Peach (SSBU)
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| 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
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, 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).
- 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:
- 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)
- Some turnips do more damage (9% → 10% (normal), 13% → 15% (winking), 16% → 21% (dot eyes)).
- Stitch-faced turnips deal less damage (30% → 29%).
- 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
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). {{MovesetTable |game=SSBU |neutralcount=2 |neutralname= |neutral1dmg=2% |neutral2dmg=3% |neutraldesc=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. |ftiltname= |ftiltdmg=7% (early, clean leg), 8% (clean foot) |ftiltdesc=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. |utiltname= |utiltdmg=10% (blast), 8% (arm) |utiltdesc=Extends her arm upward, creating a discharge of pink magic in the form of a heart. |dtiltname= |dtiltdmg=7% |dtiltdesc=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. |dashname= |dashdmg=4% (hit 1), 6% (hit 2) |dashdesc=Creating magical sparks in her hands, Peach strikes with both arms extended forward, then quickly spreads her arms out. |fsmashname=A Tool For Every Job |fsmashdmg=<span class="explain" title="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "}".% when fully charged">18}
(frying pan),15% (golf club),13.5% (tennis racket)
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| Face | Damage |
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| Grin | 10~13.4% |
| Stare | 10~13.4% |
| Closed Eyes | 10~13.4% |
| Surprised | 10~13.4% |
| Happy | 10~13.4% |
| Wink | 15~17.4% |
| Dot-Eyes | 12~23.4% |
| Stitch-Face | 23~29% |
| Mr. Saturn | 7~9% |
| Bob-omb | 25~36% |
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
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Gallery
Peach's fighter card.
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.
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.
