I only limited my essential villagers to about 7 so I can use the remaining 3 slots to rotate islanders and keep my game exciting. I want to meet as many of them as possible.
5 of them I already currently have :
Molly, Zucker, Audie, Chief, Rudy
2 of them I’m waiting for game RNG to obtain since it’s more exciting that way :
hmm kind of a tough question! i'm really happy with my current selection despite having some kinda silly or weird villagers, but i think in my Perfect Island™ i'd have
Audie or Raymond
Coco
Lolly or Katt
Tangy
Zucker or O'Hare
Snake
Rudy
Marcel or Wade
Maddie (haha same name)
aaand maybe molly or poppy?
I've never really thought of this before, it was hard to choose them all. I didn't even really factor in personality or species but I don't usually like having repeats with personality, and species is meh.
I would choose 9 sheep villagers and one wolf, who I would place in a little forrest...
That was my original plan for New Horizon... but despite using like 30 tickets and picking villagers from the campsite, I only have one sheep (Timbra) and my one wolf (Skye)
Taking into account my favorites, but also my desire to have at least one of every personality type (but no more than two of each)... In no particular order:
whitney
chief
fang
wolf link (I hope he'll be added some day ;/)
ankha
raymond
lucky
bruce or beau (got bruce atm, love that guy!)
coco
mathilda or roscoe
And I'm undecided between Ribbot and Bam. On one end I already have Bam and he's absolutely adorable, but on the other end I prefer villagers with natural colorations and I really love that robotic frog. Would be a fun contrast against the woodsy feel of the rest and there's something hilarious about robots obsessed with muscles.
For the 10th, I'm undecided between Bunnie, Dotty, Tabby and Cole, but probably leaning towards Cole at the moment because he's so irresistibly cute.
Poppy
Reneigh
Raymond
Marina
Pekoe but I actually want Drago because too many normal villagers
Beau
Fang
Bunnie
Dia
Teddy
Bold are the ones I already have. It was sooo hard not to take 2 of the same species, like Marshal and Poppy or Whitney and Fang. I'm gonna ignore the fact Diana and Beau are both deer.