I have to admit though I'm excited for the stages though. We haven't got a lot revealed yet.

Inb4 Sakurai changes his mind and have less characters in the 3DS version

I just prefer Roy over Lucina that is all. Not saying what I think should influence the game.

And I don't know how I feel about this whole "entire roster reveal" for the 12th. I don't want to be spoiled, but it will quite hard to, y'know, not use the internet for a few months. Oh man.

Does anyone think Smash 4 will have cross compatibility between the 3DS and Wii U? It's definitely possible, they did it with Monster Hunter. I don't know if they've said anything about it in the past, but I hope they do this. And if they do, the roster will definitely be the same.

there won't be because the stages are different

but yeah lucina was the better choice out of the two. and if they're THAT similar there's always custom movesets

It came to me. This is what I want. Not just this mind you, but that other stuff is (perhaps) too much to hope for.

The video opens with Sheik and Pikachu a little battle wary. Pikachu, determined look on his face, takes a step forward, only to be stopped by Sheik. She shakes her head but Pikachu darts around her with a quick attack and charges off screen, only to be sent back flying through the air the other way seconds later. The camera spins and draws back and shows a dark cloud with menacing eyes. From the cloud steps:

Jigglypuff - Takes the Spotlight!

Then there could be some in-game fighting scenes, probably showing of a few changes excused as Jiggs gaining the fairy-type, or a little combat in the video, before continuing. Clearly the tension has lowered as Shiek has backed off to let Pikachu and Jigglypuff duke it out. As Shiek wipes her forehead and lessens the tension in her stance, a deep, primal call and be heard growing as a flash of purple appears a split second before Shiek jumps out of the way of:

Ganondorf - Thirsts for Power.

Again some game play or not, it returns to Pika and Jiggs rushing to the aid of Sheik only for Ganondorf to kick Jiggs out of the way then heel-face-turn and grab Pika by the neck. He lifts the struggling Pikachu up, with a guttural laugh, as the moon rises to silhouette them as a voice calls out: "Leave those pokemon alone!". A shadow drops down, and Ganondorf tosses Pikachu aside turning to his new foe:

Mewtwo - Returns.

"You seek the ultimate power? Well here I am."

Then you can have Mewtwo game footage, or everyones' if it wasn't interrupted before, and we can be left with an awesome picture at the end. A homage to this:

But replacing Ash's spot with the battered, but hopeful Pika and Jiggs, replace the girl with Sheik, and replace Giovanni's face with Ganon's.

1 spot on the roster for each gen of pokemon doesn't seem like to much to ask for.

that's nice can you post it on fanfiction.net instead though

@Drake, Lucina is Roy in this game so it'd make no sense to replace one character with the same character.

what

no

they're different characters stop

Their attributes are the exact same, that's what I meant.

sometimes I wonder if any of you who obsessively speculate over the smash bros roster actually play video games

I think I'll stay away from every smash site and youtube when the game will be out in Japan

Oh I'm sorry, which build of ssb4 was sent to your house?

Earlier than that. August 12. And it'll leak a few days beforehand, like it always does.

I'm hoping this just shows the starters, though, no secret characters. I'm not sure which way they'll go. I feel like once we see the list though we'll know immediately if it's the full roster

They did this for brawl and they left out a few hidden characters so.

Also if you think an assist trophy takes more time to make than a clone character you are high as a kite.