Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC: 8 Rumoured Characters You Need To Know About
Nintendo's all-star brawler is about to get even bigger.
Six. That's the number of vacant character slots set aside to accommodate future DLC additions for Smash Ultimate's already impressive roster, but who (or what) is going to fill them?
With such limited space to work with, Bandai Namco and Sakurai-san's plans undoubtedly involve rounding out Ultimate's post-launch cast with familiar faces recognisable to the masses, but with so many fan requests and wish lists to account for, attempting to please everyone is a fool's errand.
Two of those six lucrative spots have already been claimed by Piranha Plant and Persona 5's Joker, meaning there are just four golden tickets left to be distributed, but there's been no shortage of conjecture as to who'll be the lucky recipients.
Like clockwork, rumours have begun flying around the internet with abandon, some outlandish, others believable. As always, rumours, no matter their believability, should be pre-seasoned with a fat-fingered pinch of salt before consumption, but some of these hopefuls have compelling evidence to support their inclusion - not least those with precedence and popularity on their side.
By the time this year's E3 rolls around, the validity (or lack of) the rumours will be obvious, but until then, keep those dreams alive. They do come true.
Sometimes.
8. Hunter - Monster Hunter: World
The prospect of Smash welcoming Capcom's famed RPG series into the fold has been debated with equal parts hope and speculation, a dream thought to be all but confirmed when Nintendo revealed the latter's Ratholos monster as one of several unplayable boss characters for Ultimate's suite of single-player modes.
Disappointingly, the opposite turned out to be true. Not a single Hunter clad in the skin and bone of its latest kill was to be seen on Ultimate's roster, but there's still hope. Besides the obvious supporting evidence - that Monster Hunter content already exists in-game - a recent data mine revealed, among other things, the file names of every existing character and one currently unavailable in-game.
That name is Brave, and just so happens to be the same term used to describe one of Monster Hunter's combat styles, Brave Style. Given that the player character in Capcom's series is always an unnamed protagonist, its use as a name for several different echo fighters based on the series would make sense, but it's not the only character proposed to be filling the slot...