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Poll: Which Fire Emblem swordfighter is the one true Smash Bro? (If all were to be cut except one)
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Normally I'm ehhh about these kind of readings, but every other woman over the course of two games all but throw themselves at Ike and yet the only paired endings he has in RD are with male characters. Has to be either gay or Goku tier fightsexual at that point and considering how intelligent he is puts the latter in doubt.
At least he has good taste
Marth is the OG and face of the series so has to goto him. Its a shame that the that because they are all protagonists and the trope is the hero always has a sword they all end up being to much alike to most people(blue hair doesn't help). Really wish we had lance and axe reps considering how important the triangle is to the FE series but alas the greater smash community will never know Ephariam's cockyness and Hector's glory.
Marth absolutely, from a Smasher only perspective.
Top/high tier in all games he appeared in
Ken Combo
Tipper adds a whole new level of depth to Marth's gameplay that the clones don't have
Tipper makes more sense for a sword fighter than Hilts for Roy - a sword gives you the ability to play safer at a distance, but Roy needs you to go in...?
Ike is second for being a beast, but I've never liked his playstyle for Smash.
Top/high tier in all games he appeared in
Ken Combo
Tipper adds a whole new level of depth to Marth's gameplay that the clones don't have
Tipper makes more sense for a sword fighter than Hilts for Roy - a sword gives you the ability to play safer at a distance, but Roy needs you to go in...?
Ike is second for being a beast, but I've never liked his playstyle for Smash.
Marth all the way, not including Ike the rest of the characters are all based one marth yet none of then are as fun to play as, marth tipper mechanic makes him really fun to play with
Ike is alright but i just like marth way more
Ike is alright but i just like marth way more
Chrom is actually the top tier sword boy this time, insanely. But he's still just a cheap knockoff of Marth and Roy with a little bit of Ike DNA at the end of the day.
Ike and Marth are different enough that I wouldn't make them compete against each other. So I would pick Lucina and Ike over the rest, but to be honest I wouldn't bother cutting any of then just because they can't be all that hard to implement anyway. Marth looks and sounds like a dork, so Lucina all day for that spot.
I mean, Ike is the closest FE can get to a person who actively enjoys fights, though definitely unlike Goku he would avoid them where ever possible, and IS take every chance they get to call him the strongest hero that ever existed in all worlds.
I don't know is about the assumption that he's gay though, just because he wasn't interested in a getting married and settling down by age twenty (as he is by radiant dawn), just because he wasn't a horny boy like chrom. It feels a bit telling that in the very next game (that wasn't a remake) they gave Ike a descendant who clearly, uh, got a lot of his shared genetic material.
In my heart and soul, Roy is the best lol. I haven't unlocked Chrom yet but jeeze, how many Fire Emblem characters that are almost the same do we need?
Not particularly. You may catch a used copy in the 30-40 range if you're lucky.
I love Fire Emblem & aside from Fates the Marth games are my least favorite in the series. That said, he's way too iconic & important to Fire Emblem as a franchise to let any of those others usurp his place in Smash.
The writers were different and honestly the nature of the outrealms could mean it was a different version of Ike anyways
You've had a few answers, but I'll also point out that Ike's sister Mist exists and it's possible Priam descends from her. It's also possible that Priam isn't actually Ike's descendant.I'm not gonna get into the Ike debate as I hadn't played his games but how do you explain this guy?
Not trying to be smart I'm curious.
Also who knows if he is even considered canon.
Just prepare for mediocre stories. Fates' plot is downright infuriating.
Boo. I haven't played since the Wii game and really wanna get back in. I guess I'll wait for the switch game.
Legit surprised people like Chrom the least. I didn't pick him myself but that still seemed off because his design is overall better and he's in a more popular and more recent Fire Emblem game.
If there's only one vote available, Lucina is from the same game and has smash seniority.
Ike and Chrom have a lot of crossover too. Chrom would be my second choice.
And even with all that in consideration, it could also mean that Ike is bi instead.
Obviously you have to keep Marth, he's the original main character of the series.
That said, Ike, Robin, and Corrin have completely unique move sets, and Roy has a pretty distinct moveset as well. After that it's just Crom and Lucina, and they have just as much justification being in the game as any other echo fighter.
Just because you care about Fire Emblem doesn't invalidate the many people who do and enjoy the FE characters. There are over 70 characters, inevitably some of them are going to seem extraneous to someone.
That said, Ike, Robin, and Corrin have completely unique move sets, and Roy has a pretty distinct moveset as well. After that it's just Crom and Lucina, and they have just as much justification being in the game as any other echo fighter.
Just because you care about Fire Emblem doesn't invalidate the many people who do and enjoy the FE characters. There are over 70 characters, inevitably some of them are going to seem extraneous to someone.
This is actually a good read. I've heard the "gay Ike" talking point for years but never got a thorough take. I mean, that "crying shoulder" scene with is as gay as you can get in a mid-2000s Nintendo game - I'm definitely sold, in the text itself.
Do you know if there's any developer comments on the subject? "Death of the author" an all, and I think the existence of Priam says the people working on FE13 at least are assuming he's straight, but I'm curious if the people involved in the Tellius games have had any input.
I'd just rather we see some representation of other character classes beyond sword lord. Put Ayra from FE4 in there. ANY myrmidon. An assassin. A full-on mage. An axe user. We didn't need five or six characters, all of whom use swords.
Just no pegasus knights. Keep them the hell out unless they're an assist trophy that dies in one hit from any bow-related attacks.
Ike's been my go-to fighter since the days of Brawl, I couldn't conceive Smash nowadays without him. BUT... I reckon Marth is the purest swordsman, and he is the original FE character in the series, after all, so (though I voted for Ike) I think Marth would be the one on top.
Lucina, cause she's the one I like to play as.
I don't know a thing about Fire Emblem outside of Smash Bros though.
I don't know a thing about Fire Emblem outside of Smash Bros though.
Ike is my favourite character of the bunch, but I'd still cut him to keep Marth. Marth's moveset is way too fun and iconic to not be winning this poll.
On a related note - people whine about the Fire Emblem characters a lot, but the reality is that outside of maybe Corrin, none of them 'took a slot' away from anyone else. There are only four unique Fire Emblem movesets, with the rest being clones that didn't require much dev time. And the only iteration of Smash that introduced more than one unique characters came at the time the series was seeing a huge resurgence in popularity, so it made sense for it to happen.
I can't say I'm happy with most of the choices for reps, but they admittedly all make sense given the time of their selection. Marth fits as the original rep, and I suppose advertising the next game in the series with Roy would have made sense at the time, too. Ike was definitely the right choice at the time, being both relevant and popular. Robin also makes sense as the only other realistic choices for Awakening were more blue-haired swordsmen, which we eventually got anyway. And Corrin was another attempt at advertising the series.
In an ideal world, the Smash roster would consist of Marth, Ike, Lyn, Hector and Soren, but we don't live in an ideal world.
On a related note - people whine about the Fire Emblem characters a lot, but the reality is that outside of maybe Corrin, none of them 'took a slot' away from anyone else. There are only four unique Fire Emblem movesets, with the rest being clones that didn't require much dev time. And the only iteration of Smash that introduced more than one unique characters came at the time the series was seeing a huge resurgence in popularity, so it made sense for it to happen.
I can't say I'm happy with most of the choices for reps, but they admittedly all make sense given the time of their selection. Marth fits as the original rep, and I suppose advertising the next game in the series with Roy would have made sense at the time, too. Ike was definitely the right choice at the time, being both relevant and popular. Robin also makes sense as the only other realistic choices for Awakening were more blue-haired swordsmen, which we eventually got anyway. And Corrin was another attempt at advertising the series.
In an ideal world, the Smash roster would consist of Marth, Ike, Lyn, Hector and Soren, but we don't live in an ideal world.
I agree with this, I'd rather have Hector or Ephraim or a mage or a mounted character of some kind instead of Crom, Lucina, or even Roy. The series has a lot more variety then you would know just from looking at the Smash reps.
Ike is a type of meat, a blue haired tasty beef, I want to milk his teats, and I'll try to be discreet. Oh Please.
once again. fire emblem is not afraid of atypical sexual relationships. those existed in a much more explicit manner in past games and in case of ike i am not sure if the tidbits we got really lead us to that conclusion.
mean ike killed sorens father man... of course he would give him a hug after all that has happened.
hyrule warriors isnt a zelda game either (its called zelda musou in japan)
