How the addition of Hero from Dragon Quest would solve the Fire Emblem series representation issue in Smash Bros.

I am a big fan of Fire Emblem, and I very care about several games in the franchise. However, there has be a distinctly… uneven representation when it comes to which Fire Emblem games get the spotlight. Here is the rundown:

 

Shadow Dragon / Heroes of Light and Shadows: 1

Binding Blade: 1

Path of Radiance / Radiant Dawn: 1

Awakening: 3

Fates: 1

Three Houses: 1

 

Do you see the outlier? Awakening has three playable characters. Obviously, they are echo fighters of Marth and Roy, but there is still a clear bias towards Awakening. Since every Fire Emblem game is very different in gameplay, style and setting, it is reasonable to assume that every Fire Emblem fans have favourite entries, and entries they are less partial to. It is also reasonable to assume that a Fire Emblem fan of an unrepresented game would be happy to see a character from that entry playable. On the other hand, every time a Fire Emblem character is shown off in a Smash game, the Internet has a meltdown. So how do we represent more of Fire Emblem without oversaturating the game with Fire Emblem content? Hero from Dragon Quest holds the solution.

 

With Hero in Smash Ultimate, you can play as three Dragon quest protagonists with the same moveset, since each are simply a set of costumes with a different voice pack. With Fire Emblem, you could add characters that could feasibly have similar movesets to one another as alternate characters. Let’s try it:

 

Marth:

·        * Seliph would be a fairly good candidate. Similar build, uses swords, graceful prince combatant.

·        * Eirika would also be a good candidate as she is a graceful sword user.

 

Roy:

·        * Eliwood would be an easy pick as they are related and his Durandal is a flaming blade.

·        * Leif was initially supposed to be in Smash before Roy made it in. He has a similar build and could use a light effect instead of fire to reference the light brand.

 

Lyn:

Lyn would replace Lucina as she represents the first Fire Emblem character to be playable in the west. She would have her own unique moveset.

·       * Fir would be a good Fire emblem representative to represent Sacaen swordplay.

·       * Sue would also be a good pick are she starts off with a bow, but may promote to use curved swords as well.

 

Ike:

·         * Sigurd is taller than Seliph, and he is known to be fairly strong and brash.

      * Technically, any Hero class character could fit the bill.

Robin:

·       * Celica wields both a sword and magic.

·       * Soren can use magic, but also knives. A long knife could definitely replace the sword.

 

Chrom:

·        * Lucina would bear the same combat style. As they have learned the same technique canonically.

·        * Alm would be a decent idea, but he is left-handed, so it would be good to mirror him. He could also be the actual main costume, while Chrom and Lucina are costumes of him.

 

Corrin:

·        * His moveset would be harder to imitate. Aside from perhaps Mila from Echoes, or Iduun from Binding blade, there aren’t many who could make sense.

 

Byleth:

·       * Technically, every character can use every weapon in Three Houses. You “Could” have Edelgard, Dimitri and Claude, since at least one of their weapons is represented in the moveset.

 

Doing this would ensure that every single game in the series has representation of some sort. Unfortunately, some lords use weapons that have no representation, but this could be something for a future rep to fill.

 

Oh, and #FreeIsaac.