User blog comment:Rocketslime 1 1/New SSB Character Contest - Finals/@comment-4237188-20130810132217/@comment-3448772-20130811011917

I disagree. I'd say Rayman is the least likely of the three.

As there will not be many third party characters, I think it would be more likely that it will be a character from a game series made by a company the Nintendo has worked with a lot (including in the SSB series). Also because Shadow is a unique character, he has some of the abilities of Sonic, but many different ones that are completely different from Sonic. Shadow, from my understanding, is a also a much more well known character, as well.

Though I'd say that Pokemon Trainer (Gen 2) would be the most likely to actually be in the game, however I'd say that Shadow will be the most likely to win the poll.