User blog comment:SmashBoy678/Smash Bros. Is Getting Ruined...?/@comment-31319780-20140731092636

It honestly depends on the character for me.

Here's an example - during the most recent newcomer announcements, I was shocked and pretty outraged at their inclusion of Lucina - Fire Emblem has more than enough sword-wielding representatives! What we needed was some variation - characters that wield different weapons! (And Lucina is actually the only character that I felt this way about, so that's cool.)

So, naturally, the announcement of Robin was a shock for me. I loved how they translated the durability of weapons into his Tomes, and the use of the Levin Sword for Smash attacks. He's the other side of the coin - the brilliant ideas that make the best newcomers that they announce REALLY good. Similar characters that gave me this "HECK YEAHHH" feeling are the Villager, Mega Man, Palutena, and Little Mac.

Then there's the third thing that usually happens, and this time, I'll give a different example. When I learned that Rosalina was being announced, I actually got a bit irritated - I was reaching the conclusion at the time that she was becoming a tiny bit overused in Nintendo's games, even the ones that had nothing to do with space. However, after seeing her trailer (I saw the page first and then the trailer), I realized the possibilities of the character - being a combination of the Ice Climbers and Olimar, Rosalina has the ability to battle in two places at once, to strike from afar with melee attacks while not risking any damage to her person. Truly a worthy candidate for Smash. Not my favorite choice, but a character with plenty of redeeming gameplay factors. I also felt this way about Greninja and Pac-Man - first disapproval, then acceptance. Though, to be honest, acceptance of Greninja took a bit longer than it did with Rosalina...