Nobody is like I WONDER WHAT SHULK WILL LOOK LIKE ON MONDAY, more like "hey I bet it'll be shulk because of x y z"

I haven't played or seen any of Xenoblade, but Shulk could have a really cool property to one of his attacks. According to the wiki he can use an attack called "Back Slash" which deals x2 damage if it hits the target in the back. If Shulk gets in that kind of attack would pretty funny in 3-4 players games, and could make the character require a lot of skill to use competitively. It looked like quite a few of his attacks applied status effects or additional effects to the attacks, if the target(s) were already suffering from certain status effects.

How would you guys feel about that kind of gameplay for a character in Smash? (for example say he had Cyclone in Smash and it dazed any crouching player it hit, which in turn let him pull off a Back Slash) Would that be fitting of the character? Would it add too much strategy/planning for a character in Smash and make him not played?

There's no such thing as too much strategy.

Back Slash is basically Shulk's strongest move. I would be somewhat surprised if it doesn't end up as his neutral special.

Typically with Shulk you want to use Shadow Eye (enemies stop paying attention to you & physical attacks strengthened), followed by Slit Edge from the side (lowers enemy's physical defense) then Back Slash from behind (s*** of physical damage). I wouldn't be surprised to see that represented somehow.

And yeah, a few of his attacks inflict Break. This leaves the enemy open for another character (usually Reyn, but most characters can do this) to Topple the enemy, after which Shulk can Daze them. Chained status effects are good. Sharla can even OHKO a dazed enemy. This contributes to the whole "YOUR TEAMMATES ARE IMPORTANT" thing I was talking about.

Xenoblade's an interesting game. There are a lot of little quirks in its combat. I'm hoping he gets shown / Gametsu is legit, just because of how interesting some of his moves could be.

When I first played Xenoblade I thought to myself that it would be awesome to play as Shulk in smash bros, but it didn't seem likely to me at all for whatever reason.

I couldn't be happier if the reveal on Monday does turn out to be Shulk. I was already content with the character selection, this would be over kill. So many characters I wanna main.

Well I finally came up with my prediction roster. If you want to see it check my sig. If you want to say your opinions do it!

I really hope that they'll reveal Wario anytime soon. Since Sakurai waited so long with revealing Yoshi because of his 'big' changes, I'm wondering if they made any changes to his moveset as well.

Hopefully the moveset mixes WarioWare and more of Wario Land.

you know imagine if yoshi was revealed at first and was standing upright
the internet would have f*** exploded

good thing sakurai gave us all time to prepare ourselves for that bombshell

well considering some of the first footage of the game we ever saw was Sakurai telling us about how Bowser stands upright now

he obviously finds it important

"Pic of the day. In order to make Rayman's trophy, we asked Ubisoft to share their references. We were expecting to receive 2D drawing references for Rayman, but to our surprise, they sent us data of a brand new 3D model that they rendered for this game!! And that was how this trophy was created. It takes a lot of work creating each model, so it's wonderful that the creators contributed their own efforts!!"

OK, that's unexpected, surely that doesn't spoil what character is going to be revealed tomorrow... but why Rayman?

WTFFFFFFFFF OMG that's so crazy

Sakurai broke my brain

Ubisoft were riding the Wii U's dick hard before they realised they weren't getting any money for it so this is probably a result of that

Rayman Legends was originally going to be a Wii U exclusive, remember?