Oh Simon is Simon Belmont. Which I see more as 1% or less for being an out-of-left-field crazy unexpected character tbh.
I can understand giving him a low chance (even I wouldn't put him very high, maybe 10% at the absolute max and even that's mostly my own bias talking) but how is he an "out of left field crazy character"?
But, for the facts:
>He's one of the poster childs of 90's gaming, and during the time period he was up there with icons like mario, link, megaman, samus, kirby, etc. He's easily the 3rd party character with the most significance in nintendo history. Barring bamco characters I 100% believe that he's the most likely 3rd party character.
>He's in basically the same predicament megaman is in (minus the whole "my game series has been dead for years" thing) being an iconic retro character owned by a 3rd party that's been requested (albeit less than megaman) for a long time.
>Of all the companies to get a 3rd party character from, konami is one of the few that they've already worked with to get snake in brawl, which makes a konami rep very possible.
>His abilities are so perfect for the smash system it's uncanny. Think of a moveset, if you've played early castlevania it should take you like 5 minutes to come up with a complete moveset. his abilities lend themselves to a zoning moveset stupidly well- his normals would have naturally good range, and a combination of throwing axes, holy water, and boomerang crucifixes would likely make him one of the best ranged characters in the game barring major oversights.
>Most importantly, if he's in we can give him, megaman and pit captain N alternate costumes.
I agree with that. I was simply arguing Simon vs Aeron. I think neither are likely to get in but I think Aeron has slightly better chances
Still wrapping my head around why you think this is an either/or thing. I watched like 3-4 gameplay videos of pandora's tower and looked at his wiki and the one shred of similarity I could find between their fighting styles is that they both involved chains. Not only does Aeron not use the chain as his primary weapon- he uses a sword- but they use them in fundamentally different ways- Aeron wraps the chain around enemies or otherwise uses it to immobilize or disarm them, and occasionally to rip out hearts and heal his girlfriend. Simon just whips people with it, using it as an ordinary mid-ranged weapon. Aeron seems to be very aggressive while Simon is more of a defensive, cautious zoner. Their fighting styles have as much in common with each other as they do with Alex from River City Ransom. You can compare settings and themes and all that, but in the context of becoming a smash bros character, they don't have any significant similarities.
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