Assist Trophies and Pokemon

[Shadowth117]

I dunno. They would be so much like ATs, they might as well just be ATs. They just don't seem to really need to be separate items. The reason pokeballs get to be in is because they are part of the main gameplay element of the pokemon series, while the animal buddies seem to be just side piece. I guess they could work, though, they're just a bit much like existing items.

Maybe, instead of making a completely new item, you could have it work like the enemies from Melee, where they occasionally pop up from regular crates and barrels. Then the only problem could be figuring out who the buddy would ally with, but I guess that would just go with whoever broke it open.

EDIT: Actually, now that I think about it, they really could just be new items. They could spawn the less important enemy and helper characters, like goombas, octoroks, and, of course, the animal buddies. ATs would then be made slightly more rare and would focus more on the more important characters from a lesser series. Of course, this'd mean that Lakitu, Hammer Brother, and Knuckle Joe would probably end up going to these new items, rather than ATs.

I support your idea on the lesser enemies spawning out of the animal buddy crate. It always seemed to me that random enemies in that would come out of crates occasionally appeared much too infrequently.