| Vegetable | |
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 Peach, pulling a vegetable from the ground in SSB4. | |
| User | Peach |
| Universe | Mario |
| Article on Super Mario Wiki | Vegetable |
| “ | Pluck vegetables from the stage and hurl them at enemies. | ” |
| —Melee's instruction manual | ||
| “ | Pluck a veggie and carry it until you're ready to throw it. | ” |
| —Brawl's instruction manual | ||
| “ | Pick throwable veggies or items from the ground. | ” |
| —Description from Smash for 3DS's foldout | ||
Vegetable (野菜ひっこ抜き, Uproot Vegetables) is Peach's down special move. When used on the ground, Peach will pluck a large turnip from the ground. These turnips function similarly to items and can be thrown at opponents, dealing more damage and knockback if thrown at close range and less damage and knockback if thrown at long range. Occasionally, the Vegetables plucked will depict different faces, with rarer faces generally giving greater damage and knockback. Peach also has a very low chance of pulling other items from the ground, including Beam Swords, Bob-ombs and Mr. Saturns. Thrown Vegetables fall very slowly, and it is very easy to grab one after having been hit by one. As such, turnips will disappear in mid-air after a certain amount of time. This move cannot be used while Peach is in the air.
Vegetable has the potential to be Peach's strongest attack, with the rare "stitch face" Vegetable doing 36% damage (40% damage when smash thrown at close range) and having knockback strong enough to KO opponents at 72% in Melee and 130% in Brawl. This power is increased when considering the fact that a Vegetable that hits an opponent will bounce off, potentially allowing Peach to still grab it in the air and throw it again. A glide tossed "stitch face" Vegetable combined with a down tilt or auto-canceled forward aerial has the potential to break shields. If the opponent's shield is broken, Peach can set up a fully-charged sweetspotted up smash by throwing a turnip upward and charging her up smash or a fully charged forward smash at high percentage.
The second rarest "dot-shaped eyes" Vegetable does 16% damage (22% damage when smash thrown at close range).
Should Peach pull a Bob-omb using this move, it can be Peach's strongest attack of all if the opponent is caught in the explosion, being a very dangerous and highly volatile projectile item. A smash thrown Bob-omb will deal 25-38% damage in Melee and 25-36% damage in Brawl, in both games having severe base knockback as well as very high knockback scaling (making DI and Momentum Canceling ineffective for survival). In Brawl, a thrown Bob-omb can KO as early as 33%. As Peach usually has difficulty landing her fairly weak KO moves, the unpredictability of a Bob-omb pull can easily turn the tide of a match. However, Peach of course will receive damage and knockback herself if she is very close to the Bob-omb explosion.
In Melee, the chance of pulling out one of the three items is 1/300, or an overall combined 1% chance of pulling out something other than a turnip.[citation needed]
In Brawl, Vegetables have a shorter overall presence, disappearing when they hit the ground rather than going through it. They will also disappear upon hitting a shield or attack, rather than bouncing. If Peach is interrupted while plucking one from the ground, it will remain in the ground for a brief period, during which anyone can pluck it out. Size scaling is more refined in Brawl, so if Peach grows/shrinks while she is holding a Vegetable, they will also change in size with her. In this game, Peach has a 1/58 chance of pulling out a "stitch face" Vegetable, and a combined 1/128 chance of pulling out either a Beam Sword, Bob-omb, Mr. Saturn. The probabilities of each of the three items are no longer equal as they were in Melee, making Mr. Saturns overall more likely and Bob-ombs and Beam Swords less likely.[citation needed]
In Super Smash Bros. 4, the move's sound effect was changed to the original sound effect heard in Super Mario Bros. 2. Peach can no longer pull out Beam Swords. The probability of pulling out rarer turnips and items appears to have increased, but exact numbers are currently undocumented.
Customization
Special Move customization was added in Super Smash Bros. 4. These are the known variations:
| 1. Vegetable | 2. Light Veggie | 3. Heavy Veggie |
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| "Pluck a veggie on the ground. The veggie's power depends on its mood." | "Pluck a slow-flying veggie from the ground. Can only be used so many times in a row." | "Pluck a heavy veggie that doesn't go far but can launch opponents." |
- Vegetable: Default.
- Light Veggie: Pulls out a slow-flying vegetable, but can only be used twice in a row. The vegetables fly back towards Peach when they hit an enemy, allowing her to catch them and throw them again.
- Heavy Veggie: Takes longer to pull out the vegetable and has shorter range; however, the vegetable deals much more damage and can launch opponents.
Origin
Vegetables were some of the main weapons in Super Mario Bros. 2 (Super Mario USA in Japan), the others being the enemies themselves. Though they closely resemble Daikon radishes, some players identify them as turnips. All characters and not only Peach were able to throw vegetables, the other being Mario, Luigi and Toad.
Techniques
If the player performs this move while running or walking off a ledge, she will pluck out a turnip without suffering any lag. This technique is known as a Ledge Canceled Turnip Pull.
A short-hopped turnip is also faster than a standing turnip in terms of startup frames. Turnips are also primarily used in conjunction with float-cancelled aerials, but turnips cannot be thrown while floating (though they can be dropped; see the Vidjocancel). When the player jumps with the intention of leading in with a turnip, they should follow a step-by-step process: jump, hold the button, throw the turnip, press down to float, and continue with any one of their aerials.
Turnips out of shield
Turnips are useful even while shielding, mainly because the player can shield cancel with a jump or turnip throw. If the player presses A with a turnip in hand and their shield up, the turnip will be thrown. This is generally only useful when someone has the player trapped in their shield and they cannot throw away their turnip and simply attack, or when the opponent is outside of grab range. However, an interesting tactic requires the player to shield, jump, and press Z (or simply hold jump) without any direction to item-drop the vegetable, a one-frame action. Depending on when Z is pressed, the turnip will either drop right in front of the player (if they hit Z immediately or just hold R) or right behind you (if they hesitate). The beauty lies in the fact that the drop basically lacks an animation, and the stun from the hit allows the player to follow up with a float-cancelled Down Aerial A into basically any attack or grab. It is a nice variation on the simple shield grab; it can likewise result in some nice damage-building.
Though this technique, just like item-dropping, can be used by any character with any item, the player can throw opponents' turnips while rolling. Using this maneuver, the player can actually throw a turnip (or whatever other item they may be holding) in the direction opposite the one which they are facing. To do this, they need to initiate the roll and either immediately hit A (or Smash Forward A for a Smash Throw) or delay it slightly to roll just barely before throwing said item. Hitting any jump button followed by Up A (or the C-stick) will make Peach throw the turnip upward. Also, smashing forward and hitting A will make Peach throw the item with her dash-throw animation, which has much more lag.
Turnip Throw Cancel
Once the player grabs a turnip, they must short hop with Peach. At the peak of her jump (or just as she starts to descend), the player must fast-fall and throw the turnip down at the same time (hold Down and Z together) and she will land on the ground, begin her throw animation, but keep the turnip in hand.
Turnip Pull Cancel
This is a tactic that is useful for moving away while pulling a turnip, which is useful for obvious reasons. There are two ways to do it. The first is to dash towards the ledge, and the moment before you start to fall off, pull a turnip. The limited amount of slide Peach has should tip her over the edge while in her turnip pulling animation. This works with any platform. The other is done while floating, and then while floating backwards, landing on the edge of a platform or stage while facing away from it, and pulling a turnip. The limited sliding from the landing should tip the player over and continue their pull animation. This does not work if they face the ledge, because generally when they land from the float when facing the ledge, they will simply be stopped by the "falling over" animation.
Knitting
Knitting is a technique used to pull more powerful turnips in a more efficient manner.[1]
Frozen turnip glitch
Occasionally, a particular turnip may become stuck in mid-air and retain its hitboxes after being thrown. The turnip may still be caught normally by any character. It is unknown how to replicate the frozen turnip glitch.
Gallery
Sprites of vegetables from the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 2.
Peach throwing a vegetable in Melee.
Peach with the rare "stitch face" vegetable in Brawl.
Peach, pulling a normal vegetable from the ground in Brawl.
The eight possible vegetables in Brawl, with frequency ratios and comparative damages.
- PeachVegetableCompleteOddsTableSSBB.jpg
A complete table of all possibilities when using Vegetable in Brawl, including items.
Peach pulling a vegetable from out of the ground in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS
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Trivia
- In Melee, Vegetables are one of the primary steps in activating the Black hole glitch.
- In Brawl, if one plucks out a Beam Sword while using this move, the sword's range will be severely decreased, as Peach will use her turnip throwing animation to swing the sword rather than her proper item swinging animation. After about a minute of wielding it, the "picking up an item" sound will be heard and Peach will be able to use it normally. This effect can also be canceled by dropping the sword and picking it up again, as well as taunting or using Toad.
- Early version of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS had a glitch where using this move at the start of an online For Glory match would result in a cheating violation for hacking in items. This glitch was fixed in version 1.0.2.
