Again, I'm not trying to discourage any players from using villagers, but yeah...if your aim is to win, carry a counter-pick for his bad match-ups or make HIM the counter-pick.
I wasn't trying to out-rule that possible situation, I addressed it earlier, and I'm not saying that you're wrong, but I guess the confusion came from me saying "I cannot believe somebody just said having to deal with half your moveset being reflected can be potentially to your benefit." What I meant from that post was that speaking in the general sense, your opponent having a reflector does NOT benefit Villager in any way because its simply a lose-lose situation for your opponent to even have that option available. What you are describing is a simple punish, your opponent carelessly used a move incorrectly or like you said, you read that he would. My point was that there exists no character in the game that benefits from their opponent having more options, however bad an option it may be (unless its the unlikely scenario where there is some sort of problem that causes them to be forced to use that move but that is very unlikely). The reflector in this case is an extra option your opponent has to deal with your options, and a really damn good one at that. Just because it is possible that you can read that your opponent will use a certain option and punish it, does not increase your characters potential.
Here's a hypothetical scenario - In the Sonic vs Villager matchup, sonic gains a new option versus Villager that he cannot use on Falco. Sonic obtains the ability to use another different type of bair that kills faster, but is slower and laggier.
Now I will reword your statement with the hypothetical scenario - My point on Villager vs Sonic's second Bair is that the Bair is laggy enough to punish and if you make the read then you DO have a scenario where Villager HAS an advantage it is small, a good player will rarely be hit by it, and a good portion of the time it makes getting back on stage more difficult, but it does exist as a scenario.
While your statement is true, the point I was trying to make is also true that just Sonic having that extra option available for me (and not for some certain other characters) is not to my advantage in any conceivable way. Its a lose-lose situation, you never want your opponent to have more options against you however useless they may be. If the option is a bad option all they have to do is to not ever use that option. Similarly having more options against your opponent is not always to your benefit, but it will never be bad for you, yet it can potentially be to your benefit, but having the ability to limit your opponents options is ALWAYS a win-win situation for you. I hope you can sort of see where the confusion in our arguments came from now and that its clearer to see my point.
See the above statement, I'm not saying that this is not true...but again, you generally still don't want to do that imo because the pocketed projectile can just as easily be reflected and 0HKO you.
And yes I know you can do that, I mentioned it earlier.
At the end of the day though, now that evo is allowing customs, it is very very likely that almost all smash 4 tournaments from now on will allow custom moves. In this case, my earlier statement about villagers viability does not apply at the moment because I don't have a good grasp of custom Villager's full potential, but I do know that he is MUCH better than normal Villager. Rejoice in celebration fellow Villagers!
Just...watch out for custom Mega Mans...;-;