Sword Fighters: Why Are There So Many Of Them? | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 

Appreciate the shout out! Just for the record though, we're cool, I've got no kind of claim on covering archetypes lol

With Big D beating riddles and going to grand finals at a major maybe you should do why no one plays ice climbers. They have the coolest comboes in the game but are brutally difficult to play optimally

They're consistent, because most of their attacks are safe and most swordies are relatively simple

Because swords are cool

My one main complaint about "swordies" would be how many of them use actual swords. Id LOVE to see more variety with weapons like spears, axes, hammers, glaives. There are SO MANY options that are so underutilized. I feel this could especially help the FE rep issue a little. As much as I love FE, ill admit some rep variety would be SO MUCH better

This is more of a breakdown of swordfighters instead of answering the question "Why are there so many of them?" The answer to THAT is that it's a go-to protagonist weapon and Smash primarily uses protagonists as the main crossover character

I liked the thoughts on swordies having plenty of disjointed safe moves while still being nigh unreactable. I think a good point to bring up would be the lower amount of combo starters in comparison to brawler type characters to drive the difference home

Because I like JRPGs like Xenoblade and Dragon Quest. For me to main a character, I usually like to know their story and try and feel a sense of familiarity between games.

Good range, safe attacks, amazing kill power (or amazing damage building combos), cool combos in general, and they're all from game franchises that are either well known or so dang cool. Like Shulk is the lesser known but he's one of the coolest Swordfighters I've ever seen. Then there's Marth the OG FE character who's been in Smash for ages and while not as strong as some others, he's still mad popular. Fun fact: I originally became a swordie main because I used to be a fencer (a type of swordfighting martial art). First swordie I ever mained was Marth because I chose to free him early during World of Light. Then when I came across Corrin I picked him up as a main, too.

Historically, hitting with long thing better than not hitting with long thing

I have to admit, I’ve gone from rushdown to sword archetype over the course of my playing Ultimate. Never thought I would change my character type but everything you said about sword characters is true

pretty new to smash scene, and idk anything, but i think its cuz you can swing your sword around with minimal risk. you can approach without actually approaching.

With your content style, looking at how the introduction of a character entirely changed a meta (while also talking about before and after) may be a small gold mine. Sans comes to mind firstly. All of the dlc characters have a potential spot. Although you run the risk of talking about things that veterans already know. Breaking down WHY dlc is so disruptive as well as the evolution of how they're used (or not) is a neat idea I would love to see you do. I love the methodical but practical approach you bring to the table. Keep it up !

Simple. Swords have lots of range, so they are safe to attack with if spaced well. They can beat out attacks from boxers, and can easily deflect projectiles sent out from zoners. Most swordies are also really FAST for some reason as well, so they can overwhelm most other characters and juggle them with ease. Seriously, why are basically all of the sword characters in this game so fast? It almost seems like a design flaw, given that most games trade off speed for more range. It seems that they have average speed and power and above average range, so why wouldn't you pick one up if you want to win?

Ultimately I think part of the problem people have with sword character saturation is more superficial... To give an example: Mario characters have the highest population density in Smash (with 10 characters), but these characters are *wildly different* in visual design (Stand Mario up next to Bowser, Peach, Wario, Bowser Jr, Pirahna Plant... they are all immediately distinct from one another even to a complete outsider). Fire Emblem characters are, by and large, "Reasonably proportioned anime protagonist who wields a sword" and the fact that fire emblem brings 8 of them (the second most represented game series in smash) can make it feel like the game is oversaturated with them... and this isn't even considering how many other games in smash are bringing the same visual archetype. Honestly I don't think there's a good solution here either. Fantasy RPG protagonists almost universally use swords, and game series in Smash are pretty much always represented by their protagonists... so more swords. It wouldn't do to remove characters that appeared in previous versions of Smash either, since the tagline was "everyone is here" so ultimately we got the best solution... just let the complainers complain online, game is still fun and having an oversaturated niche is only disappointing when you add another one on in a reveal trailer.

As someone who's almost exclusively been playing sword characters in Smash, it's been a very uh...interesting experience. It's too a point that my mind is wired into fighting with disjointed hitboxes, and anything closer to the body feels somehow 'unsafe' to me. Going from Pit in Brawl to Corrin in Smash4 to finally the Aegis Sisters has been just nothing but disjointed boxes. With Roy and Byleth in between during my time in Ultimate. This is partly in due to the fact that I actually really like all of these characters/their series, but it's also because it's really hard to go back when you've gotten so used to how Pyra/Mythra's hitboxes and just how much pressure you can dole out with just a few sword swipes.

On the topic of blind spot hit boxes, that’s why Roy (outside of his damage) is so strong. While every other sword fighter priorities keeping you at a set distance away from you, Roy wants to be as close as possible and has his sweet spots almost in his chest.

As someone who isn't that great at Smash it's easy to space someone out with sword moves and it's easy to hit Corrin or Cloud combos (most of which just need tilts and falling aerials) but it's way harder to hit Brawler combos which are way more intricate and usually require grabs and more difficult aerials. The only thing which is just as easy is playing a zoner but then everyone hates you

Can we all agree link’s nair is still a sword somehow lol

Sephiroth & Meta Knight are my favorite “swordies” with Corrin being a close second. I’m still wondering if people like to main Sephiroth nowadays or not.

Most of the the series the swordies come from are RPGs, they are usually the main character, in RPGs the main character always wields swords. Its that simple.

Maybe because swords are the most common weapon type in video games?

In future smash games it would a real shot in the arm to diversify the character archetypes. The cast is dominated by too many similarly themed characters, even if they do play differently. I’d like to see something like a mech pilot, a pole arm user, a mad scientist, a clown, a genie, a wrestler, something with multiple limbs, anything but another fuzzy animal or anime swordsman. Hopefully diverse themes would mean more diverse gameplay as well.

I’m a Aegis/Cloud main (with pocket Palutena). I actually recently fully committed to maining Aegis instead of having her as a pocket (I’ve been playing her since her release). The thing I like about swordies is that they have good range with decent frame data. They are relatively easy to play, but still in depth. I especially love Aegis for being 2 swordies, one being rushdown and the other being basically a much better Ganondorf with unreasonable hitboxes that should not exist lmao. Their flexibility makes them so much fun. This game also favors swordies a lot, that probably plays a huge part why many people main them

Sephiroth has to be the most popular character in the game lol I see him all the time…even in my deepest nightmares 😰

11:23 Ironically, despite being generally considered the weakest in the class otherwise, this is almost a non-weakness for Mii Swordfighter. Several of his moves, including aerials, do at least cover a portion of his body's hurtbox. :-)

Great video! I was expecting you to go more into the character pick philosophy on why the characters are in this game based on the title but it was a good video regardless. Some thoughts I have on the prevalence of sword fighters design wise is that I think Sword characters are just better for a cartoon fighting game. guns are the most popular weapon in video games, then swords or staffs, but guns are harder to implement compared to other weapons. That’s one of the reasons Snake has so many explosives compared to his weapons arsenal in his origin game. A lot of iconic game characters use swords in general due to swords being more tied to fantasy along with magic, but most mid range weapons resemble a sword in one fashion or another (e.g. staffs, daggers). You can kind of see the three most popular forms of combat in the miis: guns, swords, and melee. One could argue it’s missing a mage mii or magic user, but a lot of the time magic is used to enhance a character’s movelist in all sorts of games with one of the three still being the base.

While I do not mind the amount of swordies in smash. I do have to disagree about the lack of body hitboxes being a sort of weakness. They are designed to act as a walling tool, and if people get up close the swordies are usually designed to have a get-off me tool. Cloud having Climmhazard alongside other swordies liking to up b oos. this exclude the swordies with fast frame data like chroy and aegis cause they can use the rest of their frame data in hand with said tool. Smash is moving more to an oos meta/advantage state heavy meta so it’s perfect to play characters that minimize the risks like swordies, that’s how it feels like why they’re so popular, same with zoners.

There are "so" many sword fighters because swords are the most common weapon. End of discussion. Swords are generally the middlegrounds of all weapons, they are long quick, defensive, everything you ever asked for. Name any character who uses weapons, and chances are, they use a sword somewhere in their game. Honestly, what other weapon do you all want people to use? An axe fighter? How is that going to be different that a sword, it's basically gonna be Ike with a tipper. I mean guns are a thing, and guess what, it's the other main group of fighters in smash bros. Just like the mii's, there are 3 classes of weapon types, with practically no exceptions. One semi unique weapon is a hammer, and even at that, ice climbers hammer functions like a sword, just with a hammer hitbox. Honestly, I wish Sakurai made more unique weapons so sword haters would finally be like "oooh so epic, a weapon that functions EXACTLY like a sword except looks differently" and stop crying.

There are so many of they because they are so easy to pump out

I love Swordies. I think their safer and Stray attacks are right for me. Absolutely my favorite smash archetype(Btw I also love Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy as well as Xenoblade). I get if people say characters like Aegis are overturned,but I love them to point I don’t care that much tbh lol

Falcon does have a chiseled chest, the body feature that can make even the male cast of all species blush right before that Falcon Punch connects with them.

My favourite swordfighter is Roy. No, not the Fire Emblem swordie - the Bowser Jr. skin. People gloss over this character, but almost every hitbox he has is disjointed. Jr. can slow the game down if needed by throwing out hitboxes (cannon and mechakoopa) while adding to the pressure with short hop fairs, or speed it up on a dime by chasing the opponent all across the stage like a rushdown with kart. He's fast, heavy, has lingering aerials, and incredible recovery. Of course, the better your opponent, the less likely you are to successfully trap them (almost everything jr. does can be shielded or jumped over) but when you bait out an option from your opponent with a cannonball, rush in to fair/bair them, then fastfall onto a mechakoopa and throw it off stage for the kill, there's no greater feeling of satisfaction in this game.

This video is very refreshing. I remember being downvoted a bunch on Reddit for claiming that Marth/Lucina don’t play at all similarly to Chrom/Roy. Much of the community is still of the irritating mindset that “sword/fire emblem bad” and I hope it will diminish over time, but that feels unlikely. Edit: the replies to this comment prove most of the Smash community has no idea what they're talking about

Probably cause sword attacks have long range and have a wide arc so they are easy to hit generally.

Disjoints. Roll credits.

I used to play Brawl as Ike and loved him for all the reasons you laid out. Plus I LOVED his counter. Kept people at range and almost all his attacks felt like they started killing at under 100%. Their only real weakness was aerial combat and really powerful zoners. Diddy Kong, Game &Watch, and Snake were the only truly hard matchups. Well and another good Ike player.

Let's answer that with 2 questions. Why did Sakurai decide to divide the Miis into Brawler, Swordfighter, and Gunner and how many characters don't fall into any of those 3 categories?

Because sword fighters are fun to play! (I main the Fire Emblem characters!)

Your the best SSBU RU-vidr in my opinion

i play roy and the reason i use swordies is bc i just love swords in general

I feel like the title of this video is misleading. This video didn't really answer why there are so many sword characters, instead, it answered why sword characters are so popular to use. The reason there are so many sword characters is simply because a lot video game characters tend to use swords, especially JRPG characters. And it only makes sense to add JRPG characters to this game since they're either very iconic (like Cloud or Sora) or Nintendo wants to promote some new JRPG through Smash (Corrin or Byleth).

I have been watching your videos and enjoy them so much! So calming and relaxing. I just wish you could show what songs you use in your videos. They are so good and fit so well.

I am SUPER not a competitive Smash player. But I consider myself pretty good and certainly the best that I know personally (in no small part to knowing very few people who actually enjoy Smash) and I love Swordfighters. Granted I am also a massive Fire Emblem fan having played every game in the series except two (Thracia 776 and Genealogy of the Holy War if we count the remakes as the same as the originals. Which I do) My mains are Ike, Lucina, Wolf, and Lucario. I'd love to see a good teardown of each of them, what makes them good, bad, etc. I have no idea how prevalently played each one is in the roster or where they even rank. I just enjoy them and are quite good with them. One thing I am surprised hasn't been mentioned is the move Counter though. Shared by a TON of FE characters (most honestly) and the likes of Lucario. It's frankly one of my favourite Specials and pulling it off feels FANTASTIC, but clips that get shown almost never utilize it. I can't help but wonder why. Is it just really hard to pull off and I'm apparently really good at it? (Something I have heard actually) or is it not worth doing? I know it has a pretty punishable end lag if you miss time it

My problem with swordies isn’t stuff like Ike or byleth they are balanced It’s the insane speed that rivals or even beats rush down characters that I have a problem with so mythra, lucaina, Roy, chrom.

Even tho I main Mewtwo and secondary Joker, I admit that most of my best characters that aren't my main/secondary happen to be swordfighters. Roy, Chrom, Hero, Lucina, Pyra/Mythra, Cloud, Byleth, and Ike are just to name a few. Most of these characters are easy to learn, easy to use, they are really good against cheesy characters, great range, and most are decently fast. As much as I love Smash Ultimate, I feel like you can't really get better at the game without having a swordfighter in your arsenal of mains/secondaries. Even tho I personally don't have a problem with it since I like most of the swordies, I do feel like it's very unfortunate to those who don't like them. While it's not impossible to succeed in Ultimate never using a swordfighter, it is pretty difficult.

A lot of characters that I like just ended up being swordies. Ike, Corrin, Shulk, Byleth, Pyra Mythra lmao

brilliant insight on why Leo uses Byleth!

Eyyy, SAO footage used! I still feel bad for that Pugilists girl.

I never knew sword fighters were popular. Usually I hear people complain about them for there being “too many” sword users. There’s about 19 of them. Which is a pretty good amount, but I hate how people would get angry and act as if 80% of the roster uses swords. FYI, I personally don’t view characters such as Pit and Dark Pit as sword fighters. They battle with bows that turn into small blades for self defense. The same can be said for Joker. He fights with a knife, which doesn’t even count. But besides that, this was a good video. I like using sword fighters. Hell, one of my mains is the Mii Sword Fighter. They’re a good character to play as. And mixing up their costume makes it even more fun.

DDD has a disjoint like a swordie but nonexistent frame data to use it effectively...guess what I'm saying is do an episode on the King!

I think the main reason is that they are the "easiest" to program for. Nobody up at Nintendo wants to program more unique and complex characters like Conker, Rayman, Geno, Bomberman, etc. when they can just use a standard human figure swinging a sword around, and it’s not like they care anyways since they know they’ll get money off of them regardless. Just ask anyone working on characters for Project M EX Remix and most of them would probably say the same exact thing. It’s a lazy but unfortunately very effective marketing tactic to say there is more with less effort. It’s kinda the same reason why the vast majority of echo fighters have little to nothing changed about them for their movesets, they’re just glorified skins, although with those in particular it’s way more noticeable. Really the only DLC "swordfighter" (If you can even call him that) who’s unique is Steve, but even Sakurai jokingly admitted that he didn’t even want him in game, and I’m guessing they only gave in because they were forced to put him by Microsoft after Banjo to get their own end of the deal. Roughly 70% of all the Fighters Pass DLC characters alone used a sword or dagger as a primary weapon in some way. The facts are impossible to ignore, and it’s not even up for debate: Nintendo just doesn’t care and they have no reason to.

Seeing you think that swordies aren’t just clones with no soul is honestly releaving. It’s dumb that some folks think that swordies are a waste

The character I learned how to play with was Lucina so it was just easier and more natural switching to other sword characters such as Roy and Aegis. The only non sword character I have played with so far is Pauletina, but plan using Min Min and Kazuya next.

Roy, a character who's sweetspots exist close to his body, and thus has easier combos, is a deadly combination of a brawler and swordie. Roy isn't broken because he has great kill power, but because he has easy kill setups. His sweetspots are super lineate, which in combination with their higher hitstun makes them incredibly useful. All you need to win as Roy is to be in your opponents face, and you're guaranteed success. Compare this to Marth. His tippers are significantly stronger than Roy's sweetspots, yet his is considered a much worse character... Why is that? Because, he is the opposite of Roy is every respect. His sweetspots are further from is body, which means it is significantly more difficult to capitalize on the greater hit-stun it has. Tipper hit-boxes are much smaller too, which means you rarely get to take advantage of tipper hitstun. Hitting a sour spot with Marth is also significantly more dangerous than Roy hitting a sour spot. Marth will always be close to the opponent when a sour spot lands, which almost always guarantees a punish from the opponent. Meanwhile, Roy can land a sourspot, and still easily escape unscathed. What you have is this: Marth is a character requiring precision, with few combos and kill confirms, who is easily punished for sloppy play. Roy is a character that you play aggressively, with hard to mess-up combos and several kill confirms, who is easily punished only when the player doesn't know what they're doing.

God knows how broken sephiroth would have been if he swung his sword instead of doing thrusts...

Sword fighters Are Amazing Play styles!

13:20 Then there's my friend who says that "all fe characters are the same" including Byleth and Robin in that claim

I think there are 2 things you failed to bring up in the current strength of sword fighters. First and most important being the severe lack of movement abilities. This makes it very hard for players to even get in on sword fighters you dont retain momentum when you jump, its hard to get off platforms and most importantly intial dashes are really bad in this game and have you unable to do anything really meaningful out of it or during it. This leads to a lot of characters having some kind of combos starter that isn't reliable against a player spamming aerials that have almost no lag. The second is that you cant run through opponents anymore. So in smash ultimate you mostly only need to control the space in front not so much a circle around yourself because the opponent reliable go behind you without you see it like with a double jumpwhich you can see. These two things combined means the most optimal way to play is by controlling the space in front of you and spamming aerials because there is no reliable way to get in on a spamming a opinion and even if you can get in with a dash you can't use your combo starter attack reliably. The exception to this are precisely the characters you described characters whose combo starter were dash attacks or rising aerials out of a dash examples sheik rising fair, wolf dash attack and nair, greninja dash attack. I don't think sword characters are overpowered i just think the design of the game vey heavily encourages their style.

Seeing a Guilty Gear clip in here was sick as hell. love that game

“Mythra, the best combo swordie…” Just wanted to point out that the best combos with a sword belong to Sora. She’s the better swordie but not for comboing. Sora has combos even at 100+.

Link/Toon Link/Young Link Meta Knight Pit Dark Pit Marth Roy Ike Lucina Robin Corrin Chrom Byleth Shulk Pyra/Mythra Cloud Sephiroth Hero Mii Swordfighter Sora? (That's clearly a key not a sword) 22 Sword fighters in Smash (Ganondorf is not included here because he's a physical fighter)

Sword main love them so much

Roy is ma main, ma boi, but most importantly… He’s my swordsman.

1:48 Oh geez, is that a Dr Fate spamming in Injustice?

Nice favorite game series, my favorite game series is Fire Emblem too but also Pokémon

I wish they would have committed to Ganon having a sword and making him the first heavy swordy

Meta Knight over her with his butter knife of a sword that barely has hitboxes that match it's length.

I'm very aware about Lucina being better than Marth. I've been told this many times but I'm a stubborn woman and I'll keep playing my boy because he feels rewarding to play.

I know what you were trying to answer was about tournament play, but I think the reason their are so man sword fighters in smash is because those tend to but the most popular characters (or the easiest to recycle moves for) I mean you got such iconic characters like cloud, Sephiroth, Sora (who was the most requested fighter), with some characters just being smash favorites like Roy and Marth and you still see requests for sword fighters like Alucard, Zero heck I really wanted to see Nightmare from soul caliber, that’s not to say that other archetypes have iconic characters as well (with characters like Crash and Geno) I just seems that sword fighters are more iconic have way more fans. But that’s just my thoughts.

They are overly simple, but I guess basic people needs characters too.

Roy is broken AF!!! I mained Lucina in the early Smash Ultimate meta back when everyone thought she was the best character in the game, but I was already telling people that she wasn't even the best swordie because Roy is broken AF. Roy side B kills earlier than Cloud limit Crosslash. Broken AF.

I love the swordfighter archetype. I will say I think the two DLC packs went a bit too far in how many were included. I like how Hero and Byleth play, but then the DLC second pack had the majority of its characters wield swords (if you include Steve). I think that felt a bit too disjoint heavy. But I also think a major reason the archtype is popular right now is that the two best players in the world only play swordfighters; and each of them can play multiple characters within that archetype.

I'm sick of seeing this topic come up already when it's so obvious why. First, let's understand what we're dealing with: Smash's roster consists entirely of already established characters from other IPs. Furthermore, the numerous more obscure characters throughout gaming history are always ignored unless it's a character from a forgotten game of Nintendo's that they want to remind people about the existence of. In addition, when a new video game series is selected to be represented in Smash, the main character of that series or game is always the first pick. Now ask yourself, how many popular, well-known main characters are there in gaming that use axes, spears, hammers, daggers, or some other variety of melee weapon that is NOT a sword? Best examples that come to mind for me would be Gordon Freeman who uses a crowbar, Ezio who uses a wrist blade, and if we really want to count him, there's Kratos, who more recently has begun using an axe more often than the pair of swords he used to wield. Now, how many of these characters are there that use bows, guns, magic, or any other form of ranged weaponry that is also NOT a sword? For the record, we're not counting the MCs of any of the Call of Duty or Battlefield games because none of those characters are iconic enough to be represented as a fighter in Smash. Your best hope would be characters like Doomslayer, Master Chief, Dante, Lara Croft, or Marcus Fenix, and even out of those five, three of them also use swords in addition to their firearms. Now, how many of these characters are there that primarily use a sword? Just off the top of my head, there's 2B (Nier: Automata), Lloyd (Tales of Symphonia), Yuri (Tales of Vesperia), Raiden (Metal Gear), Yu Narukami (Persona 4), Adol (Ys), and Zack (Final Fantasy 7). And I bet whoever is reading this also had a lot more examples come to mind with that last question than the previous two. The only other thing more common than seeing a popular video game character with a sword is seeing one that uses their fists, and what do you know? The fist-fighters in Smash outnumber the swordfighters. Imagine that one. Mystery solved. You can all stop whining about characters wielding swords now. Though, realistically, you'll still keep whining because your character from some obscure indie game uses a melee weapon that isn't a sword and clearly they have something better than a snowball's chance in hell of being included in the popularity contest that is the Smash roster. I get it. I'd love to see Lea from Crosscode, or Hat Kid from A Hat in Time, or Robin from Iconoclasts, or the knight from Hollow Knight (although he is also a sword wielder), but when even an indie character as obnoxiously popular as Sans gets the mii fighter treatment, the odds aren't exactly looking too good, now are they?

I’m still surprised that Ganondorf doesn’t have more sword attacks. Then again, he was always a Captain Falcon copycat

Swords are just a common trait among characters and especially main characters. Variety would be nice, but sometimes, getting those popular picks…and fire emblem characters, into the roster requires you to submit to the sword gods. As for the actual discussion, swords are reliable, but they’re also a double edged sword, pun intended. It’s the same way why rangers can get owned by swordies, as swordies can be owned by fighters. They don’t necessarily have bad frame data, but they’re slow enough to be exploitable, and faster characters can see that, punish, and defeat. Admittively, auto piloting is easy as a swordie, but sometimes, that can be to your detriment when your stray hits become exploitable habits, and sometimes, your stray hits, even infrequent, is the thing they’re waiting for to end a stock. Consider that in a game of chicken, when you’re landing a final blow, a stray hit can be easy to hit, it can also be slow enough or be just the wrong amount of space, for your opponent to up smash you with their much faster move, or back or forward air you the same way.

BIG SWORD=BIG COOL

People joke about "Super Fire Emblem Bros.", I would honestly love that game

I have mythra as a pocket character because she’s good, easy and safe Probably the same with other swordies their range makes them safer and less comital

what is the anime where the guy got cut my the sword

another character that is rarely seen would be pit/dark pit since there are very few players who use them

I think the issue most people have with swordies is how similar most of them are. I wish they would’ve given us a Lance or Axe fire emblem rep somewhere along the line just to mix things up.

Because they're awesome tf? Why would I play as a toy robot when I can be the final boss of FF7 instead?

All beginners hate the feeling of their aerials always losing to enemy aerials.

Zoners not being as much picked as swordies just shows how much range and speed matters. Look at melee, Samus has both projectiles to control neutral and kill opponents but still lasers are considered better due to its speed

love these characters

byleth is my main and I love his gameplay, swordies play really different, the reason marth and lucina have the same moveset is because they are echo fighters, same goes for Roy and Chrom, but other then that all play different and out of all echo fighters those even play the most different, is there even a difference when it comes to other echo fighters?

What’s the clip at 4:27 from?

Sword is the most used weapon in videogames along Punches and guns

FE Echoes fan LET'S GOOOOOOOO

Well now I know what Swordies are and their mechanics but you forgot to answer the title of the video.

My favorite swordy is Bowser Jr.

All the other classes are standard classes (zoners etc) but why tf is a category called swordfighters 💀 some swordfighters are zoners others more tanky

The thing i hate the most about playing as a swordy is that it clanks all the time with body hitboxes. I've clanked cloud f smash with cpt falcon f tilt that was attacking the wrong way because of his butt hitbox

Fire Emblem is an amazing series with mounted units, multiple weapon triangles, people who can turn into literal dragons, magic... yet despite all the variety is represented by swords on all its reps. ...yet I'm surprised so few of the fans want to share the other elements of Fire Emblem. Fire Emblem is an amazing series! ...outside of Smash. In Smash not only is it the most poorly represented series, but also the only series to cause issues due to how poorly done its representation was. Had it been given proper Fire Emblem spirit in its reps everyone could've been happy. I pray for the next Smash game and the inevitable Fire Emblem rep we get with something that shows Fire Emblem for what it is. A diverse game with a lot of potential, freedom, and creativity. Something that doesn't need a sword.

$20 bucks he mentions there being “too many swords and fire emblem characters”less than a minute into the video, can’t have a smash video without those

you should probably link mockrock’s channel in the description

1:00, "Swordies" and "Friendlies"... not calling them that, it's like they got the guy that named the Walkie Talkie to name their FGC terms.

That rundown of series with swordfighter representatives. Like, yes, yes, they're from RPGs, and RPGs are contractually obligated the have sword-wielding leads. Which is the sorry state of things. Buck the trend, devs! Establish axes, or polearms! You can do it, I'm sure it's not _that_ much of a risk among your target audiences.

Like 20 sword users and not one dedicated axe user.. feels sad man