>>23129834Greninja used to be able to cancel landing lag by using Shadow Sneak. Sakurai decided having anything close to L-cancelling was bad because it might give the game a skill ceiling and we know how Sakurai hates Smash requiring any skill.
Later another patch nerfed Greninja using an exploit enabling him to move faster while charging a Shadow Sneak. This one was clearly a bug so it's not that bad, but it's not like Sakurai gave him any compensation for it, so Shadow Sneak lost a lot of functionality as a move.
>Sakurai once said Greninja was going to be the sophisticated and hard to use character>nerfs every Melee-esque technique people learn with him 