Peach (SSBU)

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Peach in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
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

Peach has been considerably buffed from the transition from Smash 4 to Ultimate. As with most characters, Peach's mobility has been significantly improved, greatly aiding her approach and combo game. The new short hop multiplier which makes short hop aerials weaker affects Peach less than other returning veterans, as she can use her float to bypass the multiplier and still use her aerials low to the ground. Most of her moves remain very similar to their Smash 4 counterparts, although some of her moves have seen improvements. Her new down tilt is significantly faster, and it cannot be teched making it a consistent powerful combo tool. Peach can now choose which weapon she wants to use with her forward smash, greatly improving its reliability. Peach Bomber is also faster and stronger, improving its recovery and KO potential. Lastly, her Vegetables are stronger and faster both to pluck and to throw.

Peach has received a few nerfs, however. Like with many returning veterans, her grabs are considerably slower, making it harder for her to grab her opponents and begin her strong grab game (especially since her dash grab also has more startup lag). Her forward aerial now has a weaker sourspot, making her forward aerial more difficult to use effectively. Lastly, the weakening of rage has made Peach Parasol less effective when she is at higher percents, and her down aerial's new angle makes it more difficult for her to combo her down aerial into Peach Parasol.

Overall, Peach has been considerably improved from her Smash 4 incarnation with her superior mobility and combo game.

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, having facial animations for more attacks.
• Peach's dress now has independent physics, like in Melee.
• 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, as she now only dances back and forth once instead of three times, though the music notes still appear.
• Peach performs her up taunt faster.
• Peach's second jump animation has changed slightly.
• Peach no longer spins during her air dodge animation.
• 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]
• Peach's stun animation is sped up.

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).
• If used while floating, Peach's aerials behave like ground moves when hitting shields, thus granting them more shieldstun.
• Peach's falling speed and fast falling speed are slightly faster (1.15 → 1.19) and (1.84 → 1.904) respectively.

Ground Attacks

• Neutral attack:
  • The first hit of neutral attack can now lock opponents.
  • The first hit of neutral attack has a shorter duration (frames 2-3 → 2).
• Forward tilt:
  • 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 is significantly faster with less startup (frame 13 → 8) and ending lag (frame 28 → 24) and like with all grounded meteor smashes, it can no longer be teched making it much more consistent for combos.
• Up tilt:
  • The stronger and weaker hits have been reversed: the hitbox on the heart is now stronger than the hitbox on her shoulders, much like in Brawl.
• 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).
  • The tennis racket deals slightly more damage (13% → 13.5%).
• Down smash:
  • Down smash has a greater amount of possible hits (5 hits → 7)
  • Down Smash has its damage buffed. (13% to 15%)
  • All the multi-hits have less startup lag and the move has an overall longer duration due to having more hits.
  • The final hit has more startup lag (frame 26 → 30).
• 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 (11 frames → 7 (neutral), 22 frames → 13 (forward), 18 frames → 11 (back), 12 frames → 7 (up), 13 frames → 8 (down)).
• Forward aerial:
  • Forward aerial is now a magic attack.
  • Forward aerial now has a sourspot, dealing 1% less damage and KOing later.
• Back aerial:
  • Back aerial is now a magic attack and produces a heart.

Throws/other attacks

• Dash grab has more startup lag (frame 8 → 9) and all of her grabs have more ending lag (frame 32 → 37 (standing), frame 40 → 45 (dash), frame 38 → 40 (pivot)).
• 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.
  • Her new down throw has more combo potential due to her faster jumpsquat and full hop.

Special Moves

• Toad:
  • Toad has a different animation. Peach now ducks down covering her ears while Toad angrily appears in front of her in order to protect her.
  • Toad has less startup lag and a longer duration (frames 10-34 → 8-34) and Toad also gains intangibility sooner (frame 11 → 8).
  • Toad deals more damage per spore (2% → 3.5%).
  • Toad now leaves Peach stationary in the air on the first use instead of making her hover upwards for a short time, making the move worse for edgeguarding and hindering its recovery potential. Toad's intangibility also has a shorter duration (frames 11-14 → 8-10).
• 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.
  • Peach Bomber now has less startup (frame 14 (grounded), frame 20 (aerial) → 13 (both)) and ending lag (frame 65 → 63 (grounded), frame 95 → 88 (aerial), frame 21 → 20 (hit)).
  • 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.
    • But Peach can reduce some of the lag by doing an attack.
  • Peach Parasol deals significantly less knockback when it has opened up during Peach's descent.
    • But this also means Peach can rack up more damage similar to how it was in Melee.
  • The weakening of rage has significantly hindered Peach Parasol's KO potential with rage as it can no longer OHKO opponents unless used near the upper blast line.
• Vegetable:
  • Turnips are pulled out much quicker (frame 43 → 37).
  • 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 (frame 27 -> 25)
  • The power levels of all turnips have increased.
    • The power of normal turnips have increased from 2 to 5
    • The power of winky-face turnips have increased from 6 to 10
    • The power of dot-eye turnips have increased from 12 to 16
    • The power of stitch-face turnips have increased from 23 to 24
  • 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' up specials.

Moveset

Peach can float for 2.5 seconds at a time.

The following damage values were calculated without the 1.2× damage multiplier that is active during one-on-one fights.

For aerial attacks, full hop damage values are shown. Hovering over them shows the short hop damage values (aerial attacks performed during a short hop have a 0.85× damage multiplier).

Note: All numbers are listed as base damage, without the 1v1 multiplier.

		Name	Damage	Description
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, if sweetspotted. Her arm possesses a sourspot that deals 1% less damage, and KO's much later.
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. At low percent, even hitting clean, can lock.
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 medium to large opponents, while small characters avoid it entirely.
Down aerial			2% (hits 1-3), 5% (hit 4)	Rapidly kicks straight downwards four times. Depending on how the last hit lands, may launch opponents behind her. From a short hop, it can even combo another down aerial after her double jump.
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, as it can lead to her back air and forward tilt at low to mid percents.
Forward roll Back roll Spot dodge Air dodge		—	—
Techs		—	—
Floor attack (front) Floor getups (front)			7%	Swirls around in a similar fashion to Mario's down smash.
Floor attack (back) Floor getups (back)			7%	Swings her legs around.
Floor attack (trip) Floor getups (trip)			5%	Two kicks to either side.
Edge attack Edge getups			9%	While getting up, sweep kicks in front of her.
Neutral special		Toad	3.5% (per hit)	Peach covers her ears and turns away as Toad appears in front of her, arms spread out. If hit, Toad will retaliate with a spray of spores, and Peach will wince. If attacked from behind, Peach and Toad switch places. Direction can be switched manually, but it has strict timing.
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. Deals considerable shield damage. 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, the more damage they will take and the longer they'll slumber. Three giant peaches appear, healing 20%. This Final Smash fails to effect anyone outside the range of the screen borders.

Vegetable Damage Data

Face	Power Level	Chance
Grin	5%	60.14%
Stare	5%	10.14%
Closed Eyes	5%	8.62%
Surprised	5%	5.17%
Happy	5%	5.14%
Wink	10%	6.89%
Dot-Eyes	16%	1.72%
Stitch-Face	24%	1.72%
Mr. Saturn	7~9%	0.6%
Bob-omb	25~36%	0.4%

On-screen appearance

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

Taunts

• Up Taunt: Faces the screen, and 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: Faces the screen, and 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
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

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  Peach's fighter card.

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  Peach above Town and City.

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  Performing her up aerial attack on Green Greens.

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  Striking Sheik with Toad on Tortimer Island.

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  Idling on Mario Galaxy.

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  With Villager, plucking a Turnip on Gaur Plain.

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  In her black-and-gold dress on Princess Peach's Castle.

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  Defended from Bowser by Toad on 3D Land.

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  Taunting in her white-and-red dress with Daisy on 3D Land.

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  In her white dress with Mario on Skyworld.

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  Peach, Diddy Kong, Mega Man, and Bayonetta fighting around Alolan Exeggutor on Pilotwings.

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  With Mario and Bowser on Princess Peach's Castle.

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.