Who Would Canonically Win? — Red vs Ness

Who would win in a fight between Ness from Earthbound and Red, the Pokemon trainer? Today we break down all of their abilities and have an animated battle to figure out the answer. Smash Bracket is an animated Vs Battle series created by InkThinks dedicated to answering the question... Who is canonically the strongest character in Super Smash Bros. History?

CREDITS

Animators
-Kenai @Kenai1128
-Sonix
-TreToonzz @tretoonzzproductions9527
-Yves @Sunmellows
-Discovery @LightDiscovery
-Adriel
-Levi Smith @levitation5271
-Mark M. (Omega 7321) @Omega7321
-OriginTheHero @OriginTheHero
-ItsChidomonYT @ItsChidomonYT

Writer
-InkThinks
-RealLemon
-Aircaves

Sound Design
-Wind
-Sonix
-InkThinks

Voice Acting
-Meghan McConnell as Ness
-Sandy Can as Paula
-Levi Smith as Red
-Red Peacock as Charizard
-InkThinks as Espeon, Blastoise, Lapras, Venusaur, and Snorlax
-Anerdymous as ???

Research
-RealLemon, Someguy, Robin, Stylish, Robot972

Music
-The Best and the Boundless - Skye/TehGM
-??? - John G. Music

Translation
-Redpeacock

Sprites
-JoshR681 - All Pokemon Sprites
-Naruto[NU] - Ness
-OriginTheHero - Red Sprites
-Nokia Espiritual - Lapras sprite edits

Thumbnail
-CarbonatedJem

Editing
-Nick Cramer @NervousNick
-InkThinks

Misc Support
-Andx125
-SomeGuy
-Mags
-Hyozen

[lordofthewasps]

I'm glad they care about keeping everyone in character for the fights, Ness wouldn't kill any pokemon or Red unless there was no other option so its good to see no one got their head smashed in or brains blown out.

[Neutra]

Love how Red's tactical prowess was shown off in the animation, what with stuff like Lapras unleashing Surf, which it and Blastoise then contained inside an ice sphere, or how the team as a whole wailed on Ness in order to give Snorlax time to set itself up. Not to mention that awesome flaming seed ring turned into a freaking PSYCHIC FIRE TORNADO!

[Scouthedog]

Love how the Pokémon work together as a team to fight Ness with some really impressive team up attacks.
Sad red And his nom lost but kind of knew that coming in because Ness got some crazy stuff.
Awesome animation and analysis though you guys are killing it

[palmtree]

You guys killed it on this one. Easily my favorite episode since Link vs. Ridley.

I can't say how happy I am to FINALLY see a Pokemon Trainer properly done in a VS. Episode, even if Red didn't take the W. All the Pokemon working in tandem, the amount of care he had for his Pokemon when they were defeated, the Mega Charizard X transformation, and Charizard saving Red's life just. Makes me happy in a way that other Pokemon VS. episodes have failed to ever do. And hearing the Pokemon motifs in the track just... icing on the cake. I can see why this is one of Ink's favorite animations, the sheer amount of passion and love for both series really shines through.

The post credits scene was genuinely just awesome too. Zelda saving Red, the inclusion of Jirachi, the continuity with Ness and Paula trying to save Poo from the Phazon after he fought Dark Samus. I can't believe I'm actually this excited to see where the post credits scenes and the Story Mode animations go.

GG Earthbound fans. Kick some ass in Round 2 for me and the other Red fans.

[septupleanti]

I love that since Ness’ dragon form was never shown, they used The Dragon from Earthbound Beginnings. I feel that Mother 1 is very under appreciated, so that was awesome.

[davidgoldammer]

This is gonna be the first animation where its JUST Ness. No Smash stuff, its just Ness and what HE himself can do. Thank you for that Smash Bracket.

[ness]

There's only room enough for one kid with a baseball cap here...

[donellnorman]

Knew Ness was gonna take this pretty easily but I love how the animation actually showed each of the Pokémon put up a decent fight instead of them just getting decimated

[CthulhuCam]

This is probably my favorite episode now. That animation was surprisingly intense and kept me guessing all the way, and while I didn't really ever associate a personality with either of these characters in this animation they were both characterized really well and in a believable way.






And for the story mode I have to say Sephiroth being this antagonistic force in it is just so perfect, and I'm genuinely so hyped to see where the story is going it looks awesome.

[delite]

This is by far my favorite Smash Bracket episode in terms of sprite animation. The team did an awesome job on this.
-Can't wait to see Poketuber's reacting to this-

[alexpotts]

Oh my God the Espeon segment in the dark world with playing cards was incredible.

Never in this series did I think we'd get a reenactment of the opening credits to Casino Royale (which I doubt was intentional), but either way it was sick af.

[Crimgon]

This battle is one of the reasons I'm happy that the fights don't have to end in death

[ptux]

Ness: hey look at this cool flashlight trick i can do with my fingers.
*deletes crowd from existance*

[opadrip]

Red was done way better in this than Death Battle did him.

[The_Gabe]

This was truly amazing and a amazing day to be a Ness supporter. And thanks for putting my fanart into the video 😀

[timmyb.]

Even being an EarthBound fan and having played multiple playthroughs, I didn't know how much power Ness had. I haven't yet read the books, but that's something that I would be interested in doing. I thought that Ness should have had his team with him as well, but now I can understand more why it was just him.

[GamerTimeNinja]

For people who want to know what the secret braille message at the end meant:




It says DRAGMIRE, which is apparently Ganondorf's last name, so Ganondorf must be the powerful one that Sephiroth is talking about, which would make sense cuz he has the Triforce of Power. When I looked it up, I saw a lot of images of Trilight Princess Ganondorf, but I don't know anything about the Zelda series so take what I say with a grain of salt.

[RuneTacticss]

Yep, this was amazing. Like, REALLY amazing. Its insane how you all can produce such high quality animations in given such short periods of time.

[MinMintheWinWin]

This was absolutely amazing! Charizard and reds friendship really made me tear up! I love this 100% sad red lost, but glad there was no death!

[RaccoonBroVA]

Big friggin' congrats to the entire team. It's incredible how you all continue to push yourselves to improve and make each episode bigger and better. Fantastic music, wonderful diverse group of artists, imaginative choreography, presentation with loads of personality. Whatever you do, don't stop!