EShop Bag

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## **Character Info**

The humble eShop Bag is based on the Nintendo eShop’s orange shopping bag icon; the actual character - a bag with disjointed feet and a white smiley face - is encountered when downloading a game from the 3DS eShop. Although it has very little personality to draw from, its moves and abilities take major inspiration from the 3DS and Wii U’s aesthetics and Nintendo’s history of shopping applications as a whole.

## **General Information**

### **Entrance**

A panel hovering just above the stage is shown, split into 3 parts. They swivel like a slot machine, showing various other character portraits before lining up the thirds to form eShop Bag’s body, who then pops out of it onto the stage (this is a reference to the Wii U eShop’s loading screen).

### **Kirby Hat**

Kirby’s body turns completely orange, including white eyes and mouth plus a handle atop his head.

### **Taunts**

**Up Taunt:** A spinning blue ring appears above eShop Bag for a moment; it stares up at it and taps a foot impatiently (based on loading icons seen in the Wii Shop Channel and Wii U eShop).

**Down Taunt:** eShop Bag hops up and down a few times, emoting with expression lines similar to those found on the ‘e’ in the Nintendo eShop’s logo.

**Side Taunt:** eShop Bag kicks up a gold and platinum My Nintendo Coin from either foot and catches them one after the other in its bag body.

### **Victory Poses**

1. eShop Bag runs across the frame and offscreen, then peaks back into frame with a smile.
2. eShop Bag is seen with with four similarly coloured bags; they do the ‘wave’ by jumping going left-to-right and back again, followed by them all striking a pose with coloured stars flourishing out from around them (referencing the 3DS eShop’s initial loading screen)
3. eShop Bag gives a happy spin, drawing in several other orange shopping bags that circle him in midair (similar to the app’s screen animation on the 3DS).

## **Moveset**

### **Standard Special**

**Here's Your Purchase!:** This move can only be performed once Download has completely charged (see Down Special section). eShop Bag turns his baggy body sideways and fires off a huge screen-clearing blast of orange-coloured energy similar to Robin’s Thoron. The blast delivers high knockback to any opponents caught by it, and can be reflected.

### **Side Special**

**Gift:** eShop Bag tosses out a yellow box tied with a red ribbon. If an opponent gets hit by it they’ll become trapped inside the gift box. Mashing out is possible but becomes more difficult with higher damage.

### **Up Special**

**Data Blocks:** eShop Bag ascends on a platform of four randomly-coloured squares, which represented blocks of data when downloading a game on 3DS. When the peak of the recovery is reached the blocks will scatter slightly and fall down to pelt anyone below them. The move can be controlled horizontally to a degree and cancelled early by pressing the special button again.

### **Down Special**

**Download:** Download acts as a charging move that goes towards using Here’s Your Purchase! While holding the button, eShop Bag charges in place, indicated by eShop Bag’s ‘bag’ slowly filling from the bottom up and turning a slightly darker colour than when it’s empty. If the charge is interrupted, the current charge will remain visible on the bag during battle. Once fully charged, eShop Bag will begin glowing slightly, and Here’s Your Purchase! can then be used. It takes about 15 seconds to reach a full charge uninterrupted.

### **Final Smash**

**A Big Ol' Sale:** eShop Bag spins around and sends tons of red stickers flying out; these stickers display things like “25%-off”, “50%-off”, etc

. and a few stick to random parts of the screen to obscure the fight. Similar to Bowser Jr’s final Smash, the stickers cause knockback to opponents, buffeting them around in a similar style to Bowser Jr.’s Final Smash. After a while the sale will end and the stickers will fly offscreen in random directions, causing greater knockback to KO opponents with high damage.

### **Extra Skill**

**Discount:** By briefly holding both the Shield and Special button, eShop Bag will recover half of its own damage. For instance, 40% will be reduced to 20%, 90% to 45.5%, etc. However, that damage has only been temporarily negated, and eShop’s attacks will suffer a slight decrease in damage and knockback as a result. Performing the move again will re-accumulate the healed damage to eShop Bag’s current damage percentage, along with a temporary buff to attack and knockback. Be mindful of when to activate and cancel the discount for maximum effect, and take advantage while the going’s still good! (Limited to only once per stock.)

## **Alternate Costumes**

1. **Default**
2. **Wii Shop Channel** - Light blue and white, based on the Wii Shop Channel logo
3. **DSi Ware** - Hot pink and white, based on the DSiWare logo
4. **Nintendo Switch** - Red and white, based on the Nintendo Switch logo
5. **Rusty's Real Deal Baseball** - Green and orange, based on Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball
6. **My Nintendo** - Silver and gold, based on the coin types on My Nintendo
7. **Wi-Fi Setup Helper** - White and black, based on the 3DS Wi-Fi setup helper (also resembles BOXBOY!)
8. **$70 eShop Card** - Purple and yellow, based on Wario (featured on the $70 eShop card)
9. **hShop Bag** - Bright green and with white wings, based on the icon for the Homebrew Shop after Nintendo shut down the eShop for 3DS/Wii U.Alt 2Alt 3Alt 4Alt 5Alt 6Alt 7Alt 8Alt 9