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There's.... a certain resemblance to Shadow, to say the least.
What did you change?

well i wouldve added a tuft of hair but i couldnt find one big enough

or this?

Yaeh! Tis good now. Maybe add Rouges ears? Your choice

No offence, but do you actually have an opinion on the topic (ie. the sprites)?

Well I don't like the color, red and yellow they are to bright. If you're trying to make an evil hedgehog make the colors darker take out the yellow color if your going to add a little darker tone on it. The name it is too weird for a made up Sonic Character. I like the hair added on it's head. Try to give it a different pose than taking Shadow's pose. I like the green eyes but if like I said if your going to make it evil give it dark color eyes than bright green. The first pic of your made up hedgehog is not good either. Try giving it a better pose, a better name, and better colors........

Nice... Shadow recolor.

Now as a former avid spriter, the genre is very fun and rewarding, especially when you get into actually creating animated sprites and work out how to make their motions fluid and such.

But... Well, I'm sorry to tell you this, but your edit needs serious work. First let's look at the actual technical end of things as far as the actual sprite. There's not really any shading to it, it's all flat. Plus there's alot of gray pixles which weren't colored in when you changed Shadow's color. In accordance to the Sonic Battle style of color, all that gray area needs to be made either a light red or a pink. As it is right now it looks poor and choppy.

Now onto the actual character design. It's... Well, it looks like Shadow after falling into a bucket of paint o_o; I highly reccomend you take a gander at this because he explains it far better than I possibly could off the top of my head and provides visual references.