Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5196731-20151004005519/@comment-8240035-20151007085510

DevilX90 wrote: Are you sure? Where's your proof? They were stated as the leading nominees on the Reddit Smash Ballot and both Yacht Club Games and WayForward Technologies have requested for Shovel Knight and Shantae to be nominated by the public so they'll most likely have their fanbases. In addition with the upcoming Star Fox Zero we're likely to see some more limelight for Wolf who was in Brawl and was suggested as being a likely candidate for return.

There isn't need for proof it's connecting the dots. Although the Reddit Smash Ballot would show some indication of where votes were going to lie.