The Chihuahua Roster

The **Chihuahua roster** is a fan roster created by the infamous SmashFAQs user CuterChihuahua2. It debuted in the now legendary topic "The Chihuahua Roster. I cut 35 fighters, replace them with other 35. PERFECTION". The roster would make a major number of cuts from *Super Smash Bros. Ultimate*'s revealed roster as of September 2018 and replace them with characters that CC2 found to be more suitable. Despite the major number of changes to the roster several themes would stick out. The biggest ones included all third-parties being removed and replaced by more obscure first-party characters and the entire *Fire Emblem* cast being cut and replaced by Lyn from the seventh game in the series. Both of these goals were a result of CC2's bias and widely criticized. Outside of having what many considered to be a ton of terrible takes on the roster, it would also be subject to heavy hypocrisy. A good example of this is many of the clones being cut for being "low effort", only for them to be replaced by Echo Fighters that made way less sense.

The roster would be heavy scrutinized in the original topic, with the roster receiving a near universally negative reception. It would go on to become very infamous among the site's community and was widely referenced for years to come. Later topics would play directly off the roster, and one user even started a poll comparing the roster to others of its kind (such as a similarly-infamous roster created by AzureHero). The roster would play a large part in CuterChihuahua2's growth into one of SmashFAQs' most known and widely hated users, with it being a near perfect representation of most of the traits people despite about him.

## The Roster Itself

### Cuts

The roster would make a whopping 35 cuts from the current cast of characters, which was more than half of it at the time the original Chihuahua roster was made. The majority of these characters fall into a specific category: clones, third-party guests, and anyone from *Fire Emblem*. The specific cuts include the following characters, in CC2's own words:

**"Low Effort Clone":**

* Dr. Mario
* Young Link
* Toon Link
* Dark Samus
* Lucina
* Chrom
* Dark Pit
* Richter

**"Worthless third party":**

* Snake - also "from a dead franchise"
* Sonic
* Mega Man
* Pac-Man
* Ryu
* Cloud
* Bayonetta
* Simon

**Fire Emblem:**

* Marth - "Needs to be removed to give space to other Fire Emblem characters without being biased towards it"
* Roy - "Is from Fire Emblem, and also a Clone"
* Ike - "You are a FE character.... sorry bud. Besides, being a Guts wannabe is sooooo passé"
* Robin
* Corrin - "FE character. Also most hated character in the game"

**Others:**

* Jigglypuff and Pichu - "Irrelevant Joke Character that has outlived its welcome"
* Falco - "Starfox is not that big of a deal anymore and Fox and Wolf are enough"
* Squirtle and Ivysaur - "Nobody missed these guys in Smash 4, they won't be missed again"
* Villager - "Nintendo wants to shoehorn Isabelle as the face of animal crossing? Fine, but villager is gone"
* Rosalina - "Dislikeable character that is being shoe horned into everygame possible for no reason. Her design is dumb (Just a blue peach) and her playstyle is annoying and the game is better off without her"
* Greninja - "His 15 minutes of fame are over, time to move on"
* Mii Brawler, Mii "Swordsman", and Mii Gunner - "Wasting so much resources in essentially the same character, while at the same time not being loyal to its games"
* Palutena - "Only reason she is in the game is because of Sakurai bias, Kid Icarus is irrelevant again and she should be excised from existance"
* Bowser Jr. - "Incredibly minor character that is just a minor annoyance in the games he appears in. Also his moveset is dumb and the car is the real character"

Along with these, Ganondorf is also listed as a cut character, though in truth he would just be revised in CC2's "perfect" plan.

### Newcomers

The real meat and potatoes of the roster are the newcomers. Due to CC2's irrational distaste of third-parties, all of them are owned by Nintendo. Unsurprisingly, many of the additions are female characters, often either small form or on the younger side. Another recurring theme is a number of characters that CC2 adds despite knowing little about, giving half-hearted reasons for their inclusions. The proposed characters include:

* Reworked Ganondorf - "Should have been decloned into an original character back in brawl... Sakurai half assing him to this day is inexcusable"
* Ashley - "Most glaring ommision in Ultimate by far. She should be in the game, no question. Sakurai intentionally excluding her from the game is a grave mistake that MUST be corrected"
* Lip - "One of the most wanted retro reps since Smash was created and Sakurai keeps snubbing her. Could provide excellent music, assist trophies from her universe and has potential for a great and fun moveset revolving puzzle pieces and flowers"
* Takamaru "Also a very requested retro rep, admittedly doesn't have much of a universe but his game is great and could easily be revived. Can have a moveset involving swordplay, magic and projectiles similar to Robin"
* Mii - "Yeah, just a mii. Can use moves inspired by the 3ds Streetpass plaza games and Miitopia unlike the halfassed Sakurai fanfictions"
* Waluigi - "The fans have spoken. Waluigi is popular. Nuff said"
* Ganon - "Another villain... This one is a no brainer that is missing for no reason"
* Captain Syrup - "Wario Land's villian... nuff said"
* Spring Man - "Pretty obvious shoo in"
* Isaac - "well you know why. I am not an Isaac fan or anything but... yeah"
* Midna/Wolf Link - "Midna is probably the most requested Zelda character by far... no point to keep snubbing her"
* Daruk, Urbosa, Revali, and Mipha (as separate fighters) - "Yeah, all four of them. They all have moveset potential and Botw is the Nintendo game of the decade. They deserve it. Besides Daruk is DADDY as fricc!!!"
* Lana and Popplio - "Some of the most popular pokemon characters. Popplio can work like a Squirtle replacement but with a more creative bubble based moveset"
* Adeleine - "Probably the Kirby character with the most moveset potential out of them all. Also represents the Dark Matter games. Could be paired with Ribbon for extra moveset potential/representation like in Star Allies"
* Sukapon - "Cute lookin guy and has incredible moveset potential, specially if you give him moves from the other robots in his game. Would be a so much better limbless character than Rayman. Could gain/summon parts from the other robots in some of his attacks or transform into them"
* Prince Sablé - "Classic Nintendo character with transformation attacks... not much to say against him"
* Tap Girl - "Rhythm Heaven rep is needed. I pick her because I want to. Karate Joe or Wrestler would be too lazy. Can attack with monkeys."
* Donbe/Hikari - "Can either play similar to ice climbers or swap like Zelda and Sheik. Don't know much about their game but will play it sooner or later to get moveset ideas. Count as two characters."
* Advance Wars rep - "Admittedly I don't know much about this series but should be represented somehow."
* Lyn - "Yeah, this is all the FE representation. Sorry buds, beggars can't be choosers"

* Saki Amamiya - "Fairly obscure character, admittedly don't now much about his game(s), but Smash should be about representing all Nintendo franchises, specially the obscure ones, so he is in. He can work as a replacement for Mii Gunner" (Ironically, Saki would later get into *Ultimate* as a Mii Gunner costume.)
* Ayumi Tachibana - "She has been a meme for like 20 years. Why not?"
* *Custom Robo* rep - "See Advance Wars"
* Kumatora - "Because she is awesome."
* Savvy Stylist - "From Style Savvy. Can attack by swinging bags, step on enemies with her high heels, use pepper spray or give opponents a bad haircut!"
* DK Jr. - "Most deserving DK rep by far. First kong to be a playable hero. Can be a heavy and strong but agile character like Wario.

**Echo Fighters:**

* Sakura Samurai (over Takamaru)
* Sherbet (over Lip)
* Alph (over Olimar)
* Black Shadow (over Captain Falcon)
* Vince from *Art Academy* (over Adeleine)

## Criticism

* crazybenjamin has frequently referred to the roster as hypocritical: one particular example is CC2 claiming that he cares about Nintendo fans, while ignoring the fact that Nintendo fans wanted characters such as Mega Man.