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I don't have any problem with it. I personally like my share of leaks.
Fun fact: Exactly half of the vBrawl newcomers that have been added to P:M so far are heavyweights. 12 characters introduced in vBrawl have been added to PM v2.1. Six of them (Snake, Wario, ROB, Zard, Ike, and DDD) are heavy. Maybe comparatively, you feel like Falco's bair is weaker because relatively more characters have been added who don't fly as far from being hit by it.
This is simply wrong information. Samus can very well recover high. Sure, she's not great at it, but her bomb stalling covers her from below and gives her mix-up potential due to the aerial mobility afforded by her morph ball form. It's actually much more reliable than Mewtwo coming in from above, where he has to make a 50-50 guess over whether he should teleport or not and then pray that his opponent didn't catch on. Samus can also FF dair when she spots an opening, thus setting up for combos, TCs, and gimps. I wish Mewtwo had a reliable dair with which to come down. I think the only aerial he has to properly cover himself when descending is nair. Even Samus's nair and uair are better descent options than that. Even without bombs, Samus's recovery is far from "***". She's the third floatiest char in the game and she still has her great DJ, tether, and upB.
I'm a Samus main, and I've played enough lackadaisical friendlies with Mew2 (who hasn't?) to get a good feel of his recovery. If both chars are in the lower blastzone of FD with their DJ intact, Samus can make it back with a DJ > tether > upB. I'm not sure if the rising grapple (which sends Samus into tumble) would make her go higher, but she can make it just fine with a regular tether. I remember being in similar situations with Mewtwo and falling short of the ledge. Besides, in such a situation, the opponent would definitely ledgehog you, causing Mewtwo to die (but Samus would survive thanks to Screw Attack).
You are not speaking from experience when you talk about Samus's upB, but I am. Sami definitely do NOT use her upB as a last resort. Like Doc's upB, it can set up clutch TC's on fast fallers if connected and followed up with immediately. Lolz at Mewtwo attempting such a reversal. The true reason Samuses use other recovery methods (tether, recover high, etc) is because they are faster and easier to capitalize on or because of general BS, like Marth's dair. It is faster and more profitable to snap to the ledge with tether and then ledgehop > WL > dsmash/grab/etc. then to upB to the ledge, which would be slower, and follow up from that. I didn't choose not to upB because it was bad, I simply chose not to because there were better options. Options is the reason Samus is a solid character. Options is something that Mewtwo simply does not have many of.
Where they able to do it in 2.1? It was possible in 2.1, I used buffer to do it, but it's relatively hard or a frame harder than Falco's AC Bair so you being a good Falco might have been able to do it if you tried. I'm thinking if they never tried it in 2.1 though that they might of just not been able to do it? There's also Autocancelling the Fair/Up-air in a SH which is around the same hardness, but they can't be Jump/WD'ed out of like SH Bair.
Snake is now the 9th heaviest character in P:M, lighter than ROB but heavier than Link and Falcon, so he is now either the lightest heavyweight or the heaviest middleweight. He is exactly one weight unit below ROB and one unit above Captain Link, so you could call it either way.
Yoshi was, and has always been, a heavyweight. He was just the lightest heavyweight in NTSC Melee. The heaviest middleweights in Melee were Link and Captain Falcon (they were tied). One could argue that Yoshi was actually the heaviest middleweight, but his weight is only one unit below Ganon's while being an entire four units above Link's and C.Falcon's, so I think it's more reasonable to postulate that NTSC Yoshi is indeed a heavyweight.
When recovering from high, mewtwo is bettersamus's recovery is better than mewtwo's even tho he covers more distance more quickly (and having the best vertical recovery in the game, period)
samus has more versatility
that was the point (did you miss the hint?), Mewtwo can double jump to go high for his up-b. So he is good from low... if he can get high.... I guess that makes it kind of confusing. The point is, you want to GO high with mewtwo, whereas, with samus, you often want to start high and end up low.
This reminds me of another character
Tether literally counts as several options for Samus because there are so many ways to utilize it, thanks to all the Samus-specific tether techs that exist. You have:
I'll disagree with you on the distance point, but that's arbitrary. Samus also has two forms of bomb jumping, one that utilizes two bombs to cover the maximum horizontal distance (max stall capability) and one that only utilizes one for a little distance boosting (no stall capability but faster and harder to predict and react to). Good Samuses use both for mix-up ability, especially when they need to recover high.
What? "It does not come up very often?" With all the DJC's that Mewtwos use, I'd be surprised if a Mewtwo didn't die from losing his DJ before being sent offstage at least once per match (obvious exaggeration). Mewtwos also use their teleport onstage to escape pressure at times but if they get hit after it, they've lost their DJ, so it's just like a DJC in that respect. Anyway, my main point was that Samus's recovery is better than Mewtwo's due to versatility, but I guess either one being better is arbitrary if they're really close. I would agree that both are better than Peach's.
Hey, wait a sec, don't you play Samus as well? I've seen you around the Samus boards... <__< Where's your enthusiasm for our character? 
I'm not saying that the distance is negligible, you can definitely use it for distance, but I would still use it to help with recovering even if it didn't give you a distance boost, for reasons such as what you posted.
I sort of half disagree a bit here, but whatever. Let's just leave it at they are both good at recovering I guess lol.
I would say this is more on topic than many of the other topics discussed here often. Plus, there isn't much to discuss about for PM. We are all anxiously awaiting more news!
Oh dang, you're right!
I know you guys are bros (I wish my bros were into competitive Smash). Would you guys also happen to be twins by any chance?
Yeah, if I plan on streaming every Thursday then I definitely need to look into streaming tutorials or buy a better capture card =/.
It looks like Ness has gotten some considerable buffs. Here's what I noticed during the ~3 minutes I watched:
I can do that. :3
Lucario's vB is probably one of his best specials. It basically allows you to follow up any combo string because it puts you in a position to easily combo
Holy mother of god what did I just watch.
I should have put a warning on that video...
I can pretty much give up on my Lucario moveset, because nothing I do will ever match that level of technical complexity. Truly, I am shamed. 3 years of work, rendered obsolete by god-level hackers. ;-;
...er... One hit combos? *guess* (Don't assume I know terminology. I know the basics of competitive, like wavedashes and SHFF, but that's about the extent of it.)
