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The Ultimate Super Smash Bros. Character Guide: Corrin



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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is huge. Not just in terms of hype and importance and sales potential, but just in terms of sheer stuff. The Nintendo Switch mascot fighter features over a hundred stages, nearly a thousand songs, and too many Pokemon and items and Assist Trophies to think of crammed onto a cartridge you can plan on the go or on a TV. When you have as many big franchises as Nintendo, putting them all in one game will make that game is very big boy indeed.

But the biggest, most exciting thing about Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is its mind-blowing, heartwarming roster of playable characters. Fighting games pride themselves not just on the strength of their mechanics but the strength of its fighters, especially in a crossover fighters like this. And Super Smash Bros. Ultimate crushes all rivals by including every single playable character from the across the four previous games in the twenty-year-old series. Include the new combatants and so far we have over 70 fighters to wrap our heads around. We’re excited, but we’re also intimidated. So to get ready for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, every day, character by character, we’re creating the ultimate guide to all of its characters. Today’s fighter: Corrin.

Who Are They?

I know I know, all of the Fire Emblem characters keep blurring together. But Corrin is both the main playable lord as well as the customizable player avatar character of the Fire Emblem Fates trilogy. Those are the recent 3DS Fire Emblem games where you can choose between one of three significantly different paths, adding even more to your sense of ownership over the character. Torn between two rival families, Corrin also has dragon ancestry, helping him/her stand out from more traditional blue-haired swordsmen.

Smash History

Fire Emblem Awakening really took the series to a whole new level of popularity. And Fire Emblem Fates was the next game to really try and capitalize on that success. Heck, Corrin was first revealed as DLC for Smash Wii U/3DS before the game had even come out in America, in the same tradition as Roy in Melee.

What Looks New in Ultimate?

Corrin’s weird water dragon attacks always helped them feel pretty different from the rest of the Fire Emblem cast, even if they still have a counter of course. Corrin has a projectile, pinning stab move, and grows dragon body parts for various attacks along with the Yato sword. Corrin’s a strange character, but the good kind of strange character, so much so that they had to be overall nerfed in Ultimate, particularly that pin move.

Our Hopes?

THERE ARE ENOUGH FIRE EMBLEM CHARACTERS IN SUPER SMASH BROS.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is available now. Read our review of this majestic video game pageant. And for more check out cool Switch games to play that aren’t Smash Bros., because those definitely exist.

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