The "Is this character a clone?" tier list

[QuintonShark8714]

Just something i found from GameFAQS, any thoughts?

 

[Arthur97]

How dare you put Wolf with the likes of Young Link when most of his moveset is original. He's probably more unique than Luigi. Also, Roy is fairly diversified now.

Also, kind of ironic that despite being the most unique echoe, Ken also has identical (or nearly) idle animations as Ryu.

 

[Sari]

There is no way Dark Pit is on the same level of uniqueness as Dr. Mario or Ken. He deserves to be on the complete clone level considering his changes are about the same as Dark Samus'.

 

[Guynamednelson]

I would create a tier in between the bottom two for Dark Pit, Lucina, and Chrom.

 

[Mogisthelioma]

Here's mine:

Explanations:
Ike is basically Marth but swole and with worse frame data, with two different special moves, but was never intended to be a clone.
Jigglypuff was originally intended to be similar to Kirby but now has plenty of differences on her own.
Falco, Dorf, Isabelle, Luigi and Wolf all posses similarities to another fighter (Fox, C. Falcon, Villager, Luigi, also Fox), but have some original aspects on their own.
The "Melee Clones" (Doc, Pichu, Roy and Yink), as well as Tink (who was designed to replace Yink) are all very similar to a progenitor fighter and were added to pan out the roster but not to add much of anything.
And of course, the seven echoes are almost completely identical to or are literally identical to another fighter.

 

[QuintonShark8714]

Here's mine:
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Explanations:
Ike is basically Marth but swole and with worse frame data, with two different special moves, but was never intended to be a clone.

I have to agree here, the counter mechanic is widely used in Smash, just having a counter wouldn't qualify you for "clone"

 

[staindgrey]

The "100%" part of complete clones is misleading if you're putting in Daisy. Her sideB and uSmash have different properties.

I mean, that's it, but that's not 100%. Can't speak for Dark Samus or Richter on that account, though.

 

[Mogisthelioma]

The "100%" part of complete clones is misleading if you're putting in Daisy. Her sideB and uSmash have different properties.

I mean, that's it, but that's not 100%. Can't speak for Dark Samus or Richter on that account, though.

Pretty sure Dark Samus is a bit floatier, but I have no idea for Richter.

 

[Guynamednelson]

Pretty sure Dark Samus is a bit floatier, but I have no idea for Richter.

Only her animations are floaty. Richter has a gameplay difference in that the game doesn't consider blue flames "real" fire, causing them to hurt Red Pikmin and not set off explosives, but I think that wasn't intended.

 

[QuintonShark8714]

here's an updated version (the Mewtwo and Snake parts are a joke)

 

[Mogisthelioma]

here's an updated version (the Mewtwo and Snake parts are a joke)
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Oh right, I forgot to do Lucas. He's probably in the same tier as Falco/Dorf for me.

 

[Arthur97]

here's an updated version (the Mewtwo and Snake parts are a joke)
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Techincally Dark Pit should be in the bottom tier.
I'd still argue that Wolf has less Fox in him than Luigi has Mario (which he should anyways as that is Luigi's thing).