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The Smash Bros Discussion Thread

I really, really hope customs are repurposed for Echoes, I remember thinking of the possibility before. Sadly, knowing how Smash rolls I somehow doubt it, I'm betting they need to have the exact same movesets to qualify as Echo.

I still think Dark Pit was robbed of a real moveset.
 
First off, Rude, I loved customs and was a big advocate of them being tourney legal because i made the game much more interesting to have several variants of familiar fighters with different styles. Secondly, yes, customs are back, as Mii Brawler uses way too many special moves for one character, including his old flip, his diving headbutt, 2 up B attacks, and a new counter. I heavily doubt Mii fighters will be the only one with a custom set.
 
i can see them trimming customs down to only mii fighters just for the sake of keeping things simple in the long run
as good as some customs were (I would die for Ganon's blue kick), a lot of them just frankly weren't very good or interesting

secondly, that Giygas echo would be THE coolest thing in the game, especially with Earthbound Giygas being the up-smash. That's genius
 
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One of the reasons I hope Echos won't be restricted to same franchise characters, because yeah, that's genius and the best idea
I have a feeling they're doing exactly the opposite because Ganon isn't considered an echo fighter in this game.
 
because he's not one
echoes are the characters that might as well just be an alt costume with how similar they are
even Melee Ganon and Pichu had enough differences to not be a complete copypaste
 
considering Doc has enough differences in Ultimate to not be considered an Echo, it's pretty obvious that it doesn't just mean Clone

it's SF2 Ken, not Alpha and beyond Ken
 
I'm pretty sure Jeanne will be one for Bayonetta.
 
Proto-Man, Classic Sonic, Mrs.Pac-man, just a few off the top of myself
 
Well, they have a Bass and ProtoMan models in the game now (see the final smash). Could happen
 
why are people all onboard with echoes now that they have a name
i think the official acknowledgement that they aren't "real" additions has softened the blow a bit

in addition to the fact that we're not getting -as- many real new characters in Ultimate probably means that people are looking to Echoes for quick and dirty reps
 
GUYS
WALUIGI AS A WARIO ECHO
THE ASSIST TROPHY BECOMES A DIFFERENT COLOR WHEN HE'S PLAYED
AND EVERYONE'S HAPPY
 
I'm just glad that we'll never get a new FE character again and it'll just be echo characters from here out
because lol if theyre ever gonna add an Axe or lance character
 
why are people all onboard with echoes now that they have a name
I mean I'd be down with echoes if we do also get things like codecs, like Dr.Mario for example (I know he's not an echo anymore but he's close enough so let me have this)

Snake: Why is Mario in a lab coat
Colonel: That's Dr.Mario, he may look like Mario but that lab coat is filled with mega vitamins making him move slower, but pack a mean punch.
Snake: What ever happened to "do no harm", and Mega vitamins? If ate some would I also become stronger?
Colonel: Snake, you know that consuming unknown substances from the enemy is ill advised, but it's not like you'd be able to swallow a pill that big anyway.
Snake: . . . Yeah on second thought this wasn't my greatest of ideas.

But that being said I'd prefer that we get like 2 or 3 new characters over getting 10 preexisting characters with different voices, animations, and stats.
 
I really don't think we're going to see only 5 newcomers in this one. You gotta remember that Smash has averaged at adding around 17 new characters per entry

Not as many additions to sakurai is probably more like 9-10, not including potential DLC additions
 
I really don't think we're going to see only 5 newcomers in this one. You gotta remember that Smash has averaged at adding around 17 new characters per entry

Not as many additions to sakurai is probably more like 9-10, not including potential DLC additions
Plus with Smash 4, he said to not expect too many newcomers, and instead we got 17 newbies.
 
Plus with Smash 4, he said to not expect too many newcomers, and instead we got 17 newbies.
21 if you count the DLC
Not that anyone really wants to count Corrin but we need to for the sake of numbers
 
OK obviously not really but I imagine that fake leaks and leak speculation is going to be just as bad if not worse than Sm4sh and the Mac/Shulk conspiracies. So be prepared.
 
Has anyone ever believed a Smash leak that wasn't the ESRB one?
 
Okay but Lip would actually be untold amounts of fuckin' baller

We've needed a true puzzle rep for ages now
 
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Actually giving megaman echo fighters would kind of make sense to me since some of his custom moves were pretty functionally different than normal, not so sure about any other 3rd parties though
 
Actually giving megaman echo fighters would kind of make sense to me since some of his custom moves were pretty functionally different than normal, not so sure about any other 3rd parties though
Also don't forget that Dark Pit did have some differences, including his own Final Smash and victory theme.
So I think Echo Fighters do get some modicum of niceness to them and not just clone clone.
Like sayy we get Protoman, he doesn't HAVE to reuse Megaman's Final Smash, maybe his Final Smash could be all the secondary playable characters in Megaman History (Zero, Model Z, Megaman Zero Zero, Zero.exe) to do a super attack instead.
 
An ARMS character (most likely Spring Man) is definitely gonna be a newcomer since the game sold very well.
 

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Sakura said that his eyes have been red from working on the game so much

If this is a hint it's either k rool or Ashley, the madman
 
So how about those finals?