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Keep in mind that Palutena's reflect stays out longer than her animation does, so she's able to act while the wall is out, meaning she can throw out another reflect before the first one disappears to maintain a constant wall of reflection.Palutena's reflects are predictable. If you can't deal with it, shLaser down should be safe for ROB.
Lightweight allows Palutena to follow up her down throw with anything, even at high percentages. If you get grabbed at around 100% and Lightweight is on, you're as good as dead. But, yes, always DI away from her down throw; fair is never going to kill unless you're at like 500%.Always DI away from Palutena's dthrow. It prevents every follow-up except fair at medium and high percents. Don't ever DI in at high percent or you'll risk getting usmashed and being very sad.
Her OoS options are fairly slow, so nairing her shield is safe if you space around her grab. Nair also outspaces every aerial she has except fair, which loses out in disjoint. I find that nair is a really good tool in this matchup (as it normally is).
Her recovery is pretty safe. I usually find it better to use time to set-up a ledge trap with gyro instead of committing to an edgeguard. You could try using dair to hit her during ledge grab vulnerability; it rarely works, but there's really no risk in trying. When recovering, I've found going low and going to the ledge is a fairly good idea. Her dair is pretty mediocre and uair can usually eat through it. She also can't commit too hard for low edgeguards, because she falls fast and her aerials are fairly laggy, so you can stall her out with upb and force her to drop the edgeguard.
I also think one of Palutena's greatest weaknesses is her inability to land kills safely. Just DI away from dthrow, respect RAR bair (the range isn't that great, and it can be fairly predictable), airdodge intelligently against uair and usmash (she can't easily bait airdodges because ROB is more mobile in the air) and play safe to not fall into her smashes. You can live to really high percent, and then kill her with rage uthrow very early.