Jeff Kaplan, vice president at Blizzard Entertainment and lead director of Overwatch , is quite emphatic about letting Nintendo and the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate development team use "whatever character" from Overwatch they'd like.

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Speaking to IGN in a recent interview, Kaplan said, when asked what Overwatch character he'd like to see guest-star in Smash Bros. Ultimate: "To the Smash Brothers team, whatever character you want, we love them all. They’re all our babies, you can have any single one of them. We have 31 to choose from."But if he had to pick one, Kaplan said he'd have to choose Tracer."Tracer's our girl, Tracer's our mascot. She'd be my first choice," he said. "There's a lot of great runners up. I think a lot of people can immediately see Doomfist gameplay applying to Smash, but if it were up to me, I'd like to see Tracer."Wes Yanagi, the principal game producer on the Switch version of Overwatch, echoed the choice of Tracer, but also said he'd really like to see Winston make the leap to Smash.There's one more unknown character left in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's fighter pass of the original five announced, but Nintendo has recently confirmed more Smash Bros. DLC characters to be on the way. Could one of them be an Overwatch character? Let us know what you think in the comments below.

Mitchell Saltzman is an editorial producer at IGN. You can find him on twitter @JurassicRabbit