...duh...lets just agree that there is still posibility and his chances is "either a boss or playable character", but not 0% playable, 100% boss or turn this thread into "Yes, he has" and "No, he doesn`t" have a chance now. If i will be proven wrong, then i will wait for him in Project M and accept defeat

Besides, I'm pretty sure Alfonso will take over for Ridley if Ridley were playable :U

But anyway, I also highly doubt that Ridley is going to be playable.
He probably would be a broken character then.

Actually, his air abilities, combined with his other ablities, are exactly the reasons, why Ridley is too good to be a playable character.
Just imagine a Kirby in the size of Bowser, that can breathe fire and use claws, combined with a big range thanks to his long tail, which he HAS to use, since it is an trademark attack of his.
Try to balance that.

Hmm...let's see, how Ridley's moveset would look like:
Neutral B: Fire Breath (Bowser)
Side B: Claw Attack (Bowser)
Up B: Rising Wing Slash (after the attack Ridley goes into that impractical glide from SSBB, which is probably in the new SSB as well)
Down B: Tail Dive (Bowser's Down B)
Final Smash: Similar to Snake's Final Smash, but it's Ridley shooting fireballs at the opponent
Special things: Flying (Kirby, Pit), Slow movement, fast tail attacks with short range and slow tail attacks with long range as standards, uses tail for grabbing (Samus, Link), slow ground movement, can be easily knocked out of the arena, but can also easily knock out other into the arena

Maybe that is balance, but I'm not enterily sure...however, I did tried to make these aspects as Ridley as possible.