What if characters from gurren lagann were playable ? I'm going to try and imagine how it could work ! if someone do have the patience and inspiration to make such a character, i'd recommend doing your own thing or even fuse certain ideas ! i'm only trying to inspire peoples instead of giving a clear guide line on what to do for the character here. Also i'll take as a base than SIMON is playable. so i'll refer to him as the playable one here. even if the possible character could feature other characters.



One of the most important thing about simon is that he's NOT alone. he has other peoples believing in him that he will be able to clutch victory at the hands on despair. So representing that is pretty important ! let's see a few possibilities of how it could work out as a unique mechanic.


When taking damages, or charging it with given tools (charging special or/and certain hits making it go up.), the "spiral gauge" would go higher, it would have three levels, the "white level", the "green level", and the "max level" being at the colors of the rainbow (just like in the second movie). you could choose at any moment from level 1 to level 3 to enter "endless spirit mode". depending on the level you have when activating it, it would give different buffs.

level 1 :
• Damage buff (small)
  
• Speed buff (small)
  
• new/improved special moves.
  
  
  level 2 :
  
  
• Damage buff (Decent)
  
• Speed buff (decent)
  
• Super armor on certain moves
  
• New/improved special moves
  
• Better frame data on certain moves (to combo better)
  
  
  level 3 :
  
  
• everything mentioned prior
  
• Big weight increase (for better survivability. since you'd be likely at high percent up until this point.)
  
• New moveset ?
  
• special attack that does high amount of damage ?

The gauge would go down over time, and hitting opponents to make the gauge go up and stay longer in endless spirit mode would be a possibility.




not too hard to implement
Balanced


doesn't represent the source material very well, it doesn't have that "gurren lagann" spice to make it unique and stand out.

The only problem with this set is that it doesn't have much of the "Team dai-gurren" Spirit, it's only simon doing his stuff, unless the other characters are incorporated in his moveset.


Instead of buffing simon with a level system, maybe we could use a system similar to Phoenix wright from MvC.

By fighting, simon would build his spiral gauge, but this time, he could consume the gauge to add new parts to Lagann. buffing or adding new properties to his special inspired by the other teammates of team dai-gurren (a sniper special attack... a quadruple katana counter, whatever the hell you can think of that fits.) he would also get the option to fuse with gurren with enough spiral energy. (gurren would spawn at the start of the match in the background, similar to steve's crafting table in smash ultimate), giving him a new entire moveset as Gurren Lagann. after a while of fightng he would then gain other opportunities to fuse yet again and again until his final form of SUPER TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN.


Would represent well the team union of the characters involved
would be very faithful to the source material
Controlling big robots is awesome.


The size of the robots getting bigger each-time is a problem
Including every transformations of gurren lagann sounds complicated.
no idea if it could work as a balanced and fun thing to play.




Okay. i put everything i had for now for his gimmicks. that's great n' all but what about the character in itself ?... is it just simon ? is it simon using lagann and evolving ? is it kamina ? is it simon and kamina using gurren lagann ? is it even part 1 or part 2 simon there ? there's a lot of possibilities, so i'll try to cover a bit of everything (i'm not gonna do all moves though.)


He would be an average weight character, having small range but fast attacks and good aerial gameplay using the drill of his trusty lagann !

Jab : Two simple punch with a third multihit where he spin his drill around

Forward tilt : ridley f-tilt but lagann drill

down tilt : marth down tilt but drill

F-smash : Bowser Junior F-smash

Down smash : spinning around using jetpack

Fair (if using other characters) : Kamina swing with katana

Bair (If using other characters) : Yoko using sniper to shoot a big hitbox, not an actual projectile.

Nair : Green spiral energy all around him (maybe sephiroth nair ?)

Dair : LAGANN, IMPAAAAAAAAACT (big spike with drill)

Neutral B : shoot a drill as a projectile.

Down B : charge spiral energy Or transform or whatever the gimmick is.

Up B : Use the CANON BALL ATTACK to get up (don't ask me how)

Taunt 1 : kamina appear behind simon cheering on him

taunt 2 : he wave out a flag of team dai-gurren




He would be way lighter, and also weaker, in this scenario the character would rely way more onto using the spiral gauge to get stronger later on.

Jab, f-tilt and d-tilt : the same but instead he use the drill he had at the start of the show.

F-smash : he leaps forward with the core drill, twisting it in the opponent (same as he did with lordgenome in the final of part 1)

Down smash : drill the ground in front of him (angle of mewtwo D-smash)

Fair : leap forward with drill

Up air : he put one finger to the sky, juggle tool.

Down B : same as the first moveset.

Taunt : That one speech where he accepted kamina's death yes. the whole entire speech. give spiral energy in exchange

Genuinely very little ideas on that one. sorry !


A way more experienced fighter ! very capable in hand to hand combat. A middle ground between the last two propositions in terms of weight. hits a bit slower but has more range and is stronger. with the disadvantage of being taller and thus easier to hit as well.

I won't bother doing the whole shtick since it's mostly punches and kicks here, i'll only give the interesting ideas.

F-smash : arm turn into a drill, run foward and do a drill attack. less endlag than f-smash for lagann-less. goes further and does less knockback while building more percents.

Up smash : Shotgun, use spiral bullets. (i just wanted a kittan reference)

Fair : Grit those teeths ! (big punch that spike, similar to mario Fair.)

Taunt 1 : Carry Nia in his arms

Taunt 2 : put big star shapped glasses he had in his final outfit

taunt 3 : head down, one finger to the sky


I know. those movesets are mostly boring using pre-existing moves from other games, or uninspired moves. but reminder, it's the first moveset , he would have access to the spiral gauge to buff him, give him access to gurren lagann, give him new moves, or hell change his moveset completely. it could very well be kamina who's playable as well who know ! i'm just tryna give ideas and a proof of concept. because i'd really love to play a gurren lagann character. so i hope the idea intruiged you enough ! thanks for reading (i hope my ideas weren't too bad) !