oooh potential characters list

Waddle Dee
-Did incredibly well in the ballot from what we know. Has a significant fanbase in both sides of the world, and fills out the last slot of the main Kirby four

Black Shadow
-Easy clone of Captain Falcon to put Ganon’s original set onto

Black Knight
-Easy clone of Ike, who is one of the few FE characters without a clone. A sprite resembling him is missing from castle seige

Dragon Quest Rep
-Vegeben said a second Square character. Incredibly popular in Japan, revolutionized the concept of the RPG and has a history with Nintendo consoles

Steve?
-Minecraft

Tibby
-Only real main character in Rhythm Heaven as a franchise. His game came out at around the right time

Ken
-Vergeben leak. Incredibly easy clone of Ryu

Medusa
-Sakurai bias, I heard that some of Palutena’s moves fit with her now but that could just be bullshit

Lloyd Irving
-Easy second Bandai Namco rep. Seems fairly popular? also showed up as a mii costume

Sable Prince
-Generic retro rep, hasn’t shown up as an Assist Trophy yet

Monster Hunter
-Rathalos is in the game, people are gonna guess this

Dark Souls Character
-Dark Souls is on Switch, everyone guessed this when that happened

Banjo-Kazooie
-Nintendo has had a weird, chummy relationship with Microsoft recently. They even let a bonus Banjo-Kazooie costume onto the Switch version of Minecraft

Tekken Character
-Easy second Bandai Namco rep. Would fit in with Street Fighter showing up for some reason. Heihachi showed up as a Mii costume

Dixie Kong
-Easy clone of Diddy. Diddy’s tail is conspicuously missing from his moveset, leading further credence to her being in

Jibanyan
-Yokai Watch is popular in japan, Nintendo publishes the franchise in North America

Tapu Koko
-Heavily involved in the plot of Gen 7, basically a mascot mon for how much it was pushed

Isabelle
-Vergeben leak, missing assist leads more credence to this

Shadow the Hedgehog
-Missing assist trophy, really easy to make as a clone of Sonic

Ayumi
-Has been stated by Sakurai to have been planned for Melee, but cut. Easy retro rep material

Skull Kid
-Assist Trophy missing, the moon seems to have taken his place. The remake of his game came out at the right time, and he's very popular

Incineroar
-Vergeben guessed him so now everyone’s doing that. Ash is probably going to own one in the anime, so very close to what happened with Greninja

Marshall/Chorus Kids
-Basically the face of Rhythm Heaven, seemed to have been cut from Smash 4

Magolor
-Did really well in the ballot from what we can tell

Rayman
-Nintendo has a very good relationship with Ubisoft recently, with them letting them use two of their biggest franchises. Rayman showed up as a trophy in 4

Elma
-Xenoblade Chronicles X is a game published by Nintendo so people are gonna guess this

Travis Touchdown
-Suda51 said he wanted Travis in Smash, sometimes that just happens like with Snake

Isaac
-Missing assist for two games in a row so far, heavily requested character

Mario + Rabbids Rabbid
-See Rayman’s reasons. Actually technically from a Mario game, and they function as the main mascots for Ubisoft

Chibi Robo
-Nintendo developed game

Paper Mario
-Its Paper Mario

Geno
-Vergeben said a second Square rep, and Geno is one of the most requested smash characters ever for some reason. Showed up as a mii costume, and Sakurai said he wanted to put him in