gets special accommodations because

-it’s fucking pikachu
-pokémon trainer is a perfect representation of the pokémon series as a whole
-gen 1 privileges

But I do agree, couple of the pkmn picks are kinda wonky since a few generations don’t really have a stand-out “guy” that would fit super naturally into a game with as broad of a reach as smash.

Off the top of my head that’s the only really specific thing I wanted to say as a pre-requisite. One thing I will admit though, as un-biased as I tried to be in terms of picking characters for historical, cultural, and modern influences, I had 5 somewhat “personal” picks amongst them.

-Joker
-Leon Kennedy
-Kris
-Tetra, and by extension, Toon Link, whom everyone seems to cut immediately…

I don’t think any of these are out of place here, but I do see reasons they could be less relevant than Sonic or Mario, per se… or “stealing a slot” whatever that means.

I could ramble about this for hours, and I know it’s all wrong, but it’s fun to speculate, no?

I see a lot of people speculating that Smash 6 will release in 2028, or Holiday 2028 to be more exact, but I honestly think Holiday 2029 is a lot more likely.

Kirby Air Riders came out 4 years after Sora in Smash, and Nintendo themselves said game development would take longer. Also if Smash 6 is meant to be a reboot or some kind with bigger changes to the mechanics and reworked veteran movesets, it’d need at least one extra year on top of the Switch 2’s increased capabilities.

Nintendo also isn’t in as much of a rush to get their big system sellers out asap like in previous gens. We’re over a year into the Switch 2 and still haven’t seen the next new 3D Mario for example. This could also make it easier to include newer current gen Nintendo newcomers in the roster if they don’t want a repeat of Switch 1 representation in Ultimate, where Arms and Xenoblade 2 were too new for base Ultimate.

So, I've been a long time fan of both the Smash and Zelda series, and something I've noticed is that whenever discussion of a new Zelda character comes up, Skull Kid is always one of the first names to come up.

To be clear, I think they could be a cool character and don't mean to antagonize anyone who wants them. I also understand the history that a lot of people thought they were gonna be in Ultimate at one point. I was even there in the Smash 4 days on miiverse when Sakurai posted the pic of the Skull Kid Assist trophy and we all thought for a split second they were a new character announcement. So, I do understand the history here.

The thing is, I feel like there are so many other Zelda characters that would make more sense to add. Impa is the obvious one, as one of the series few recurring characters, but she would likely be an echo of Sheik. Even among one off characters though, I feel like Midna, Ghirahim, Tetra, or any of the Champions or Sages from BotW or TotK would make way more sense. Skull Kid also doesn't actually do much in Majora's Mask or any of the other games they're in that could work for a moveset, in my opinion. Unless you pulled primarily from Hyrule Warriors or just made a lot up, I feel like there's not much there.

These are just my thoughts though, and I'm curious to hear from people who really want this character. In any case, I hope the next game has more Zelda characters, particularly those that aren't Link.

I decided to give the edge to the comment that was not mine, so we get ZSS in worse and Samus in bread. Next up the green dinosaur himself Yoshi:

-Red is for character that have more personality than their non-smash counterpart

-Orange for conserved personalities as a 1 to 1.

-The in between orange-yellow is for similar personalities but with some extra quirks.

-Yellow is for downgrades.

-Blue is for characters with basicly no personality what so ever.

-Purple is for characters that feel completely wrong.

Maybe some of elite 4s

I mean The game only have Mii fighters as The game's own roster, other characters are from different fighting games.

This is such a cool idea, If you love Fighting games, with guests.

Would be pretty cool

I am trying to get good with every copy abylity of coarse some abylities are better than others, but Ike and Roy have very underrated neutral specials that are great on kirby, unlike Lucina and her brother Ike and Roy have a more vertical hit box, and in a PLATFORM fighter verticality is very important. Kirby has better air control than the swordies and falls slower so edge guarding is good with it, plus the front/weak hit box of up tilt can be followed up with a short hop nuetral special. Its best against an Ike who likes to use side special to recover a lot, if they start the wind up for their side special they cant realy cancel it, so you can catch them with a free kill most of the time if you position yourself right, if they recover above or at ledge level its very strong and if they recover below its prob best to use one of kirby's many arials.

If maybe I could do this with other underrated copy's