DK character

[Alpha Six]

Not counting Mario-franchise games.

What about Kiddy?

[Kairos]

Nothing.

Only thing he was DK3.

[Ton]

If I recall, Dixie has appeared in Donkey Konga 2, Donkey Konga 3, Donkey Kong King of Swing, DK Barrel Blast, DK Jungle Climber, Diddy Kong Racing DS, Mario Baseball, Mario Super Sluggers, Mario 3 on 3 Basketball...

Which is really ALL that the DK series has been doing lately. She also got trophies in SSB Melee and Brawl whereas Diddy was ignored in the former and Kiddy in both. Kiddy's last mention was in DK64, I believe, where he was mentioned as Chunky's brother.

[Ekoi]

I'm not sure if we even need a third DK character.

I'd rather see Funky Kong playable before Dixie, to be honest.

[Koopaul]

Still Dixie was then next playable character in DK games like King of Swing and Jungle Climber. Kiddy was abandoned in all aspects, cameos everything.

Besides we have a simple solution. Just team Dixie with Diddy. Ta-da! Makes some space, keeps Dixie, uses the partner idea.

[Ton]

But Diddy is already established. It'd be better, if we include Dixie, to make a new moveset for her.

[Koopaul]

Hm... Perhaps we could swap Diddy's the B down move to swap to Dixie? Diddy will stay mostly the same.

[Alpha Six]

Wasn't his down B the banana peels? Where's that gonna go?

[Kitsu]

I'd say #1.

[Koopaul]

About the banana peel move.

People didn't like that considering there was an item like that already. Besides Sakurai himself was considering this.

[Ton]

I'd like to do as little altering to the characters as possible. There's no reason to make Dixie and Diddy another gimmick "swap" character.

[Koopaul]

Hm true. I guess I'll just go with solo Dixie.

[Ton]

Where did you read that Sakurai was considering them to be a swap character?

[Koopaul]

Ah here:

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=144627

[Ton]

That's interesting, but unlike Diddy, I don't think Dixie will work as a standalone character. She's just not interesting enough. Most of Diddy's attacks are from DK64, which Dixie was notably absent from. That's why I came up with the pairing of Dixie/Kiddy to begin with. Apart they couldn't really do much, but I thought that as a team they'd be more interesting. And it'd be neat to see Dixie on Kiddy's back and both of them fighting as a single character.
So yeah, I don't think Dixie will work alone. She just has no move pool.