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I said this in a past thread and I'll say it again: In terms of characters, you get the essentials out the way BEFORE you do WTF characters. When you're missing certain major players and you choose to prioritize literal whos like the Banana Guard. This is also trying to emulate Smash Bros. without realizing that Sakurai adds the essentials before he adds oddballs. You don't Wii Fit Trainer and not add Diddy Kong, Zelda and Peach. Some Smash mods do this too and they fall flat long-term just because the developers wanted to 'shock' people or be unique. Granted, it took Sakurai a while to realize people wanted King K. Rool and Ridley playable, but once they're in, you can sort of get away with picks like Piranha Plant, keyword sort of, but in the case of Smash, Ultimate brought everyone back. Multiversus was starting off and they were dragging their feet with popular characters. It doesn't matter if the moveset is fun, people want the character first.

And competitive play is also niche, you can't focus your game on competitive play, casual play is also mandatory. Sakurai for all his problems at least gets that aspect of Smash right, for better or worse.