Juliusaurus
Smash Ace
The series really does deserve both. It deserves more characters than Kirby, Star Fox, Metroid, and Fire Emblem (I guess that's not happening)...
But with the recent leak, ouch... It hurts, it really hurts. But I can hope that at least one DK newcomer is still possible. And I think the more likely of the two is Dixie Kong. Maybe she'd be a partial clone to Diddy, but without a tail and jetpack and with that hair of hers, she'd still be very unique, more unique than Wolf is when compared to Fox and Falco even. Plus relevancy and all that, I know Dixie wasn't in DKCR which was the then latest game in the franchise when Sakurai picked out the roster in 2012, but if DLC is a thing she should definitely be included. She'd make sense as a late addition to the game, if anything.
K. Rool on the other hand I suspect as a Smash Run event boss.
But with the recent leak, ouch... It hurts, it really hurts. But I can hope that at least one DK newcomer is still possible. And I think the more likely of the two is Dixie Kong. Maybe she'd be a partial clone to Diddy, but without a tail and jetpack and with that hair of hers, she'd still be very unique, more unique than Wolf is when compared to Fox and Falco even. Plus relevancy and all that, I know Dixie wasn't in DKCR which was the then latest game in the franchise when Sakurai picked out the roster in 2012, but if DLC is a thing she should definitely be included. She'd make sense as a late addition to the game, if anything.
K. Rool on the other hand I suspect as a Smash Run event boss.