error: no matching function for call to copy constructor, c++

Question

Sorry in advance for what may be a bad post. I've scoured stackoverflow for pre existing posts that answer my question, but although many posts on here are similar, none of them seem to apply to my situation. I have struct Node, designed to be a container. Class Characters, which has character's name and power. For some reason without the default constructor the code crash with error:

#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
class Characters {
    public:
        int power;
        std::string name;
        Characters(int power, const std::string &name) : power(power), name(name) {}
        // Characters() : power(0), name("") {}
        //without above line, the code crashes with error: no matching function for call to 'Characters::Characters()' 39 |     Node (const Node<T> &other) {

        Characters(const Characters &other) {
            power=other.power;
            name = other.name;
        }

};

template <typename T>
struct Node {
    T val;
    Node (const T &val) : val(val) {}
    Node (const Node<T> &other) {
        val= other.val;
    }
};

int main() {
    using namespace std;
    Node<Characters> n1(Characters(4, "meh"));
    Node<Characters> n2=n1;

    return 0;
}

I have no idea why this occurs without default constructor. I'm probably just bad at using google, but none of the things I search up seems to address my issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

Credit to 463035818_is_not_a_number for pointing this out!

This below:

Node (const Node<T> &other) {
    val= other.val;
}

Should be replaced with this.

Node (const Node &other) : val(other.val) {        }

I misunderstood the usage and property of member initialization list.