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I understand that Ike or Chrom won't get in K. Rool's way and vice versa, but development time is development time and quite frankly if it came down to Chrom/Ike or K. Rool my choice would be an easy one.
Also I doubt Chrom will be that bad. But no Ridley would of course be disappointing. I'm holding onto some hope but I wouldn't be surprised to see it go either way.
And I came up with a theory while thinking about priority all day: characters may be revealed due to how complete they are. Think of it this way.
Villager: Star of an unrepresented and important IP, clearly high priority.
Mega Man: Incredibly popular and unique 3rd party. Since he would probably be built from the ground up he's high priority.
Wii Fit Trainer: Yeah I got nothing. See Villager I guess.
Rosalina: I feel that Mario newcomers are prioritized over other series because Mario is Mario. Not to mention that Rosalina's gameplay hardly imitates anyone else's. Maybe Peach's model was used, but only for very early development.
Little Mac: See Villager. His playstyle is also very unique, but some evidence has led me to believe that Captain Falcon's model was used to build Little Mac (their aerial hurt animations are uncannily similar). Probably early development.
Greninja: Basically the Lucario of Smash 4, so he was likely prioritized due to advertising purposes. I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see him out prioritize Mewtwo and Jiggs.
So what do you guys think? I'm not positive about it, but I feel like the newcomers shown off so far are some of the higher priority ones.