diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/ElseAfterReturnCheck.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/ElseAfterReturnCheck.cpp
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/ElseAfterReturnCheck.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/ElseAfterReturnCheck.cpp
@@ -188,9 +188,8 @@
     if (IsLastInScope) {
       // If the if statement is the last statement its enclosing statements
       // scope, we can pull the decl out of the if statement.
-      DiagnosticBuilder Diag =
-          diag(ElseLoc, WarningMessage, clang::DiagnosticIDs::Level::Remark)
-          << ControlFlowInterruptor;
+      DiagnosticBuilder Diag = diag(ElseLoc, WarningMessage)
+                               << ControlFlowInterruptor;
       if (checkInitDeclUsageInElse(If) != nullptr) {
         Diag << tooling::fixit::createReplacement(
                     SourceRange(If->getIfLoc()),