This game just got CONFIRMED!
Though no word on Blaziken, the first announced Fighters are Lucario and Machamp!
Lucario had a lot of combo-y Rush Down attacks, and Machamp had a lot of big rapid hit punches and Ramming tackles. Lucario reminded me a bit of Tekken's Mishima family, and Machamp was reminiscent of Marduk. This game looks hella well animated!
As a huge fan of both Tekken and Pokemon, this has me pretty jazzed about the whole thing. The game looks like it is special move based rather than combo based that Tekken is known for, so this game might look like tekken, but it will play different from it. For example:
A. I saw characters using Dive Kicks and Instant Overheads. That is nontraditional of 3D fighters such as Tekken, and is more Traditional of 2D fighters such as Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter.
B. I never saw either character move left or right, only backwards and forwards. So even though this is a collaboration of Tekken and Pokemon, this game appears to be a 2D fighter period.
C. Machamp is seen performing a block animation, which is also nontraditional of Tekken. Tekken always used the "press and hold back to block" Mechanic, while it appears that Block is located to a button, simular to Soul Calibur or Mortal Kombat. I am not really a fan of that, but w/e.
Lucario reminded me a lot of the Mishima family.
From Left to right, Heichachi, Kazuya, and Jin Kazama (he takes his mother's surname)
They Fight with various forms of Karate.
He had tons of combo-y moves, a Dive kick, a guard break, and some cool looking instant overheads. In the trailer there were a ton of attacks that Lucario was doing that were putting Machamp in a stunned state. At higher levels, I would imagine Lucario chaining 2-3 of these Combo Strings together in a single Combo.
As for Machamp, he reminds me of this guy...
Craig Marduk, He is based off of UFC style Cage Fighting.
Machamp is WAY bigger than Lucario is, as seen in the trailer. Some of the more unique moves that caught my eye;
1. Machamp had many Rapid Punch Combos, which is cool.
2. He had a double Hook attack that caused Lucario's body to spin wildly, simular to the Blaze Blue or Persona fighting games.
3. He had a spinning Hammer aerial that looked pretty sick and over head hitting.
4. Machamp had three attacks that seemed to have "launching" properties, a combo into an Uppercut, a straight up Uppercut, and a shoulder tackle.
5. Though the attack misses, there is a split second where Machamp runs in and performs a grab animation, we did not see a single "throw" attack in the entire trailer.
The trailer ends with Lucario Mega Evolving.