Meta Knight Confirmed For Super Smash Bros. on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS

Hes back to compete for the top spot of the tiers.

Didn't we already know about the Halberd as a retro stage?

Edit: Not first...

It's awesome to have Meta Knight back! It seems like the balancing of other characters has been changed around for Smash 4, so maybe he won't be quite as OP as he was in Brawl?

YES!!!!!!!!!!

Wario?

...AAANND this announcement wouldn't have anything to do with a certain well publicised, Sony centric 'Gamescom' happening right now as we speak, would it? Tis okay...Sony have yet again shafted the Vita, displaying their true colours as an utterly soulless 'tech' entity, so I could care less about 'em...

There's only ONE place to get amazing first party support and that's on Nintendo consoles. Rain, hail, or Armageddon...

They don't simply 'give up' on their hardware, unlike certain competitors..

@doctor_doak
Amen.

Meta knight, I love that little guy.

"Battleship Halberd stage also confirmed"

Thomas, you do realize that the stage was confirmed 4 months ago during the Smash Direct?

Why are you referring to Meta Knight as "it"? At any rate, it's good to see him back even though there should have been no doubts from anyone about his return. And as @DestinyMan mentioned (EDIT: Also @SockoMario), we have known about the Halberd stage returning since the Smash Direct.

If nothing else, Metaknight's recovery is nerfed, so I'll gladly accept that much.

Good to see him back

All that's left is Mega Metagross! Remember:

http://i.imgur.com/A20aSMb.jpg

I'm quite diggin' Meta Knight's new up special, the glide from the old version was useless imo.

@AugustOxy

I actually own a Vita, so it's real hard to say those things. It really is a great device and I do love it, but its creator simply couldn't care less about it... I just don't understand why Sony is in the gaming business at this stage...they really don't have the passion for it.

Anyway, this post is about the glorious META KNIGHT and the best damn gaming company in the world! YAAARGGGGHHH!

This game will be amazing...not 'maybe' or 'might' or even 'could be'...it WILL!!!

He looks awesome! but I already have so many mains!

He's back and more broken then ever.

he REALLY was due because there was just 2 characters from the kirby series... but HELL YEAH!!!

Hopefully i can play as him now without feeling bad for his over power.

He's back!

Whoooooooo! Now all I need is Wario, and my life is complete!

Not surprised he's one of Sakurai's babies; I hope he's nerfed. The recovery is a start. Now we need Bandana Waddle Dee as the 4th Kirby representative please!!

I love his little gauntlets Thats somehow really cute

Official site is showing 8 more blank profile spaces, so I'm guessing that means at least 45 fighters.

Yeah Meta Knight is back.

M. Bison: YES!!!!! YES!!!!!!

Just watch Nintendo troll us a MM remake with a Majoras Mask Mii Mask.

@MrGawain I don't see them.

@BlackSpy 64's and Melee's.

@drewb0203 since there is a mii plaza majora's mask... It will be in smash... And when it gets shown watch all the new sites jump up and be like:

NINTENDO TEASES MAJORA'S MASK REMAKE. HAPPENING RELEASE NOW SOMEDAY IN YEAR OR SOMETHING IDK.

Was it even a question if Meta knight would return? Everone liked him, he's in alot of kirby games, and he's one of the favorite characters from the main director himself. He had a great chance on returning.

But on a side note here, does anyone else think Mewtwo will return? I've never played as him, but I love the character, so I'm sticking with all the mewtwo fans out there. Does anyone here think he might return?

@Porky Rather have Ado/Adeleine would be more unique.

Oh yeah can't wait to see complaints about him being back now.

@Link506 No hope he stays gone in favor of new Pokémon Reps.

@doctor_doak They have a bigger passion that Microsoft. And the PS3 and PS4 do prove that Sony does care about gaming, and view it as more than yet another product line. They have some people running the Playstation division who are passiiontate about video games(some of whom are former Sega guys.)

And while I'm not defending their treatment of the Vita, it feels like Sony is cutting their losses on a system that flopped. Their strongest line if their home consoles, and it feels like they are focusing on that.

I can understand your frustratiion wiith the Vita, but as a PS3 owner I'm happy with Sony. I feel like I've gotten my money's worth, and I'm happy Sony is the only one who has not left older hardware owners out on a limb. Microsoft has all but abandoned the Xbox 360.

To me, the souless company is Microsoft. It seems less and less like they understand gaming and seem to be run by guys who view it as yet another division, no dfferent from Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office.

Beyond epic. Glad he's back! Hope he's balanced well.

@Porky

Go to the site, click on any character and scroll to the bottom of the screen. You will see 9 profile shots of fighters. click the right arrow 4 times, and you'll end up on a page with just Kid Icarus and 8 empty tiles. I doubt Nintendo would leave any of these tiles empty, so therefore they'll be at least 8 more characters.

Awesome! Now Ness, Lucas, Wario, and some others!

Hopefully they balanced him a little more this time

I knew it. I just hope that Sakurai nerfed him from Brawl.

Now who was I JUST telling in that other article that Metaknight was definitely 100% coming? Come forward so I may tell you I told you so.

@Iggly Actually, Meta Knight easily had the most powerful glide in Brawl. It was the fastest one of the bunch, and pretty easy to control versus Charizard's. And if I'm not mistaken, if you had any jumps left, you could cancel out of his initial glide and perform a shuttle loop to start a second glide, giving him practically infinite recovery range. This is on top of his other 3 special attacks also being viable recovery moves.

The glide being gone is definitely a good thing, and it sounds like they're refocusing the attack to be more in-line with how a lot of players used it anyways (as a powerful mid-air finisher). Here's hoping they reduce the capabilities of the Mach Tornado, as well.

@ModestFan93 But if you think about it, he has had his own movie lately, along with X and Y mega forms, AND he was supposed to make it into brawl, but was cut because time restraints. And when people asked the pokemon company whither or not he would be in the game, Sakruai answered himself that "They were thinking about it". Mewtwo would need alot of work done on him in the last 6 years so this could be why he hasn't been announced yet.

Idk much for him, but congrats to all you fidgiting fans. Lol

Where's Ness and Lucas? , they are my mains QQ

Heh, watch him get banned from tournaments again. But seriously its nice to see Meta Knight back in smash 4.

I could never really get any K.O. power outta him, so as long as the gliding is gone, I think he'll be just fine.

im not surprised

ugh

They more they reveal the more I realize I should just cancel other preorders and focus on smash. It is all I will be playing anyway.

Was there ever any doubt?

@SanderEvers: I totally agree. This is something I've wanted for a while, too; ever since Melee, as a matter of fact.

@Everyone_Else: Like most here, I'm cool w/ his return, provided he's properly nerfed to be fair in a match, not over, or under powered, but just right.

Sakurai was never going to cut his own character. I can only hope he was nerfed.

There is now further evidence that gliding has been removed.

@MrGawain Oh I see thanks. Except that there are only 3 blank squares at the moment. But don't the newest revealed characters appear at the left? Oh well I don't doubt there being 45+ characters!!

@ModestFan93 I don't know who they are and probably most won't. I see Bandana Dee as the ideal 4th kirby rep.

GAH! That's not Shulk or King K. Rool. I wonder how many characters we have left...

Holy over-exposed cleavage Batman! That hype train just keeps runnin' over us and runnin' over us. Hit me again with Mewtwo please

Happy he's back, but maybe he can give some of that power to Ganondorf to help balance the characters out a bit?

Glad to have Meta Knight back, (one of my fav' Kirby characters) and apparently he's being "nerfed" to appease the fans who complain/think he's "OP."

@Beau_Skunk People don't think he is OP, it's a fact. He's top tier and even Sakurai stated he was OP.

He should get a nerf, but not so much that he is useless.

@Beau_Skunk Good players can use him, so that you can't even move or fight back, so he kinda is OP

Mr Game & Watch. Please? I'm shocking with absolutely everyone else! Just give me that little legend and I'll be happy.

I personally want Midna. anyone else?

Yeah! He returns. I guess he'll have to be nerfed but at least he's there. It's not gonna effect me anyhow.

@Iggly

You could use that glide to pass under Final Destination stage... if you're skilled enough. That was also very efective to push his horizontal recovery, that's far from useless.

Now just anounce Bandana Dee Sakurai.

Great to see him back as he was a massive user friendly character.

There's 40 in the roster now (including Meta Knight) so we just need these five to come back and that wraps up SSB4 roster.

• Wario
• Ness
• Jigglypuff
• Ganondorf
• Mr. Game and Watch

@retro_player_22 Meh.. I believe there are a few more after them.

I'm more interested in Meta Knight's Amiibo figure

I am very happy that Meta Knight is back. Personally, I think that Meta Knight definitely is slightly OP, But characters like Ike and Snake, who can do 20-30% with one simple hit should be nerfed more than Meta Knight.