The Perfect Smash Bros. Reboot Roster 

I think realistically we could see a roaster the size of smash 4

I personally think that a reboot sized roster would be around Brawl's size, as I feel like even a Melee sized roster would be a bit too much, especially with newcomers being added. But for a Melee sized roster this is pretty solid. You got all the necessities for major Nintendo IPs plus Pit and Sonic. I was struggling to even make a Brawl sized roster because of all the big cuts that had to be made

I actually somewhat like the number of fighters you landed on. The only thing I'm a bit skeptical about is the actual choices you made. Don't get me wrong, these characters definitely are Nintendo's biggest icons and truly make sense, but I feel like you added too few newcomers, as only Pokémon Trainer and Alear are actually debuting in this hypothetical game. An alternate roster I came up with that maintains the same amount of fighters while also adding a few new faces is: -Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Yoshi, Wario (all these 6 fighters are essential imho, keep them) -Donkey Kong & Diddy Kong (sightly rework DK to have Diddy on his shoulder all the time and change a few moves to feature the lil chimp) -Samus (she obviously stays, especially after Dread) -Inkling, Octoling (I think Platoon is a big enough IP where you could feature Octoling as well, even by giving her different weapons than Inkling) -Link, Ganon (yeah, you read it correctly: it's pig Ganon and Zelda is gone, imo she's a bit too far fetched as a fighter to have higher priority) -Kirby, King Dedede (totally agree with you on Meta Knight) Olimar (stays, maybe swaps out Purple and White Pikmin for Icies?) -Spring Man/Min Min (personally I'd go with Spring Man, but Min Min is pretty popular too, so both fit) -Villager (AC is too big of a series and I think that Villager is the definitive choice for those games to be included) -Shulk (I agree, Shulk is the mascot of the franchise) -Pikachu, Greninja, Tinkaton (the mascot of Pokémon, as well as the two representatives of the latest games out there, as Legends Z-A is yet to be released) -Alear (the protagonist of Engage, could use the gimmick you were mentioning) -NES composite character (a sort of sprite blob fighter that morphs into various sprites based on the action they have to do, represents multiple retro games) -Bayonetta (ngl, you almost had me at the end of the last segment, personally I think Bayonetta should be top 1 priority for a third party, as she is Nintendo in everything but legal status at this point) -Mii (they are almost as mascot-like for Nintendo as Mario, maybe a bit less in the Switch era, but still important enough to be featured) This admittedly comes from my personal pitch for a Smash reboot which featured 30 characters in total. The remaining five would be Fox, Barista from Rhythm Heaven, Nell from Advance Wars, and Rex and Noah from Xenoblade

This is one wild ass video.

I like this roster! All in all, I say mostly every decision here makes sense, although I do personally disagree with not including Marth but that's about it. My dream Smash reboot would have 30 characters + 5 DLC!

I honestly think the roster is going to be between 40-50 for a new game

If you were to make a DLC Pass, Who do you think should be characters that can be in the game?

Wild takes with some of these Fire Emblem; Marth is the face of the series, hes not getting cut, including Alear and shoving them all in them is not a good compromise. Pokemon; Charizard might be popular but it didn't win "#1 Most Popular Pokémon"that **Greninja** did, I probably would have just cut Trainer myaelf and went Pikachu/Lucario/Greninja And while 25 does seem reasonable for returning characters, I'd say tou should have given yourself an extra 5-6 slots solely for newcomers.

There is absolutely ZERO chance that the next Smash game has fewer characters. 99% of the playerbase is non-competitive, and a smaller roster is, by definition, an inferior game.

Not trying to be rude but I seriously believe this type of roster is actually extremely unrealistic personally. I feel like if we do get a reboot we would at most make a roster as big as Brawl which was 35 characters at the very least. I just think in this day and age after how much progress we have done with Smash 4 and specially smash ultimate a melee size roster or smash 64 size roster is an insane downgrade. Even if all the movesets got redone for the veterans is still simply not worth it the amount of characters and representation we lost in the progress. The appeal of smash now is crossing over Nintendo characters with gaming icons. So a roster like the one in the video loses a ton of appeal and is just gonna look like a much worst game than Smash ultimate no matter what they do overall. But the biggest problem of all is the huge lack of newcomers in the roster as well. Like you seriously think people are gonna be excited for a smaller roster and only Alear from Fire emblem as one newcomer for the series? Like no if anything the smash community is gonna be beyond piss up of that happening. Not counting the new Pokémon from Pokémon trainer since at the end of the day is still Pokémon trainer being represented even if he has different Pokémon. Is nonetheless way to small of a newcomer amount and they are pretty underwhelming all things consider specially after most of the huge newcomers we got on smash ultimate. And finally my putting my bias in question almost every single of my mains are cut from this roster so if this was what they new smash game look like it be the worst one without a doubt for me personally.

Bad takes for the Kirby and Pokémon Series, Meta Knight wouldn't be cut and The Cross gen Pokemon Trainer idea is bad also also too much Gen 1 pandering but Mewtwo is the first legendary so he would stay, Greninja is the most popular mon plus Legends ZA will probably bring back Ash Greninja. But I do think Lucario could be swapped for someone like Cynthia with Garchomp and Incineroar with another gen 7 Mon like Decidueye for example Also SF Wolf is staying cuz he is a villain or would be replaced by Andross Also SUPER BAD TAKE on Xenoblade, I think every game should at least have 1 rep even X with Elma, plus they could update Rex to finally be a Fighter, Noah would also be great with or without Mio and Shulk is staying for being the OG Also Rosalina is more important than other Mario characters since she represents Galaxy Splatoon could have another Rep with Octoling or DJ Octavio And while the Earthbound Series is in a weird spot right now Ness and Lucas rightfully deserve to stay on the roster

25 characters is unrealistically low

Ultimate feels like the final product of what Smash Bros should be. No idea what they can do for a sequel to bring in the hype.