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—Masahiro Sakurai roasting people who dislike clones | ||
According to Sakurai, an Echo...echo...echo...echo... Fighter is a clone character that serves almost no difference when compared to the source character, and so it occupies a piece of that character's slot. As such, in Ultimate you can choose to arrange the character selection screen with either the echoes as separate slots or cramming them in the original character's slot with the option to choose between them with a button press. There is a chance that Sakurai was too much of a to strictly out any melee newcomers as 'not unique' fighters so he took to
Former Clones (Echo Fighters)[]
In Melee, Brawl and Sm4sh, they are referred as clones before the Echo term happened in Ultimate, this also lists characters that were now semi-clones. Some clones have been altered in the later games as to stand out more on their own.
Definitions of different kinds of clones:
- A full clone (often shortened to just "clone") will have unique taunts and victory poses, may have unique attributes (such as being heavier or faster) or non-combat animations (such as running or jumping), and perhaps a unique attack or two. Otherwise, they share effectively all moves and animations with their parent. Pichu in Melee and Lucina in SSB4 are examples of full clones.
- A semi-clone has several unique attacks and animations of their own while retaining a significant amount from their parent. Falco in Brawl and Roy in Smash 4 are examples of semi-clones.
- A pseudo-clone is, for the most part, their own unique character, but with enough moves or animations copied from their parent that it would be inaccurate to say they are not cloned to some degree. Wolf in Brawl and Luigi in Ultimate are examples of pseudo-clones.
Super Smash Bros. (Nintendo 64)[]
- Luigi (Mario clone): Now a pseudo-clone since Melee.
- Jigglypuff (Kirby semi-clone): More or less unique since Melee.
Super Smash Bros. Melee (Nintendo Gamecube)[]
- Dr. Mario (Mario clone): Remained as such in SSB4, became a semi-clone in Ultimate.
- Young Link (Link clone): Now a semi-clone in Ultimate.
- Falco (Fox clone): Now a semi-clone since Brawl.
- Pichu (Pikachu clone): Now a semi-clone in Ultimate.
- Ganondorf (Captain Falcon clone): Now a semi-clone since Brawl.
- Roy (Marth clone): Now a semi-clone since SSB4.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo Wii)[]
Note: It is arguable that Brawl had no same-y clones of anyone, and at most it had semi- or pseudo-clones.
- Toon Link (Link/Young Link semi-clone): Remained as such in Ultimate.
- Lucas (Ness semi-clone): Remained as such in Ultimate.
- Wolf (Fox pseudo-clone): Remained as such in Ultimate.
Super Smash Bros. (Nintendo Wii U & 3DS)[]
- Lucina (Marth clone): Now an echo-fighter in Ultimate.
- Dark Pit (Pit Echo): Now an echo-fighter in Ultimate.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo Switch)[]
List of known Echo Fighters[]
- Daisy (Peach Echo)
- Lucina (Marth Echo)
- Dark Pit (Pit Echo)
- Dark Samus (Samus Echo)
- Chrom (Roy Echo, but has Ike's Aether)
- Richter (Simon Echo)
- Ken (Ryu Echo)
List of ACTUALLY known Echo Fighters[]
- Ridley (Charizard Echo)
- Spyro (Ridley Echo)
- King K. Rool (King Dedede Echo)
- Dr. Ike (Ike Echo)
- Green Mario (Mario Echo)
- Young Zelda (Zelda Echo)
- Sheik (Zelda Echo)
- Waluigi (Wario Echo)
- Pichu (Mario Echo)
- Lucario (Mewtwo Echo)
- Greninja (Mewtwo Echo)
- Goku (Lucario Echo)
- Isaac (Robin Echo)
- All Fighters (Kirby echo)
- Bayonetta (Pac-Man Echo)
- Roy (Bowser Jr. Echo)
- Duck Hunt (Ivysaur Echo)
- Nivlax (Alvin Echo)
- Shulk (Little Mac Echo)
- Bowser Jr. (Diddy Kong Echo)
- Cloud Strife (Cloud Echo)
- Mega Man (Samus Echo)
- Mega Man X (Mega Man Echo)
- Ranger-X Max (Mega Man X Echo)
- Shrek (Wario echo)
- Doc Pit (Dark Pit echo)
- Jigglypuff, Pichu, Mewtwo, Lucario, Charizard, Ivysaur, Squirtle, Greninja (Pikachu echoes)
- Kirby (Ice Climbers echo)
- Metroid (Samus echo)
- Bowsette (Bowser echo)
- John Cena (Incineroar echo)
- Lola Loud (Peach echo)
- Lana Loud (Mario echo)
- Dark Dorws (Dorws echo)
- Jaxi (Yoshi echo)