Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 Leaks Seemingly Confirm Big Roster Cuts

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The latest round of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 leaks have suggested that a lot of veteran fighters from the original game have been cut from the roster.

Unfortunately, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 has been a notoriously leaky ship even before it was officially announced, with the first leak hinting that Squidward was going to be playable in the game and suggesting that characters would have reworked movesets, which both ended up being true. The leaks didn't stop there, though, as the game's whole roster was later leaked thanks to Amazon showing the game's finalised cover art a bit too early.

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Although many were excited by the new characters shown like the Angry Beavers and Azula from Avatar, many were quick to point out that there were 11 veterans from the first game who didn't appear on the cover art, which caused many to fear that they'd been cut from the roster entirely.

Since that roster leak, fans have been looking for any kind of confirmation that these veteran characters might be coming back, but it looks like some recent leaks that have taken place might have dashed those hopes and added more evidence that they're not playable this time around and might only appear as NPCs within the story mode.

The first big leak that suggested this happened last week when a render of Hugh Neutron was shared through the game's Discord page alongside images of Gir and Gaz from Invader Zim. Although reliable leaker PapaGenos previously suggested that Hugh was playable after they had seen a render of him before the roster leak, this leak confirmed to them that he was just an NPC in the story mode and not playable.

Since then, several other leaks have