There were TONS other characters which would have filled from Weiweismart's blog

ROB I sort of get. Being old enough to Animal Crossing Items have existed when ROBs were a pretty common occurrence with NES's; this thing was a piece of crap and straight up didn't work for the large part. The 2 matches he worked with weren't even good on their own either. It just felt odd.

There were TONS other characters which would have filled his place very well, and IMO, a LOT more suitably. ANYONE likely would have been much better compared to ROB: Krystal, Geno, Ridley, Midna, Megaman, Wolf, Skull Kid, Balloon Fighter, Daisy, Lip, Animal Crossing rep, Vaati, Black Shadow, Black Knight, Isaac, Paper mario, Tails, Bowser Jr, Jody Summers, Little Mac, Simon Belmont, Bomberman...

It's amusing how the characters people are not hyped for as personalities are some of the most beloved (ROB, Wolf, and DLCs like Terry, Byleth and today Mythra/Pyra etc).

Beforehand folks get so caught up in the potential and the hype. But when a personality gets in, they're just another fighter at a fighting game. All that matters is them being enjoyable and/or strong to fight as

It doesn't mean people do not /wantto perform them. It means individuals /can not / play them since otherwise they get punished by the faster, better characters and the game isn't enjoyable. Ridley was my most wanted first celebration but he kinda stinks, so I use him from spite not cause he's good.

I really main Ridley also! Of course you can still play them. If you're saying the game is not fun playing with a specific character, that means that you don't want to play with them, not that you can't. I find some MUs tough as Ridley but on a whole, he's still enjoyable for me and I do well enough with him. The main reason I include him on my list above is not because I don't like him , but since he does not see much representation despite being among the top most asked characters in the history of the series

Hey that's good for me personally, I still main Ridley too! I just mean that the community at large. Every personality is still going to have a few gamers, naturally.

And yeah I'd say Byleth is pretty popular, especially compared to how much they had been reviled when they had been announced. They have a decent amount of players, a more committed playerbase, representation online with the best player in the world right now, and the overall belief is that they're actually very enjoyable and saucy (when compared with what was expected).

I'm talking especially about these cases where there was a powerful contrast between expectancy and announcement response, and the way they are obtained after release. In that respect, Mythra & Pyra already doing fairly good. They got easily one of the most negative reactions after announcement, juxtaposed with a few of the best on discharge. Already a considerable amount of pro players and individuals with Animal Crossing New Horizons Nook Miles Ticket this sub are calling them the most fun character which has been inserted as DLC.