Peach (PM)

Peach is a playable character in the Brawl mod Project M. She has been faithfully restored to her Melee version for her appearance in Project M.

Peach ranks 14th out of 41 on the official tier list, toward the lower half of the A- tier. This is a slight improvement over her placement in Brawl, where she ranked 19th out of 38, and a distance away from her 7th place out of 26 position in Melee. In the official Project+ tier list, she ranks much lower, placing 30-31th out of 42 characters, near the bottom of B-tier.

Attributes
Peach is a methodical fighter with several intimidating tricks in her moveset. Her vegetables can either serve as a barrage of heavy damage, an edgeguarding tool, or a cover for her approach. is a formidable and terrifying grinder with long reach and duration, high damage and knockback, and low lag. Players who attempt to crouch cancel it can expect upwards of 80% in damage if it is charged, and its launch power grants it the ability to KO players at early percents. Peach also has her powerful float ability, which allows for the use of her set of fast, powerful aerials while approaching or falling back. It also opens up the ability to float cancel and to go for very deep edgeguards that most characters are incapable of. Peach has great combo starters in her jab, dash attack, and her throws.

However, Peach suffers in her mobility. Despite float granting her free reign of horizontal direction while airborn, her dash speed is quite slow and she has one of the shortest wavedashes in the game. She also suffers from a lack of reliable kill moves with the exceptions of her down smash and forward air. This forces her to go for gimps often, but they are a field she excels in with the combination of her float and turnips. Peach also has a low falling speed, meaning she dies off the top blast line easily.

Moveset
Up to date as of version 3.6.

Notable tech
Labbing Discord Tech Post

Notable players

 * - Formerly ranked 1st on the Washington Project M Power Rankings. Placed 13th at EVO 2016 and 7th at Super Smash Con 2016.
 * - Ranked 14th on PMRank 2018.
 * - Considered the best Peach in the world; co-mains her with Sheik. Ranked 1st on PMRank 2019.

Project M
Beginning with 3.0, Peach gained two alternate costumes.

The first one is Shadow Peach. In , Peach is offered as a vessel for the, a powerful entity who was sealed away for a millennia. After her ressurection, Mario and friends have to defeat her in order to save Peach from her control. Her outfit includes a cape, and gives Peach red eyes, dark purple skin and makeup.

Another is from ). This costume gives her a ponytail, and has red gloves instead of white.

Aesthetically, Peach's heart effects are replaced by darkness and fire for those costumes, respectively.

Project+
In Project+, Peach receives an additional costume based on her appearance in Super Mario Sunshine (a sleeveless dress and no gloves). Her default costume includes three recolors: a black dress, a gold dress, and a costume inspired by her sprite from the original Super Mario Bros. with red hair, resembling her appearance in the three DIC Entertainment Mario cartoon adaptations. Her Shadow Queen costume has also received recolors, the brown recolor of which is based on a hypothetical Shadow Queen version of Daisy.



Z-Secret Costume: Rosalina-inspired costume.

R-Secret Costume: Super Smash Bros. Melee design

Trivia

 * Peach's Project+ render resembles promotional artwork for her in the Super Mario series.
 * Peach's original R-Button costume was based on a manga found in a  player's guide released only in Japan before ultimately being replaced by a costume based on her appearance in Melee.