Samus (PM)

Samus; in Project M and Project+
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Universe	Metroid
Base game appearance	Brawl
Moveset inspiration	Samus (SSBM)
Alternate costume	Light Suit, Fusion Suit, Retro Suit Samus

Samus is a playable character in the Brawl mod Project M. For her appearance in Project M she has been restored to her Melee version with considerable buffs and an entirely new alternate moveset that can be accessed via a taunt.

Samus Light Suit alt in Project M 3.5.

Samus Fusion suit alt in Project M 3.6.

Samus Original Power Suit in Project M 3.6.

Dark Samus costume in Project M 3.5, alongside Fusion Suit Samus.

Attributes

Samus is a heavy fighter who is unusually floaty, a characteristic defying those of her weight class. She utilizes a unique array of powerful projectiles in her arsenal, including Charge Shot beams, missiles, and bombs. Additionally, new to Samus's Project M iteration, using her side taunt allows her to switch between either fire and ice elements (with the former being default). This mechanic changes the elements of her forward smash, forward air, up smash, down tilt, and missiles (unusually, it does not change the element for her bombs), which allows Samus to utilize a new set of skills that players are able to use in strategic methods.

Obviously, Samus does not have no flaws, however. Despite being a heavyweight, Samus's vertical endurance is slightly below average due to her very slow falling speed (having the worst vertical endurance of the heavyweights); it also causes her to be easily juggled. Additionally, despite being floaty, Samus's recovery is below average due to a low air speed. Also, her recovery move, Screw Attack, offers very little horizontal and vertical distance (with the former especially occuring should Samus not gain any prior momentum). While Samus can still use her grapple beam to grab onto edges, the extended grapple technique from Melee has been omitted, thus exacerbating her recovery. Fortunately, however, Samus's own bombs come to the rescue, and they greatly aid her in recovery, as she can perform the bomb recovery technique to get herself back onto the stage more easily.

In addition, she has a below average aerial approach due to her low air and falling speed, resulting in Samus receiving a poor SHFFL, despite her aerials generally having little to no endlag in her aerial attacks.

Changes from Melee to PM

Aesthetics

While most characters in Project M keep their Brawl voices and sounds, Samus uses SFXs from Melee for her jumps, Charge Shot, Missiles and Screw Attack.
Up taunt replaced with her Melee taunt.

Attributes

Can now crawl, with a similar animation to her previous roll, and has gained a new crawl attack based off of the boost ball from Metroid Prime.
Super wavedash timing window increased from one frame to two frames.
Rolling animation is significantly faster, and it has been changed to a conventional side-step animation.
Can now swap between flame and ice beam types with side taunt; this affects her down tilt, forward smash, forward aerial, up smash, and Missiles. Taunt canceling this will still result in a beam switch. This gives Samus a new repertoire of altered attacks to work with, allowing players to be more creative in their styles.
Samus can no longer change into Zero Suit Samus in mid-match with her taunts.

Ground Attacks

Forward smash now has a flame effect, akin to Super Smash Bros. 4.

Grabs and Throws

Grapple Beam has shorter reach, but is much faster in both start-up and ending lag, similar to Link's Clawshot. Dash grab retains its speed unchanged but it now has the same range as the standing grab.
Can no longer use the extended grapple; as a result, her recovery has been exacerbated and is now slightly below-average.

Special Attacks

Charge Shot can now be charged while airborne.

Revisions

v3.01

Samus can drift properly after an aerial Charge Shot.

v3.5

Ice forward smash now freezes characters hit by the second hit.
Fire up smash has smaller hitboxes and the final hit has reduced knockback.
Fire forward air's final hit knockback reduced to match Melee Samus.
Ice forward air autocancels later, and has a later IASA window.
Bombs no longer damage opponents through shields.
- They now deal more damage.
Tether ledge grab range reduced. Additionally, the tether attaches to the ledge later.
Zair knockback reduced.
Up air now uses linking hitbox stats from Melee Samus.

Moveset

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Up to date as of version 3.5.

	Name	Damage	Description
Neutral attack		3% (hit 1), 7% (hit 2) (10% total)	A quick jab and then attacks with her arm cannon in a arc.
Forward tilt		11% (high), 10% (mid), 9% (low)	Very quickly kicks forward with her right leg. Good for stopping ground approaches.
Up tilt		12-13%	Raises her right leg and quickly brings it down. Has low vertical knockback and can combo into itself at low damage percentages.
Down tilt		Fire: 14%; Ice: 5% (center), 2% (edge)	Brings down her cannon arm creating either a fiery explosion or an icy explosion depending on which one the player has chosen. Fire version has stronger vertical knockback while the icy version has more horizontal knockback at the tip, while having low knockback near the center.
Crawl attack		5%	Her ball form while crawling lights up and moves forward a slight distance quickly. Has weak knockback and damage.
Dash attack		13% (clean), 9% (late)	Shoulder tackles. Weak horizontal knockback that doesn't kill until over 100%. Combos well with her neutral attack at low damage percentages.
Forward smash		Fire: 15%/14%/13% (arm high/mid/low), 15% (tip); Ice: 14% (hit 1), 6% (hit 2)	Thrusts her cannon arm forward with either an icy explosion or fiery explosion at the tip. Both attacks have good horizontal knockback with the fire version being stronger.
Up smash		Fire: 3% (hits 1-4), 6% (hit 5); Ice: 17% (clean), 14% (mid), 12% (late)	Samus aims her arm cannon upward and creates six small fire explosions above her in an arc when set to fire and swings her arm up quickly leaving an icy trail when set to ice. Both attacks have decent vertical knockback with the icy version having slight horizontal knockback.
Down smash		16% (front), 15% (back)	Quickly swings her foot around her in a circle. Has good horizontal knockback which knocks the enemy behind Samus from the front and knocking the enemy in front of her when hit from the back.
Neutral aerial		14% (clean), 10% (late)	Kicks her foot in front of herself. Has horizontal knockback.
Forward aerial		Fire: 5% (hits 1-5) (25% total); Ice: 14%	Fires several explosions in front of her with her arm cannon when set to fire and does a quick downward arc with her arm cannon leaving an icy trail when set to ice. Both attacks have horizontal knockback.
Back aerial		10% (leg), 14% (foot)	Kicks her foot behind her. Has slightly stronger knockback when hit at the tip.
Up aerial		3% (hit 1), 1% (hits 2-5), 4% (hit 6) (11% total)	Spins upward in a drill.
Down aerial		16%	Throws her cannon arm in arc under herself. This move is a spike and is good for edge guarding.
Grab aerial		4%	Grapple beam flies out in front of her. Has long reach and can be used for a tether recovery offstage.
Grab		—	Samus sends out her Grapple Beam to catch the enemy.
Pummel		3%	Smacks the enemy with her left arm.
Forward throw		9%	Brings the enemy up with her Grapple Beam and then throws them forward.
Back throw		8%	Flings the enemy behind her.
Up throw		3% (hits 1-3), 6% (throw) (9% total)	Spins opponent above her head and shocks opponent upward.
Down throw		6%	Brings the enemy above her then slams them downward in front of her,
Floor attack (front)		8%	Gets up and kicks on both sides.
Floor attack (back)		8% (hit 1), 6% (hit 2)	Gets up and kicks on both sides.
Floor attack (trip)		5%	Kicks her leg in front and behind her, then gets up.
Edge attack (fast)		9%	Flips up with a kick.
Edge attack (slow)		10%	Slowly gets up and then flicks her arm cannon in front of her.
Neutral special	Charge Shot	3-25%	Charges up her arm cannon before firing a ball of white and bluish energy in front of her. Charging can be interrupted with a shield input or side step. At full charge it can KO as early as 80%.
Side special	Missile	Fire: 5% (guided), 12% (super); Ice: 7% (guided), 10% (super)	Fires a fiery or icy missile.
Up special	Screw Attack	Ground: 2% (hit 1), 1% (hits 2-13) (13% total); Air: 1% (hits 1-12) (12% total)	Shoots up into the air while spinning around quickly.
Down special	Bomb	8%	Turns into a ball and drops a small bomb that falls a slight distance before exploding. Can be used to extend Samus's recovery.
Final Smash	Zero Laser	40-78%	Fires a bluish white large beam of energy in front of her that traps opponents caught in the blast before blasting them away. Move lasts about 5 seconds and passes through terrain. Has decent knockback and makes Samus lose her Power Suit.

In competitive play

Notable players

Alternate costumes

Samus had three new costumes added in version 3.5. They are based on the Classic Power Suit, Light Suit, and Fusion Suit. The Fusion Suit-colored costume has also been changed to resemble Dark Samus.

Version 3.6 replaced the Dark Suit color scheme with the actual Dark Suit, and gave all her other alternate costumes brand new aesthetics.