Masahiro Sakurai Teases A Potential Final Smash For Luigi in Latest Super Smash Bros. Screenshot

Awwwww Yeah

I'm thinking different Final Smashes for everyone in the Wii U and 3DS versions.

Heh, who said that the poltergust 3000 is actually a final smash move? It could be Sakurai trolling us again.

@Captian_Toad A final smash darkens everything and makes the person glow.
It is one. End of discussion

I liked Negative Zone, but I think I like this better. I hadn't considered multiple final smashes per character; that could be a neat twist.

Looks sweet!

I was thinking that adding king boo to the roster would be something funny, with mechanics like "he can't attack if everybody's facing him". Or maybe just an assist, but it would be pretty amusing.

That's what his final smash should have been to begin with. Negative zone doesn't even make sense...

@GalacticMario28 I thought Negative Zone was just weird.

I hope this is a new Final Smash move for Luigi. His Brawl Final Smash move was rather lame. Actually Luigi overall was rather lame, lol. (don't lynch me)

Please, Sakurai, don't waste time or resources on multiple Final Smashes per character or across platforms. I admit that I generally turn them off (along with Heart Containers and Mega Hammers), but the effort necessary to create multiple flashy moves only activated through a smash ball/orb would be borderline impractical and certainly a balancing nightmare... (I'd much rather see that energy put into more Character Trophies, by contrast.)

Thankfully, that Luigi is clearly engaged in a Final Smash using his Poltergust 5000 (most recently seen in Dark Moon for 3DS) captured from the Wii U blunts some of this speculation. (At least as far as varied moves among platforms go.)

EDIT: As a result I think it's clear the overall prevalence of Final Smashes is related to the size of the roster (likely to be in excess of 30 characters), more than any other possibility.

Good job Sakurai replacing Negative zone which sucked nice to see some Luigi's Mansion love in SSB4.

I'm gonna miss Negative Zone. I really loved it. But this is SOOOOOOOOOO FREAKING AWESOME! I love you Sakurai!

It's worth referencing back to a previous Miiverse post which mentions how an introduction of every Final Smash would take over a month's worth of posts. Does this credit the sizeable roster or hint at multiple Final Smashes per-character?
Nope. Brawl had 30 characters already (or even 35? Not sure), so of course it would take at least 35 posts to showcase them all, new characters included. It's math, and also effective advertisement, even if not intentional.

This is such a hype-generating picture! This is the first piece of significant Luigi's Mansion content we have seen thus far. I'd really like to see one or more of the Portrait Ghosts from the original game become Assist Trophies and Trophies, namely Chauncey, Biff Atlas, the Clockwork Soldiers and Vincent Van Gogh. The latter would be interesting because he could spawn multiple ghosts and they could serve as obstacles.

I wish he would tease a release date. Tomorrow is April 1, 2014, saying 2014 was ok at E3 2013 but they need to start narrowing it down a bit more. Maybe some box art.

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Well at least SSB is getting coverage, Bayonetta 2 is eerily quiet.

I'm not sure how this will work. My guess is Luigi releases some ghosts and they knock people off the stage.

@Dark-Luigi - Don't lie, you're gonna miss the Negative Zone for the dance, right?

I liked that Final Smash btw. Yeah, it didn't make sense but it was an effective Final Smash that pretty much disabled opponents defensively, leaving them wide open. With that said, I welcome this Poltergust Final Smash and absolutely can't wait to see how it works! I hope it's good! I wonder how many other veterans will have their Final Smashes change in this game...

@DreamyViridi Ah, ya got me! XD

@Maelstrom Wrong, When a player acquires the smash ball, the screen darkens. For all that we know, that could be one of his special moves or a taunt.

As was pointed out in the last article; Sakurai only posts on weekdays so that's only a maximum of 23 posts in a month. And as @Kaze_Memaryu pointed out we've already seen rosters bigger than that.

I would rather have the Poltergust 5000 to be a special move like Mario's Fludd device, so you could walk around with it.

Darn, I was looking forward to Luigi's new Smash: The Nintendo Zone, an eerily strange blue orb filled with connection issues, and has Luigi shooting streetpasses at the enemies. D:

I prefer this. The previous final smash a bit... trippy.

I hated the Negative Zone This will be an improvement I look forward too!!

So why couldn't Mario's Final Smash be FLUDD, then?

I can't wait to see all of the final smashes! This is definitely an interesting one. Gonna miss that dance though.

@Kaze_Memaryu 35 characters. I don't see this game having less than Brawl.

I'm gonna miss the Zone...I wonder if its still in the game in some way. lol

@Maelstrom NOT NECESSARILY that happens once you get the smash ball not when you activate it so this could still be a move/Taunt now the discussion has ended

YES.

And just because he said it would take a month to reveal all the final smashs so far does not mean a thing they're 24 characters so far revealed and probably he was just talking about how it take a month to reveal all the current rosters FS in detail gosh darn niblets

So people who hated the negative zone are you saying that when it was used on you or cause it doesn't make sense? I Liked it cause it was very effective

No doubt this will be my favorite pic this week unless a new character is revealed. The better question is, why wasn't the poltergust in Brawl?

Yeah, that would be cool! Sucking everyone in, while frantic music plays! Sounds like a cool final smash!!

this is great, and if they wanted the nagative zone still they could make eveyone in side become a ghost.

hey look, luigi will actually have a relevant final smash now

@rjejr Release date is actually April first 2017 sorry about that guys.

His final is much better than the brawl one, by my opinion. This makes me wonder about Mega Lucario for a final smash and if Fox will use another thing instead of the Landmaster, maybe the Arwing!

Enough with the pics, give us a release date!!!

This could just be a taunt made to look like Luigi's final smash.

@Giygas_95 And that's the beauty of it, I'll really miss that final smash.

@Maelstrom True. It does get dark, But that is only when you OBTAIN it. Upon breaking the ball, the arena gets dark, but that doesn't necessarily mean you used it yet. This could very well be Luigi's version of Mario's Down+B Fludd Technique.

I hope he keeps negative space. I've been utilizing that move with luigi's Up+B screechy flaming punch thing, I can't still catch people without it, but it's fun when they've been caught and a KO is imminent. . . Better yet. I hope you can Assign different smash attacks (i.e: Pressing certain buttons whilst holding B to perform another smash attack)

I gotta admit, when I saw this pic. this morning, I was kind of a bit turned off of the idea that this would be Luigi's NEW Final Smash. I mean, what the heck else could it mean seeing as how he's glowing in the image. But on a side note, it is good to see Luigi sporting the Poltergust 5000 this time. Now, Negative Zone may not have been my fav. Final Smash in Brawl , but is sure was quite interesting if you pulled it off right in a 3 or 4 player FREE-FOR-ALL. In closing, I will agree with what @DreamyViridi said about how many other veteran characters Final Smashes have changed. As for TOTAL characters in the game, I predict about 40 - 45 at least.

It looks like it'd be a pretty neat Final Smash! I like the Negative Zone, but I'd rather take this any day. If anything, I hope the Poltergust is a part of Luigi's moveset. I just want characters to be as represented as possible. I really wouldn't mind if they changed some of Luigi's moves to make use of the Poltergust. It's one way of saying why I don't mind Mario having FLUDD.

I wonder why everyone hate's the negative zone. That smash might makes sense for Luigi as he is always a Negative character. Poltergust smash looks great to so i would be happy for any one of them.

The "Negative" Zone is such a mild reference to drugs. He is all loopy and they play weird music and hallucinate. I mean they eat mushrooms to gain power ups right?

@SparkOfSpirit Never said so, but thanks for clarifying.

I'm a bit worried for the lack of any Captain Falcon reveals...

@Jahir Well it just seemed rather random to me...like it didn't really fit the character. I mean I was dumbfounded when I realized his final smash in Brawl wasn't the Poltergust.

@Moshugan Don't worry, I think he'll show us his moves eventually.

@Kaze_Memaryu I didn't mean to imply you did. I just doubt that it'll have less.

@Angelic_Lapras_King
Good theory.

luigi was kinda lame and made it worse with his final smash so im hoping this new one will make him less lame and i dont think sakurai would troll us....or would he?