Super Smash Bros. Ultimate x Pokémon Sword & Shield

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate x Pokémon Sword & Shield is the name of the collaboration between Nintendo's crossover fighting game and Pokémon Sword & Shield with DLC packs The Isle of Armor and Crowned Tundra. As part of the Fighters Pass Wave 3 run-through, content from Sword & Shield plus DLC maps would appear in the game as paid DLC, including new fighters, new spirits, new stages, new music, and new Mii gear.
==Overview==
Game Freak developed Pokémon Sword & Shield for the Nintendo Switch only several months before relocating their headquarters to Kanda Square. The company's development studio still remains intact at the 22nd floor of the Carrot Tower, where it acts as the "second studio".
The eighth generation introduced 88 new species of Pokémon, and after rigorous research to see what talents fit best for the Pokémon to transition to full time Super Smash Bros. fighters, Sora Ltd. reached a consensus by recruiting Zeraora as a candidate, even after the releases of Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon. The developers felt that Zeraora was the best candidate to make the DLC roster, which would make it the second known Pokémon in the seventh generation after Incineroar to become a playable character. Despite valiant efforts by the developers to think that Zeraora was all that fit, they had to work on other projects from other franchises, thereby passing on Zeraora for the time being. In addition, while The Isle of Armor DLC was released with Sword & Shield, the developers felt that Zarude and Urshifu would be unanimously great candidates to transition to playable characters. Knowing that the two Pokémon had little show and experience beyond June 2020, Sora Ltd. could not think of what moves fitted best for these known Pokémon, and their efforts to think up some animations were put on hold.
A few fanbases were assembled on multiple petition sources to help combat the likelihood of the proceeding Pokémon of being put into the game. A YouTube gamer known as VideoGamePhenom became one of very few individuals of helping out with the suggestion. Even though the suggestion was sent to Sora Ltd. multiple times, they would not buy any pressure by all accounts and focus on their own doing. Fans sought that if the trio of Pokémon, as suggested, would be put into the DLC criteria, the company would become more financially successful, even if the 8-man palette swap scheme was done right. Sora Ltd. reluctantly accepted this and began to focus on the development for the Pokémon as suggested.
==Fighters==
*Zeraora
*Urshifu
*Zarude
==Stages==
*Galar Mine
*Energy Plant
*Tower Summit
*Dyna Tree Hill
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