Peach (SSB4)

Peach in Super Smash Bros. 4
Universe	Mario
Other playable appearances	in Melee in Brawl
Availability	Starter
Final Smash	Peach Blossom

Peach (ピーチ, Peach) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. 4. She was confirmed on September 12th, 2013, the day before the 28th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., the landmark NES game in which she debuted. She is among the first wave of compatible amiibo figures.

She is voiced by Samantha Kelly with the same voice clips from Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Attributes

Peach is a tall, light character who is quite slow in terms of dashing speed, air speed and falling speed. While this is an unfavorable combination of traits, it compensated by her unique floating ability. Her float ability grants her the power to hover at any height she chooses, giving her a distinct advantage in combat. This, combined with a potent aerial moveset, makes her a force to be reckoned with.

Peach can play an effective keep-away game. Vegetable serves as her projectile, and as a throwable item, it is quite a versatile one; the move also has a chance of spawning a powerful Bob-omb or a shield-shattering Mr. Saturn. Peach's floating ability also helps her to control space; floating low to the ground and using retreating aerials makes her difficult to punish, and this greatly helps her own approach as well, as with good spacing she can attack the opponent's shield with little fear of reprisal. Her tilt attacks are less safe, but given the right opportunity have decent combo potential. She has a decent grab game, as her down throw can be followed up with a variety of moves and her back throw is relatively strong. All of this gives her a solid set of options in the neutral game.

Peach does not have trouble KOing, either. Her forward aerial's high knockback makes it her best finishing move, and it can be used while floating to "fish" for a kill with relative safety. Back throw is also a good KO option. Floating allows for effective edgeguarding as well, potentially leading to early KOs. Peach also has a potent if somewhat situational set of smash attacks; her forward smash cycles through three weapons each with their own useful properties, her down smash is a multi-hit attack good for catching rolls and edge recovery options, and her up smash is a particularly powerful move when sweetspotted.

Peach does of course have drawbacks, mainly relating to her slow movement. Faster opponents may be able to overwhelm her before she can begin throwing vegetables or otherise defend herself. If thrown into the air she can have difficulty landing, and this along with her low weight makes her susceptible to juggling and vertical KOs. Peach's ability to approach suffers against characters with long reach and disjoints, as she lacks the agility to get in close before they can hit her. Her recovery is also a potential point of failure, as while she can travel a great deal of horizontal distance, she is left vulnerable if forced to rely on Peach Parasol, and her vertical recovery is somewhat poor, making it possible for her to be gimped.

In terms of custom moves, Peach has a few notable ones. Sleepy Toad knocks airborne opponents and puts grounded opponents to sleep, allowing for great followups. Light Veggie is great at keeping projectiles out in the open for a while, disrupting your opponents' neutral game. The rest are situational at best.

Changes from Brawl

While her moveset appears to be relatively unchanged, Peach has been notably buffed overall in the transition. Her ground game has been particularly improved thanks to her stronger smashes, faster Peach Bomber and tilt attacks leading to many follow ups. Futhermore, her dash attack, forward aerial and back throw received significant increases in knockback, filling out her lack of finishing moves, a prominent weakness she had in Brawl. Peach's approaches from below are also safer with the gain of a new up aerial. She also has a slightly easier time defending against juggles and aerial followups due to her improved air dodge and slightly faster falling speed.

The biggest nerf Peach received was to her Vegetable, which now takes longer to pluck, noticeably worsening her projectile game. Many of her attacks also deal less damage. Still, the buffs she received outweigh these nerfs.

Aesthetics

• Peach has a new running animation based on her running animation from Super Mario 3D World.
• Many new animations accompany Peach's established attacks in the form of hearts, rainbows, and magic sparkles.
• The underside of Peach's dress is now darkened, obscuring her undergarments that could be seen previously in Melee and Brawl.

Attributes

• Double jump has greater vertical height.
• Peach dashes slightly faster (1.35 → 1.4175).
• Peach's air speed is slightly higher (0.893 → 0.95).
• Her air dodge has more invincibility frames and less ending lag, which has ended its status as the worst air dodge among the cast.
• Peach is slightly lighter than she was in Melee and Brawl (90 → 89).
• Peach falls slightly faster (1.05 → 1.15). improving her defense against juggles.

Ground attacks

• Neutral attack deals less damage (6% → 5%).
• Dash attack's second hit deals more damage (4% → 6%) and has more growth (125 → 150), making it a reliable KO move.
• Forward tilt and down tilt are faster and deal increased hitstun, benefiting their combo potential.
• Forward tilt deals less damage (6%/10%/11%/13% → 6%/7%/8%), but its knockback was compensated.
• Down tilt deals less damage (10% → 7%) without proper compensation on its knockback.
• Up tilt's sweetspot has a much less favorable placement, covering a small part of Peach's body, as opposed to her blast in Brawl. Furthermore, the sourspot is weaker in both damage (10%/13% → 8%/10%) and knockback.
• The reduced knockback for her up tilt benefits up tilt combos and juggles potential.
• Forward smash has greater range and knockback. It also cycles regularly between a tennis racket, a golf club, and frying pan.
• Up smash sourspots deal more damage (8% → 12%) and knockback (40 base/100 growth → 60 base/100 growth). The 15% sweetspot deals more knockback as well (40 base/100 growth → 50 base/97 growth.)
• Up smash 17% sweetspot deals less knockback (40 base/100 growth → 27 base/97 growth).
• Down smash has a greater amount of possible hits (4 → 5), deals drastically more knockback (38 base/80 growth → 40 base/180 growth), and gained the ability to trap opponents into it, allowing each further hit to connect more reliably, no longer being the worst down smash.
• Down smash deals less damage (20% → 15%).

Aerial attacks

• Neutral aerial hits on frame 5 instead of 3 and the late hits deal less damage (9%/10% → 5%/6%).
• Forward aerial has more knockback (60 base/68 growth → 45 base/84 growth) and greater reach, allowing Peach to strike opponents farther forward as well as above and under her.
• Forward aerial and back aerials auto-cancel later.
• Back aerial's initial hit deals less damage (13%/14% → 12%) with its knockback compensated however.
• Peach gained a new up aerial: an arm swipe that draws a rainbow. It consists of two hits dealing 4% and 6% respectively. It has greater reach, a disjointed hitbox, and better juggling abilities. The first hit allows Peach to follow up with an attack that comes out on frame 10 or below, if she cancels it into the ground quickly.
• New up aerial deals less damage (11%/12%/13% → 10%) and its knockback was not compensated properly, making it weaker.
• Down aerial deals less damage (14% → 11%).
• Down aerial's last hit deals slightly more knockback (40 base/120 growth → 60 base/110 growth) and is much harder to SDI out of.

Throws/other attacks

• Back throw has received a significant increase in knockback (70 base/40 growth → 35 base/95 growth), making it her strongest throw.
• Down throw deals slightly more damage (7% → 8%) and has a good follow-up angle (108 → 106).

Special moves

• Toad's spores are stronger at close range and also turns Peach around when she is hit from behind. Toad also deals 3 more possible hits and also 2% more damage if all the hits connect.
• Peach Bomber is much faster start up and gained the ability to hit shields.
• Peach Bomber has much more end lag, makeing it less useful for recovery.
• Peach Bomber deals less damage (15% → 10%) and its knockback was not compensated properly.
• Peach Parasol is faster and covers more vertical height.
• Peach Parasol's last hit has less knockback overall (60 base/120 growth → 90 base/70 growth).
• Peach Parasol no longer has a slash effect, instead it has a magic effect.
• Vegetable has an increased chance of pulling out "Stitchface" turnips, Bob-ombs and Mr. Saturns.
• Vegetable takes slightly longer to be plucked and can no longer spawn Beam Swords.
• Peach Blossom is now capable of putting aerial opponents to sleep.
• Peach Blossom deals less total damage (40% → 30%), has much less range and puts opponents to sleep for less time.
• Peach Blossom spawns three large peaches that each heal 20% damage, as opposed to thirteen normal-sized peaches that each heal 5%. While the total healing is slightly less (65% → 60%), the significantly reduced number of peaches makes it faster for Peach to pick them all up.

Update history

Game updates for Peach have been very unusual. Up until 1.0.8 and 1.1.1, she only received minor bugfixes via updates and even then she only received very minor buffs. However, it is ambiguous as to whether changes on the shield mechanics from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 has buffed or nerfed her, as while her "dot-shaped eye" and "stitchface" turnips, Mr. Saturns and Bob-ombs have higher potential to heavily damage a shield (and in the case of Mr. Saturn, break it), these items are incredibly uncommon to pull in comparison to her other turnips, and some of her moveset has more hitlag, while rest of her moves have low hitlag, indirectly nerfing her.

1.0.2

• Fixed glitch where players pulling Vegetables near the start of an online match would get banned for "cheating".

1.0.4

• Fixed "lag-cancelling item toss", which allowed characters to interrupt certain aerials' landing lag with an item throw.
• Fixed "instant Vegetable pull" glitch, which allowed Peach to interrupt the Vegetable-pulling animation and get the Vegetable early by sliding off an edge.
• Fixed how aerials performed while floating would not affect the stale moves queue.

1.0.8

• Jab 1 range : 2.4 → 3
• Jab 2 range : 2.4 → 4

1.1.1

• Toad ending frame reduced 64 → 62. Custom moves affected: 66 → 61.

Moveset

		Name	Damage	Description
Neutral attack			2%	Slaps the enemy twice. The move is similar to her Super Slap attack in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.
			3%
Forward tilt			7% (early, clean leg), 8% (clean foot), 6% (late)	Kicks forward 180 degrees from low to high.
Up tilt			10% (body), 8% (blast)	Arm extended upward and a pink heart blasts above her head, dealing damage.
Down tilt			7%	A downward sweep of the hand to the ground. This move can meteor smash with good knockback when sweetspotted. One of the strongest down tilt meteor smash in the game. Can follow-up into a Forward Smash at lower percents, forward or up air at mid percents, and hardly into an Up B at higher percents.
Dash attack			4% (hit 1), 6% (hit 2)	Strikes with both arms extended forward, then quickly spreads her arms out. Unlike in Brawl, the first hit's knockback never grows, so both hits nearly always connect. The second hit has some knockback.
Forward smash			15% (club), 18% (pan), 13% (racket)	Strikes with a bludgeon, cycling regularly between a golf club, frying pan, or a tennis racket. Each weapon has different properties - the frying pan has more vertical knockback (and the most damage), the golf club has more diagonal knockback (and the most range), and the tennis racket has more horizontal knockback.
Up smash			17% (clean arm), 15% (clean body), 12% (clean sides), 10% (late body), 12% (late hand)	Raises arm and twirls a pink ribbon. Powerful vertical knockback. Powerful vertical knockback if sweetspotted (Peach's body, as opposed to her arm).
Down smash			2% (hits 1-4 center), 3% (hits 1-4 edges), 3% (hit 5)	Spins dress around like a blade, slashing whoever gets caught in it. Decent knockback (lower than in Melee, higher than in Brawl).
Neutral aerial			13% (clean), 6% (late arms), 5% (late body)	Spins around at an angle with arms extended, dealing damage to her left and right sides.
Forward aerial			15%	Peach grabs the crown off her head and strikes with it in a vertical arc. Some startup lag and a lot of ending lag. A visible flash occurs at the start of her swing, indicating the sweetspot. Great knockback.
Back aerial			12% (clean), 7% (late)	Peach strikes behind her with her butt. Low startup lag, making it quicker than her forward aerial, but has notable ending lag.
Up aerial			4% (hit 1), 6% (hit 2)	Strikes above her head with arms from left to right, creating rainbow trails and launching targets upward. Good for juggles. First hit is very weak with set knockback and can follow up into other attacks, if she cancels it very quickly to the ground.
Down aerial			2% (hits 1-3 leg), 1% (hits 1-3 body), 5% (hit 4)	Rapidly kicks straight downwards four times. Long duration. Fourth kick has some vertical knockback.
Grab			—
Pummel			2%	Kicks the opponent's shin. Relatively fast pummel.
Forward throw			2% (hit 1), 8% (throw)	Peach winds up and slaps the opponent away. Decent knockback.
Back throw			2% (hit 1), 9% (throw)	Places opponent behind her and bumps him/her away with her rear. Great knockback. This is now her strongest throw, as opposed to her forward throw in past games.
Up throw			2% (hit 1), 6% (throw)	Puts opponent above her, and strikes him/her upward.
Down throw			1% (hit 1), 7% (throw)	Puts opponent lying face-up on the ground and sits on him/her, creating upwards knockback. Great for combos.
Floor attack (front)			7%	Swirls around in a similar fashion to Mario's down smash.
Floor attack (back)			7%	Peach swings her legs around.
Floor attack (trip)			5%	Two kicks to either side.
Edge attack			7%	While getting up, swipes forward with a hand at ground-level.
Neutral special	Default	Toad	2% (per hit)	Peach raises Toad in front of her, using him as an unwilling counter. In other words, he absorbs damage dealt to his princess before releasing it back in the form of painful spores.
	Custom 1	Sleepy Toad	3%	Toad is pulled out out 2 frames later, and releases bubbles to inflict the sleep status ailment for a brief amount of time to grounded opponents. Airborne opponents will be pushed back. Sleep duration lasts longer at high percentages. It has slightly slower ending lag.
	Custom 2	Grumpy Toad	2.5% (per-hit near), 1.2% (per-hit clean far), 1.0% (per-hit late far)	Grumpy Toad, unlike regular and Sleepy Toad, doesn't act like a counter. Instead, he automatically releases the spores to deal minor damage to opponents.
Side special	Default	Peach Bomber	10%	Peach lunges her body forward to deliver a powerful hip bash. Upon impact, she rebounds away from the victim, allowing for hit-and-run tactics.
	Custom 1	Flower Bomber	4%	Peach travels a much shorter distance than normal, and deals less damage. Opponents hit by it will be inflicted the flower status ailment, similar to Rest or using the Lip's Stick item. Has more ending lag than the regular Peach Bomber.
	Custom 2	Flying Peach Bomber	12%	Peach launches forward and upward, travelling farther than the regular Peach Bomber. It is harder to land, but it deals more knockback and damage. It is a flame attack.
Up special	Default	Peach Parasol	3% (first hit), 1% (middle hits), 4% (last hit), 3% (open)	Peach jumps upward and then opens her parasol, jabbing those above her in the process. It can then be used as a directional glide but can also be opened or closed at will.
	Custom 1	Parasol High Jump	0%	As the name implies, Peach jumps much higher than usual. However, it deals no damage and she never opens her parasol, leaving herself helpless afterwards.
	Custom 2	Light Parasol	3%	At the cost of decreasing her initial jump, Peach gains additional vertical recovery every time she opens up her parasol. This lasts long enough to open it up to four times while airborne. After that duration, Peach will become helpless.
Down special	Default	Vegetable	Varies	Vegetable is a projectile Peach can pluck from the ground as she does in Super Mario Bros. 2. She can then throw it as a weapon. Its face determines how much damage it will do; the rarer the expression, the stronger the turnip. Along with turnips, Peach can sometimes pull out Mr. Saturns, Bob-ombs, and even Beam Swords.
	Custom 1	Light Veggie	Varies	The turnips is plucked much faster (in a similar way to Brawl's Vegetable) while dealing less damage. It travels the air more slowly and farther ahead. It will also fly back toward Peach if it hits an opponent, allowing her to throw another one while the last turnip is floating back towards her. The move will fail if there's already two Light Veggies out.
	Custom 2	Heavy Veggie	Varies	The vegetables takes longer to be plucked. When tossed, they fly faster but don't travel as far. It deals considerably more damage and knockback.
Final Smash		Peach Blossom	30%/20%/10% (hit 1), 0% (hits 2-3)	Peach performs a mystic dance, causing all of her enemies to fall asleep. The closer they are to her when she activates it, the longer they'll slumber. Sleep duration is notably shorter than in Brawl. Additionally, instead of thirteen small peaches healing 5%, three giant peaches appear, each healing 20%.

Vegetable Damage Data

Face	Vegetable	Light Veggie	Heavy Veggie
Grin	2~13.4%	7.5%	15%
Stare	2~13.4%	7.5%	15%
Closed Eyes	2~13.4%	7.5%	15%
Surprised	2~13.4%	7.5%	15%
Happy	2~13.4%	7.5%	15%
Wink	6~17.4%	10.5%	18%
Dot-Eyes	12~23.4%	15.5%	24%
Stitch-Face	23~34.4%	25.5%	37%
Mr. Saturn	—	—	—
Bob-omb	—	—	—

Taunts

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• Up Taunt: Takes out and twirls her parasol. She says "Sweet!" as she does this.
• Side Taunt: Dances in a taunting manner as little music notes flutter around her. She sings a little tune similar to "Ring Around the Rosie".
• Down Taunt: Spins around once. She then winks and points with her index finger in a somewhat bent posture and says "Uh-huh!" In the Nintendo 3DS version, if Peach is facing left, she will wave instead of pointing her finger.

Idle Poses

• Looks over her shoulders and rubs something off her dress.
• Raises arms up and stretches.
• Adjusts her ring before raising her hand and looking at it.
• Fiddles with her hair.

Cheer

Prin - cess- Peach!

On-Screen Appearance

Appears spinning out of a shower of hearts, then winks and poses with her parasol saying "Hi!".

Victory Fanfare

A flourished remix directly from Brawl based on the sound clip that would play when Mario reaches the end of a level in Super Mario Bros. It is shared with Mario, Luigi, and Dr. Mario.

Victory Poses

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• Twirls with hearts surrounding her, poses, then says "This is fun!" This replaces her old victory animation where she holds her hands together.
• Twirls around, and waves, saying "Oh, did I win?"
• Swings her arm out and puts it behind her, saying "Peachy!"

In Competitive Play

Official Custom Moveset Project

Character	Custom sets available
Peach	2111	2211	2311	2112	2212
	2312	1211	1311	2331	2332

Notable players

•  Big Boss
•  CaptainZack
•  Crow
•  EOE
•  Excel_Zero
•  Kie
•  lloD
•  Saj
•  Samsora
•  SlayerZ
•  Umeki

Trophies

Peach

Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, Peach continues to prove that "powerful" and "cute" are not mutually exclusive. In Smash Bros., Peach uses her dress to float above the fray, suddenly descending and attacking with numerous weapons. A frying pan? Umbrella? TOAD?! Where does she keep it all?

The Mushroom Kingdom's princess isn't just a pretty face - she's also strong and crafty. She can dodge attacks by gliding through the air, and she's hiding all sorts of stuff under that dress: a frying pan, a tennis racket, a golf club...even a Toad! If you're planning to take on Peach, just know that she's more than ready for you!

: Super Mario Bros. 10/1985

: Super Princess Peach 02/2006

Peach (Alt.)

Peach may be a princess, but that doesn't mean she shies away from an honest day's work. Her down special Vegetable is basically farm labor, and the fruits...er, vegetables of her work can be thrown. An angry-looking vegetable will do extra damage, too! She can also pull up Bob-ombs, or even a Mr. Saturn!

Peach normally sticks to tasks befitting a royal, but her Vegetable special is pretty much farm labour! You can tell how much damage the veggies will do by looking a them. Happy/indifferent ones just do a bit, while the ones that just look sick of life do a lot. And the ones that look like Bob-ombs or Mr. Saturn aren't veggies at all!

: Super Mario Bros. 10/1985

: Super Princess Peach 02/2006

Peach Blossom

Peach's Final Smash is quite a spectacle to behold. Giant illustrations of Peach herself frame the screen, giant peaches rain down, and all the other fighters fall asleep. The closer they are to Peach, the longer they'll stay snoozing, giving Peach plenty of time to send foes flying or to recover her health with the peaches.

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  Classic (3DS)

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  Alt. (3DS)

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  Classic (Wii U)

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  Alt. (Wii U)

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  Peach Blossom

In Event Matches

Solo Events

• All-Star Battle: Melee: Peach is one of the opponents fought in this event. All opponents debut in Melee, and reappear in Smash 4.
• Enough with the Kidnapping: The player controls Peach must defeat Bowser and Bowser Jr.
• Princess Punch-Up!: Peach and Mario are opponents that Zelda and Link must defeat.
• Unwavering Chivalry: As Meta Knight, the player must defeat Marth while avoiding Peach and Zelda. KOing either of the princesses results in failure.

Co-op Events

• Peach in Peril: Bowser and Bowser Jr. must defeat all opponents except for Peach, where KOing her results in failure.
• The Ultimate Battle: Two players select a character and must defeat the entire roster.
• Viral Visitors: Dr. Mario and Peach in her white alternate costume must defeat 4 Kirbys.

Alternate costumes

Gallery

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  Peach in the Nintendo Direct from April 8th, 2014.

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  Peach's amiibo.

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  The pic of the day shown during Peach's reveal.

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  Her back throw on Fox.

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  Her dash attack.

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  Her forward aerial on Pit.

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  Peach teetering with Mario and Bowser.

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  Her up smash on Villager and Link. Note the new ribbon effect.

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  Peach with a Blue Pikmin.

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  Peach using Toad on Mario.

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  Her up tilt.

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  Peach in the 3DS version.

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  Peach behind Mario and Bowser on the 3D Land stage.

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  Peach and Luigi on the Wii U version of Battlefield.

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  Peach, Wii Fit Trainer, and Samus.

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  Peach and Link on Battlefield.

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  Mario and Peach's hands close up.

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  Peach grabbing on to Fox.

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  Peach's up smash with the Wii Fit Trainer using her up special move.

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  Peach using her parasol.

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  Mario, Peach, & Rosalina.

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  Peach with Toon Link.

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  Peach touching Rosalina's crown.

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  Peach with King Dedede and Zelda.

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  Peach with Link and Zelda.

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  Peach being spied on by Zelda, while hanging out with Link.

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  Peach with Zelda and Rosalina.

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  A new up aerial that generates a rainbow.

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  Peach Blossom.

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  Peach Blossom.

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  Peach, Rosalina, and another Peach in Daisy's color scheme.

Trivia

• In the Nintendo 3DS version of the game, a bug existed wherein using Peach's Vegetable move in For Glory mode would rarely trigger an automatic ban for "dishonest play". It is unclear what the cause of the glitch was, but the main theories involve the player being flagged as having an illegitimate item. Nintendo acknowledged the glitch and released an update that fixed this issue.
• Peach has four idle animations, the most out of any character in the game.