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Some corrections. Horizontal endurance differences are caused by the game's method of decaying launch speed
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'''Gravity''' is a measure of how fast a falling [[character]] reaches their maximum [[falling speed]]. A character with high gravity does not necessarily have a fast falling speed; they simply reach their top falling speed faster. Gravity also affects how high a character is able to [[jump]]; two characters with the same jump force will not jump the same height if they have different gravity. Naturally, a character with higher gravity would jump lower than a character with lower gravity (assuming they have the same jump force). | '''Gravity''' is a measure of how fast a falling [[character]] reaches their maximum [[falling speed]]. A character with high gravity does not necessarily have a fast falling speed; they simply reach their top falling speed faster. Gravity also affects how high a character is able to [[jump]]; two characters with the same jump force will not jump the same height if they have different gravity. Naturally, a character with higher gravity would jump lower than a character with lower gravity (assuming they have the same jump force). | ||
Gravity does not take a direct effect on vertical knockback in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'' | Gravity does not take a direct effect on vertical knockback in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'', although since a fighter's falling physics remain intact during hitstun, fighters with a combination of high falling speed and gravity will effectively resist vertical launch distance. From ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' onward, vertical knockback's velocity suffered by characters is now based on both their [[weight]] and their gravity (once they enter [[tumble]]); the formula to determine the gravity penalty is '''(g - 0.075) x 5 '''. This causes higher-gravity characters to be launched at a higher velocity, but horizontal launch speed is not directly affected. This reduces the natural effect of gravity on launch distance, keeping characters with low weight but high gravity (most notably [[Fox]]) from having disproportionally high vertical endurance, and in fact results in their endurance being slightly worse than a fighter with lower gravity, due to the formula overcompensating while not considering falling speed. Despite horizontal launch speed being unaffected, fighters with higher gravity also tend to have poorer horizontal endurance, due to the way the game decays launch speed. Fighters' total launch speed decays over time, with the horizontal and vertical components decaying such that they both reach 0 at the same time, and as such, when vertical launch speed is increased, horizontal launch speed decays more slowly. An example that shows the effect on gravity with knockback is with {{SSBB|Zelda}} and {{SSBB|Sheik}} in ''Melee'' and ''Brawl''. In both games, Zelda and Sheik have the same weight and in ''Melee'', Zelda and Sheik have the same horizontal endurance but Sheik has better vertical endurance due to her higher falling speed and gravity. In ''Brawl'' however, Zelda has better endurance both horizontally and vertically due to her lower gravity (although Sheik has slightly better vertical endurance with [[momentum canceling]]). | ||
Gravity also affects how difficult the character is to [[combo]] - gravity does not take effect on knockback if a character is not put into tumble. By applying slightly more knockback to characters that more quickly fall into the next attack, it slightly normalizes the effect of setup and multi-hit moves on the cast. This also makes characters with higher gravity considerably more vulnerable to [[chain grab]]s in ''Brawl'', and in ''Brawl'' and ''Smash 4'', it makes moves with low knockback chain into them-self and other moves more reliably on characters with higher gravity when combined with ''Brawl'' removing [[DI]] against moves which do not put opponents into tumble (an example of this being Sheik's forward tilt, which can easily chain into itself multiple times). | Gravity also affects how difficult the character is to [[combo]] - gravity does not take effect on knockback if a character is not put into tumble. By applying slightly more knockback to characters that more quickly fall into the next attack, it slightly normalizes the effect of setup and multi-hit moves on the cast. This also makes characters with higher gravity considerably more vulnerable to [[chain grab]]s in ''Brawl'', and in ''Brawl'' and ''Smash 4'', it makes moves with low knockback chain into them-self and other moves more reliably on characters with higher gravity when combined with ''Brawl'' removing [[DI]] against moves which do not put opponents into tumble (an example of this being Sheik's forward tilt, which can easily chain into itself multiple times). | ||