This is a follow-up to the potential Assist Trophy promotions post from August, where we have been looking at all the missing Assist Trophies and which ones still could become playable characters. In the meantime Isabelle was already confirmed as a fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, where she also had another thing going for her: she was featured as a Mii Fighter Costume in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U.
Plenty of these existed for the games' DLC and Isabelle isn't the only Mii Fighter Costume, which has now become playable. The Inklings, Chrom and King K. Rool also made the jump from a costume for the Mii fighters to a playable character.
Naturally, they targeted popular characters for the Mii Fighter outfits to throw a bone to the fans of these characters. A Mii costume is better than nothing after all... It seems that they won't return for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, however, or at least we haven't seen them yet. But it is possible that they are gone, because they want to make the Mii Fighters playable online this time and maybe they don't want to obscure which type of Mii Fighter you're playing behind these outfits. With some it's almost impossible to tell on first glance... But this is just a thought.
But if the Mii Fighter costumes aren't returning, it's likely that more of the portrayed characters will make it into the game in some other form. It's not guaranteed that they will become playable, however. Ashley is a great example of that, where she did get such a Mii costume, but ultimately she was confirmed as an Assist Trophy yet again. So, take all of this with a grain of salt.
Let's go over the list of Mii Fighter Costumes, which still might result in playable characters, because they haven't been featured as Assist Trophies, as Stage Bosses or in Final Smashes yet:
- Akira Yuki (Virtua Fighter)
- Black Knight
- Chocobo (Final Fantasy)
- Geno (Super Mario RPG)
- Gilgamesh (Tower of the Druaga)
- Heihachi (Tekken)
- Hunter (Monster Hunter)
- Jacky (Virtua Fighter)
- Llyod Irwing (Tales of Symphonia)
- Majora's Mask
- Talos (Sonic)
- Toad
- Viridi
Well, first of all, it's quite astonishing, how many guest characters from many different 3rd party games were featured with these items. The ones that became playable were all 1st party, however, where only few of those are left...
The most interesting one for the blog is of course Majora's Mask, no questions asked. Attached to Skull Kid it would become part of a playable character in Smash. The official site even described this item as the following:
Don this Legend of Zelda artefact to bring Skull Kid into Smash! ...Moon not included.
The Moon isn't included, because it's an Assist Trophy, but we'll take the rest! With that this post covered everything of importance, but let's still go over the rest a bit...
The other big Nintendo character left would be Toad, though Toad himself is already featured in the moveset of Peach and Daisy. Captain Toad still might have a shot, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
We already discussed the Black Knight as a potential Echo Fighter, where it's more likely that he might end up as a boss in the Spirits Mode. Viridi also doesn't seem likely, since she is in the background of the Reset Bomb Forest stage. And if they do another Kid Icarus Uprising character, it probably would be Medusa.
And that's it for the 1st party Nintendo characters already... The other Mii Fighter outfits based on Nintendo characters either have been playable before (e.g. Link and Samus) or were promoted to playable status already. So, fingers crossed for Skull Kid!
As for 3rd party stuff, it feels unlikely that much of it will find its way into the base game, since we don't seem to have many fighters left... DLC is a different story, where some of the Mii Fighter costumes could into fully-fledged DLC contents the next time.
Heihachi seems like one of the biggest candidates for this, where he seems be the face of Tekken, much like Ryu is the face of Street Fighter. Since Nintendo is already working together with Bandai Namco for Smash, it's not unlikely that they will get more of their characters into Smash, including someone from Tales of Symphonia.
Sega seems also very cooperative in general, where Tails certainly feels like a potential character for the Sonic series, next to Shadow, who would be an Echo Fighter of Sonic himself. Virtua Fighter is another possibility, but Tekken feels like the bigger choice at the moment, if they are going to add more characters from other fighting games.
Capcom on the other hand doesn't seem to have anything on the list. The different Mega Mans are all featured in Mega Man's Final Smash and therefore probably won't be playable. The Monster Hunter can essentially be ruled out already as well, because they would have revealed this fighter together with Rathalos in some big Monster Hunter content reveal similar to Castlevania. But they didn't.
Square Enix has been known for being very restrictive when it comes to licensing characters and contents, but nonetheless there could be another Square Enix representative in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate according to the leaker Vergeben. And from this list Geno seems like the biggest candidate. Sakurai wanted the character to be playable since Brawl and you can really notice this from the way they introduced the Mii Fighter Geno, who got his own splash screen and even a special arm cannon. It's like the costume was treated like its own fighter. He also seems very popular, where he has a shot at either making it into the base game or being one of the first DLC characters.
I'm personally not a big fan of the idea, simply because Geno feels rather unimportant. Adding a side character from a single game over any Zelda newcomer at this point would feel almost insulting. But I probably wouldn't mind as much, if we were also getting Skull Kid... Since Geno is featured in the "Forest Maze" of Super Mario RPG, it could make sense to reveal him together with Skull Kid, where the Forest Maze would be the Lost Woods. This would certainly be a nice trailer for the final newcomers.
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