Technically no, Alucard is a COMPLETE replacement over Richter. This means everything from most of the moveset, to classic mode route, to tips, and even Palutena’s Guidance (which is just her saying she has no data on Alucard) are replaced.

Through some clever magic (thank you CoolSonicKirby), Richter becomes a singe-slotted moveset over Simon. This lets Richter take the latter half of all of Simon’s slots (c127-c255), which allows him to retain his taunts and his classic mode route. This has an unfortunate side effect of everything else being shared with Simon, including Palutena’s guidance and Victory Poses, but it’s a worthy sacrifice to keep him in.

Singleslotted means that this moveset will only work on one specific costume (ie Alucard is the ninth slot of Richter, and only that specific slot has the full Alucard moveset). There’s no reason for Alucard to be single-slotted when Richter can be single-slotted instead.

Alucard is scheduled to release to the public Summer 2023. He will be available as a free download

All players must be using this mod on the exact same version to make this wifi safe. Obviously, do not play Alucard on Quickplay, but you can play in Arenas as long as all parties have Alucard active, and are on the same version of Alucard as well.

Sorry, I won’t be able to properly test if this works on emulator. He is intended to work on a modified switch with a legally obtained copy of Super Smash Bros Ultimate.

Yes, though this will not work out of the box. There might be Arcropolis conflicts with motion files, and there will be different fighter params (which control run speed, jump height and various other stats). I recommend making a copy of the modpack, but removing motion and param files that are related to Richter. There’s no easy way to set all this up, but once you do, you’ll be treated to some exclusive content like Alucard’s phenomenal wavedash, or the Mist Dash special move! For other movesets, compatibility is mixed, as it’s impossible to account for every theoretical moveset.

It’s at the discretion of both the modpack developer and I whether Alucard should be a part of a modpack, so please do not harass the developers over incorporating Alucard.

Mist Dash is an alternate special attack that you can turn on in place of Dark Dive. Think of it like an air dash with the ability cancel it with an aerial! Dark Dive uses some tricky programming, which could behave poorly with modpacks or other movesets. If you want to enable it, simply turn on the Moveset X (Mist) mod instead of the original moveset. Alucard is mostly balanced around his Dark Dive special, so he might be a little less balanced when taking this move into consideration.

Uhhhhhhh ya sure. It’s not like he’s a new, uncontested top tier character. You probably want to get feedback from your local scene, and maybe not make it a PR sanctioned event. Oh and probably don’t run a bracket with Alucard in it for a Nintendo sponsored event.

Sure…do note that there could be changes to Alucard’s model made in the future. This won’t happen for a while, and you will be notified if this process starts to take place.

Why is this a commonly asked question? Not only are there not enough folders to make this work, not only would that require a new model, but I would have to rig and animate a quadrupedal character for one attack. Not to mention, there’s no more available directories for me to use to create a new model. It’s impossible, and I’m not willing to do this.