Peach (SSBU)
Peach in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | |
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Universe | Mario |
Other playable appearances | in Melee in Brawl in SSB4 |
Availability | Unlockable |
Final Smash | Peach Blossom |
“ | THE super princess. Watch out for her powerful kicks while she's airborne. Using her down special, she picks vegetables and throws them at her opponents. Sometimes she even gets items...like a Bob-omb! | ” |
—Super Smash Blog, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Official Site |
Peach (ピーチ, Peach) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. She was announced for the game on June 12th, 2018. However, unlike previous Smash Bros. games since Melee (her first playable appearance in the Super Smash Bros. series), Peach is now an unlockable character rather than being available from the start. Peach is classified as fighter #13.
As in Smash 4, Samantha Kelly's portrayal of Peach from Brawl was repurposed for Ultimate.
How to unlock
Complete one of the following:
- Play VS. matches, with Peach being the 12th character to be unlocked.
- Clear Classic Mode with Fox or any character in his unlock tree, being the third character unlocked after Zero Suit Samus.
- Have Peach join the player's party in World of Light.
With the exception of the third method, Peach must then be defeated on Princess Peach's Castle.
Changes from Super Smash Bros. 4
Aesthetics
- As with all veterans returning from Smash 4, Peach's model features a more subdued color scheme. Her hair and gloves now feature simple detailing, similar to her design in Brawl. Her dress retains its design from the previous iteration, but now features a glossy satin texture.
- Like other fighters, Peach is much more expressive, now having facial expressions for many more attacks.
- Peach's dress now has independent physics.
- Peach always faces the screen regardless of which direction she turns. As a result, her stance, moveset, and animations are now mirrored.
- This allows the player to see which turnip face is held when facing left.
- Turnips now bounce off the ground once instead of disappearing immediately. This has no effect on gameplay.
- Down taunt now has a heart pop up next to her head. She also no longer spins, and winks immediately.
- Side taunt has been shortened, she now only dances back and forth instead of the 3 step dance, though the music notes still appear.
- Peach performs her up taunt faster.
- Peach's second jump animation has changed slightly.
- Peach's air dodge animation has changed, and no longer uses the spinning dodge.
- While floating, Peach now faces the screen instead of facing the side, and her dress no longer puffs up while she floats.
- Peach has a new alternate costume - a golden dress. It replaces her Princess Daisy-inspired costume, most likely due to Daisy now being a separate character as Peach's Echo Fighter.
- All of Peach's victory animations have been changed. [1]
Attributes
- Like all characters, Peach’s jumpsquat animation now takes three frames to complete (down from 5).
- Peach jumps slightly higher.
- Peach walks slightly faster (0.86 → 0.924).
- Peach runs faster (1.4175 → 1.595).
- Peach's initial dash is significantly faster (1.5 → 1.826).
- Peach's base and max additional air acceleration values have been adjusted, but are overall slightly higher. Base: (0.01 → 0.04) Max: (0.1 → 0.08) Total: (0.11 → 0.12).
- Peach's air speed is faster (0.95 → 1.029).
- Peach's falling speed and fast falling speed are slightly faster (1.15 → 1.19) and (1.84 → 1.904) respectively.
Ground Attacks
- Forward tilt:
- Forward tilt deals slightly more damage.
- Sweetspotted forward tilt has more range.
- Down tilt:
- Down tilt has been changed from a sweep with her hand to a sweep kick.
- Down tilt comes out faster.
- Up tilt:
- The stronger and weaker hits have been reversed: the hitbox on the heart is now stronger than the hitbox on her shoulders.
- Dash attack:
- First hit of dash attack combos into the second hit much more reliably.
- Second hit of dash attack has a slightly larger hitbox (5u/4u → 5u/4.5u).
- Dash attack now has hearts at the end of the move.
- Forward smash:
- Forward smash no longer cycles between its three weapons in a set order, instead being determined by which angle the stick is held. This greatly improves its reliability, letting Peach use a particular weapon repeatedly without having to telegraph it.
- Peach can switch to whichever weapons she wants to use during her charging animation for forward smash (depending on angle).
- Forward smash no longer cycles between its three weapons in a set order, instead being determined by which angle the stick is held. This greatly improves its reliability, letting Peach use a particular weapon repeatedly without having to telegraph it.
- Down smash:
- Down smash has a greater amount of possible hits (5 hits → 7).
- Up smash:
- Up smash has an additional hitbox at the tip, where a heart graphic appears at the end of the ribbon.
Aerial attacks
- All aerials have less landing lag.
- Forward aerial:
- Forward aerial is now a magic attack.
- Forward aerial now has a sourspot, dealing 1% less damage and KOing later.
- Forward aerial is now a magic attack.
- Back aerial is now a magic attack and produces a heart.
- Down aerial launches at a more horizontal angle. This changes the follow-ups of the move, but makes it retain more or less the same combo utility as before.
Throws/other attacks
- Toad now appears when Peach grabs an opponent to attack alongside her when she uses her pummel and throws. Toad also still appears in her back throw and up throw, despite not directly attacking the opponent.
- Because of this, Peach has a new pummel, where Toad punches the opponent.
- Peach has a new forward throw, where Toad headbutts the opponent away.
- Peach also has a new down throw, where Toad headbutts the opponent into the ground.
- Up throw and back throw both deal greater damage.
Special Moves
- Toad:
- Toad is now grants intangibility during start-up (frame 8 to 10).
- Toad deals more damage per spore (2% → 3.5%).
- Toad no longer causes Peach to hover upwards in the air during first time activation, making the move worse for edgeguarding.
- Peach Bomber:
- Peach Bomber now deals more damage (10% → 12%) and knockback.
- Peach Bomber does more shield damage, depleting half the shield, making it a more reliable move.
- An aerial Peach Bomber now has less startup and endlag.
- Peach can control her drift much earlier during lag after an aerial Peach Bomber.
- Peach Parasol:
- Peach Parasol has less landing lag when open.
- Peach Parasol's final hit now inflicts slightly more knockback.
- Peach Parasol has more landing lag when closed.
- Peach Parasol now deals very little knockback when completely open.
- Vegetable:
- Turnips are pulled out much quicker.
- Turnips travel faster, making it easier to hit opponents with them.
- Peach's item throw has slightly less ending lag, allowing for easier follow-ups (FAF 27 -> 25)
- Turnips do more damage.
- Turnips have higher knockback growth, allowing them to KO at high percentages.
- Turnips can now beat certain hitboxes (instead of clanking with them), such as opponents' UpBs.
Moveset
Note: All numbers are listed as base damage, without the 1v1 multiplier.
Name | Damage | Description | ||
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Neutral attack | 2% | Slaps the enemy twice with the same arm (either her left or right depending on which way she faces). At low percentages, the first hit can lock. | ||
3% | ||||
Forward tilt | 7% (early, clean leg), 8% (clean foot) | Kicks forward 180 degrees from low to high. Has good range for a forward tilt, and unusually for an attack of its type, launches opponents vertically, allowing it to perform air combos. | ||
Up tilt | 10% (blast), 8% (arm) | Extends her arm upward, creating a discharge of pink magic in the form of a heart. | ||
Down tilt | 7% | A low sweep kick. This move meteor smashes grounded opponents. Decently strong attack with moderate startup that can follow up into a forward smash at lower percents, forward or up aerials at mid-percents, and into an up special at higher percents. Due to the removal of teching grounded meteor smashes, Peach's down tilt has better combo potential. | ||
Dash attack | 4% (hit 1), 6% (hit 2) | Creating magical sparks in her hands, Peach strikes with both arms extended forward, then quickly spreads her arms out. | ||
Forward smash | A Tool For Every Job | 18% (frying pan), 15% (golf club), 13.5% (tennis racket) | Strikes with a bludgeon, depending on the angle of the smash: angling upward uses the frying pan, angling downward uses the tennis racket, and no angling uses the golf club. 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 and is a strong semi-spike. | |
Up smash | Ribbon Dance | 12% (ribbon), 17% (heart) | Raises her arm and twirls a pink ribbon. A heart appears at the tip of the ribbon, which is where the sweetspot is located. | |
Down smash | 2% (hits 1-6), 3% (hit 7) | Peach does an anticlockwise spin on her left leg and utilizes the edge of her dress, slashing multiple times. | ||
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. The late hit can lock. | ||
Forward aerial | 15% (crown), 14% (arm) | Peach grabs the crown off her head and strikes with it in a vertical arc with magic sparkles. Has the slowest startup out of all her aerial attacks. However, it is also her strongest aerial. | ||
Back aerial | 12% (clean), 10.2% (mid), 7% (late) | Peach strikes behind her by thrusting her butt. She creates a heart, although it is aesthetic, and possesses no hitbox. | ||
Up aerial | 4% (hit 1), 6% (hit 2) | Swipes above her head with her arms from left to right, creating 2 magic rainbow trails. When low floating, only the 2nd hit will hit opponents. | ||
Down aerial | 2% (hits 1-3), 5% (hit 4) | Rapidly kicks straight downwards four times. | ||
Grab | — | Reaches out with her left or right arm. | ||
Pummel | 1.3% | Toad punches the opponent. | ||
Forward throw | 2% (hit 1), 8% (throw) | Toad leaps forward, headbutting the opponent away. | ||
Back throw | 2% (hit 1), 9% (throw) | Places opponent behind her and bumps him/her away with her butt. Toad is present, mimicing her butt thrust, but doesn't contribute any damage. The strongest of Peach's throws. | ||
Up throw | 2% (hit 1), 6% (throw) | Puts opponent above her, and strikes him/her upward. Toad leaps up with Peach, but doesn't hit the opponent. | ||
Down throw | 1% (hit 1), 7% (throw) | After putting the opponent on the ground, Toad leaps up and headbutts them, sending them upwards and behind Peach. Good for starting combos. | ||
Floor attack (front) | 7% | Swirls around in a similar fashion to Mario's down smash. | ||
Floor attack (back) | 7% | Swings her legs around. | ||
Floor attack (trip) | 5% | Two kicks to either side. | ||
Edge attack | 9% | While getting up, sweep kicks in front of her. | ||
Neutral special | Toad | 2% (per hit) | Peach covers her ears and faces away as Toad appears in front of her,
arms spread out. If hit, Toad will retaliate with a spray of spores. Peach's face turns into a terrified expression. If attacked from behind, Peach and Toad switch places. | |
Side special | Peach Bomber | 12% | Peach lunges her body forward to deliver a powerful butt bash. Upon impact, she rebounds away from the victim, allowing for hit-and-run tactics. Smash-inputting the move has her travel further. | |
Up special | Peach Parasol | 3% (first hit), 1% (hits 2-5), 2% (last hit), 2% (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. | |
Down special | Vegetable | Varies | Plucks a Super Mario Bros. 2 Vegetable from the ground. She can then throw it as a projectile item. Its face determines how much damage it will do; the rarer the expression, the stronger the turnip. Along with turnips, Peach can rarely pull out Mr. Saturns and Bob-ombs. | |
Final Smash | Peach Blossom | 30% (close), 20% (mid), 10% (far) | Peach performs a dance, causing all of her enemies to fall asleep. The closer they are to her when she activates it, more damage will be dealt and they'll slumber for a longer time. Three giant peaches appear, healing 20%. This Final Smash fails to effect anyone outside the range of the screen borders. |
On-screen appearance
- Appears spinning out of a shower of hearts, then winks and poses with her parasol saying "Hi!".
Taunts
- Up Taunt: Takes out and twirls her parasol. She says "Sweet!" as she does this.
- Side Taunt: Dances once in a taunting manner as little music notes flutter around her, while singing "La la la la laaa laaa!" in a tune similar to "Ring Around the Rosie".
- Down Taunt: Winks and points with her index finger in a somewhat bent posture and says "Uh-huh!" A heart will also pop up by her head.}}
Idle poses
- Looks over her shoulders and brushes something off her dress.
- Raises arms up and stretches.
- Adjusts her ring before raising her hand and looking at it.
- Fiddles with her hair.
Victory poses
- Twirls with hearts surrounding her, poses, then says "This is fun!"
- Leans on her umbrella and raises it, while saying "Aw, did I win?"
- Waves, blows a kiss, and says "Peachy!" Afterwards, she rests her right arm across her waist, and waves with her left hand.
Classic Mode: No Damsel in Distress
Peach's opponents are villains in various universes that have all captured a certain damsel before.
Round | Opponent | Stage | Music | Notes |
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1 | Bowser Jr. | Mushroom Kingdom | Delfino Plaza | |
2 | Ganondorf | Mushroomy Kingdom | Dark World (For 3DS/Wii U) | |
3 | Red Donkey Kong | 75m (Battlefield form) | Donkey Kong/Donkey Kong Jr. Medley | |
4 | Koopalings | Mushroom Kingdom U | Fortress Boss - Super Mario Bros. 3 | The Koopalings are fought in the order Mario faces them in New Super Mario Bros. U. |
5 | King K. Rool | Jungle Japes | Gang-Plank Galleon | |
6 | Bowser | Peach's Castle | King Bowser - Super Mario Bros. 3 | |
Bonus Stage | ||||
Final | Master Hand | Final Destination | Master Hand (Less than 7.0 Intensity) or Master Hand / Crazy Hand (7.0 or higher Intensity) | On Intensity 7.0 or higher, Crazy Hand teams up with Master Hand. |
Role in World of Light
Although Peach does not appear in the World of Light opening cutscene, she was vaporized and later imprisoned alongside the rest of the fighters (except Kirby) when Galeem unleashed his beams of light. She is seen in the gameplay section, where she unlocks a new area.
Peach is in a desolate platform in the Molten Fortress sub-area where Giga Bowser is fought, a callback to her usual role as a damsel in distress.
Alternate costumes
Gallery
Peach above Town and City.
Performing her up aerial attack on Green Greens.
Striking Sheik with Toad on Tortimer Island.
Idling on Mario Galaxy.
With Villager, plucking a Turnip on Gaur Plain.
In her black-and-gold dress on Princess Peach's Castle.
Peach, Diddy Kong, Mega Man, and Bayonetta fighting around Alolan Exeggutor on Pilotwings.
Character Showcase Video
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Trivia
- Peach is the first female character revealed to have an Echo Fighter of her, being Daisy.
- Because of this, this is the first Smash Bros. game where Peach no longer has her Daisy-based alternate costume.
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the first Smash Bros. game where Peach holds an object, specifically her Parasol, in her official artwork.
- One of Peach's new winning animations resembles part of her Hole-in-One animation from Mario Golf: World Tour, albeit without the parasol.
- Despite being magic attacks, Peach's forward and back aerials, and the weak hits of Peach Parasol, do not benefit from Spirits' Magic Attack increase.