Not too long ago, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate revealed that its next DLC character would come from the ARMs Nintendo game but stopped short of revealing who that character is. A new rumor reveals that it may not be as simple as that.

All rumors should be taken with a massive grain of salt, and this one is no different. It was posted to the anonymous image board, 4chan, and provides no details to back up its authenticity. In detailing the laid-out plans for Nintendo's June Direct, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was brought up.

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• A character from ARMS is coming to Smash, and it'll be revealed as normal - a video from Nintendo. Masahiro Sakurai will sit there and give us a delightful lecture on the history of ARMS, as well as a demonstrating all the character's new moves, absolutely saucing on a CPU fighter in the process.
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Min Min, a character from Nintendo’s other fighting game, Arms, brings the Smash Ultimate roster to a number so staggering you really don’t even need to keep count anymore.

Reportedly, the ARMs character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate isn't actually one of them, but four: Spring Man, Ribbon Girl, Ninjara, and Min-Min. These characters will supposedly operate in a manner similar to the Koopalings, where each character is identified seperate, comes with a single recolor, and their own special abilities. For example, it seems Spring Man can be replaced by Springtron on the battlefield. No release date is mentioned, but based on prior reveals, it is possible that these character pack drops after that Direct.

The rest of the ARMs roster will also join these DLC characters as the characters of their spirit board, with the last detail regarding these characters being that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate challenger pack 6 will come with 15 music tracks. Ultimately, it'll be interesting to see if this proves to be true, but if so, it cases a wide net for fan reaction: Spring Man and Ribbon Girl are the poster children, Ninjara is everyone's favorite dark horse, and Min Min is popular among its competitive scene.

The leak also mentions other games like the reported Paper Mario, new SNES online editions, mentions of the Pokemon Sword and Shield Isle of Armor DLC, and more. Apparently, the end will also operate as a dual reveal similar to Isabelle leading into Animal Crossing: New Horizons, with the 7th challenger pack being revealed as Geno leading into Super Mario RPG Remake. At the end of the day, though, fans should file this away as yet another Super Smash Bros. Ultimate rumor until something more consistent appears.

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Source: 4chan

Smash Ultimate Arms Dlc Release Date

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans will receive a new fighter as part of the game’s DLC Fighter Pass 2 in June. Nintendo revealed that the new addition to the roster would be a character from the company’s wacky boxing franchise Arms. Now, an alleged leak has claimed to reveal the new character’s release date and provided new hope that, contrary to previous speculation, it's now possible that Waluigi could actually be added to Smash Ultimate as a playable character.

This newfound information comes from sketchy online forum 4chan, where an anonymous poster claimed that the first Fighter Pass 2 character would be released on June 16. These supposed leaks were posted to the site May 11 and didn’t come with any verifiable details, so they could prove to be nothing more than fan fiction. But all of the details are keeping in line with everything Nintendo has revealed thus far.

The post claims that the DLC character will be Spring Man, Arms’ poster boy, but the fighter's alternative skins would be seven other characters from the game instead of just Spring Man wearing different colors. Nintendo has done this with other Smash Ultimate fighters, namely Hero and Bowser Jr., so a character with a ton of varied skins like this is possible.

What would be surprising about Spring Man being added to the roster is that Spring Man is technically already in the game as an Assist Trophy.

What does Waluigi have to do with any of this?

The main reasoning behind why many fans previously lost hope that Waluigi would ever be added to Smash Ultimate is because the nasty purple boy was added to the game as an Assist Trophy. These items are nothing more than tools that playable fighters can use to battle on their behalf. They function similarly to Poké Balls in Smash Bros.

Smash Ultimate Arms Skin

Nintendo has never added a character that’s already an Assist Trophy to the roster in Smash Bros. history. The addition of Spring Man would break that tradition and therefore beg the question:

Why can’t the maniacal, mustachioed Waluigi be a part of DLC Fighter Pass 2 as well?

The Inverse Analysis — While many Smash Ultimate rumors are so outlandish they’re almost impossible to believe, this one is a bit difficult to parse.

On one hand, it seems unlikely that Nintendo would break its tradition of not adding Assist Trophies as playable characters. Imagine playing as Spring Man and then summoning the Spring Man Assist Trophy. It would be difficult to tell which of the two lanky-armed boxers you’re controlling. Weird, right?

But on the other hand, could Nintendo even add an Arms representative to Smash Ultimate without making it Spring Man? After all he is the face of the franchise and is by far the most recognizable character out of the game’s 15 characters.

Smash Ultimate Arms

We’ve speculated before that the DLC character could be the menacing Dr. Coyle, since she was the latest character to be added to Arms during a December 2017 update. The addition of Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Housesserved as evidence that Nintendo uses Smash Ultimate to market its recent games, but it’s been years since Dr. Coyle was released, making that pick harder to justify than Byleth.

Smash Ultimate Arms Dlc

Could fans see an Assist Trophy-turn-playable-Smash-character for the first time in the game’s history? And does that mean that Waluigi could eventually make his long-awaited debut as a playable fighter? We’ll need to wait until Nintendo announces something to be sure, but there’s hope Waluigi stans ... there’s hope.