User blog comment:Darth Phazon/Hold on here/@comment-24748212-20141102025234/@comment-5623885-20141102030152

Think about it: if he was announced, no one would see it coming; he would be the first character to represent the SSB series itself, and he would be easy to construct since the data from Brawl wouldn't be hard to copy (his palette swaps would be easy, too).