plus popular smash leaker vergeben has stated 1 SE character for Ulimate (many people believe it likely to be geno)
First of all, rumors are just rumors. Secondly, the most obvious second SE rep would be a DQ character. That IS pretty much the biggest deal ever over in Japan, and the series has an important history with Nintendo and every DQ game is available in some form for Nintendo platforms (even more specific: at least one version of each DQ game came out on a Nintendo handheld).
I so, so hope Sakurai doesn't take Ultimate's focus on fanservice too far by including Geno, though.
and let nintendo even make 2 epic mickey games and 3 cannon Kingdom hearts games....so
Nintendo didn't make any Epic Mickey or KH games. They published the first Epic Mickey game in Japan. Sometimes they publish games in certain regions that they otherwise have nothing to do with.
Well, I wouldn't say that. He has a chance, it is just ridiculously small at the current time considering how limited they were when adding Cloud and the additional hoop of Disney. There's just a lot of hurdles to him. But otherwise, Sora is kind of one of the most requested characters when it comes to Smash polls.
As is Goku.
The fact that KH is a Disney crossover game is reason alone to never add Sora. It wouldn't be a proper KH representation without at least some Disney stuff (stage? trophy? cameo during final smash?).
But even if that wasn't a problem, KH isn't important to Nintendo, nor is it a highly iconic Japanese series. All other 3rd parties in Smash at least follows one of those rules.
As much as people say ARMS doesn't have a chance in Smash, selling less than 1 2 Switch, I still am 100% sure that at least 2 reps and a stage will make it in. Maybe even the healing circle thing from the game as an item, but hey - you know what they say: never expect anything from Nintendo, or the Direct will be very long for you.
If it took Animal Crossing (a series that has been big since the 00's) until now to get 2 characters, there's no way ARMS will get 2 characters this soon. It's not very popular, it's only got one game (Splatoon in contrast is a huge deal in Japan and has 2 games and still doesn't have confirmation of more than one character), and it's simply way too new to tell if it's going to be a mainstay for Nintendo. ARMS would be lucky to get one character (which I do think it should get simply because it's a neat game and feels very 'Nintendo').
There's already a healing-field item in Smash Ultimate by the way and it's not from ARMS.