but don't expect Lucario/Mewtwos please.
No no, I'd rather they be separate.
It'd be super weird to have a Fighting Type and a Psychic Type be clones of each other, yes?
I...gah, making it simple, making it simple...*sigh* okay. I don't want Lucario and Mewtwo to share the same slot, I was saying that people may find them similar enough for it to happen. I personally don't agree with that, so I said it in an unnecesarilly-advanced fashion.
But the coding doesn't work like that D: The stats are ingrained into the character itself, the costumes simply alter the appearance of the textures and bones that fundamentally create a character. In order to "alter" the stats slightly, it would have to read off a whole new file, it wouldn't just modify the file that's being used. So essentially, it would be two completely different characters who are, for some strange reason, sharing the same character spot.
That's....That's... That's the point. The entire point was so that "clone" characters can be brought in in an interesting matter without people complaining about them taking up other character's spot. I don't get what you're saying, is it bad if that happens? Two characters can't share the same slot? There's Zelda and Sheik, Samus and Zero suit Samus, and they crammed all three of the starter Pokemon into one slot, why is this an issue? It would be just that except, well, not a totally different character. Are you saying that the game can't hold that many characters or something? With a lack of story mode this time around, I'm betting on a significant uprise in storage space with the absence of that + it's a new freaking system. And are you on the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS team right now because how do you know it can't change? They can't, like, introduce something to get the job done? I know it's hard to develop whole new series of coding but sheesh, you think this would be in "okay" territory.
Also, Toon Link is far from being a Link clone :P Yes, they are the same character so to speak, they use master swords and throw boomerangs, but they all have different properties that form to create very different advantages to situations. So no, they are not "clones by definition"
I-just, oh my god.
Yes, that is the point. When I put "clone by definition", did it not seem like I was saying he isn't really a clone? Them using basically the exact same kind of attacks with the exact same final smashes, while with different properties, are still close enough to be labeled as so. There are two ways a clone differentiates in my opinion, by change in moveset or change in properties. Toon Link is at the top of properties, because his attacks, while taken from Link, have all different speeds and properties
and his body is the only one that is drastically different from Link. The moves one would be Luigi, though he seems to be the only one.