With the final roster of characters for Super Smash Bros Ultimate finally revealed (not including DLC fighters) it was surprising for many that Shadow The Hedgehog was not included as a fighter for Smash Bros, in fact Shadow the Hedgehog wasn't even an easily made echo of Sonic that many people had thought he would be.
In this post I'll be posting how Shadow would work in Smash as an echo fighter of Sonic the Hedgehog.
Shadow was originally made as a sort of echo of Sonic in the first place so it wouldn't be hard to put Sonic's moveset on him, but before I go we go into how the moves would be changed lets first go into his stats.
Faster Than Sonic The Hedgehog
In the car driving minigame in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle (I have not played the Sonic Racing games other than Sonic R), Shadow's car was actually faster than Sonic's and I would want to use that for Shadow. So my Shadow echo would be faster than Sonic but his acceleration takes some time, he would be able to turn around while keeping most of his speed but if he stops or is stopped he would have to build up speed again. However Shadow's hover shoes means a new run animation and less traction meaning he doesn't turn very quickly. On small stages it would be hard to get Shadow up to top speed so he would have a disadvantage on those stages.
Special Attacks
Standard B Homing Attack - Unlike Sonic who simply hits one opponent once, Shadow would hit multiple times in the attack and then do knockback on the last hit.
Side B Spin Dash - Does more damage and more knockback (but horizontally) than Sonic but Shadow stops immediately on contact with the enemy instead of continuing forward (even if the opponent shielded). The move will have less recovery frames than Sonic but if attacked from the front during the attack Shadow will receive 1.25 times damage and 1.15 knockback.
Down B Other Spin Dash - The movement speed of this starts slow but gets faster just like how Shadow runs, the faster the speed Shadow is going the more damage the move will do. The rest is pretty much the same as Sonic's.
Up B Spring Jump - Similar to Sonic's move but doesn't have as much high, but unlike Sonic's Spring Jump, Shadow's Spring Jump will keep Shadows Horizontal momentum.
Final Smash Chaos Spear & Chaos Blast - Press B to create a powerful explosion with great knockback and damage around you but if you hold or press a direction on the control stick Shadow will instead use Chaos Spear which fires a blast in one of eight directions and does less damage and knockback than Chaos Blast but has far greater range.
Other Changes
I also always thought of Shadow as having more strength than Sonic and would love to have that in the game as well giving him more KO options than Sonic.
Shadow jumps would be smaller than Sonic's.
Because of Shadow's hover shoes he would fall slower than Sonic but that makes him more susceptible to juggling.
Shadow's running movements makes him harder to use.
What do you guys think of my Echo Fighter Shadow The Hedgehog?
