Smash Bros Fighter Ballot - Andy Takes his turn!

One of my favourite Nintendo properties is the Advance Wars series. When I got my GBA and the first title, I fell in love, and have since played through all the Advance Wars games since. I loved the characters, loved the music, and loved the gameplay.

(The Premise and characters of Days of Ruin can be ignored though)

But on the Smash Bros side of things, it’s the one series that hasn’t gotten much loved outisde of a rather lame Assist Trophy.

Well with the Smash Ballot, it’s about time Advance Wars got in on it, and Andy from Orange Star the perfect candidate.

At work we play Smash Bros almost every day, so I got my drawing cap on again and tried to figure out how the hell Andy would play, and how he would be used to show what Advance Wars is all about, in the same way Robin shows what Fire Emblem is all about.

Button Combos

A - Infantry Rifle: Andy uses a rifle to shoot.

Side Smash - The rifle instead turns into the Mech’s Bazooka.

Up Smash - Andy uses his wrenches to Smash upwards.

Down Smash - Andy uses his two wrenches to hit from both sides.

B - Artillery Attack - Andy uses an Artillery which will raise up and down, allowing him to shoot at a distance and at a range.



Side B - APC Rush - Andy jumps into an APC and gets transported to the other side of the screen. If he gets hit, by the other player, it might accidentily heal them a bit.

Up B - Copter Retreat - Andy grabs onto the bottom of an Air Unit and flies off. This could be a random thing between attack and transport copters - where the Copter can also shoot while bringing Andy up.

Down B - Building Capture - Andy spawns a building onto the stage. He can then stand on top of it and do Down B twice more, in which he will “capture” the area and cause massive damage to any enemy characters that were attempting to attack him.

Smash Ball - Ultimately kind of the hardest one to think about. With the design I have, we don’t have any Tank moves - which is a bit sad since it’s one of the most prominant things you use in the game. For the Smash Ball, Andy could jump in a tank and just wreck havoc, Metal Slug style. Otherwise he could do his CO Power (Healing) which is kind of lame, or a Bombing Run with Bombs.

What do you think?