User blog comment:Blazekin36/What Gen 2,3 and 5 Pokemon Would Be a Good Character for Smash Bros?/@comment-5293798-20150125235857/@comment-4591011-20150126020925

I was going to add that the only reason why Pichu was added was Gen 2 representation since G/S/C were still recently released. However, why Pichu? There is a lot of good candidates for a Gen 2 rep that could have carried over to SSB4.