Swap steve with banjo and we're good

11:14 Ok. Doing that right now.

I love how smash fans all cry and rejoice for sora. Meanwhile cut him off these rosters even though he was by far the most exciting newcomer (like compared to terry byleth and kazuya kingdom hearts represented is something actually exciting to see). Also banjo kazooie is the huge “oh we want this character” character, then everyone is like meh cut them. I really don’t get this community. You want more than 1 fire emblem character, keeping ness in the roster and even Jigglypuff the most wasted roster slot in the series, but you don’t want these two unique interesting characters?

Richter is from the 2 best castlevania games of all time. Glad he made it higher than expected

Can we all agree that 1/2 the roster wouldn't be cut and the trend is just for enjoyment.

Now who would cut the bayonetta???

If there was only one third party character that you keep? The others would leave. I would keep sonic.

Gotta say it sucks that so many of my mains were cut. The only ones who lived were bowser and little mac.

Once the next Smash game is officially revealed, you should do the same but with all the newcomers people want.

You have just helped a hella lot of people with this. This should definitely get more views

6:18 brawl stars mentioned

Sans, my beloved, dead

3:45 I will be stealing this line for when I somehow get the chance to use it

I was sad that Roy didn't return for Brawl, and glad he came back in Smash 4. I was a Roy main in Melee.

Man I fucking love this channel

it’s crazy that little Mac managed to make it. I thought everyone would agree that he was a random legacy pick and wouldn’t be worth keeping

As one of the six robin mains I approve this message

I love how you put RelaxAlax in the thumbnail.

Huh, I didnt exepect the final list to come out so... well. While there are cuts and safes I disagree with there's none that absolutely and inherently disgust me. If we got the safe roster of characters in the next smash game I wouldn't be particularly disappointed.

I hope Smash 6 is a reboot, just to see all hell break loose, that includes roster cuts and moveset changes. To comment on certain characters, big question is why do we still need Sheik? Sheik is irrelevant in their own series and easily one of the first characters you'd cut, their moveset is complete headcanon and easily replaceable by another of the myriad more relevant and representative Ninja characters Nintendo has access to, and Greninja already exists.

I doubt that the developers of the next game would fully cut the roster in half, but honestly there's only like seven or eight characters I would push up into the keep zone.

This was super well done! I really loved the animation and your sense of humor. Great video, and great character concept!

As a Little Mac main, seeing my boy pull the most in character underdog win was so satisfying.

The fact that the real rosters and the hell roster both kept Sonic around feels...complete.

It was so funny watching this video and being like "This guy's cool, I should check out his other stuff." Only to learn that he's the Master Chief for smash guy that I made all my friends watch like a year ago because I like Halo too much

The Great Gatsby is one of the best stories ever told. 5 stars, check it out 😉

Kirby is my favorite Super Smash Brothers character!

Can I keep my boy Kirby as my main for me please?🙏

Goated, if only for using Conquest music haha. Especially during the Jigglypuff segment, where the Jigglypuff unit is one of the main characters haha

I feel like not nearly enough of the cut Smash rosters people have made have had a clear direction behind them (as in, why are they cutting the characters they're cutting, and as many of them as are being cut, other than for the sake of doing so?). I've been working one of these myself, but before doing so, I wanted to decide what exactly I was trying to achieve with it first. There are at least 2 things you should know about my relationship with Super Smash Bros.: my favorite game is Melee (I didn't even grow up with it, in fact it was the last official Smash game I played) and I think that Super Smash Bros. should be about celebrating the history of video games in general. Melee is my favorite because each character feels so different to play as while maintaining a (all things considered) good competitive game balance (which I can recognize while hardly being much of a competitive player myself). I find it fun how different the characters feel from each other, but I don't think the series will ever be able to achieve that feeling again unless its roster is cut by at LEAST half, if not more. That's why I think this thought experiment is so interesting and necessary. The history part relates to how I went about cutting the roster; With some exceptions, characters stay if their series has at least 3 games (characters need to have a big enough established legacy), and only 1 character stays per series (for instance, Kirby stays because his series has at least 3 games, and Meta Knight & King DeDeDe are getting cut to leave room only for Kirby to represent the series). Regarding guest characters, instead of 1 character per series, it will be 1 character per company (In the case of Bandai Namco, Pac-Man stays while Kazuya leaves). With that all being said, following these rules, I constructed a roster consisting of 42 characters (that might still sound like a lot, but that includes 14 newcomers who qualified based on these rules, and the roster can be easily cut even further if it needs to be). I reordered the roster based on debut dates of each series(Donkey Kong 1981 is a particularly weird case for reasons you already know. I could have placed Mario & Donkey Kong in a bunch of different places. Look, I tried my best), and placed all guest characters after all Nintendo characters: 1. Mr. Game & Watch 2. Little Mac 3. R.O.B. (R.O.B. has had enough half-appearances that I decided its inclusion is justified) 4. Mario (specifically representing the Super Mario series) 5. Link 6. Samus 7. Pit 8. Ayumi Tachibana (from Famicom Detective Club) 9. Ness 10. Marth 11. Captain Falcon 12. Kirby 13. Fox 14. Wario (specifically representing the Wario Land series) 15. Donkey Kong (specifically representing the Donkey Kong Country series) 16. Yoshi (specifically representing the Yoshi's Island series) 17. Lip (from Panel de Pon) 18. Pikachu 19. Ray (from Custom Robo) 20. Villager 21. Isaac (from Golden Sun) 22. Luigi (specifically representing the Luigi's Mansion series) 23. Olimar 24. Starfy (from The Legendary Starfy) 25. Chibi-Robo (from Chibi-Robo!) 26. Mii Fighter (specifically representing the Wii series) 27. Shulk 28. Inkling 29. Pac-Man 30. Simon 31. Cloud 32. Mega Man 33. Ryu Hayabusa (from Ninja Gaiden) 34. Sonic 35. Terry 36. Rayman (from Rayman) 37. Lara Croft (from Tomb Raider) 38. Reimu Hakurei (from Touhou Project) 39. Master Chief (from Halo) 40. Shantae (from Shantae) 41. Quote (from Cave Story. Like R.O.B., he has a lot of half-appearances) 42. Travis Touchdown (from No More Heroes) If that's still too much, by focusing Super Smash Bros. on solely Nintendo, this could easily be cut down to a clean 20 characters. Remove all guest characters, remove all newcomers, and remove Wario & Luigi(for being too Super Mario adjacent), and there's a solid roster with more character playstyle variety than even Melee (the 6 Nintendo newcomers could even be brought back for the exact same number of character slots as Melee).

10/10 video

Epic

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If you look at the new community roster, it looks like a pretty good one to me. Fair representation, variable play styles, a wide spread of history and iconography. I'd say the community picked right.

Hey that least we have cap falcon mario ganodorf ridley meta knight mr game watch king k rool and littel mac my some of my fav still live

Tbh if I could only make one change cut Mewtwo (muh 100th gen 1 rep with no unique gameplay!!1!1) and bring back my man Piranha Plant representing the only Mario enemy and bodying everyone online with ptooie

I don't care...I believe Aegis will be cut only if Noah and Mio gets for the next smash (Even all the three protagonists have high chances to stay). Byleth will stay with Marth, Robin and Alear.

actually goated video, so so funny and very well made, as well as being a great idea

My big hot take: we don’t need kid Icarus like at all. It’s such a niche series, I don’t think we’ll get anything from it again, bro is just not important at all culturally and I would be happy to see pit gone

33:30 how dare you cut rob

Not only is this video fantastic, but it's such a good way to 'make' this type of video.

Replace Terry, Simon and Mii Brawler with Mewto and Villager, and you'd have the best list possible.

I cant help but wonder if the Miis wouldve been saved if all three were combined in their votes. It is a shame to not really see a good representative for the Wii

crazy how i vastly prefer the cut roster. Its a lot more interesting.

I know Fire Emblem is overrepresented in Smash but to cut Ike when Path of Radiance is arguably the most important Fire Emblem game just feels wrong. I think it probably comes from people with little to no Fire Emblem knowledge just picking FE characters randomly. Byleth being cut also kind of hurts, but I totally get why people cut them.

Don’t count Fortnite as the biggest crossover,smash Bros every character does their own thing in Fortnite it’s just skins And yes before you say OHH BUT ECHO FIGHTERS There still like 80 original movesets

6:00 WTF was with that line read and why is it making me laugh so hard

In greninja’s favor tho there was a most popular Pokémon poll before which greninja also won, tho I believe that one was only for Japan. While I still believe charizard or pikachu is probably the most popular Pokémon there is some validity to greninja’s status

the empty goon bag hanging on the clothes line is so real

This may seem pretty weird and useless, but this is the type of thing to be a godsend for a random person a few years from now. I can feel it.