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I think you're missing the issue with Isabelle being a clone/semi-clone. She is only doing that because she could not be an Echo, so going the extra mile makes sense too. If she had the right body type, she could still be an Echo and get personality changes. The only questionable move would be the Fishing Rod at that point, and we know one different move(or two, technically) does not stop someone from being an Echo. Body types, however, do. And those who could easily be an Echo(Dr. Mario) but were officially a clone seem to be unable to take a new label, probably due to Grandfather Clause.Yes Theoretically they could do the same thing, but it conflicts with the Personality for Shadow to Move like Sonic
The interesting thing with these two is that they do have access to the same tools, but they use them differently. Like Sonic could use Chaos Powers more if he wanted too, but he doesn't, and he probably wouldn't master it to the level Shadow is at
It's just like Isabelle, like she could do Villager's N-air, but she uses Pom-poms, She could theoretically use all of Villager's other attacks, but it conflicts with her more pacifist nature or something like that. That's also why Luigi doesn't move the Same as Mario, or heck , why Ken doesn't move the same as Ryu. They have their own Flair
Also by the way, the Mechanic comes from Shadow's Own Game, Shadow the Hedgehog. Did you know that Sakurai played Shadow the Hedgehog, along with Sonic 06 (and he even said he completed Sonic 06 as well). those are games where Shadow has his own Mechanics separate from Sonic. Also it was a balancing thing
Ken actually is closer to an what you wouldn't expect from Echoes. His mechanic is literally the same as Ryu, input commands. He just has differences due to having unique abilities via those in his home game. The one that shows what you can do and still make them feel very unique yet correct to their personality is Dark Samus. That's basically what one can do to make Shadow. Take a note from Chrom with an Up B and it works really well. Dark Samus does have a lot of different animations, including the phazon aesthetic changes. Did you know a regular clone with Roy, for example, played nearly the same as Marth bar two key differences(besides a small amount of damage/knockback stuff, of course), he had an aesthetic change to add Fire, but more importantly, he could take damage with Flare Blade. The other is his damage ability comes from the middle of the sword instead of the tip.
The issue here is your premise of him being impossible as an Echo doesn't work. Now, I won't disagree that he'd be better as unique at all. That's how I imagined his moveset from the start, but then I realized Echoes don't need to be 100% replicas in animations either anyway, so you can keep the personality yet not be a clone/semi-clone. Not being able to have new animations and such is something that Alts suffer from. Echoes do not suffer from this. They're supposed to have things like different hitboxes(though admittedly some barely change anything even then, but they still have some remote gameplay difference).