Byleth Is Available In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Right Now

I might as well dust off the game and download the update. I did pay for it.

Allow me to demonstrate how to let me paint you a picture and get the victory. LET'S GOOOOOO PROFESSOR!

Time to test out a new character.

Currently taking the time to change all of the Fire Emblem stage music to Paths That Will Never Cross. This may not have been the DLC that Gotham wanted, but it was the DLC that Gotham needed.

I love the new character, music, and stage added!! This is definitely my favorite from this pack and I’m very happy and eager to learn Byleth so I can play him/her proficiently (: I know a lot of people are salty but I hope some of you get to enjoy playing!! He/she is really fun

Hooray Cuphead!!!

@Zoda_Fett Optimism was never an option

Just played their Classic Mode and Spirit Board. Having played Three Houses, I like how the latter accurately represents the game's characters and several aspects of them really well.

Kind of weird how little of his move set actually uses the sword. So far my favorite part of this DLC is the stage. I REALLY like fighting on the Monastery.

Whoop tee doo!

@ShankyMcSpanky Literally chuckled, thanks for that.

Sincerely hope this will be the last Fire Emblem character to be added to the game. Absolutely absurd that they wasted yet another slot with such a niche character. What on earth were Sakurai and co. thinking?!

I love the smash franchise to bits but to see such an asinine adherence to Fire Emblem like this just baffles me to no end!

Having said that- I look forward to the second season of characters and DLC content and hoping a third season is also in development...

Time to boot up smash again!

@Maschinenmensch Completely agree, someone has some sense... That slot for Byleth whom I have never heard of before could have been used for someone actually innovative like Crash, Conker, Shadow, Knuckles, Donkey Kong characters, other Pokemon etc.

@Giygas_95 Fun fact, it's only used as a sword in two moves: the dash attack and up tilt

@Maschinenmensch Well, it's not for you, but three houses was a good turn based strategy game. It's not overrated. Honestly, it's not a genre a lot of people are into

@Xansies And the forward tilt.

Amazing addition to Smash. They did really good with this one. Its my favorite dlc by far. Plus Fire Emblem is just the best.

Oh, right. As much as I've been using that you'd think if remember that.

@Smashfan502 it's better than that, man. The changed the meta for her. Think about, everyone got bigger shield, why? Her entire kit is built around stalling and breaking shields. She has her Nair, but she's slow Sakurai made a sort of turn based tank. she absolutely sucks against the rush down characters as I'm playing her, but if you're slower than byleth, you're done. If you can land a dsmash, fully charged now, or dair against anyone, it nearly breaks shield. Then a down special is a stock basically no matter what. It's hard, but it's basically puffs rest hard. It's weird and cool. She's got the best gimmick because it plays with a core mechanic rather than making up something new

@Smashfan502 It's also weird because I don't think these guys really regularly play smash. Byleth doesn't look like a good character, really, because she's too slow to do anything against Pikachu or fox, but she destroys shields making her an absolute monster against slower characters including every other fire emblem character, ironically. I like byleth a lot

@Xansies The more methodical play style really fits the character. People are really missing out on a fun character.

I like the character so far, a bit slow for my tastes though.

Insanely hard hitting, I was knocking characters off the map with that Down B when they were just at 20%.

Been really diggin them so far.

@H3r0oftim3 Oh man- Conker would’ve been an absolutely hilarious addition. Good on you for thinking outside the box.

@Smashfan502 Sakurai works hard on characters, I get it. It's just too bad they are all fire emblem characters...

@Zeraki If you can hit a couple down smashes or dairs you'll break a shield and get a free kill with down b. It's not easy, but it makes.me think of rest

@H3r0oftim3 including or excluding the clones, there are more pokemon and Mario guys

Can't wait to try this character out after work! Judging by the response from those who have actually played with Byleth, it seems like a lot of fun!

@Maschinenmensch I agree. And I don’t dislike the franchise. It is fore sure over represented.

@Xansies bigger franchises. There’s also more variety between them.

@Smashfan502 Sarcasm, point being there are far too many Fire Emblem characters. I get it you are a fan and other fans are thrilled but it just makes no sense when there are so many other characters that could have been picked. I am not on the Sakurai band wagon, sorry.

PS. Wii fit trainer....

@Xansies As it should be since Mario is the most iconic character in all of gaming lol and Pokemon is known world wide.

Finished all the Byleth content this afternoon. Interesting character, though she's probably not for me. Looking forward to logging in again when the next batch of content comes out!

Wait, this announcement got me playing a lot more fire emblem. I don't have time for smash!

This game is a Fire Emblem fighting game featuring other characters.

I still don't have any of their DLC's or anything additional.

The game on its own had about 50 to 60 hours of fun.

Giving me a new character with slightly altered move sets to half a dozen other clones in the game won't change that. I was remotely interested in Banjo but thats just disappeared now.

Done with it.

@Smashfan502 I did play her for way too long and she's genuinely not very fun to play for me because she relies on perfect spacing to pull anything off. She's designed as a full punish character. You can't press any button until the other guy does. Again, it's probably because sakurai is obsessive and byleth is from a turn based srpg. I mean, if you can land a one of her like four shield breakers it's a instant kill, but you need to be kinda next level psychic to do it regularly. She's basically functionally a harder to play Marth.

@NIN10DOXD I played way too much. Methodical is the word, for sure. She's designed as a total punish character. She doesn't really have any approaches and her poke with the bow is kind so slow and predictable that it's a bit bonkers how not great it is. And she is so slow you cant press any button first except Nair and you need perfect spacing on top of that. But, she has four shield breakers and hits like a truck if you can nail the really tight hitboxes on her spear. She's honestly like a much harder to use Marth functionally.

@Razer
The choice here seems two fold 1 to cater to the FE fetish and 2 to get around his promise of DLC characters not being echo fighters so here comes a new blue haired FE with standard FE mechanical functions so they didn’t have to create a completely new style of character. I predict he won’t make the no echo fighter promise with FP2.

Is he good? I havent bought him yet will do it tomorow.

I love the stage design tho! Peace of artwork.

Downloading now, I'm more excited for the stage than the character though.

Wow I’ve just downloaded a big update haven’t been on since banjo was introduced. Wtf do we have to pay for the mii fighter costumes if we bought the first season pass thing 😪

@The-Chosen-one Very good. Definitely not another Marth. Honestly had more fun with Byleth than Banjo.

@Smashfan502 "It's a she and he, by the way. Just saying."
Fair point. 🙂

Irrelevant character that's surprisingly fun to play, pretty damn strong specials and smash attacks.

Banjo is now officially the worst of the bunch when it comes to playability.