Wow, I'm retarded.
I totally missed the "while holding the shield button." part of that post.
I'm thinking "damn, all I gotta do is tap to the side a bit and I'll avoid all damage? Sounds cheap."
Yea, but obviously, I wouldn't really be much of a smash bros player if I didn't even know how to dodge, I guess.
ANYWAYS, I'm really hoping ZSS is only accessable after a smash, or like you said, holding the 'a' down at start of a match.
I just really think the game will lose SO much, if we have 2 types of marios, 2 types of links, 2 types of samus', and 1 type of donkey kong/any other character. I know it's a little late for the idea, but the game would be a lot cooler IMO, if it was only the main character from each game. There are SO many Nintendo games, yet we'll probly never see them, because we have the ever popular Luigi/Peach/Bowser/Yoshi/Wario/Dr. Mario.