I think Lucario is fine as is, Togekiss or Roserade still work.
If Sakurai were to give the early route bird a rep. Who would you choose?
Personally I think Staraptor could work considering it learns moves like Close Combat and Brave Bird. Close Combat could possibly be very powerful but with a lot of end lag similar to how in the games the move lowers the users defensive stats.
Edited by MisterZygarde64 on May 10th 2020 at 4:26:12 AM
Check out Rogues Gallery Transplant: The GameAnd how exactly would Lucario be implemented into Cynthia's Pokemons? I'm not against it & after Pokken I'm pretty sure Lucario has more to offer, but why would they add another Lucario?
I do think another Pokemon rep is inevitable, even though Incineroar is a thing, but it would be pretty sweet to have another Pokemon Trainer. Which for some reason people considered to be 1 character.
That's a quite stupid suggestion to be honest. Pokemon Trainer makes sense because they use a set of starters. Blending Greninja or Incineroar into hypothetical "Kalos trainer" or "Alola trainer" with other starters would make more sense than taking a series mascot and shoving other species into its moveset after 12 years.
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Treeko, Dewott, and Cinderace would work, but I'm kinda tired of Starter pokemon.
Alternative options would be either:
- Partner Eevee w/ Eeveelutions
- Champion Cynthia w/ Garchomp, Spiritomb, and Togekiss (Milotic, Eelectross, and whatever Gen 8 Pokemon she addds to her team would appear in her Final Smash)
But the only one of those 3 pokemon reps I'd really want to see would be Eevee, and even then, there's 5 third party characters and a few Echo Fighters I'd rather see first.
The sad, REAL American dichotomySomething I'm just realizing now is that Pokemon as a series hasn't often shown up as DLC in other franchises. The only ones I can recall are Mewtwo in Smash 4 (which they probably would have has in the base game if they had more time) and various Smash Amiibo related characters (along with the Kanto starters in) that you could unlock for free in Mario Maker 1.
Don't know if that's significant at all but another Trainer would stand out as the most prominent paid DLC Pokemon's had outside its base games.
Samus wasn't one...
Transforming wasn't a move she had and she couldn't even transform back unless smash balls were on.
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The point still stands that ZSS was made into a separate character rather than be an alternate mode for Samus.
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I'd like to point out that the amiibo costumes for the Pokémon amiibo did not have any unique sound effects. Only the three starters which were added later got unique sounds.
Well, you'd want it to be easier to select a character wouldn't you?
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Ohh yeah Roserade would be cool
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