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5-Volt - WarioWare: Get It Together!

I mean, its technically her playable appearance. I like the constant reinforcement of her with a sleep theme, but man, shes awkward to control. Anyway, Game & Wario is a really fantastic game, and Gamer is a huge part of that. One of the things lost in translation with both the Smash Bros stage and the 3DS game is that you actively have to look at the Wii U gamepad to play microgames in order to continue the survival horror aspect of playing games too late and avoiding your mom catching you gaming in bed. Unlike the other two, your peripheral vision is absolutely shot while looking down at the gamepad, making you hyper-sensitive to every noise coming out of your TV. It claws at the edges of your imagination and makes you second-guess everything you hear, especially since every time you put your head under the covers, you get closer to falling asleep and failing. Its the combination of a universally understood childhood experience and the natural fun of a not-so-spooky horror trapping that makes Gamer an all-timer, and its amazing how well they managed to latch onto that concept and make it more fair for a Smash Bros stage. 5-Volt is one of the better stage hazards in all of Smash, and man I miss Game & Wario. Its totally untranslatable to the Switch so its trapped in Wii.U jail, but Gamer, Pirates, Fronks, Art, that one Miiverse game - all amazing little games that more than made the Jackboxification of WarioWare worth it for a fun little experiment.

Electrode - Pokemon Gold/Silver

In Gen 3, Electrode gets outsped by Ninjask, making him no longer the fastest common Pokemon out there. In Gen 1, him setting up screens is worthless. So I guess Gen 2 is really the only time he gets to be relevant and cool as the fastest Pokemon alive, so good for you for that brief, shining moment, Electrode! I dont think Electrode can ever really leave the Smash Bros series, hes such a fun Pokeball to toss out, Its very rare to get someone brave enough to actually throw him, that window is SO tight to accomplish it without blowing yourself up. but because you know its possible, theres always that inclination in your mind of what if. And that makes Electrode so much better as a stage control assist than others; you actively interact with him instead of just running away. With that said, Electrode will always have a place in my heart as the first Pokemon in the Pokerap. If someone cannot recite the rap up to Butterfree, they cannot hold a large place in my heart. Theres a hard cap that ends there at like, Social Link Rank 6 for me.

Black Knight - Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Man, the set-up of One Survives is so, so good. Micaiah is far from a capable lord surrogate, dealing good damage but being very frail and going down to a few good hits - a weakness that all Dawn Brigade members share. Isolating her is naturally going to make the player feel powerless BUT THEN THE BLACK KNIGHT COMES IN OUTTA NOWHERE. After having built him up for all of Path of Radiance, and STILL being tough to take down even with how strong of a Lord Ike is, being able to play as the legendary warrior, taking no damage from the pathetic soldiers surrounding him but trying to keep him close to Micaiah, is amazing. Its even more fun to use him as a damage sponge in later playthroughs by dequipping him and trying to make sure that Micaiah is safe and can pick off enemies for good XP! This is how you do a fun and flexible spectacle map in Fire Emblem. I have great praise for the Black Knight as a character in general, one of the few Fire Emblem characters who I think really gets at the heart of the core conflict of his game, gets the opportunity to grow, AND gets to show off as a unit or boss, A shame about his terminal weakness to hammers, but we still got the PoR fight to chew on. Black Knight is exactly what he should be as an assist trophy - a lumbering fortress of respect who crushes anyone near him, and tosses in the good ol Warp Powder to get the surprise drop on someone. Hes a less effective version of Bewear, but I prefer him to the pink bear thing - actually being able to resist him somewhat at the risk of taking a ton of damage is more interesting to me than the purely defensive play Bewear opens up. You should be able to adapt to an Assist Trophys presence, not simply be resigned to dying at their hands, and Black Knight does that amazingly. Id wish he were playable, he more than deserves it but Fire Emblem has enough representation problems as-is for me to be wishing for a big, clanky boy.