{"id":38818,"date":"2018-08-08T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/new_smash_bros_ultimate_assist_trophies_include_shovel_knight_and_monster_hunters_rathalos"},"modified":"2018-08-08T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T15:30:00","slug":"new-smash-bros-ultimate-assist-trophies-include-shovel-knight-and-monster-hunters-rathalos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/08\/new-smash-bros-ultimate-assist-trophies-include-shovel-knight-and-monster-hunters-rathalos\/","title":{"rendered":"New Smash Bros. Ultimate Assist Trophies Include Shovel Knight And Monster Hunter&#8217;s Rathalos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/46a3befc3b585\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/46a3befc3b585\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"ROAR.\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/46a3befc3b585\/roar.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/46a3befc3b585\/roar.900x.jpg\" alt=\"ROAR.\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo has revealed a bunch of new Assist Trophies for the forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/strong><\/a> on Switch, which is due to launch later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The big news here is that\u00a0Rathalos from the <strong>Monster Hunter<\/strong> series will be joining the game not only as an Assist Trophy but as a boss character as well &#8211; a first for the Smash Bros. franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/shovel_knight\"><strong>Shovel Knight<\/strong><\/a>, Zero from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/mega_man_x\"><strong>Mega Man X<\/strong><\/a>, Knuckles from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/megadrive\/sonic_the_hedgehog_3\"><strong>Sonic The Hedgehog 3<\/strong><\/a>, Krystal from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/star_fox_adventures\"><strong>Star Fox Adventures<\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0the evil Moon from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/legend_of_zelda_majoras_mask\"><strong>The Legend of Zelda: Majora\u2019s Mask<\/strong><\/a> all join the Assist Trophy roster.<\/p>\n<div class=\"insert-label centered insert lazyload for-mobile lazyload\">\n<\/div>\n<p>This is all in addition to the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/simon_and_richter_belmont_confirmed_as_playable_characters_in_smash_bros_ultimate\">Simon and Richter Belmont<\/a> are playable characters, alongside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/chrom_and_dark_samus_appear_as_echo_fighters_in_super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Chrom, Dark Samus<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/yes_king_k_rool_really_is_coming_to_super_smash_bros_ultimate\">King K.Rool<\/a>. All in all, not a bad day for Smash fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has revealed a bunch of new Assist Trophies for the forthcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on Switch, which is due to launch later this year. The big news here is that\u00a0Rathalos from the Monster Hunter series will be joining the game not only as an Assist Trophy but as a boss character as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}