Um, him being in a screenshot after he was released doesn't make him a starter - every character has been seen in several screenshots in updates immediately after theirs. Sakurai was pretty clear about how classic mode worked, giving you a random Kirby foe at stage 3, and he is a Kirby foe, hence giving him a reason to be shown there. Theres no reason his being in that update means anything about his unlockable or starter status.
But that wasn't just a regular VS match, it was in classic mode. Mario was the playable character and Kirby and King Dedede were your allies againist Meta Knight thus suggesting for certain stages, the partner match ups aren't completely random and rather based on the franchise of the stage.
I take it you haven't paid much attention to the info we garnered on Ike from E for All, because hes nothing of the sort. They share exactly three moves, one of which is a fairly generic special (counter) and the other two of which are equally generic standard moves (fair and f-tilt are vertical slashes on both), and are opposites in terms of play style (Ike being heavier, slower, and stronger than Bowser vs Marth being light, fast, and combo-reliant). They're not even close to each other, much less semi-clones.
And I take it you don't know the meaning of the word "semi-clone." The word semi literally means half and from what I've seen of the E for All gameplay footage, Ike fights in a very similar manner to Marth. Also, if you want a clearer definition of what a semi-clone is, compare Mario and Luigi: different stats and modified similar attacks.
Now, I do agree hes likely to be a starter, mostly because of how early he was announced and the fact that hes the most popular international Lord, but theres also the fair chance Marth will join him as a starter. And of course I wanted to enlighten you on that erroneous assumption about the two.
The irony of this is that when I called Ike a semi-clone, I was going off of observations from watching the various match videos that came in from E for All, you got on me for that because I didn't offer an indepth explanation and then in this paragraph, you say that Marth has a fair chance of being a starter and offer no explanation as to why...Also, why is it that everytime we meet (which isn't very often I might add) you always end up talking down to me as if I'm either A) blind or B) borderline r*tarded?
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