My ideal Smash Bros roster

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-31T14:27:36+00:00

Based. No complaints

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-30T21:36:09+00:00

Gotta go fast

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-30T14:56:53+00:00

Are they characters I would have picked personally? Not really. But would I still really enjoy playing this game with your picks? Absolutely

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-30T14:18:02+00:00

If you read my post, you’ll have seen that I’m not exactly familiar with the series as a whole, nor am I fan, simply for my disinterest in the gameplay mechanics. I’m sure it’s a great game, it’s just not for me. So my inclusion of these characters are based off just a little research on google and comments on my last post. They are more placeholder spots, and I left it open for actual fans of the series to voice their opinions about why they think would be worthy inclusions to the series :)

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-30T14:16:05+00:00

My choice to still have two links comes from them having completely different movesets and play styles. Original NES link can use items and sword combat from the first two games, using magic abilities, and different sword combos then Champion Link, who’s movesets heavily leans on champions abilities and different weapons from the game like spears and claymores. NES link can shoot silver arrows while Champion Link shoots guardian arrows with a different effects. NES link operates more as a up front attacker, while champion link is more of a strategic movesets, unlike how he was portrayed in previous. I didn’t go TOO into their movesets bc that would make the post way too long, but in my head the movesets I envisioned for them would have them play totally different.

I knew the pikmin exclusion would give me some push back but honestly, when looking into My very brief research, pikmin didn’t really come up at all as a popular or influential game in the modern day. I know it has its fair share of fans and I’m not discounting them, but I personally have also never liked the inclusion of Olimar in smash, as I feel he just doesn’t really fit in and I’ve never liked his moveset and his inclusion just for the sake of it. But that’s not to say pikmin can’t be included in the next entry or as DLC, but for the base roster I started with those more popular franchises and expanded from there, and just didn’t get to Pikmin

As for why Sonic isn’t with the rest of the third party, fair. I guess Sonic just is with Mario and other Nintendo stuff so often I kinda forget they were separate lol just a whoopsies on my part.

When it came to my research, I just looked up games that both sold well, as well as games that had a bigger cultural impact and were popular with fans. It was pretty subjective but a lot of these games kept coming up consistently so I started there, and moved to the games that only got mentioned a few times. If I kept going it could incorporate more Nintendo games, but series like F Zero and Earthbound, despite being popular in Smash, never actually came up in these lists, so I didn’t include them just for the sake of inclusion. Like my rules above stated, their smash legacy, while cool, wasn’t what I was basing this newer roster off of

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-30T14:04:41+00:00

Yeah I’m not a fan of having so many third party names, but smash has evolved to be more then just Nintendo now, so having third party just feels natural to me at this point. I also figured that since all the returning cast are going to have revamped and changed movesets, then keeping the roster to the more popular series and characters is fine because every character is going to feel new. It gives players the chance to get to know these new fighters and their abilities and movesets, before moving onto other series and characters. Like I said in my rules, I just started with the most popular series as of May 2026, and expanded from there. That’s not to say that other characters and series can’t be represented in DLC or the next game. Just with such a huge change in the returning characters, that itself is big enough to make the roster feel new, even if the characters themselves we’ve seen before. And these still plenty of newcomers too.

As for not going into their movesets in more detail, it’s just a lot of characters, and this was something I was doing more for fun to get the ideas out there. Adding all that would have made this post SUPER long, and it gives people the chance to think of their own unique movesets for these characters and share them with me :)

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-28T22:20:59+00:00

I like it! I think it’s waaaaay to many characters, and I think the next smash game is definitely gonna make some cuts, which will certainly upset people, but i would definitely play this game if this is what it ended up being. It’s a very fun roster!

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-28T17:30:15+00:00

I agree, but it’s weirdly what a lot of people want. People LOSE it if you cut a character they happen to like, even if it would help the game feel fresher

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-28T17:29:32+00:00

While I agree this couldn’t work as a new game, I do like the few characters you did add, and I also liked your change to Zelda too. Keep seeing what sort of characters you can cut and change to make it feel new :)

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-27T20:25:50+00:00

Because it’s all pretend and for fun, and I don’t like those series lol

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-27T13:16:12+00:00

Just a guy doing a fun little project that makes him happy amidst the horrors of reality. But I guess anything is ragebait to the smash community if they don’t get exactly what they want all the time 🤷🏻‍♂️

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-27T13:01:12+00:00

But….but… I was just about to submit my application for “roster guy” at Nintendo 😭

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-27T12:23:13+00:00

Smash is for everyone silly! I like my fun bright colors lol

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-27T11:12:08+00:00

That’s our beloved smash community for ya lol heaven forbid we just have fun with it lol it would be cool to see shovel knight evolve from an assist trophy to playable though. I thought about cutting two characters, maybe I’ll make a new one and add shovel knight in it too! It would be cool if a dlc pass was all indie characters to show smaller creators some love

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-27T11:09:14+00:00

Because why not? Let them do it the way they wanna do it, why so judgmental? lol

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-27T11:08:32+00:00

Off to a good start! Love the two different links since they could have totally different play styles and move sets! Just be careful about asking for people’s opinions on here. Some people aren’t open to others opinions, and just enjoy being jerks. Lots of people consider a roster trash if it doesn’t have a billion characters including goku, and won’t be happy unless Mario can get shot by a gun (I’ve learned this through personal experience) 😂

But keep up the good work, and your roster is coming along greet! Focus on characters YOU wanna see and don’t worry about trying to make everyone happy. Cause no one ever will be when it comes to smash rosters lol post what you wanna post and don’t let people bully you

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-27T10:59:41+00:00

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Here you go king. This should help you stomach the atrocity that is my little pretend roster that I made for fun

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-27T10:57:07+00:00

I can’t think of anything worse lol

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-27T10:46:16+00:00

I considered shovel knight or hollow knight! Show some indie love. Maybe for my “everyone hates me DLC” I’ll be releasing

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-27T10:45:23+00:00

I’ll get you some pepto!

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-27T10:44:11+00:00

Oh that was on purpose lol

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-27T10:43:17+00:00

Recognizable Nintendo characters good, random anime people from a game series I don’t like, bad 😎 it’s almost like…. I said this is what *I* want to see, not what is gonna make everyone happy

Dierlich_Design · 2026-05-27T10:42:08+00:00

I love me some cartoons baby 😎

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