Completely agree. Smash rules always break and it's going to be a glorious day when the "no Zelda one-offs" rule is broken. I don't bask in salt a lot, but this will be a time I do.
Zelda is one of their most important series and not having a new original rep since Melee is ridiculous. Like we have people in the Smash thread acting like a second Pokémon representative is completely warranted for DLC after we got three returning vets and a newcomer, yet saying "Zelda is fine it doesn't need more."
The series is full of characters that could make for great movesets and playstyles, it shouldn't matter that they're only in one game.
Just thinking about how it's one of Nintendo's premier franchises and it hasn't gotten an original character in its crossover fighting series for 17 years its just crazy.
At least they paid more care to the Zelda vets in Ultimate. They all look fantastic. Smash 4 was awful to the series in terms of character representation.
Not really, no. He's a derivative moveset and was clearly added late into Brawl given his SSE placement. That would be like if someone in 2015 said "oh it's been so long since the last 3D Zelda" and another person replied "we just got Majora's Mask 3D dude"
