Peach (SSB4)/Up smash

Hitbox visualization showing Peach's up smash.

Overview

Peach twirls around with her arm raised while simultaneously twirling a pink ribbon around herself.

This clean hit of this attack has strong vertical knockback when hitting the sweetspots located on her upper body (15%) and her raised arm (17%). While the arm sweetspot deals more damage than the upper body sweetspot, the upper body sweetspot will still KO 5-10% earlier due to having significantly higher base knockback. The sourspots located on her left and right sides deal 12% and KO considerably later than the sweetspots, though they will still KO at reasonable percentages. The late hit of this attack has surprisingly strong vertical knockback, despite dealing less damage compared to the clean hit. Both the late arm hitbox (12%) and the late body hitbox (10%) will KO earlier than the sourspots on the clean hit.

The clean arm sweetspot is quite narrow and tends to only hit against opponents directly above Peach. However, it is also the only clean sweetspot that can reach opponents standing on the middle-height platforms of Battlefield. This makes it a very potent attack to use when tech-chasing opponents on those platforms, though it requires a hard read to land the narrow hitbox. The clean upper body sweetspot can fairly reliably hit opponents standing right next to Peach, but has difficulty hitting opponents who are short, are crouching, or are asleep. The latter is notable as Peach cannot reliably use her up smash as a strong punish against opponents put to sleep by Peach Blossom.

While the hitboxes are active, Peach has intangibility on her arm and head. This allows her up smash to act as a strong, but committal anti-air attack.

Due to having moderate startup lag (14 frames) and the sourspots being located on Peach's sides, her up smash is quite limited as an out of shield option. Even against poorly-spaced aerial attacks, the sourspots tend to hit opponents when trying to use Peach's up smash as an OoS option. Not only does the opponent have to land directly on top of Peach, but their aerial's landing lag animation must also shift their hurtbox high enough to overlap with the sweetspot of Peach's up smash.

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Damage	SD	Angle	BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			SDIx	H×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Type	Effect	G	A	Sound	Direct	Stretch
Clean hit
0	0	17%	4		24	97	0	2.5	22	7.0	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Kick		2.5	0.0	0.0
1	0	15%	4		50	97	0	5.8	22	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Punch		0.0	0.0	0.0
2	0	12%	4		40	97	0	3.6	0	0.0	8.0	6.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Punch		0.0	0.0	0.0
3	0	12%	4		40	97	0	3.6	0	0.0	8.0	-6.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Punch		0.0	0.0	0.0
Late hit
0	0	10%	4		60	100	0	4.0	21	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Kick		0.0	0.0	0.0
1	0	12%	4		60	100	0	5.0	23	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Punch		0.0	0.0	0.0

Timing

Charges between	9-10
Clean hit	14-16
Late hit	17-20
Head and arm intangible	14-20
Interruptible	45
Animation length	59

Hitboxes

Head and arm

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Charge interval

Hitbox

Hitbox change

Vulnerable

Intangible

Interruptible

Trivia

Peach using her up smash to attack Villager and Link. Note the use of the normal effect on hit.

• In an early screenshot showcasing the new ribbon effect for Peach's up smash, it produced the normal effect on hit. In the final game, her up smash produces the stab effect on hit.

Peach's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2) · Forward tilt · Up tilt · Down tilt · Dash attack · Forward smash · Up smash · Down smash
Neutral aerial · Forward aerial · Back aerial · Up aerial · Down aerial
Grab · Pummel · Forward throw · Back throw · Up throw · Down throw
Forward roll · Back roll · Spot dodge · Air dodge · Techs
Floor attack (front) · Floor getups (front) · Floor attack (back) · Floor getups (back) · Floor attack (trip) · Floor getups (trip)
Edge attack · Edge getups
Neutral special (def · c1 · c2) · Side special (def · c1 · c2) · Up special (def · c1 · c2) · Down special (def · c1 · c2) · Final Smash