Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Includes 59 Unique Assist Trophies

I cried internally when I saw Springman as an assist trophy. Maybe they can add Ribbon Girl as DLC? Likely not, seeing as it released so recently, but ARMS needs playable representation!

The game was bloody amazing before this direct. Spirits mode is just awesome (and Piranha Plant...love it!)

I'm just happy Guile is in this game in some form.

I'm really surprised Shadow is still a assist trophy. I thought he would be a echo for sure.

I'm still saddened by Isaac getting shafted again, not just for me, but also for @LasermasterA (then again, Matthew as a surprise character could still make the cut, right? Right?) - but there's a silver lining in how the guy now has a representation of the Move Psynergy more fleshed out than that poor man's Master Hand he had in Brawl.

@thesilverbrick
You missed the part where Ribbon Girl was a Mii costume.

Going to be honest, I actually laughed when I seen Shadow and Golden Sun Isaac as assist trophies, and I apologize for it right now.

Honestly, I laughed when Incineroar was announced, since it debunked the leak, but hey, we have 5 brand spanking new characters as DLC (not including Piranha), so that's really exciting.

EDIT: I know I said I was a believer of the leak, but that's because I just wanted Banjo in, so here's to hoping Banjo gets in as DLC.

@AlexSora89 I didn’t miss that. Many playable characters in Smash 4 had Mii costumes as well. Mario, Link, Samus and others. And they were all perfectly playable. It doesn’t rule it out.

I think Akira as an assist trophy in his low poly Virtua Fighter 1 appearance is amazing.

@thesilverbrick
Here's hoping we're getting more characters then. Ribbon Girl would work as a female fighter too.

@AlexSora89 I always envisioned Springman and Ribbon Girl as echoes of eachother, with Ribbon Girl having extra jumps and Springman a Lucario-like feature that gives him more power at higher damage. Oh well. There’s always Smash 6 on Switch U.

@thesilverbrick
First rUle of the U:
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Second rUle of the U:
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Heart sank when I saw Issac & Spring Man as Assist Trophies...

Kind of disappointing that ARMS made it at all. That's not exactly one of Nintendo's finer moments. Extremely happy with Dr. Wily though.

Is it fair to assume that any character that is a trophy is out of contention for being a DLC character?

Wasn't there a character in the last game that was a trophy but then got released as a playable character? And so when someone uses that character, their assist trophy never appears? 🤔

@AlphaElite Yeah it was Lucas. However, he was not an Assist Trophy. He was just a regular trophy.
Honestly, if Assist Trophies can become fighters, that would be a softer blow for this massacre of a Direct.

@thesilverbrick I think Springtron would make infinitely more sense as a Spring Man Echo. Oh well, at least ARMS is represented in some form, and that’s all I really wanted.

@MH4 Springtron is far less interesting. He’s more of costume-material than an echo.

@thesilverbrick I can see that working.

Or the ARMs character goes where it should.

Lola Pop with a Lanky Kong echo.

(I thought about Min Min since she’s actually the most popular character, but I went this route)

@waluigifan1 are you serious? Arms was one of the underrated games for the switch.

A bit disheartening, but still nice to see included.

Was very excited to see ARMS rep. Glad that Nintendo is keeping the spotlight on that game.

@ekwcll underrated? No the game is overrated. It's bad. Terrible gameplay, and a ripoff for $60 even after the free dlc.

When the big man in charge says you're just a assist....AGAIN!
https://youtu.be/lUb5LQ93uNI?t=68

Still not a fan of assist trophies.

It's just NOT pokémon in NOT pokéballs.

It's a confusing form of representation for the sake of it. Stickers and now the spirits rub me that way too.

I'm still disappointed they didn't put a single ARMS fighter into Smash as an actual playable character. With 60-plus characters in the game, from every era of Nintendo games including some really silly choices, I would think they'd find room for one character from an actual fighting game that they just recently published.

I'm not calling to light the torches, and I get that silly characters are actually part of Smash's "thing", but come on, ARMS fighters would have been such a natural fit for the "Ultimate" Smash game.

Isaac relegated to being an assist trophy again.

You know, the only people to blame for Golden Sun getting the shaft again is Camelot. If only:

1. Golden Sun isn't stuck with the Takahashi brothers

2. If they can't come up with anything, sell the IP because its just sitting there.

It's such a waste seeing as the games should be one of the gems competing with the xeno series, pokemon and the mario RPG series.

@ReaderRagfish Don't you mean crushed Spirits?

That's too bad. I was convinced that Spring Man would be playable. I guess the team didn't know about ARMS until the final roster was decided.

LOVED the addition of Akira from Virtua Fighter and Yuri Kozukata from Project Zero/Fatal Frame - really unexpected but can't wait to see them in-game!

This will be my first Smash. What do assist trophies do ? do you get to choose em? does each fighter get a set number ?