Lycanroc dusk form gif
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Their stats are very similar, and their learnsets in their home series are mostly identical. That's why I'm wary of character transformations in the same style as in Melee or Brawl: because it's something they've moved away from and I do not want to count on them going back to it.īut that's what makes the (currently) two Lycanroc forms so interesting: they aren't as wildly different as Zelda and Sheik, or Samus with and without her Varia Suit. Worse yet, when they tried to build the Pokémon Trainer around constantly cycling between Squirtle, Ivysaur, and Charizard, all it did was drag all three characters down. If you remember, you hardly ever saw people use Zelda and Sheik combined it was always just one or the other.
#LYCANROC DUSK FORM GIF FULL#
We saw the developers move away from full moveset transformations in Smash 4, and while I can't seem to find the quote anywhere, I swear I remember Sakurai saying they'd decided they no longer wanted players to have to learn multiple distinct movesets to use one character effectively any more. I also want to explain why I built the shifting!Lycanroc concept the way I did. After all, one of the reasons I've felt this character is getting overlooked is because of how many ways you can build a viable concept for it. If I've come off too strong about this so far, I apologize. I'm not hard committing to such a concept, as I think there're also ways a playable Lycanroc could work with just one form-probably whichever one Ash's Rockruff takes-or even as separate semi-clones if such a thing was itself appealing to the Smash team. A Lycanroc that shifts between forms might be another such creative liberty that they think would benefit the concept without misinterpreting the character too much, with the pros outweighing the cons. We've seen them take creative liberties with other characters before: Zelda isn't ever seen using the goddess spells, Ness and Lucas were given PSI moves they don't normally learn, and Lucario's aura mechanic flat out doesn't exist outside of Smash.
I know full well that a transforming Lycanroc wouldn't be 100% true to character, but I do want to consider that the Smash team might themselves consider such a thing.