Concern about dropping items mid air

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So I recently got access to the demo and started playing around with things. I think there was an oversight with dropping items (not tossing downwards) while playing as a character that has access to a Zair attack. When pressing L (the grab button), the tether character (in this case Link) he will drop the item then use the tether attack. This did not happen in Melee or Brawl. I tried this with Mega Man, and he drops it like normal.

I feel like this is an oversight similar to always fast falling in the air when pressing the C-Stick down even though it wasn't like that in melee.