User blog comment:TimeSoul/Ridley/@comment-5623885-20141104013714/@comment-5623885-20141108005521

Exactly.

Charizard's playstyle was a heavyweight, yet somewhat floaty dragon with fire-based attacks and had a self damaging side special.

I imagine Ridley would be very fast, very floaty and very powerful, bur have a low defense and weak shielding to counterbalance his swiftness.