Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-31549837-20200115185054/@comment-31549837-20200121041534

Alright. I don’t tend to post my full predictions on Smash characters publicly (not anymore anyway. Last time I did... didn’t go the best for me). But since I know this community will be more... accepting, and after almost a week of reviewing the characters and they’re chances, I think I’m ready to post my full early prediction for Fighter Pass Volume 2!

I’ve actually been told by a friend that this is pretty much “The characters everyone wants” Pass, and I mean, he’s not wrong. I feel I tend to move towards characters a lot of people want (provided they have something to back their case), and because of that this is probably gonna be pretty wrong. I only got 1 of the 5 Fighter Pass characters right, so let’s hope I’ve shot more accurately this time.

As said before, I’m throwing fan rules out the window and only sticking to properly laid out rules.

1. Bandana Waddle Dee - I’ve been predicting this guy for this game for so long. Early on for base game (took me until the August Direct to fully consider Geno’s likeliness), the first Fighter Pass, and both times he’s missed the mark, when he feels like such a no brainer pick.

Very easy to make moveset, with a weapon nobody on the roster has used. Definitely fits in with the highly requested characters. Strong potential for stage, music and Spirits to give modern Kirby the showcase it needs. I don’t think Sakurai is ‘against’ modern Kirby at all, but it definitely needs better love.

I would like him to be the first character of the Pass, not only to finally just get him in after all this time, but to show people you can be a freakin PNG File and still be playable.

2. Doomguy - It’s the man of the hour. While I’m not campaigning for this guy (and have never played Doom), I think he has a decent shot at getting in. The biggest complaint people have with him is the violence, but I definitely think you can turn it down while still feeling true to the character.

There was the time someone asked Bethesda if they talked with Nintendo about Smash, with their answer being pretty much “haha, we have”, kinda deflecting the whole thing. There was also the time Sakurai acknowledged John Romero, and while I’ll definitely say that doesn’t mean anything for Smash, it shows he’s likely aware of Doom’s existence.

And... I don’t wanna put too much stock into leaks. I’ve gotten bitten by them before. But that Mii Costume though. People have tried to recreate the Cacodemon yes, but none of the mods have been able to go around the Mii’s face as well as the leak. Some might ask why Nintendo hasn’t tried finding the person who did it and firing them, and use that as proof the leak is fake. But think about it. Doing that would just admit to everyone the leak is real. They may wait for it to be proven real before taking action. That’s supposedly what happened with the Ken image leak.

Maybe Doomguy might just be a costume yeah, especially after Ubisoft got snubbed, but I’m not seeing that just yet. Speaking of that leak...

3. Geno - Yep, its him. Out of all the characters I’m predicting, I think Geno has the best shot. He’s the only one I would place money on. Maybe I’m insane and want to believe, or I’ve just been filled with Geno propaganda as of late, but the odds really feel stacked in his favour.

Me and SirHighAwesomeParty have both gone over points in Geno’s favour above in long detail and without discussing any leaks or rumours as points for him, so I don’t think it needs to be repeated.

I guess as something to add for if Geno gets in. The way Square handles their music is most likely that they give the copyright to the composers of the song. And I feel Yoko Shimomura would be more willing to have her Mario RPG tracks in Smash than Nobuo Uematsu’s 2 songs or Koichi Sugiyama’s MIDI’s.

4. Dante - After feeling Monster Hunter was the most likely Capcom character for awhile now, I finally jumped over to the Dante train. But to be honest, I don’t think I’m fully on it yet.

He definitely fits, DMC is now on Switch, which was apparently what one of the current DMC directors wanted before Dante got into Smash. Would work well with Bayonetta (fun fact I heard: Hideki Kamiya the original director of DMC and current director of Bayonetta turned down both characters appearing in Project X Zone 2, so only Dante got in with no Bayonetta. Though he has since said he regretted that choice).

But, I’m still not entirely on board yet. He’s only recently become a popular pick, with Phoenix Wright and Monster Hunter having more of a connection to Nintendo systems. Apart of why I picked him was because (and I hate to admit how easily I was swayed by this)... somebody with a form of insider info on SmashBoards heard from one of their sources Dante recently began development. It’s not much I’m aware, but it’s from the same guy who knew FP character 5 would cause a lot of controversy when revealed, so it makes me believe their claim more.

5. KOS-MOS - Out of all the characters here, I had a very hard time deciding between Rex and Pyra or KOS-MOS. But in the end, while I would like Rex more, I think KOS-MOS is the more likely of the two.

Don’t want to get into ‘representation’ talk, but I hate how Xenoblade has gotten kinda snubbed character wise. KOS-MOS isn’t Xenoblade, but still part of the ‘Greater Xeno mythos that doesn’t even connect with itself so why are they all called Xeno’ stuff with XenoSaga. She would also count as a second Namco character, and (this doesn’t matter at all) third robot character after ROB and Mega Man.

I don’t even think there’s leaks or anything that strongly point to her (haven’t looked at any leaks related to her), but she just feels likely to me. Hard to really explain.

And finally, my most wild bet, and probably most likely to be wrong. But you know I had to do it to them....

6. Waluigi - Yes, I’m serious, there’s no memes or anything. I actually think Waluigi has a shot of getting in.

The biggest and only real hurdle Waluigi has to overcome is being an Assist Trophy. It hasn’t been stated either way if Assists can be promoted to playable in the same game, but I’m part of the group that believes yes. And if anyone is gonna break one of the most annoying fan rules of them all, it’s gotta be the Waa master.

I’ve actually seen someone use ‘Sakurai doesn’t like Waluigi’ as a point against him, but that has literally no evidence whatsoever. His moveset can go in many different directions, heavily requested, and if this is the final character for the game, Waluigi would be a good one to end everything off with.

So, that was my predictions for the second Fighter Pass. Probably really wrong, and someone at Nintendo is probably laughing at me for getting it wrong. But we’ll see how it plays out and how my guesses will change overtime. As an honourable mention, I think a Gen 8 Pokémon is pretty likely. Right now I think I’d go with either Rillaboom or Urshifu. If I had to get rid of anyone currently for a Pokémon, it would probably be Waluigi. But I just felt more of an urge with these six than any of the Pokémon.

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