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What could have been....
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>>59007138
oops, meant to post this
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>>59007144
is cool, viable, very technical and highly clippable, gave us a much needed new ninja character instead of just being three heavies
ayup that there's a good character, just a shame sheik was that dummy strong at the start of 4
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>>59007170
But that's what we got. It's Squirtle, Ivysaur, and Charizard in the actual game.
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ivysaur leak from SSB ultimate deluxe
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>>59007185
Pikachu, Mewtwo, Lucario, Pokemon Trainer, and whatever the current shill mon is would be the best playable characters in Smash, everything else could just be a pokeball mon
I do think there is room to make more gimmicky player characters, like PLA's protagonist could be made a much more unique character compared to PT, since you can take into account you can get involved with battling and using Pokemon as more of an assist, if they wanted to go the route, they could have the Pokopia Ditto who can use a mix of different moves from different Pokemon, I've thought about a Pokemon Ranger as well, but I can't realistically see their gameplay translating into Smash besides as an assist trophy
Pokemon is one of Nintendo's biggest series, alongside Mario and Zelda, so if you don't think it deserves a good amount of playable characters, you're retarded, but Jigglypuff, Pichu, and any flavor of the month solo starter didn't need to be there, I do agree
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>>59007226
In an ideal world this would still be a game about Nintendo characters only.
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>>59007185
No, pikachu must always be in as well as mewtwo and jigglypuff due to the weight of their generation. Outside of that 1 playable mon from each gen and 1 stage set in each region with plenty of poke cameos that way you can have less pokemon in the pokeballs.
Stage ideas:
>national park in johto
>hoenn skies- rayquaza does battle with deoxys in background as mega latios flies you around iconic places like space port, volcano, frontier, skypillar.plenty of flying pokemon hazards
>spear pillar gen4 or regigigas temple
>black city as ghetsis is attacking w/ kyurem in background
> the paris level from gen 6 or w.e kalos is gay af
Beyond that i have no idea as gen 7 and on are gay and not very kino. Coukd pribably do like the safari area from sun and moon and have you trip balls through an ultra beast wormhole with ultra beast cameos.
But alas sakurai is a huge faggot and we will get same shit levels from last 30 years. Fuck you, you'll buy it anyway.
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>>59007125
the current pokemon roster in smash is abysmal, kino roster would have been something like:
pikachu
machamp or meowth
mewtwo
pokemon trainer red
gardevoir or hoenn trainer (mudkip/grovyle/blaziken)
lucario
greninja
mimikyu or alola trainer (popplio/torracat/decidueye)
fuck pichu, jiggly and incineshit
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What could've been
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>>59008961
Here's my take
>Pikachu
>Mewtwo
>Pokemon Trainer
>Lugia (with Shadow Lugia as an alt)
>Gardevoir
>Lucario
>Zoroark
>Greninja
>Decidueye
>Toxtricity
>Meowscarada
Bonus
>Custom Trainer
Players are able to make their own pokemon trainer teams by selecting 2-3 playable pokemon. However the selected pokemon lose their Down Special move and the team will also take increased damage from attacks.
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pokemon trainer is the best rep because it reflects mainline pokemon's gameplay and how it's different from the franchises in smash. you don't play as the pokemon in pokemon, you play as a trainer with a team of pokemon. so the character you represent that with is a trainer with a team of pokemon.
but individual pokemon as characters has been a thing since the very first smash game, so there's not much that can be done about that.and besides, i don't even play smash.
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>>59008961
>Charizard (Mega Evolution choose between X or Y)
>Umbreon/Espeon (Switch Mechanic)
>Sceptile (Mega Evolution)
>Zoroark
>Greninja (Mega Evolution)
>Decidueye
>Cinderace (Libero Mechanic)
>Tinkaton or Armarouge/Ceruledge (Switch Mechanic)
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I see my superiority has led to some controversy. For real though, Incineroar's one of the most fun grappler chars out there and it's because Sakurai has an almost fanatical level of love for Pro Wrestling.
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>>59007150
Oh come on, even the VERY BEST Grenigga players always drop their comboed I swear I've watched his best players since Wii U. Still the same shit in ult he's literally a discount Sheik. Not that I want it to be this but that's just how it is
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>>59019098
I feel like this is exactly why Smash character theorizing became so bad. It became less "I want this character because they can offer something fun to play with/against" and more "I want this character because I want them to be more relevant." It sees the game more as marketing than something to play with.
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>>59010461
goddamn it's getting more and more bloated
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>>59023233
Content creators only care about getting views, thus they'll side with whatever is currently popular. Which is why they'll constantly try to "predict" the next Smash with same list of people's most wanted characters. Same with most pokemon content creators, no one will say that Pombon will evolve into a human shaped fighter if they want to pay their bills.
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>>59023633
Or Pushmo
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>>59023233
I'm not saying this as an argument against Incineroar or anything, but I don't think "unique" is necessarily a good thing to base a character on. Plant is "unique", Min-Min's "unique", Olimar is "unique" - but none of them are all that fun to play as or against and often times the most fun characters are the ones with the simplest down-to-earth kits.
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>>59018631
I'm speaking more in the context of when Ult was new.
>Rockruff line had a decent marketing push in gen 7
>would stand out more for being quadrupedal compared to most of the bipedal roster
>wouldn't be yet another starter
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>>59026764
Back in the day when the roster was smaller it helped more obscure franchises become more recognizable. But with our current bloated roster some characters would be lucky to be even remembered outside of Smash.
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>>59024468
You're arguing in favor of Incineroar then. At his core, he's more of a showman grappler than a Pokemon rep [hell he doesn't even use fire moves outside of effects] a la King from Tekken but it's the execution where he shines. Motherfucker even has the warning tells in his animations before dropping someone, that's committing to the bit.
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>>59007125
>all these slow fats just because KANTOOOOOOOO
somebody get this absolute unc out of here and back to the retirement home.
anyway it should have been the Hoenn starters
>sceptile is light and quick, can combo all day but does little knockback
>blaziken is medium weight, can jump high and has powerful kicks
>swampert is slow but he's heavy and hits hard all-around
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huh, so all that shit is from youtube or worse
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>>59033725
Some of it. Delzethin's probably the most known example since he was the biggest stan for Dusk Lycanroc's inclusion. And he proceeded to crash the fuck out when Incineroar's trailer and Sakurai's interview on why he chose the tiger dropped.
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That would make it the largest gross franchise
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>>59036204
It's honestly insane Jigglypuff got in over Mewtwo or Meowth back in Smash 64
Jigglypuff's relevance completely died once we hit Gen 3, since outside of a cameo, it just didn't appear anymore following the Johto era of the anime
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>>59011385
(Pokopia) Ditto could replace any or even all of the existing Mons (except Pikachu) by having them as transformation forms. It'd certainly stop the roster-bloat by reducing the Starters they don't want/need to push anymore into abilities.
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>>59046259
we have squirtle and greninja in the same game. 2 water types. theres no reason we couldnt have blastoise to which would play vastly different from the quick and small turtle.
ivysaur is the only one that would be a stretch and i could still see it working.
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See, that's based
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>>59058434
Keep seething uncs, the king of vgc is not going anywhere
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>>59009505
Still inferior to what everyone truly wanted.
>Verification is not required.
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>>59008961
Smash Bros not having Pokémon as obvious as Meowth or Machamp is just as weird as Super Smash Bros not having Toad
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Why not
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>>59009177
rude
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>>59008949
Jiggly is more of a legacy character, like Capt Falcon or the Starfox crew (the Kid Icarus gang has Sakurai privilege). Let's not act like they market the ball in current day
Honestly they don't even shill Scream Tail that much either
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>>59008961
Pikachu, Mewtwo and the Trainer are pretty much perma reps, Jigglypuff can be cut and we only lose hbox
Also Incineroar is THE Starter that remains permagood since his release, if any of those underperforming fuckers deserves a slot, is the actual good one
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Fuck you, Jigglypuff is awesome
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too cool, would have overshadowed MEGANIUM
>>59065918
being gangraped by Game Freak would have been better than what we got
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>>59007138
fbpb
The way that Charizard, Ivysaur, and Squirtle were implemented is by far the best case scenario for their inclusion in Smash. Not only does each one represent a different archetype of fighter (heavy brawler, midweight zoner / disjoint, lightweight rushdown), PT is by far the best designed gimmick (tag) character in any Smash game. Who the fuck would want THREE dog shit heavies on one character or, worse, as their own characters?
Smash fans are fucking retarded though, so I get it.
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Is this too much to ask out of life?
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>>59164435
Because it wasn't a war of ideals back then. The worst that could've happened in WWI is having to pay reparations (real reparations, not groid ones) and maybe the frogs going fascist later or having commies of their own
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>>59171042
I'm no degenerate there just aren't a lot of cool looking options for the guy trainer
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