He was featured in GamesRadar'''s "The Top 7... Bestest Frenemies" list at seventh place, with the staff saying he "was notable mainly for looking and acting like Fox McCloud would if he were gray and also a bastard". UGO Networks remarked that he was "cool" because he was "a walking, talking fox", but they criticized the fact of three Star Fox being playable characters in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, saying he should be replaced by another franchise character. Sharing the sentiments, Joystick Division ranked him fourth on it article about what Brawl characters should be replaced, with his substitute being Simon Belmont from Castlevania. While agreeing with UGO and Joystick Division, saying Fox "now has TWO clones" (the other being Falco Lombardi), IGN said "[i]t's not really all that bad", remarking how Wolf played "slower and stronger than Fox", differing him to the other series characters in Brawl. WhatCulture said Wolf's obsession to destroy Fox "leads to some of gaming's most exhilarating and challenging dogfights", and ranked him fifty-first on its "100 Greatest Video Game Villains Of All Time" list. Patrick Lindsey of Paste ranked Wolf O'Donnell as the third best video game wolf in 2014, calling him "ever the Boba Fett to Fox's Han Solo". Jeremy Parish of Polygon ranked 73 fighters from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate "from garbage to glorious", listing Wolf as 54th, criticizing and stated that "Wolf is the Shadow the Hedgehog of the Star Fox universe: An edgier, angrier counterpart to the main character whose greatest legacy is that he's largely been co-opted by the internet fan community to feature in saucy artwork". In 2018, Tyler Treese of GameRevolution praised Wolf's role in Starlink: Battle for Atlas as an antagonist. Gavin Jasper of Den of Geek ranked Wolf as 38th of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate characters in 2019, stating that "Wolf O'Donnell is the evil version of Fox McCloud, which automatically makes him better than Falco because he's able to act on his bad attitude". Like in Brawl, Wolf has enjoyed both popularity and tournament success since returning to the series as a part of Ultimates roster. Some journalists, such as Michael Derosa of Screen Rant, ranked Wolf as one of the best characters to use in Ultimate''. References Animal characters in video games Anthropomorphic canines Anthropomorphic video game characters Extraterrestrial characters in video games Fictional henchmen in video games Fictional wolves Male characters in