Sakurai to announce next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter this Thursday [1/16, 6AM PT]

[ZeroX]

Probably the best DLC character yet, and they acknowledged too many swordsmen at least. That said, he could've waited until the next Smash game.

 

[Common Knowledge]

Fucking Byleth. Cowards for not doing Edelgard.

 

[Mik317]

i mean 3H was my runner up GOTY and sold quite well

but holy shit lol

 

[Parthenios]

Oh my God hahahahaha

"I want first party characters" I said

Damn monkeys paw!!

 

[grand]

We were so fucking close to the Byleth Pokemon Trainer dream. Sothis damnit!

 

[lunarworks]

Well, that's a surprise. No one predicted that they'd be this predictable.

 

[Faiyaz]

What a boring pick. The most boring character from the worst fire emblem game.

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Sounds like you've never played a Fire Emblem game in your life.

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

LMAO!

 

[blackMamba1187]

What is Fire Emblem?

lol If smash fans don't know by now...

 

[Einbroch]

This recap is hilarious. He's acting like Fire Emblem hasn't had any representation in Smash.

 

[sleepnaught]

Just what we needed, another anime swordfighter. Whoever could have guessed =/

 

[Pancho]

Sigh, even though I expected something like this, I am still dissapointed. Yet another FE rep, how dull

 

[Mocha]

Lmao another fire emblem character..

I'm not buying the next dlc character group pass, what a let down.

 

[StrikeJP]

Absolutely awful. I wish I could refund this fighter.

 

[Snowfruit]

I love Three Houses but even I didn't want another Fire Emblem character.. oof

I don't understand why this would have to be kept secret

 

[DrForester]

That is the least interesting choice - and he even lead up with "Hardly anyone know who's joining - even here at Nintendo".

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I think we can take that comment as sarcasm.

 

[Misuta]

Super Smash Bros Fire Emblem

 

[Wandering Robot]

...Now that I think about it, why do the default FE player characters need to be the male versions?

Anyway, yeah. Lampshading the complaints about too much FE/Swords is not the same as addressing them, Sakurai lol
It's just meh.

 

[ibyea]

At least if going that way, he could have chosen one of the house lords instead of Byleth.

 

[_ifigured]

out of all the characters on the roster, Byleth from Fire Emblem sure is the next one.

 

[secretanchitman]

Another goddamn fire emblem character? I mean the moveset is cool but seriously...?

 

[Deleted member 17388]

Calm down people, we get another 5 fighters!

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Hopefully one of those is Lyn from Fire Emblem! :'v
Seriously!

 

[Garlador]

"We couldn't fit a Xenoblade 2 character in the game in time... "
"Here's Byleth from the game released a few months ago."

 

[OmegaNeon]

Well, at least it wasn't Minecraft Steve!

 

[Big One]

This is divisive alright but tbh Fire Emblem has always been on Sakurai's fav list.

 

[thecouncil]

are there more fire emblem characters in this game than mario characters?

 

[YolkFolk]

I've turned off the stream.

Can't be bothered watching now.

 

[MasterYoshi]

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

 

[MrSaturn99]

I have no idea why Sakurai did that "people at Nintendo will be surprised" spiel.

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Yeah, uh, I'm excited for the character, but what was he thinking with that? Of course we'd go crazy with the possibilities there.

 

[Relix]

This is so awful haha

 

[Edge]

What a fucking joke, like holy shit.

That's what you get from buying season passes without knowing the content. Will people learn from that?

No of course.

 

[rayngiraffe]

GREAT

sorry but this redeemed the pass in one shot for me

 

[TheGamingNewsGuy]

Man i really hope they tease the next fighter...because if not pepole are going to be sad

 

[Tregard]

Byleth has permadeath, if he gets KOd in battle, you have to re-buy the DLC.

 

[NHarmonic.]

He wasn't going to reveal a third party character on this livestream. they save those announcements for big events.

However, this should've been Edelgard.

 

[Deleted member 37233]

I think I will main Byleth, they look interesting and it's fun to annoy other peoples. :P

 

[AnansiThePersona]

I think we were trolled lol

 

[Bear]

Pretty sure Smash qualifies as a Fire Emblem game now.

 

[Coinspinner]

No wonder this didn't leak. It was too boring to be believable.

 

[Deleted member 17207]

Well, at least it wasn't Minecraft Steve!

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This opinion is just as bad as the guy who said "at least it wasn't Geno".

 

[Kolibri]

..
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We are PLENTY familiar

 

[Larrikin]

I really hoped it wouldnt be Dante... now i want Dante. Gross.

 

[MidweekCoyote]

...

If anyone is watching Max's stream, he is mirroring my thoughts exactly.

 

[Deleted member 3208]

Give me default female Byleth or give me default female Corrin in the next Smash, you cowards.

 

[Byronic Hero]

That reveal was the most dissapointing Smash trailer I've ever seen. We got both the best and the worst trailers with this fighters pack.

 

[Ekid]

if it's fire emblem i'm selling everything i own and leaving this plane of existence.

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I guess it's a goodbye then.

 

[Jaq'or]

At least we finally got an explanation for all the Counters.

 

[henlo_birb]

Why would he hype it so much right at the beginning as needing to be super secret and a big surprise when it's the most vanilla possible addition?

 

[Starphanluke]

Jesus Christ, people. Calm the fuck down. There are more characters coming.

 

[Rowsdower]

This Fire Emblem history lesson is neat.