The long-awaited third installment of Nintendo's brawl-filled soccer series is on the way with Mario Strikers: Battle League, and a new overview trailer has confirmed which of the Mushroom Kingdom's iconic characters will be stepping onto the pitch. When Battle League releases it will have been 15 years since Mario Strikers Charged landed on the Wii, but the basic premise remains the same — two teams of five duking out in a no-holds-barred, power-up-filled contest. Now, just over a month from release in Nintendo's packed 2022 launch schedule, an initial roster of only 10 characters has been revealed for Battle League.
When building a team, Mario Strikers: Battle League lets players choose four out of the 10 available characters, with the goalie being a Boom Boom Koopa. The 10 playable characters in Mario Strikers: Battle League are Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Peach, Rosalina, Toad, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Wario, and Waluigi. Each has slightly different base stats, but different pieces of gear can be equipped to fine tune each member of the team.
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These confirmed characters come by way of Nintendo's Mario Strikers: Battle League introductory trailer, which has so far only been posted to YouTube in Japanese. The same characters were shown in the game's announcement trailer, which was revealed during Nintendo's February 2022 Direct, but this new video seemingly confirms the line up. The team structure is quite an evolution from previous Mario Strikers games, where a captain was chosen from a similar roster, but the rest of the team was filled with generic Mushroom Kingdom denizens like Koopa Troopas or Shy Guys.
Including only 10 characters in Mario Strikers:
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