Idk I think Etalus MIGHT be the most likely one

You’re getting paid today.

Man I hope etalus comes out. Rivals 2 feels awful to play right now. I want my main back, and if he feels worse then that just confirms in my mind that they made a worse game compared to rivals 1

While I think the game is fun and quite well made...my commitment as a player is entirely predicated on whether they release Pomme into it. As a Peach main, I simply cannot work without some kind of true float mechanic and Fleet just does not do it for me.

It def won’t be mollo as the first couple reps, we already have 4 Fire reps and only 2 of each other element. but etalus or absa is def on the horizon

Elliana would make sense with a tether grab like her uptilt.

I've always imagined Slade's gimmick as something to do with waves

Yi from nine sols feel like he would fit perfectly into the rivals of aether world

ywah im not really sure on some of these, especially the clone part, and some of the points just being "add this guy from smaah (or multiversus)"

👎 at 47 & then quit watching

Predicting ❌️ Fighting game diversity quota ✔️

Etalus has the most optimally creative kit I've seen in a platform fighting everything flows so well into something that makes sense and isn't overbearing

First insect character added Kragg: Am I a joke to you?

Want pom so bad

Hear me out. For an indie guest character, imagine they went with Lilac from the Freedom Planet games.

idk if this is a hot take but i really hope they dont add any 3rd party characters. i want it to feel like rivals 2 is its own game, so with a bunch of indie game characters would just kind of break that idea for me.

I just don't see them leaving anyone from the original roster off of the eventual roster of this game

I don’t know much about Slade (as I’ve barely started to get into the ROA fandom) but from what little I’ve seen he looks awesome

If Etalus came out, I'd try rivals 2

(Quietly chanting) Ragnir Ragnir Ragnir Ragnir Ragnir Ragnir Ragnir Ragnir

Garbage ass clickbait title. shit channel.

No etalus means that they gonna do that almost for sure

More excited for mollo out of the already existing characters or workshop designs... really want scorchel though tbh for a new lore based character and they could be a new "small" archetype similar to or like pikachu/pichu And for indie crossover characters I would like HOLLOW KNIGHT(the first thought of mine too) spyro would be awesome

Of course we wanr Hodan and Mollo but I definitely want to see a captain falcon /Gannon esc Brawler Honey badger who big and lean.

11:02 that was you??? ggs, that was super fun! It's very funny to see myself in a random video

I was def thinking etalus or absa.. they said one of them they are having issues with currently so they are expecting another... i hope mollos the first one he is so sick i never play roa so i never got to play him just played demo so i could only play f2p

Sylvanos better be in the game or im gonna riot

if another Shovel Knight character gets added I want it to be Propeler Knight cuz why is Wrastor only one that can charge his attacks in Air, give him a Rival as Proud of ability of Flight as high is his Airship, someone who can charge attacks both on the ground as well as in the air. but it won't happen unfortunately for me but it would be cool if there was a character that can use wind to push you further from the ledge without jumping at you

I need my GOAT Etalus back

I think Slade makes a lot of sense seeing as we only have one water rep so far

It's probably going to be absa since the game lacks a full on zoner

long shot: but for crossover characters, what if they added acrid from ror2? i know gearbox now owns the ip but i want poison lizard man 🙏

8:31 The funny thing is that Ori is pretty much fully owned by Microsoft with Moon Studios being the ones who made the game series. Cuphead is owned by MDHR fully so they shouldn't have as much of a hassle getting through them versus Microsoft

7:10 I honestly wonder how feasible it would be to have Cuphead in the game. He's not human but he's also not an animal in which shovel knight could be considered I think he has a chance but at the same time I can see how out of place he would seem overall

We know Etalus is investigating the shadow creatures in the ice barrens but has no connection to the champions who are stuck in the abyss. Artemis is being sent to the Abyss to investigate the disappearance of the champions. Loxodont has told her that Zetter has become traitorous and to hunt him down. Hamir and Olympia are going to meet back up with Kragg, unbeknownst to them that Kragg is in the Abyss. They’ll probably be led straight to it. Slade arrives at Merchant Port to see if burning, he knows Orcane wants to protect people, so he would probably be trying to investigate what happened and why Orcane is nowhere to be found as Merchant Port burns Absa and Elliana are just out of the story as far as I can tell. And who knows what Sylvanos is doing. Personally I think the next character that makes sense logically is Etalus as he’s the only one of the cast who isn’t out on release who knows about the Shadow creatures the Abyss is spitting out. Next would be any combination of Slade, Artemis, and Hamir. I suspect Absa would be also added but honestly she could be added any time she wants before the first workshop character since she’s still an important part of Rival 1’s story. I still think Etalus is coming first, but Absa could show up before the Dungeon’s heroes, between them, or after them. I don’t think Mollo is coming to Rivals soon because he’s still stuck in the future, and Clairen took the only Time Machine from the future to the past.

I want Elliana, Absa, and Etalus! AND POMME!

this video inspired me to make a video talking about 3 guest i wanted to see added. Jingo: from combo devils a samurai gunn 2 rep(they got ranno from rivals in that game) and ultra fishbunjin 3000

I'm thinking mollo and etalus, then Eliana and absa. If we get 2 at a time like rivals 1. If it's 1 at a time same order.

8:50 I think The Lamb from Cult of the Lamb would be fun as hell

First of all, Rivals 2 is out? Second of all, Etalus isn’t in the base game????

Great video

Honestly the only character I would get rid of is Pomme lol but aside from her I hope everyone is going to return anytime soon !

i have like 10 hours in rivals 1, so i don’t really know what i’m talking about but honestly from the two seconds of gameplay i saw of the rest of the cast etalus seems like the only one i think is cool, rest seem wack as hell

All the Original Workshop Characters Do look super Fun. I know that the original creator of Mollo is already working on the game itself so he's coming back, but do we know anything about the other 3 Workshop Characters? (Since Technically speaking, Rivals Creators would have to get permission from the original creators to use their characters again)

13:53 Have you seen the heavies in this game? Kragg and Loxodont literally take up like an eight of the smaller stages on their own, and Lox ledge special covers half of Tempest Peak.

The devs have said on numerous occasions that they don't currently have any plans to bring in any guest characters to the series.

1:49 I think this Tweet is a joke. The devs have said in Q&As before that more complex characters such as Elliana will be returning much later down the line than the simpler characters such as those who were prioritized for launch. Mollo is not only very much in the same boat of 'complicated character with a billion projectiles' but also has a laundry list of other factors that'd make him a shocking choice. For one, he's one of the most recent and most divisive characters in Rivals 1. Every character prior to the Workshop 4 has been around for a very large portion of the series' life and is ingrained much deeper with generally far more fans, and Mollo is probably the most hated character in Rivals 1 due to his explosive and outlandish playstyle that many consider too spammy. Secondly, which his niche is very solid and unique in Rivals 1, La Reina is already confirmed to be probably ~1-2 years out in that 15-20 character range, and while she obviously does a lot of very different things, she has a lot of common ground with Mollo in 'bug with a very dynamic projectile they manipulate by hitting it and using many of their other tools'. Thirdly, he has very little story relevancy. We know story mode is a big thing the devs want to work on post-launch, and unfortunately (unless they retcon Tales please please please devs retcon Tales of Aether) Mollo plays almost no role in the current story. He shows up in one fight in Tales as essentially a cameo and all of his lore in his character bio describes him as being in a doomed timeline Clairen left behind. This doesn't give a lot of wiggle room to finagle him into the story mode within the first few chapters, and I think the team are more likely to focus down the more story-relevant characters first. As for the other comments about him joining, I don't think these mean he's joining *soon*. It's already been confirmed that all veteran fighters from Rivals 1 will return eventually so long as development is able to continue, so him being added eventually isn't really news. I'm a huge Mollo fan, and I'd love to be proven wrong, but as it stands I think Mollo is probably not happening within the first 2-3 years.

Such a goat for telling them not to change up smash. That shit is so funny

Give slade stamina on CC… make dodges while you have stamina become invincible sooner, and recover faster, hehehehh……

Needs to come to ps5