User blog comment:CRUDLuVER/Dark Pit rant/@comment-25161957-20140923105338

Yeah? Well check out Fire Emblem. Four characters. And Mario is chilling there with seven. Pokemon and Zelda, the next biggest franchises are just stuck with five.

Also, Dark Pit is a clone of Pit probably for one reason: Dark Pit is actually a clone of Pit in Kid Icarus: Uprising so Sakurai probably didn't think much of making a proper moveset. Remember, this is the same person who made fifty clones + Ganondorf when Melee was made.