I love you all to death (Just so I can smash bros with you) (SSBWiiU/3DS)

[TomGuycott]

So with Pokemon XY just on the horizon and the high possibility that a Smash character will be announced to coincide with the release (as has been the trend for most of the veteran announcements), what do you speculate will be announced as the next character?

Seeing as there have not been any NEW character announcements ever since the first 3, I personally anticipate (if there is any character announced AT ALL) that it will either be Lucario, Mewtwo or Charizard/Pokemon Trainer announced. Pokemon Trainer I feel is a less likely announcement... to be honest, I have no idea which direction they would go with the introduction of Mega Charizard evolutions, but of course there's a chance they might just not change anything at all with him if he's included. I feel like Mewtwo or Lucario are far more likely to be announced, and I am almost more inclined to say Lucario could potentially have better staying power because of the connections to Gen 4 and Gen 6, while Mewtwo would just be another Gen 1, but with ties to Gen 6. I'd personally rather have Mewtwo, and I'm hoping he's in, Mega Evos or not.

It does make me wonder whether they'd jump back a bit and include a Gen 5 Pokemon (Zoroark comes to mind, Bisharp would be so cool but INCREDIBLY unlikely), and when I think about Gen 6 I DON'T really see too many good candidates other than certain Mega Evolutions. The Gen 6 starters do seem like a good setup.. I could easily see an alternate PT situation where it had Chespin, Braixen and Greninja as the three, basically shifting the power triangle to the left one. Outside of that, though, I feel like the best candidates are still the veteran fighters.