User blog comment:Scafe714/My SSB4 3DS tier predictions/@comment-12343352-20141012011348/@comment-24503190-20141016002135

The recovery is a big part of it. His Shuttle Loop has been severely nerfed, as he now gains barely any horizontal distance and not a ton of vertical distance either. The gliding made it nearly impossible to knock him off the stage, and now his recovery feels slightly less than average.