So I've come to a decision and have made Ike my 2nd in command for FE characters. While I love Lucina, Ike just feels better to use. His punishes are much more satisfying, he's surprisingly easy to combo with, and landing his Fsmash feels so good. Also it might be the fact that I'm getting slowly back into the Pokemon hype, but I've also thought about making my Pikachu better. He's got a great and fun combo game, he's fast with a good recovery, and not to mention he sports a great collection of hats and cuteness. That and I really don't see many Pikachus out there so I wanted to spread some Pika love.
I also found this adorable Pika with Robin's jacket along with other Robin goodies.
I really like Ike too, the problem is that if I trained with all the characters I like, I would play half the roster and I would be bad with all of them
I still use Ike during casual matches, but I think I'm going to focus on Palutena and Shulk as secondaries, then, when I feel satisfied with them, I'll take other characters more seriously.
I really think this game's roster is amazing, it's probably because it's the first time I followed the launch of a smash game but I really had trouble choosing wich characters to play, I feel like all of them have something unique to offer.
In the end I'm just playing the characters that were on top of my newcomers list, which is the exact opposite of what I did in brawl, when I first started playing it I didn't know many of the most obscure characters, I actually choose the characters based on how they played, and ended up maining Marth, who I didn't even know who was at the time.
This time around I'm sticking to the characters I like and adapting to their playstyle.
The only one I'm sad about is Lucina, even before her trailer I knew she was coming as either a Marth clone or alt costume, and I was set on using her since I really like her as a character more than Marth(I haven't played any of Marth FE games).
Then we got a worse clone... I really want to use her, she even has a Cordelia alt color(wich is amazing), but there's just no point, Marth is just better, so I ended up using her in casual matches.
Edit: Didn't realize I made such a long post until it was over