Okay, no personal offense or anything, but that idea is essentially PokeTrainer, except with fewer differences between abilities.
I have no problem with the upgrades (or sidegrades) wearing down over time, but simply switching like that just feels... I dunno.
Either way, my previous idea involved picking up various items (parts) in order to change your weapons, and these other weapons would be just sidegrades, not upgrades and not downgrades; they would have their own specific uses, advantages, and disadvantages, in a way that's almost comparable to the Team Fortress 2 unlockable items. I guess an additional way to balance this is the wearing down idea. I guess it's kind of a similar idea as playing as Fox, then grabbing one of the various projectile weapons and using that instead of neutral B, except this idea could apply to all applicable B moves (guns would change neutral B, bombs would change whatever is used for bombs [side B, likely], and pods would change whatever is used for pods).
Looking back, I suppose it's kind of like an extended Kirby, except it uses items instead of opponents.
Now the idea originally had that these parts might be some kind of gun, bomb, pod, or maybe even something that could specifically affect stats, but if that seems too much or OP, I can leave it at just one item type.
I'm sorry if I sound pushy, but I feel like this is pretty important. I don't really like the "press down B and get something different" idea, since we have at least 3 other characters that already use something very similar, and others might possibly use it, too. However, if I get a lot of opposition, I'm willing to leave it at that if we have to.
EDIT: I took too long writing this stuff...
BTW, Kirby would likely just get the basic neutral B, which would likely be just some kind of gun.
I have no problem with the upgrades (or sidegrades) wearing down over time, but simply switching like that just feels... I dunno.
Either way, my previous idea involved picking up various items (parts) in order to change your weapons, and these other weapons would be just sidegrades, not upgrades and not downgrades; they would have their own specific uses, advantages, and disadvantages, in a way that's almost comparable to the Team Fortress 2 unlockable items. I guess an additional way to balance this is the wearing down idea. I guess it's kind of a similar idea as playing as Fox, then grabbing one of the various projectile weapons and using that instead of neutral B, except this idea could apply to all applicable B moves (guns would change neutral B, bombs would change whatever is used for bombs [side B, likely], and pods would change whatever is used for pods).
Looking back, I suppose it's kind of like an extended Kirby, except it uses items instead of opponents.
Now the idea originally had that these parts might be some kind of gun, bomb, pod, or maybe even something that could specifically affect stats, but if that seems too much or OP, I can leave it at just one item type.
I'm sorry if I sound pushy, but I feel like this is pretty important. I don't really like the "press down B and get something different" idea, since we have at least 3 other characters that already use something very similar, and others might possibly use it, too. However, if I get a lot of opposition, I'm willing to leave it at that if we have to.
EDIT: I took too long writing this stuff...
BTW, Kirby would likely just get the basic neutral B, which would likely be just some kind of gun.