How to recover? Barrels keep exploding!

[Menk]

I've played Diddy since Brawl, and some in PM, and both times barrels were kind of scary. If you recover too low, they'll hit the stage and explode instead of letting you grab the ledge. That sucks! But the easy answer was to just shoot high, or just aim for the ledge because it still wasn't too hard.

But in 4, they explode even if I go over the ledge! If I go to the right side of duck hunt, up b straight up uncharged near the ledge, then drift on top of the stage, they still explode when I hit the ground. What am I doing wrong? are you just super likely to die if you don't charge barrels? I don't get it.

 

[Pogoshark]

This happened to me a LOT, unfortunately its just something you have to work around, try and recover under the ledge or if they have projectiles to throw down and gimp you recover under the stage and slide up it.
It happens when you hit the corner in the area that's considered to be a wall (you can actually wall cling to the corner), as for landing above the stage and still falling off, I have no idea why it explodes and kills you, it's happened to me before and I made sure it never happen again