Board 8 > Save My Smash Ultimate Character: Day 53! [SMSUC]

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I'd say front runners would be Pyra, Mythra, Banjo, Bowser, and Cloud.

Snake and Seph close to that group.

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Oh and Kirby, he's like a lock for top 5 at least.

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Zigzagoon posted...

I'd say front runners would be Pyra, Mythra, Banjo, Bowser, and Cloud.

Snake and Seph close to that group.

Bowser has almost died like 5 times lmao

I can't call it either, but I do think the Xenoblade girls are going far.

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UnderUrMattress posted...

Bowser has almost died like 5 times lmao

When people lose more of their favorites, it lets the generally liked characters do a lot better. If he doesn't die soon, he'll probably make top 10 easily.

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Mythra and Pyra have SFF

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People may start saving Ryu just for the meme run

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yea definitely wont be mythra and pyra

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God dammit. Miss one day while at work and the GOAT character gets eliminated

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I will say that I faintly remember hosting a version of this many years back (I'm thinking with the Brawl roster?) The character that won (to the best of my memory) is still in the competition. I'm interested how far he or she will go.

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I just scoured this topic to see Kamek's thoughts and

Kamekguy posted...

B-but I had so many more pointless titles to give him...

K. Rool is, by far, my favorite Smash Bros character. Just something about his combination of subverting heavyweight traits with cheeky options whilst still falling to their weaknesses, repping his boss battles perfectly by having such a strong, linear offensive but an obvious exploitable weakness wherever his gut isn't facing (or exploiting it), and the ability to go stupidly deep to go for spikes with a predictable but highly useful recovery meld into such a fun character to play. I don't think any character is quite as fun to swap between playing seriously, screwing around, going for disrespect, or laming it out, and his expression work and animations are all so vibrant and playful, menacing and buffoonish. I'm not a big fan of Ultimate's systems, feel like SO much of it resolves around the recovery/edgeguard game, but I have never had a K Rool game where I've had a bad time.

And more than that, the story of the character - being one that was never even considered until the Smash Ballot and a surprise to the dev team that he was so beloved - is so strong to me. After years of the DKC series being turned on and called "never really that good" post-Rareware buyout, after the DK series itself being really underwhelmingly represented in Smash through 4, after the internal desire for Nintendo to distance themselves from most of Rare's creations out of respect for the original devs (except Paon, they just did whatever the Hell they wanted), seeing K. Rool play so well and be represented so RIGHT was just so, so cool.

I love this stupid character and I'm just glad he finished in the top half of the field. Because he is just dumb fat crocodile with armor. But that's better than the rest of the cast by me.

Perfect write-up and agreed on all points. K. Rool has been my most wanted ever since Melee, but I never expected him to be so perfect. It's absurd how stupidly fun he is to play with. I have nothing more to add because you said it all too well.

But we can enjoy this banger together:

https://youtu.be/kpHbIjZY2WY


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K. Rool was the first guy I played with at a friend's house when playing Ultimate for the 1st time. So fun and pretty much how I imagined he'd be.

I just wish he had a stage to go with him. So many types of DK stages and they're all variations of jungle in the Smash series -_-

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