List of updates (SSB4)/1.0.6 changelog

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This is the list of known changes in version 1.0.6 of Super Smash Bros. 4. All claims on this page must be verifiable, preferably with a trustable source link, and must compare both the old and new states. Ensure that all changes are also listed on the respective pages.

General

• Pressing A + B together produces smash attacks. This can be disabled in the Controls menu.
• Tilting the analog stick + smash stick together produces smash attacks instead of tilt attacks.
• It is no longer possible to perform tilt attacks or smash attacks while holding a throwing item.
• The player's selected name now persists between modes.
• Fixed glitch where feeding an amiibo would affect CPU characters in Master Orders.
• In Team Battles, CPUs use Share Stock a couple seconds after they lose their stocks, rather than instantly.

Stages

• Lylat Cruise edges changed for "slope" recoveries.
• The Nabbit glitch has been removed.
• Fixed glitch where Ness's down throw could send opponents through the boat on Wuhu Island for an instant KO.

Bowser

• Bowser has more control over Flying Slam's trajectory.

Bowser Jr.

• Forward smash can hit at a closer range.
• Neutral infinite has less visual whiffs.

Technical changelist

Change	Old value	New value
Forward smash (repeating hit) hitboxes	1	2
Forward smash initial hitbox Y-offset	18	17
Forward smash final hitbox size	6	7
Forward smash final hitbox X/Y-offsets	20,10	18,8
Forward smash final hitbox (angled up) Y-offset	13	11
Forward smash final hitbox (angled down) X-offset	20	17

Captain Falcon

• Down-angled forward smash's knockback has been noticeably reduced.
• Neutral infinite has less visual whiffs.

Charizard

• Up throw's damage increased: 6% (hit 1), 2% (throw) → 8% (hit 1), 3% (throw).
• Flare Blitz deals 1% more recoil damage: 4% (no collision), 9% (collision) → 5% (no collision), 10% (collision).
• Forward aerial's sweetspot and sourspot hitbox positions switched.
• Fly's knockback increased.
• Down tilt's start-up and ending lag decreased.

Dark Pit

• No longer clips through sloped terrain while using ledge attack as someone else grabs the ledge.

Diddy Kong

• Forward smash has increased ending lag.
• Up air damage decreased: 8% → 6%.
• Up air's knockback is significantly weaker, no longer KOing until well beyond 150%.
• The aforementioned changes allow it to combo better.
• Forward air damage decreased: 12%/10% → 10%/8%.
• Up throw deals less damage (10% → 8%), but it also has less knockback, which allows Diddy Kong to combo it into an up aerial more efficiently.
• Down throw deals less damage (7% → 6%), which reduces its hitstun but keep opponents closer for follow ups at higher percentages.
• Monkey Flip (kick) now has an extra hitbox that deals 10% damage near the end of the kick.
• Monkey Flip (grab) damage decreased: 12% → 10%.
• Monkey Flip (jump) damage decreased: 10% → 8%.

Donkey Kong

• Giant Punch charges significantly faster: 172 frames → 144.
• Headbutt no longer stalls Donkey Kong in midair.
• Neutral attack's first hit no longer launches opponents at the Sakurai angle.

Dr. Mario

• Up smash's horizontal knockback increased, making it more effective at KOing while near an edge.
• Sweetspotted forward aerial deals 1.12% more damage: 15.68% → 16.8%.

Ganondorf

• Neutral attack deals 1% more damage on the arm and hand hitboxes respectively: 6%/9% → 7%/10%.
• Up, forward and down throws have less hitlag.

Ike

• Fixed a glitch where Aether Drive behaved erratically while performed in slow motion.
• Counter's knockback growth increased: 74 → 100.

Kirby

• Down throw deals 3.6% more damage: 6.6% → 10.2%.
• Sourspotted upward angled forward smash deals 1% less damage: 13% → 12%.
• Upward angled forward smash also KOs 11% later.
• Up smash KOs 7% earlier.
• Down smash KOs 4% earlier.
• Inhale can be canceled earlier.
• Inhale's animation slightly changed. Fiery effects emit from Kirby after he Inhales explosive items.
• Hammer Flip's ending lag decreased.
• Kirby moves faster on the ground while charging Hammer Flip.
• Final Cutter has improved visual effects.

Link

• Uncharged Spin Attack deals 2% more damage: 12% → 14% and KOs 17% earlier.
• Spin Attack's back half KOs 19% later.
• Spin Attack comes out 3 frames faster and ends 4 frames sooner.
• Spin Attack and Shocking Spin Attack's second hitboxes' Z-offsets increased: 6.6 → 7.
• Neutral attack's first hit ends sooner: 27 frames → 19. It also no longer has any interruptibility frames, removing Link's "jab cancel death combo".[1]
• Non-tippered dash attack deals 1% less damage: 13% → 12%.
• Nop-tippered dash attack's knockback growth decreased: 78 → 72.
• Dash attack's hitbox comes out 1 frame faster: frame 21 → 20.
• Down tilt's knockback growth decreased.
• Down tilt no longer meteor smashes characters hanging on a ledge except for Charizard.
• Forward smash's sourspot's position has been altered.
• Parts of forward smash have been made irreversible.
• Down aerial's reach increased by 50%.

Little Mac

• Jolt Haymaker's knockback increased.

Lucario

• Fixed a landing lag glitch for Extreme Speed.

Lucina

• Forward aerial deals 0.5% more damage: 8.075% → 8.575%.
• Down tilt deals 0.5% more damage: 8.075% → 8.575%.
• Forward smash deals 0.55% more damage: 14.725% → 15.275%.
• Down smash's second hit deals 0.5% more damage: 13.775% → 14.275%.
• Uncharged Shield Breaker deals 0.5% more damage: 8.075% → 8.575%.
• Fully charged Shield Breaker deals 1% more damage: 21.85% → 22.85%.
• Neutral attack's first hit can be interrupted earlier: frame 29 → 26.
• Forward tilt can be interrupted earlier: frame 39 → 35.
• Dancing Blade's first hit can be interrupted earlier: frame 45 → 42.
• Dancing Blade's hits connect together better.

Luigi

• Fireball deals 1% less damage the farther it goes: 6% → 5% (late).

Mario

• Part of forward smash made irreversible.
• Part of forward smash's hitbox moved slightly higher.

Technical changelist

Change	Old value	New value
Forward smash hitbox 0 Y-offset	0	0.7
Forward smash irreversible

Marth

• Jab 1 IASA: Frame 29 → Frame 26
• Forward tilt IASA: Frame 39 → Frame 35.
• Dancing Blade hit 1 IASA: Frame 45 → Frame 42.
• Dancing Blade combos more consistently.

Mega Man

• Leaf Shield starts moving sooner when thrown (though the animation length is unchanged).
• Landing lag glitch has been fixed.

Meta Knight

• Down throw causes the screen to shake slightly more.
• Fixed Dimensional Cape's landing lag glitch.

Mii Brawler

• Both hits of forward aerial deal 1% less damage: 4%/6% → 3%/5%.
• Back aerial deals 2% less damage: 12% → 10%.
• Piston Punch's first hit can no longer OHKO the lightest characters.

Mii Swordfighter

• Down tilt damage increased by 2%: 6% → 8%
• Neutral aerial damage increased by 3%: 5% → 8%
• Hero's Spin (grounded) damage increased: 12-16% → 14-19%

Mr. Game & Watch

• Forward tilt base knockback increased: 20 → 30.
• Chef (all variations) pan size increased: 5.76 → 6.76.

Olimar

• Fixed a glitch where reflecting Order Tackle would give the Pikmin a permanent power boost.

Pac-Man

• Pac-Jump can no longer be Pocketed.

Palutena

• Due to concerns raised by CERO, Palutena's shorts and skirt were darkened and lengthened to be less revealing in the Japanese version.
• Fixed a glitch where Super Speed's momentum could be maintained after jump-canceled attacks.

Pikachu

• Ledge grab animation's length has been standardized, becoming slower as a result.

Pit

• No longer clips through sloped terrain while using ledge attack as someone else grabs the ledge.

R.O.B.

• Up throw's knockback decreased.

Robin

• Neutral infinite's knockback decreased and its hits connect together better.
• Forward tilt's "deadspot" has been partially fixed.
• Tomes no longer disappear when landing on platforms.
• Fixed a glitch where female Robin's Levin Sword would not repeatedly flash to indicate that it was about to break.

Rosalina & Luma

• Luma's health points decreased: 52 HP → 47.

Samus

• Sweetspotted forward tilt deals 1% more damage: 7%/8% → 8%/9% and its knockback increased. This makes it capable of KOing middleweight characters around 180% at the edge.
• Forward tilt has received a sourspot on the middle part of Samus' leg. This results in it dealing little to no hitstun and 1% less damage: 6%/7% → 5%/6%.
• Forward tilt can no longer lead into Charge Shot tech-chases due to the aforementioned sweetspot's increased knockback and added sourspot.
• Super Missile's speed increased (however, the increase is rather negligible).

Sheik

• Back aerial's damage and knockback significantly decreased: 11/10% → 8/7%
• Down tilt damage: 7.5% → 5%

Sonic

• Back throw's knockback growth decreased: 90 → 79. This noticeably weakens one of Sonic's most potent KOing options.
• Spin Dash's rolling and jumping hitboxes deal 3% less damage: 10% → 7% (rolling), 6% → 3% (jumping). This results in a full Spin Dash combo dealing 6% less damage overall.
• Burning Spin Dash's invincibility decreased.
• Spring Jump can no longer be Pocketed.
• Homing Attack will only target characters. Previously, it could target Luma or the can used in Duck Hunt's Trick Shot.

Toon Link

• Hero's Shield now reliably blocks the lasers from Fox and Falco's Blasters.
• Down smash's first hit's knockback decreased. While this removes its KO potential against aerial opponents, it allows it to connect together better with the second hit.

Yoshi

• Ledge attack's ending lag decreased.
• Part of forward smash has been made irreversible.
• Forward smash's range decreased.
• Upward angled forward tilt's start-up lag decreased.

Zelda

• Forward smash's SDI multipliers decreased, enabling opponents to be kept in place better.
• Forward smash's loop hits' angles altered, enabling the move's hits to connect better.
• Phantom Slash's ending lag decreased.
• Phantom stays out for roughly a quarter of a second longer.
• Phantom's respawn time increased: 6 seconds → 9.
• Back Lightning Kick has improved visual effects.

References

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