Pittoo, Lucina and Doc were confirmed to have been originally alt costumes that were given their own character slots "last minute". That trailer might have referenced Pittoo as an alt.
edited 12th Jun '15 6:36:17 PM by Elbruno
"Yeah, it's a shame. Here we are in an underground cave with all these lasers, and instead of having a rave we're using it for evil."I'm pretty sure Samus has always been like that. I mained Samus for a while, and remember many times where that just didn't perform as well as other up-smashes.
Also, people are noting that the background for the Smash announcement on Sunday has become red and black. Could mean something, could mean nothing.
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Red and black?
Shadow the Hedgehog confirmed.
a.k.a. Cly, that one girl who doesn't post here much anymore Something something YI = SMW 2 = SMB 5.I'd be cool with them just including the less-deviating clones (like Lucina over Dr. Mario) as costumes, but retaining the minor gameplay changes, to reduce clutter. Like, the Koopalings could have some minor statistical differences, but they wouldn't merit eight slots.
And unrelated, I'd be down for Chrom as an Ike pseudoclone.
Fairly sure there's a good number of established fighting games that would like to disagree with that sentiment.
"Tell them to shut up and have some faith in me." - dead flashback guyConsidering how mediocre some of his costumes are... that'd be kind of nice.
Sonic's aren't much better. Only Mega Man(and Snake in Brawl) had some really unique colors/costumes. Sonic's neatest one, imo, was his dark colors.
Shadow?My guess is that Sakurai could only do what Sega allowed. He still has to conform to what they say. It's not his character to do whatever with overall. He's very likely given only so much to work with. Even paying for Sonic doesn't guarantee he can do "anything he wants", since they still need to approve of any changes. My guess is they don't want Sonic to represent most characters via costumes. He only got literally one representation by having Silver's colors at best(albeit, 06 is shown in some way, so that might be why). The other characters are trophies or assist trophies now. And I don't know if Tails/Knuckles/Silver still show up on the 3DS Green Hill Zone. I haven't played it in a while.
Shadow?When the time came for making some of the alts into Moveset Clones, Dr. Mario was among those chosen because Sakurai and the team felt that having him be just an alt would be unfair to those who played as him in Melee. I'm inclined to agree.
Fantastic Supreme Überkaiser Emperor Folt of The Infinity and Beyond" ... "The First"!The unusual events surrounding F.L.U.D.D. and Doc Tornado also go a ways to justify his inclusion. Of everyone with similarities to other characters, he's the only one I think should just stay Mario with quirks and a Tornado move instead of either branching out or collapsing into an alt.
I sure said that!

Citation? We were already clued in on Dank Pit long before either of those two were known additions.
"Tell them to shut up and have some faith in me." - dead flashback guy