Okay, I was all ready to tear today's Super Smash Bros. Brawl dojo entry apart, but the more I think about it, the more I actually like the idea. A brand new character has been unveiled, you see, and he's not quite what one would expect. I could just break the news, but let's allow the patronizing, childlike words of the site itself to teach you about him:
No way! The Pokémon Trainer has finally arrived. And it looks like he doesn’t do his fighting directly.
Instead, he uses the three Pokémon with him—Squirtle, Ivysaur, and Charizard—to do the fighting for him.
No way! The Pokémon Trainer has finally arrived? I can't wait! Sarcasm aside, I honestly approve of this idea. It's essentially Squirtle, Ivysaur and Charizard who you'll be playing as, not the trainer himself. His only real impact is using his special move, a quick switch-out of the current Pokémon to swap for a new one. As well as a shared health meter, the Pokémon will have their own stamina levels, meaning you can't keep them fighting for too long a time and need to switch them at the right moments. Could be quite a strategic character with a focus on maintaining balance. As cynical as one can be about this idea, I am personally sold.
[Thanks to Geoff Mendicino for the tip]
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4:26 AM on 08.13.2007
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To me, the Pokemon games are a different in quality and style from the Pokemon show as the Mario games are from the Mario show.
The farther the games stay from the show, the better.
Lmao.
Sakurai said he'd never put anime characters in Smash Bros, and I think that the rule applies here.
This update has my poke-johnson totally hard.
Where Nex to share in the Poke-porn that is this update?
Playable Charizard = badassery
whattheshitbbqftw
In every single Legend of Zelda game, you can change the name of Link. We all know that the character's name is Link, but you can make it whatever you want. If they called Link's character in smash bros. Zelda Hero or something stupid it wouldn't make sense.
Ash is the name that everybody associates with Pokemon as the main character. There are no other generic character types in Smash Bros. I guess you could argue Pikachu and jigglypuff as a nonspecific character but I personally equate those characters to their main pokemon tv show personalities.
I don't know, i guess i just think that using the Ash name and likeness would serve better than just Pokemon Trainer. I mean, he even has the squirtle, ivysaur, charizard trio.
Also, LOL at the Pokerap final smash suggestion.
That's the point here I think, to have a pokemon with each "evolution level", also Blastoise is the final evolution of Squirtle & not Wortortle.
Everybody liked Squirtle (cool glasses) & Charizard anyway so I guess tehy figured Ivysaur was the only option left.
That's exactly what I was going to say, along with the fact that Satoshi was renamed Ash for the American translation. Seeing as Super Smash Bros. draws from video games, it really doesn't make sense to use Ash. While Ash might be slightly more recognizable as the face of the Pokemon brand, Red is the most prevalent character in the games; as far as I can remember, Ash only appeared in the N64 version of Pokemon Puzzle League, which, along with Pokemon Snap, were the two games based directly on the anime.
A side note here but are you ready for Silent Hill Orphan on the ps3
That's all I can really say about it. Extra Awesomepoints™ will be awarded if the palette swaps are actually different models of the other generation's trainers, but I'm guessing that's a touch unlikely.
I do not like the red boxes around our avatars. pls remove them. it makes all our pics look squishy and gross.
Final Smash = Missingno.!!!!
Nintendo, if you end up calling this guy Pete, I want $1,000,000 or else I'll see your ass in court.
Oh yeah..... I guess I don't remember my Pokemon as well as I thought I did.