Super Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS Discussion

Combos confirmed.

Oh wait i'm an idiot. It looks like his up smash is brand new, being replaced by that ABYSMAL rising ball thing he did before.

Also DAT RUNNING SPEED. Far faster than brawl was.

reskin.

Use this word one more time without being able to explain the differences between characters and i will shoot you.

The first to moves sure, but it didn't look like Luigi resisted at all when the third came around.

And this is assuming that it isn't just for show.

Sure looks impossible to escape to me, if not it would be at a higher percent. He still has up-B -> bair if his usmash sends them too far.

Remember that this game is going to have higher hitstun than brawl and melee, so combos are confirmed regardless.

Pokemon trainer could easily be made to work if they just removed the fatigue system where each of the 3 got weaker over time. But then at that point, they might as well just give the 3 pokemon their own character portraits and separate them entirely.

Since both links are in, the only "clones" (for lack of a better word) we have left are the star fox trio, falcon/ganondorf, ness/lucas.

I'm still not sure why we need 3 star fox characters when the series hasn't had a new game in 7 years, and a good new game in even longer.

I get the feeling the "slim roster" thing is probably being misunderstood. We already know 17 characters, and the game isn't out for ages yet (For comparison , we only knew 25 of 37 characters or so when brawl launched). Presuming a rough equal number of unrevealed characters at launch, would mean we can expect at least 29 if no more are announced (and that isn't going to happen).

I don't think the fatigue system was unreasonable, but i thought the options to avoid it made it a bigger deal than it should have been. The switching animation was far too long, the outcome of switching was too easy to predict, and there were no options to defend yourself out of switching. If they changed all that and made the fatigue timer longer (maybe a minute and a half or so) it would be a lot better.

I can understand star fox becoming a trio, but i understood lucas even less. Earthbound isn't exactly the most popular franchise, and they have games coming out less often than star fox does.

I would say fox/falco/falcon/ness are guaranteed though, they're all either extremely popular characters or have been in every single release. I really want to see ganondorf use his damn sword though and i know i'm not the only one.