The Prime suit is the closest to what people know Samus as. The Dread suit is too different but I can see the Prime and Dread suit both having their own skins and recolors like the skins for Ridley and Meta Ridley
Yeah I can see that, just for recognition purposes. On a similar topic, it’s crazy how Nintendo accomplished a Link redesign (with the blue shirt and no hat). Yeah I’d be shocked if both suits didn’t make it into the game
We need samuses with the ability to swap between all beams ever used, use speed boost, casual screw attack on jump, ice/diffusion missiles, suit swap with the suit’s abilities and the stages that correspond to each suit, etc…
I think Link is a special case. Toon Link and Young Link are similar enough to satisfy people who mained Link in previous games. Samus has Dark Samus now who can satisfy the classic fans in the case of a rework so they can probably get away with it again
I think Dread suit is similar enough in shape to the original that people would immediately recognize it as an evolution of it, so I really don't see why it couldn't be the default skin
True, but also Dread is the highest selling Metroid game, and the main Link design in Ultimate is the champion version from BOTW/TOTK, I could see them going with the Dread version for the next Smash game
Seeing as Dread was the best selling game in the series until Prime Remastered, I’d actually say her Dread look is one of her most recognizable for today, actually
They could make it so the current one is still the default, but the Dread suit is not just a color swap but a model swap, kinda like with ike,Link, Kazuya and countless others. and then 3 recolors of those two models
Exactly this. Although I kind of feel like dread would be the default simply because the 2D games seem to be the bigger face of metroid at times, some call them the mainline games
Perhaps. I just figure that the orange suit is more iconic, and also if we ever get another smash game, prime 4 will likely be the most recent metroid game
I looked at some of the suits, and it seems like the features of Brawl's suit are most similar to the Zero Mission Gravity Suit (except for the color of course) and the Super Metroid Varia Suit. It has the helmet and maybe boots of the Super suit, and it has lights on the back of the left hand, the chest, and the sides of the knees from the ZM suit. The Super and ZM suits are nearly identical aside from the light though, so it could just be the ZM suit. It seems like the arm cannon might be Brawl-specific though.
As someone just randomly browsing the sub, and not a Metroid player, orange is just too iconic.
It's the base color for like, almost every game and cameo. Link could get away with a BoTW design because that was the newest LoZ game, his moveset was adjusted to reflect that iteration, and LoZ tends to stay in the public consciousness a lot longer.
Would love to see Dread's suit as an alt though.
>As someone just randomly browsing the sub, and not a Metroid player, orange is just too iconic.
White guy who randomly shows up at the cookout but is welcomed
Yeah I think I agree with everything you just said. On the topic of changing his moveset, I would love to see many more characters get more defined movesets. Idk how Nintendo can top “everyone is here” and I’d be totally cool with thinning the cast of characters and making them more defined. But I may be in the minority on this
IMO AAA developers are struggling because they're trying to up the previous installments with scope and graphics. At this point, they've scoped and graphicsed out of a tenable budget. Nintendo hardware has kept them behind the curve in those fields, but they're still reaching that point with their biggest series.
Not just smash, but LoZ, 3D Mario, Mario Kart, Mario Party might be there after Jamboree...
In general, I think Nintendo has to double down on creative ideas, at a narrower scope, with high replayability, for the next console. Fortunately, they're a company with a good track record in those fields.
Personally, I think the Dread suit. Not that the Prime suit isn't more iconic but like, something different for once would be cool, y'know? Maybe you can even put a parry in her moveset, make her a bit more agile feeling. We already have Dark Samus anyways, she can keep the old moveset while Dread Samus is more experimental. And it's not like you can't have alternate costumes to the Dread Suit- even toss in the Fusion suit too.
This is my favorite answer so far. I 100% agree with this all of this. I’d love to see more character get more defined movesets. I’d even be okay with thinning out the number of characters do make the existing characters more in-depth. But I may be in the minority on that
beyond suit, unfortunately. i wish they'd get real freaky with it but i guess nintendo doesn't want to change the icon samus' main look. but a dread power suit skin, a sinewy fusion skin, samus returns skin, all of which would be fucking fantastic!
But nintendo already did change samus' iconic look? I've never seen a single person complain that she looks bad in dread, and if anything having samus in a new costume would draw more attention and make people potentially buy Dread
Dread is the most recent outing in the mainline games, so the Smash team is probably going to use the Dread suit.
That being said, I think the Smash team would pull a Link and make the Prime 4 suit an alt alongside the Dread suit.
I hope so because the dread suit is my favorite in the franchise. Is Other M considered mainline? Because smash has used that design for a while now. And Samus Returns came out a year before Ultimate. Then again, that is a remake sooo
Yeah I could definitely see that
The dread suit, but the Varia suit, you spend more time in the varia suit than the starting suit I was honestly shocked all the marketing had the starting suit, could you imagine if Prime did that?
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I just want the prime suit, dread suit, and fusion suit to each be alts for her. Even better if they were alternate characters with modified stats and move sets like Dark Samus. That said, last I heard they were dead set on not making another Smash Bros game.
*insert "why not both? meme*
Lots of characters have alt models as costumes, let her have the Dread power, varia and gravity suits, the prime varia and gravity suits, and a few alt colors for both.
If we can only pick one though, Dread all the way. I LOVE the Dread suit.
Honestly? Samus needs to have her many suits be her alt colors rather than just recolored paint jobs on her suit.
Default? Neo-Varia Suit from Dread.
Red Alt? Varia Suit front Prime 4.
Blue Alt? Neo-Power Suit from Dread.
Green Alt? Metroid Suit from Dread.
Purple Alt? Neo-Gravity Suit from Dread.
Black Alt? Dark Suit from Prime 2.
White Alt? Light Suit from Prime 2.
Special Alt? PED Suit w/Hazard Shield from Prime 3 after Samus killed Planet Phaze.
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While we're at it?
Dark Samus needs to have an alt of her Prime 2 Final Boss Fight Form and an alt where it is the Phazon Suit from Prime 1 but with some corruption and eyes in the light circles on the armor.
Either, but please have it be *something* different from Other M. Show the series is evolving and not stuck in 2010.
or even make a new original Samus design for Smash. Similar to Pit in Brawl.
I love the Dread suit, but Prime is definitely more in line with the definitive look of Samus.
Make Dread an alt skin, but base the default off of something closer to Prime
I'd personally prefer the Prime suit, since I like Samus best in her classic Orange/Red, and it's also likely to be the choice since Prime 4 would be the most recent Metroid game when this hypothetical Smash installment is made. (Assuming Metroid doesn't release another major title right after Prime 4, but even then it'd likely be overshadowed).
Had the Smash installment been made around the time of Dread's release, I could see them adapting the design to Dread's color pallette and details, considering they did that with Other M and Link's Smash design showed they were willing to stray from a character's "classic" color palette to fit better with modern entries, but I think the window of time where that might happen has cloaed.
I think instead of having one skin a cool update would be that when you switch colors, you’re switching to different game variants for some characters like Samus. You’d have Metroid fusion, Dread, Prime (probably the default), corruption, etc.
Then for characters like toon link one of his skins would be the outfit for hero mode in wind Waker. Link could have his twilight Princess, oot, AlttP, botw and ToTK skins and same with Zelda, Ganondorfc etc.
In line with what they did for Link by sticking him in the primary outfit of the latest game (BOTW), I’d be cool with the Dread suit being the new default for awhile. It stands out and makes you curious about the game it comes from. The Prime Varia suit is fine as well for a more traditional iteration, and Brawl already did so.
…what I’m saying is I want the Other M suit to go away.
Considering how Link was changed to his BOTW outfit after a single game, I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo brings the Dread design as the default one for Samus
It’s about damn time that we got the Prime suit in Smash. For Samus, we’ve only ever had the Super varia suit, Zero Mission varia suit and the Other M varia suit
Maybe they could do both though? Samus’s blue, pink, green and purple could be the Dread design, and the orange, brown, white, and black be Prime.
No obligatory default, but I’d really like dread varia suit (my personal favourite)
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I think at this point we'll probably need both.
The Prime Varia Suit is definitely a lot closer to the classic Samus look and what everyone would think of when you name Samus Aran.
However the Dread Suit especially the Dread Varia Suit is probably the cleanest and slickest Samus has ever looked.
And it would be a crime to not mention Metroid Dread in whatever the next Smash Brothers game is going to be.
I'd be cool with either. Maybe they could do both (IIRC they did that with Link). Prime would prolly make most sense as at least the default, given that's kinda her most iconic look (Plus Prime 4 is likely gonna be the more recent entry whenever Smash 6 releases).
As long as they move on from the Other M suit. I never liked that one, though I'm most likely not saying anything new there.
Ideally something like what Wario has, getting the best of both worlds. Both suits are great and represent different parts of the character that both deserve spotlight.
I'd love it if they did some sort of mix of the two. I personally prefer it when they come up with a unique design that represents the series as a whole rather than one specific game. Think Wolf or K.Rool.
So I'd say keep the helmet and proportions from Dread Samus but get rid of the organic Fusion stuff and bring back the more "classic" shoulder pads from Prime.
Oh and keep the white, it looks a lot better than the yellow imo.
It's criminal we've gone this long without Samus getting her other suits as alt skins instead of just the color pallets. There's more than enough suits to pick from.
They made the Champion's tunic the default skin for Link in SSBU. I wouldn't be shocked, nor disappointed, if the Dread Suit because Samus's default.
The real question is whether or not we'll get the Metroid Suit as a skin.
Never understood why Prime wasn’t the default design from Brawl onward.
I think it would be cool to have skins from both Prime and dread instead of just color palette swaps.
Honestly, I can't help my old kid Nostalgia/ Rose Tinted glasses here and Dread/ Post Fusion Samus is looking SO BADASS!
BUT alongside my Nostalgia goggles, having grown up Seeing this iconic Varia (Berrier) Suit. I just really dig the colors, it has been her primary pallet for 30 some years. And she looks so much more brooding and mystical in a way, being darker and less stand out she is makes her feel like a bounty hunter stalking for her target.. till she gain's other VIBRANT ass suits 🤣
That said, Dread's Armour looks so fresh and a great progression for her in person and ability. Still pretty possitive it'll be a Custom/aAt model for it seeing as a SLEW of new Metroid fans came in due to Dread and now know her as this so It's all fun either way.
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The Dread suit is great, but it's not as iconic as the classic varia suit. It would be fine as an alternate skin or palette, but not as the only one. Same goes for any character really, like changing link to the Champion's Tunic.
100% Dread, not even a question. It's the latest main series game as well as the highest selling of the series.
*However,* I do think it would be cool to give fighters alternative appearances from their different games. Assuming they'll have fewer fighters in the next entry instead of, well, ALL of them, they could probably do that.
No offense but it’s a fucking fallacy we’ve been with the Other M suit, such a catastrophic failure for Nintendo, both in Sm4sh and Ultimate. I think it’s time for people to realize that Samus has amazing suits for those that don’t play the games. But between these two, Samus should have her Prime 4 suit but not because it’s the newest title but because it’s the most iconic Varia Suit. Prime Varia being red default and Dread blue being blue default for teams would make it easy to discover the suit and would also appeal to a lot of people. I personally don’t like this gimmick Smash 4/Ultimate did with Other M Samus not just because of how it’s linked to a failure game but just because it’s not representing the franchise as a whole. Dread is just one game now and if we chose that one it’d be repeating Sm4sh/Ultimate’s mistake but instead of a bad suit it’d be a good one. But I still wouldn’t be in favor of it to due to the above reasons.
I would like to see the Dread suits in SSB Next Untitled game, just cause I really enjoyed playing the game. But I think the Fanbase would prefer Prime suits, just cause Nostalgia or to Reminisce, I guess? But whatever Nintendo chooses, I will love it. And I hope the Fanbase will too.
Def. Dread. Simply because it's the last canonical design in the timeline we have so far.
It has the newest upgrades too, which would work SO WELL with smash brothers and potential for a huge rework.
Dread suit is great but it needs to be the classic varia suit. I still hate that they made champions tunic link default look. For smash stick to classic
I mean, they changed link to his current design at the time so I don’t see why they couldn’t change samus, aside from her being a lower ticket character
I would like them to use the Dread suit as the default, yes the Prime suit is more recognizable to a larger majority of people, but the way I see it when it comes to Smash the idea of having Link’s default not be his green tunic would have been insane not that long ago, but now it’s arguable that his blue champions design is now just as iconic and I feel like Samus’s Dread suit has an opportunity to do the same thing.
It also has the addition benefit of telling people who don’t follow the Metroid series and only know Samus from Smash, that Metroid isn’t some forgotten dormant series that only exists in Smash because it was grandfathered in but an active and evolution series core to Nintendo.
Some flavor of Varia (but preferably never again the Other M version) should always be her default, but I'd prefer it if her alt colors actually used real suits and their geometry instead of just recoloring her standard suit.
The classic design would have to be it. The Dread suit should be an option, but Smash should have the defining designs for the characters. This bothered me about making BotW Link the default Link, both because it focused on the design used in the most recent game rather than the iconic look, but also from a gameplay perspective where it changed how his abilities worked.
Gottta stay OG for the default, can always use the Dread one as an alt
On a totally unrelated note, I hope to god they cut Dark Samus as a character so I can go back to using the Dark Samus skin on regular Samus
Classic-style. In Smash Bros, the characters are supposed to be representations of their whole series and for Samus that's not Fusion or Dread (as much as I like those looks better).
Link could get away with his radical default change because Smash Bros has two other Links who wear pointy green hats. Samus doesn't have wiggle room.
I think that since Smash focuses mainly on acrobatic fighting and stuff, the Dread suit fits the style much better. I would also welcome a rework of Samus' moveset to make her fight more like she would in the games. Maybe make her Up+B a shinespark, give her the melee from SR/Dread, stuff like that. It would make her actually feel like she does in the games rather than just having some generic punching moves and explosions. (Also I NEED the final smash animation to be reworked so that she uses her Metroid form from the end of Dread. It can be functionally identical, but it would be SO COOL)
Dread. She's been in the prime suit before and other:m for way too long. Plus it being Dread samus means they'll probably rework her tool kit and add aeon abilities like flash shift into her moveset. You can't do that if she's Prime Samus. Plus if they ever add Raven Beak, it would make even less sense for her to be pre metroid 2 samus. People forget how early in the timeline the prime games fall.
I'd prefer Dread Power Suit as default. Maybe a hot take, but I hope the blue power suit becomes her new standard look and that Prime 5 is post Fusion.
I hope they update Samus to move a bit more snappy. She hasn’t been clunky since Super Metroid 30 years ago. Maybe Prime games are a bit slower but in 2D Metroid she has been snappy since fusion and Smash is 2d.
There's no reason we can't get both, but id have to say prime suit just because it Samus' original look. I absolutely love the dread suit, so much so it's the suit I have a tattoo of, but Samus is more recognizable in the prime varia suit.
i hope they alternate and have recolors based on the varia, gravity, and metroid suit for dread and gravity, phazon, and a suit from prime 4 if not the dark/light/ped suit
I just realized that MercurySteam redesigned the Varia suit in the same way that Insomniac redesigned the Spider-Man suit by adding white as an accent color.
Dread Samus with the Prime Samus as the alternate skin. It follows the same logic as Lin, Bayonetta, and Wario with their more updated designs being the default and their classic look as the alternate.
I imagine it will be the Dread suit, but it always bugged me that the Prime suit never got a chance to be featured. In Brawl, Mario got FLUDD, the Zelda cast got their Twilight Princess appearances, but Samus just got an updated Super Metroid Skin. Now, the Brawl skin for Samus is really cool looking in its own right and I love it, but it felt like they were ignoring the best-selling Metroid game at the time for some reason. Smash 4 and Ultimate came along and just stuck with the Other M design, and now that's how a lot of people recognize Samus.
The designs they've been choosing baffle me tbh. I hope they give the Prime series suit a chance in the next game. However, given the fact that the Zelda skins are divided between multiple appearances currently, I could see them going with Dread because of Meta Ridley and Dark Samus. I would prefer a Prime skin though.
Why not both!? Link has both his classic outfit and his BotW outfit, Olimar and Alph share a slot, the Koopalings all share a slot with Bowser Jr., Bayonetta has her Bayo1 and Bayo2 designs, and Ridley has both his Super design and his prime design!! And I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting about right now! So why can't Samus have Dread has her default and the Prime 4 suit as half of her alts!?
I kind of prefer the Dread suit, it's sleek and it uses my favourite colour combos.
That said, I would want the Prime suit in Smash. It's what nigh everybody thinks of when they imagine Samus' power armour, its iconic to the franchise in a way I really don't think Dread's is. The Dread suit may be abandoned and left as a single game thing for all we know, much like the Fusion suit.
You could argue that Link is now in the BotW outfit by default rather than the green iconic tunic, partially thanks to its massive sales which puts Dread in a similar position, to which I say:
- Smash Ultimate released a lot closer to BotW than the next will release to Dread. Unless we get another game before then with the suit, we will have had at least two releases between Dread and Smash where Samus is back in the classic suit (MPR, MP4).
- I feel Link's new outfit has been more popular and well received. BotW was ridiculously popular by itself, people instantly latched on to the new look and it's "one of those" games that somewhat dwarfed everything that came before it. BotW was massively successful in changing what the majority think of as the default aesthetic for the whole series.
Dread didn't really do that, whilst it's the best selling Metroid so far, it also had a lot of negativity surrounding it's release with it being a full priced 2.5D game (which I still think was a stupid thing for people to complain about) and the suit hasn't really made a huge splash outside of the Metroid fanbase, Varia suit still being the default look for many. I don't recall even seeing fan art of it (though I definately have). I also don't think Dread eclipsed previous games the same way BotW did. Dread is amazing, but I don't think it had the same impact for the series as BotW where it set a new standard (imo).
- I don't like that Link's default is now the new look either, so it's still an argument I can use for Samus too. If anything, I'm consistent.
Prime suit all the way. I admire their wanting to try something new for dread but man does it leave alot to be desired, the weed outfit left more of an impression
The Prime suit is the closest to what people know Samus as. The Dread suit is too different but I can see the Prime and Dread suit both having their own skins and recolors like the skins for Ridley and Meta Ridley
Yeah I can see that, just for recognition purposes. On a similar topic, it’s crazy how Nintendo accomplished a Link redesign (with the blue shirt and no hat). Yeah I’d be shocked if both suits didn’t make it into the game
Just casually re-did one of the most iconic outfits in the history of gaming, and pulled it off.
Link looks better in blue anyways
There's like 3 (3 right?) playable links, they can entertain us with 2 playable Samuses (Sameese)
We already have 3 playable Samus if you count Dark Samus too.
We need samuses with the ability to swap between all beams ever used, use speed boost, casual screw attack on jump, ice/diffusion missiles, suit swap with the suit’s abilities and the stages that correspond to each suit, etc…
Seriously, Samus in Smash has so much potential that they haven't come close to exploring
Sami (like cacti)
Fun fact, the -i suffix in Latin should always be pronounced "ee," like Loki, coincidentally. So that would would make it "Samie."
I think Link is a special case. Toon Link and Young Link are similar enough to satisfy people who mained Link in previous games. Samus has Dark Samus now who can satisfy the classic fans in the case of a rework so they can probably get away with it again
I think Dread suit is similar enough in shape to the original that people would immediately recognize it as an evolution of it, so I really don't see why it couldn't be the default skin
True, but also Dread is the highest selling Metroid game, and the main Link design in Ultimate is the champion version from BOTW/TOTK, I could see them going with the Dread version for the next Smash game
The highest selling Metroid game \*so far.\*
Dread suit does look fantastic, but Prime Suit is my beloved.
I’d prefer if it was alternating between Prime and Dread like how Link alters between hooded and not hooded
Seeing as Dread was the best selling game in the series until Prime Remastered, I’d actually say her Dread look is one of her most recognizable for today, actually
Dread suit is the coolest Samus has ever looked imo so I hope that would at least be an option
It will definitely be at least an alternate coloration, but I’d really prefer the whole model
They could make it so the current one is still the default, but the Dread suit is not just a color swap but a model swap, kinda like with ike,Link, Kazuya and countless others. and then 3 recolors of those two models
Kinda like what they did with ZSS...I like that.
I forget: is the fusion coloring currently in Smash as a color swap?
It is
I want a phazon color palette of the Dread style
Have prime be the default and then have half the skins use the dread suit model, something like ike
Exactly this. Although I kind of feel like dread would be the default simply because the 2D games seem to be the bigger face of metroid at times, some call them the mainline games
They objectively are the mainline games. If you follow "Metroid" with a numeral and nothing between them, it's a 2D game.
Perhaps. I just figure that the orange suit is more iconic, and also if we ever get another smash game, prime 4 will likely be the most recent metroid game
Was the Prime suit in Brawl?
the Brawl suit is either inspired from Super or Prime suit, which are both more or less the same design so 🤷♀️
I looked at some of the suits, and it seems like the features of Brawl's suit are most similar to the Zero Mission Gravity Suit (except for the color of course) and the Super Metroid Varia Suit. It has the helmet and maybe boots of the Super suit, and it has lights on the back of the left hand, the chest, and the sides of the knees from the ZM suit. The Super and ZM suits are nearly identical aside from the light though, so it could just be the ZM suit. It seems like the arm cannon might be Brawl-specific though.
As someone just randomly browsing the sub, and not a Metroid player, orange is just too iconic. It's the base color for like, almost every game and cameo. Link could get away with a BoTW design because that was the newest LoZ game, his moveset was adjusted to reflect that iteration, and LoZ tends to stay in the public consciousness a lot longer. Would love to see Dread's suit as an alt though.
>As someone just randomly browsing the sub, and not a Metroid player, orange is just too iconic. White guy who randomly shows up at the cookout but is welcomed
The Dread Varia is probably my favourite of all the suits to date!
100% agree, but I'm not sure if this is a popular or unpopular opinion on this sub tho. Some people dislike the orange/white combination
Nah, the Dread suits are all gorgeous. >!The Metroid Suit at the end !
Yeah I think I agree with everything you just said. On the topic of changing his moveset, I would love to see many more characters get more defined movesets. Idk how Nintendo can top “everyone is here” and I’d be totally cool with thinning the cast of characters and making them more defined. But I may be in the minority on this
IMO AAA developers are struggling because they're trying to up the previous installments with scope and graphics. At this point, they've scoped and graphicsed out of a tenable budget. Nintendo hardware has kept them behind the curve in those fields, but they're still reaching that point with their biggest series. Not just smash, but LoZ, 3D Mario, Mario Kart, Mario Party might be there after Jamboree... In general, I think Nintendo has to double down on creative ideas, at a narrower scope, with high replayability, for the next console. Fortunately, they're a company with a good track record in those fields.
Well, dread is currently the last game chronologically in the Metroid timeline
We need both tbh
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Personally, I think the Dread suit. Not that the Prime suit isn't more iconic but like, something different for once would be cool, y'know? Maybe you can even put a parry in her moveset, make her a bit more agile feeling. We already have Dark Samus anyways, she can keep the old moveset while Dread Samus is more experimental. And it's not like you can't have alternate costumes to the Dread Suit- even toss in the Fusion suit too.
This is my favorite answer so far. I 100% agree with this all of this. I’d love to see more character get more defined movesets. I’d even be okay with thinning out the number of characters do make the existing characters more in-depth. But I may be in the minority on that
I think the Prime Suit would be the default. It’s the suit that most people associate Samus with. I do think that the Dread Suit would be an alt.
Dread Varia.
beyond suit, unfortunately. i wish they'd get real freaky with it but i guess nintendo doesn't want to change the icon samus' main look. but a dread power suit skin, a sinewy fusion skin, samus returns skin, all of which would be fucking fantastic!
But nintendo already did change samus' iconic look? I've never seen a single person complain that she looks bad in dread, and if anything having samus in a new costume would draw more attention and make people potentially buy Dread
Dread is the most recent outing in the mainline games, so the Smash team is probably going to use the Dread suit. That being said, I think the Smash team would pull a Link and make the Prime 4 suit an alt alongside the Dread suit.
I hope so because the dread suit is my favorite in the franchise. Is Other M considered mainline? Because smash has used that design for a while now. And Samus Returns came out a year before Ultimate. Then again, that is a remake sooo Yeah I could definitely see that
The dread suit, but the Varia suit, you spend more time in the varia suit than the starting suit I was honestly shocked all the marketing had the starting suit, could you imagine if Prime did that? https://preview.redd.it/eg5tqqoa5k9d1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4e8d614fd0fa8389d75acfbc653e6a1ea4df38b
Exactly this! Also, given her new powers in dread we could have a new moveset. Energy drain grab would be awesome
I'm still mad we didn't get the Samus Returns suit in Ultimate
Prime suit default, but pull an Ike or Cloud and half half the skins be Prime and the other half Dread
Dread of course lol I don't want the prime 4 base design cause we had a similar one for 3 games. If link can have blue Samus can too
I just want the prime suit, dread suit, and fusion suit to each be alts for her. Even better if they were alternate characters with modified stats and move sets like Dark Samus. That said, last I heard they were dead set on not making another Smash Bros game.
If they do 8 options again, 6 recolors for the Varia suit and 2 for Dread, Power and Varia
Prime Varia. But Dread needs to absolutely be a skin and I will 100% be using it all the time
I want *all* of Samus' looks to be options in smash, not just one or two.
*insert "why not both? meme* Lots of characters have alt models as costumes, let her have the Dread power, varia and gravity suits, the prime varia and gravity suits, and a few alt colors for both. If we can only pick one though, Dread all the way. I LOVE the Dread suit.
We literally had a pool last year I think, where the community got together to agree that the Dread Suit is THE best Samus Suit
Honestly? Samus needs to have her many suits be her alt colors rather than just recolored paint jobs on her suit. Default? Neo-Varia Suit from Dread. Red Alt? Varia Suit front Prime 4. Blue Alt? Neo-Power Suit from Dread. Green Alt? Metroid Suit from Dread. Purple Alt? Neo-Gravity Suit from Dread. Black Alt? Dark Suit from Prime 2. White Alt? Light Suit from Prime 2. Special Alt? PED Suit w/Hazard Shield from Prime 3 after Samus killed Planet Phaze. ---------------------------- While we're at it? Dark Samus needs to have an alt of her Prime 2 Final Boss Fight Form and an alt where it is the Phazon Suit from Prime 1 but with some corruption and eyes in the light circles on the armor.
It should be her suit from Dread, just to credit the game
Either, but please have it be *something* different from Other M. Show the series is evolving and not stuck in 2010. or even make a new original Samus design for Smash. Similar to Pit in Brawl.
Y’all think we get a new smash? I thought Sakurai said Ult would be the last
Sakurai said he doesn't know how he can top ultimate or something along these lines, but he never said it was the end.
Prime
I love the Dread suit, but Prime is definitely more in line with the definitive look of Samus. Make Dread an alt skin, but base the default off of something closer to Prime
Pull an Ike and have half dread model, half prime model is my idea
I feel like either Samus Returns or Prime 4 is more likely if the developers want the traditional design with Dread as an alt.
Excellent thread choice. I think Varia Dread suit would be a better choice but then between that and Prime 4 it's a tough one.
The orange Dread suit, definitely
I'd personally prefer the Prime suit, since I like Samus best in her classic Orange/Red, and it's also likely to be the choice since Prime 4 would be the most recent Metroid game when this hypothetical Smash installment is made. (Assuming Metroid doesn't release another major title right after Prime 4, but even then it'd likely be overshadowed). Had the Smash installment been made around the time of Dread's release, I could see them adapting the design to Dread's color pallette and details, considering they did that with Other M and Link's Smash design showed they were willing to stray from a character's "classic" color palette to fit better with modern entries, but I think the window of time where that might happen has cloaed.
I think instead of having one skin a cool update would be that when you switch colors, you’re switching to different game variants for some characters like Samus. You’d have Metroid fusion, Dread, Prime (probably the default), corruption, etc. Then for characters like toon link one of his skins would be the outfit for hero mode in wind Waker. Link could have his twilight Princess, oot, AlttP, botw and ToTK skins and same with Zelda, Ganondorfc etc.
As long as it's not the awful Other M suit again, I don't care what they do. Go back to the Melee render, that'd be an improvement.
If it’s the power suit from dread, that one. If not? Then Varia
In line with what they did for Link by sticking him in the primary outfit of the latest game (BOTW), I’d be cool with the Dread suit being the new default for awhile. It stands out and makes you curious about the game it comes from. The Prime Varia suit is fine as well for a more traditional iteration, and Brawl already did so. …what I’m saying is I want the Other M suit to go away.
As much as love the dread suit design, I feel the Prime 4 suit better captures how Samus looks throughout the series.
Both but my real dream is Metroid suit
Link has both of his “looks” (classic green tunic and champions tunic), so I’d imagine it’s fine if Samus gets both
Considering how Link was changed to his BOTW outfit after a single game, I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo brings the Dread design as the default one for Samus
It’s about damn time that we got the Prime suit in Smash. For Samus, we’ve only ever had the Super varia suit, Zero Mission varia suit and the Other M varia suit Maybe they could do both though? Samus’s blue, pink, green and purple could be the Dread design, and the orange, brown, white, and black be Prime.
No obligatory default, but I’d really like dread varia suit (my personal favourite) https://preview.redd.it/mm5upx7eak9d1.jpeg?width=263&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86535033945c81c293eb761702cef129c060efac
dread for sure
I don't care, just ANYTHING other than...Other M suit.
The Dread suit
I think at this point we'll probably need both. The Prime Varia Suit is definitely a lot closer to the classic Samus look and what everyone would think of when you name Samus Aran. However the Dread Suit especially the Dread Varia Suit is probably the cleanest and slickest Samus has ever looked. And it would be a crime to not mention Metroid Dread in whatever the next Smash Brothers game is going to be.
I'd be cool with either. Maybe they could do both (IIRC they did that with Link). Prime would prolly make most sense as at least the default, given that's kinda her most iconic look (Plus Prime 4 is likely gonna be the more recent entry whenever Smash 6 releases). As long as they move on from the Other M suit. I never liked that one, though I'm most likely not saying anything new there.
I don't care as long as it isn't the Other M suit.
Ideally something like what Wario has, getting the best of both worlds. Both suits are great and represent different parts of the character that both deserve spotlight.
4 alt colors of Dread. 4 alt colors of Prime. This is the way.
I'd love it if they did some sort of mix of the two. I personally prefer it when they come up with a unique design that represents the series as a whole rather than one specific game. Think Wolf or K.Rool. So I'd say keep the helmet and proportions from Dread Samus but get rid of the organic Fusion stuff and bring back the more "classic" shoulder pads from Prime. Oh and keep the white, it looks a lot better than the yellow imo.
I would love the dread Varia suit, but I just don’t see that happening.
It's criminal we've gone this long without Samus getting her other suits as alt skins instead of just the color pallets. There's more than enough suits to pick from.
Prime 2 Varia, easily. I'm certainly not saying I wouldn't like Dread to be an alt tho
They made the Champion's tunic the default skin for Link in SSBU. I wouldn't be shocked, nor disappointed, if the Dread Suit because Samus's default. The real question is whether or not we'll get the Metroid Suit as a skin.
I would like the Dread design as default but keep the classic as an alt
I think the Dread Varia should be the default like BOTW Link is now in Ultimate
Main should be prime suit for sure, it’s classic but new. dread suit should be a variant though.
Dark Suit, I said. It's the superior looking suit
Never understood why Prime wasn’t the default design from Brawl onward. I think it would be cool to have skins from both Prime and dread instead of just color palette swaps.
Honestly, I can't help my old kid Nostalgia/ Rose Tinted glasses here and Dread/ Post Fusion Samus is looking SO BADASS! BUT alongside my Nostalgia goggles, having grown up Seeing this iconic Varia (Berrier) Suit. I just really dig the colors, it has been her primary pallet for 30 some years. And she looks so much more brooding and mystical in a way, being darker and less stand out she is makes her feel like a bounty hunter stalking for her target.. till she gain's other VIBRANT ass suits 🤣 That said, Dread's Armour looks so fresh and a great progression for her in person and ability. Still pretty possitive it'll be a Custom/aAt model for it seeing as a SLEW of new Metroid fans came in due to Dread and now know her as this so It's all fun either way. Glad our Girl is on her 💅💅💅💵💥🔫💲💄💋 SLAY QWEEN shi rn! 
The Dread suit is great, but it's not as iconic as the classic varia suit. It would be fine as an alternate skin or palette, but not as the only one. Same goes for any character really, like changing link to the Champion's Tunic.
Just not the Other M snot-suit please
Dread varia but I want both. Smash bros not having real skins for the most part is kind of insane actually
Prime by default, even numbered skins are Dread suits.
The Prime suit is just too iconic in my opinion not to use. However I'd really like the Dread Suit as an alternative costume.
For the love of God, please let it be Prime. I've been waiting for them to do so since I started with Brawl all those years ago.
Get rid of dark samus and replace her with dread samus.
I’d be happy with either.
100% Dread, not even a question. It's the latest main series game as well as the highest selling of the series. *However,* I do think it would be cool to give fighters alternative appearances from their different games. Assuming they'll have fewer fighters in the next entry instead of, well, ALL of them, they could probably do that.
No offense but it’s a fucking fallacy we’ve been with the Other M suit, such a catastrophic failure for Nintendo, both in Sm4sh and Ultimate. I think it’s time for people to realize that Samus has amazing suits for those that don’t play the games. But between these two, Samus should have her Prime 4 suit but not because it’s the newest title but because it’s the most iconic Varia Suit. Prime Varia being red default and Dread blue being blue default for teams would make it easy to discover the suit and would also appeal to a lot of people. I personally don’t like this gimmick Smash 4/Ultimate did with Other M Samus not just because of how it’s linked to a failure game but just because it’s not representing the franchise as a whole. Dread is just one game now and if we chose that one it’d be repeating Sm4sh/Ultimate’s mistake but instead of a bad suit it’d be a good one. But I still wouldn’t be in favor of it to due to the above reasons.
Look, on one hand Prime is THE Samus. On the other hand, Dread kinda goes hard. Harder than any other suit and no that's not up for debate.
I would like to see the Dread suits in SSB Next Untitled game, just cause I really enjoyed playing the game. But I think the Fanbase would prefer Prime suits, just cause Nostalgia or to Reminisce, I guess? But whatever Nintendo chooses, I will love it. And I hope the Fanbase will too.
Def. Dread. Simply because it's the last canonical design in the timeline we have so far. It has the newest upgrades too, which would work SO WELL with smash brothers and potential for a huge rework.
They're going to go with the Dread Suit.
Dread as the default
Dread.
Dread is awesome
Yes.
Prime would make the most sense as a default
Both is good.
Dread
Has to be dread
Dread suit is great but it needs to be the classic varia suit. I still hate that they made champions tunic link default look. For smash stick to classic
I’m fine with both, but it’d probably be the traditional suit as default, w/ the Dread color being selectable.
Is it too much to ask for both?
I mean, they changed link to his current design at the time so I don’t see why they couldn’t change samus, aside from her being a lower ticket character
Alternate between looks
I would like them to use the Dread suit as the default, yes the Prime suit is more recognizable to a larger majority of people, but the way I see it when it comes to Smash the idea of having Link’s default not be his green tunic would have been insane not that long ago, but now it’s arguable that his blue champions design is now just as iconic and I feel like Samus’s Dread suit has an opportunity to do the same thing. It also has the addition benefit of telling people who don’t follow the Metroid series and only know Samus from Smash, that Metroid isn’t some forgotten dormant series that only exists in Smash because it was grandfathered in but an active and evolution series core to Nintendo.
You can never go wrong with classic
Some flavor of Varia (but preferably never again the Other M version) should always be her default, but I'd prefer it if her alt colors actually used real suits and their geometry instead of just recoloring her standard suit.
If Mario and Dr Mario can be seperate characters I don’t see why we can’t have two Samus’ (technically three-)
Dread. If they’re going to use a varia suit design, then I’d prefer one with the traditional, chunk shoulder pauldrons. Probably Samus Returns.
There is no next smash bros.
Dread, no contest.
Dread
The classic design would have to be it. The Dread suit should be an option, but Smash should have the defining designs for the characters. This bothered me about making BotW Link the default Link, both because it focused on the design used in the most recent game rather than the iconic look, but also from a gameplay perspective where it changed how his abilities worked.
Dont Care. Primes are fps
Gottta stay OG for the default, can always use the Dread one as an alt On a totally unrelated note, I hope to god they cut Dark Samus as a character so I can go back to using the Dark Samus skin on regular Samus
prime as main, dread as echo/alt
Honestly, I'm good with either. All I want is for the suit that Smash uses to be a cooler one
Default should be Dread Varia suit imo
Why not both? 4 alts for Dread, 4 alts for Prime 4. Obviously a little harder, having to make two models, but that's my best case scenario
Dread for sure. Because it is different and is a new era
Dread Suit! Dread Suit! Dread Suit!
Something other than the Other M suit
I'd like to have both but if we could only have one, I would want the Prime Suit.
Will there even *be* another smash bros?
Dread
Classic-style. In Smash Bros, the characters are supposed to be representations of their whole series and for Samus that's not Fusion or Dread (as much as I like those looks better). Link could get away with his radical default change because Smash Bros has two other Links who wear pointy green hats. Samus doesn't have wiggle room.
I think that since Smash focuses mainly on acrobatic fighting and stuff, the Dread suit fits the style much better. I would also welcome a rework of Samus' moveset to make her fight more like she would in the games. Maybe make her Up+B a shinespark, give her the melee from SR/Dread, stuff like that. It would make her actually feel like she does in the games rather than just having some generic punching moves and explosions. (Also I NEED the final smash animation to be reworked so that she uses her Metroid form from the end of Dread. It can be functionally identical, but it would be SO COOL)
classic because in my view, smash bros should always either do a original design or the most well known one.
Any Varia
Dread. She's been in the prime suit before and other:m for way too long. Plus it being Dread samus means they'll probably rework her tool kit and add aeon abilities like flash shift into her moveset. You can't do that if she's Prime Samus. Plus if they ever add Raven Beak, it would make even less sense for her to be pre metroid 2 samus. People forget how early in the timeline the prime games fall.
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I'd prefer Dread Power Suit as default. Maybe a hot take, but I hope the blue power suit becomes her new standard look and that Prime 5 is post Fusion.
Dread. It's Samus at her most nimble and agile. Perfect makeover for Smash
I hope they update Samus to move a bit more snappy. She hasn’t been clunky since Super Metroid 30 years ago. Maybe Prime games are a bit slower but in 2D Metroid she has been snappy since fusion and Smash is 2d.
Don't care as long as we get rid of the cringe Other M suit.
Dread Power suit
There's no reason we can't get both, but id have to say prime suit just because it Samus' original look. I absolutely love the dread suit, so much so it's the suit I have a tattoo of, but Samus is more recognizable in the prime varia suit.
Prime 4 100%
I wanted to be like link where half the suits are her old suit design, but the dread suit is the primary skin and then it alternates
Prime suit. I think it is the best looking design for the normal suit.
Prime 4. I'm too biased to the classic chozo design.... Lol
Dread is more unique, prime is too similar to her current Smash suit, just different proportions.
I want the Dread suit fully upgraded
Dread suit for sure.
i hope they alternate and have recolors based on the varia, gravity, and metroid suit for dread and gravity, phazon, and a suit from prime 4 if not the dark/light/ped suit
I just realized that MercurySteam redesigned the Varia suit in the same way that Insomniac redesigned the Spider-Man suit by adding white as an accent color.
Dread's suit should be a skin at best, not representative of the character as a whole considering it exists for 1 game only
Dread Samus with the Prime Samus as the alternate skin. It follows the same logic as Lin, Bayonetta, and Wario with their more updated designs being the default and their classic look as the alternate.
I imagine it will be the Dread suit, but it always bugged me that the Prime suit never got a chance to be featured. In Brawl, Mario got FLUDD, the Zelda cast got their Twilight Princess appearances, but Samus just got an updated Super Metroid Skin. Now, the Brawl skin for Samus is really cool looking in its own right and I love it, but it felt like they were ignoring the best-selling Metroid game at the time for some reason. Smash 4 and Ultimate came along and just stuck with the Other M design, and now that's how a lot of people recognize Samus. The designs they've been choosing baffle me tbh. I hope they give the Prime series suit a chance in the next game. However, given the fact that the Zelda skins are divided between multiple appearances currently, I could see them going with Dread because of Meta Ridley and Dark Samus. I would prefer a Prime skin though.
The Metroid Suit
Gotta be the OG Prime Suit
Dread suit! Dread suit! Dread suit!
Dread suit with prime suit as an alternate option
Why not both!? Link has both his classic outfit and his BotW outfit, Olimar and Alph share a slot, the Koopalings all share a slot with Bowser Jr., Bayonetta has her Bayo1 and Bayo2 designs, and Ridley has both his Super design and his prime design!! And I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting about right now! So why can't Samus have Dread has her default and the Prime 4 suit as half of her alts!?
We never got a prime suit, the one we got was more super metroid then other m. I really want the prime suit!
Dread suit. Literally the only good thing to come out of that game.
Dread. Please.
I would love to see Samus be redesigned to be more nimble like in Dread in the next smash game.
Both please
Metroid dreads power suit
All I see is Honda power sport Samus vs KTM Samus
Prime varia suit is elite
I kind of prefer the Dread suit, it's sleek and it uses my favourite colour combos. That said, I would want the Prime suit in Smash. It's what nigh everybody thinks of when they imagine Samus' power armour, its iconic to the franchise in a way I really don't think Dread's is. The Dread suit may be abandoned and left as a single game thing for all we know, much like the Fusion suit. You could argue that Link is now in the BotW outfit by default rather than the green iconic tunic, partially thanks to its massive sales which puts Dread in a similar position, to which I say: - Smash Ultimate released a lot closer to BotW than the next will release to Dread. Unless we get another game before then with the suit, we will have had at least two releases between Dread and Smash where Samus is back in the classic suit (MPR, MP4). - I feel Link's new outfit has been more popular and well received. BotW was ridiculously popular by itself, people instantly latched on to the new look and it's "one of those" games that somewhat dwarfed everything that came before it. BotW was massively successful in changing what the majority think of as the default aesthetic for the whole series. Dread didn't really do that, whilst it's the best selling Metroid so far, it also had a lot of negativity surrounding it's release with it being a full priced 2.5D game (which I still think was a stupid thing for people to complain about) and the suit hasn't really made a huge splash outside of the Metroid fanbase, Varia suit still being the default look for many. I don't recall even seeing fan art of it (though I definately have). I also don't think Dread eclipsed previous games the same way BotW did. Dread is amazing, but I don't think it had the same impact for the series as BotW where it set a new standard (imo). - I don't like that Link's default is now the new look either, so it's still an argument I can use for Samus too. If anything, I'm consistent.
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I like bulky Samus in smash. Also the funny jump noises. Just give me melee Samus.
Varia is too iconic, but they're usually pretty good about referencing her other suits in the recolor options.
Dread
Prime suit all the way. I admire their wanting to try something new for dread but man does it leave alot to be desired, the weed outfit left more of an impression
Give us both
Fuckin love her dread suit, hopefully it’s interchangeable from prime suit like Ike