Peach

Smash Attacks

SIDE SMASH—Peach’s SIDE SMASH rotates between three weapons in order: a tennis racket, a golf club, and a frying pan. The tennis racket launches farthest, the golf club has the most range, and the frying pan does the most damage.

DOWN SMASH—This low attack hits multiple times as Peach spins while crouching.

UP SMASH—Peach whips a ribbon around herself as she twirls.

Basic Attacks

Standing Attack—Peach’s Standing attack is a very quick two-slap combo that pops the opponent up into the air. Use the speed of the first hit by itself to interrupt your opponent, but be careful when commiting to both strikes.

Forward Tilt—A high forward kick with very good vertical range.

Up Tilt—This uppercut releases a heart at its peak. It has enough forward range to hit a standing opponent in front of Peach and pops your opponent up in front of her, allowing for follow-ups.

Down Tilt—Here Peach sweeps your opponent with a single swipe in front of her with her arm, popping your opponent up into the air.

Dash Attack—Peach lunges forward with boths arms outstretched with this two-hit dash attack. The second hit releases a magic attack that pops opponents up even higher.

Edge Attack—Peach returns to the stage with a low arm sweep similar to her Down Tilt.

Air Attacks

Neutral Air Attack—Peach twirls in the air to perform a single slap. Use this out of Gliding or from short hops.

Up Air Attack—This rainbow attack from Peach’s wand covers the area above her head. Use it against opponents above you.

Down Air Attack—One of Peach’s best aerial attacks, as it can lead to combos that rack up tons of damage or to wear down an opponent’s shield. This multi-hitting attack can be very frustrating for opponents and is especially strong when used out of Gliding.

Forward Air Attack—This forward swinging attack has great range and does a lot of damage.

Back Air Attack—This reverse hip bump can travel quite far and deliver solid damage, so be sure not to underestimate its utility.

Special Attacks

Toad (Neutral Special)—Toad can be used to counter your opponent’s attacks and inflict some damage. This can be a good option when your shield is wearing thin or as a stall tactic to stay in the air longer.

Peach Bomber (Side Special)—Peach bombs the opponent with an explosive hip bump. Tilt back before she launches herself, and she will slingshot herself. Smashing the stick when performing this attack will cause Peach to propel herself farther than usual. This move will pass through an opponent’s shield.

Peach Parasol (Up Special)—Primarily used as a recovery tool, Peach Parasol is also an attack! Peach jumps and opens her parasol to slow her fall. You can tap Down to attack with the parasol during the fall, but this will make you fall faster. You can also move left or right as she comes down.

Vegetable (Down Special)—Peach reaches into the ground and pulls out a Vegetable. Vegetables vary in damage, and sometimes Peach can even pull out rare items like Bob-ombs, Beam Swords, and Mr. Saturn! The more damaging an item is, however, the less chance Peach has of pulling it out! Keep pulling to see what you get!

Final Smash

Peach Blossom—Peach’s Final Smash causes giant peaches to fall from the sky. Anyone caught nearby is put into a special Deep Sleep state. They will be completely vulnerable in this state, so be sure to target whomever has the highest health percentage! As soon as you hit anyone, they will wake up, so you have only one good shot! You can also eat the peaches to restore health—each peach returns 10% health to Peach. Try to eat as many as possible before going for a KO blow against your opponents.

Strategy

Peach’s main strengths are her projectiles, her horizontal recovery, her combo potential, and her versatility, thanks to her float ability. Her weakness is that she’s a lightweight character who doesn’t have very strong knockout options. You’ll have to use her projectiles and her float ability to build up damage on your opponents while outspacing them to deal additional damage. Her jab is also a very useful interrupt tool and will get you out of trouble, and her Forward and Back Air attacks are her better knockout tools. While she’s floating, it can be very tempting to use her Forward Air Attack a great deal; however, you want to save its strength to try knocking out opponents later in the match. Float can also be used slightly above an opponent’s head level to threaten that opponent’s shield with Peach’s Down Air Attack. You can even chain together multiple Back Air attacks by doing one from float, then releasing float, and then doing it again!

The second technical part about Peach’s game is her Vegetables. Keep an eye out for the more damaging ones and then hope you get one of the rare items! Pull Vegetables as often as possible to find these rare ones. Throw them up, down, forward, or back, and pull another one in the process. Note that if you connect with a thrown Vegetable, you can catch it again to re-use it! And definitely try this if you pull one of the rarer Vegetables! If you throw one very high up, you can pull another, throw it forward, catch the first one on its way down, and then throw that as well! This will give you two Vegetable tosses in quick succession!

When it comes to using Toad, you need to be very careful, as Peach is left vulnerable on whiff. Don’t forget you can also use Toad in the air, which can be especially fun after being popped off the edge if your opponent tries to immediately attack you. When Peach is edge guarding, Toad can also be useful in stopping your opponents from attacking their way back onto the edge. Another surprise edge guarding tool is Peach’s Peach Bomber, which travels a good distance in a short amount of time. Of course, throwing Vegetables at opponents as they are trying to recover is always a good option, too. And don’t forget you can also throw Vegetables downward at opponents trying to get back up to the stage as well.

Recovery

As Peach is a lightweight character, you will need to master her recovery options. In general, her vertical recovery isn’t the strongest, but her horizontal recovery options are amazing. Her main vertical recovery tool is the Peach Parasol, as she jumps higher into the air before slowly descending. During her descent, she can also move horizontally left or right. Another option she has is to float when you hold the Jump button—this also allows her to recover horizontally, allowing her to move left or right and giving her access to her attacks at the same time. Her Peach Bomber travels far horizontally and is a good horizontal recovery option as well. You can also use Toad as a slight stall tactic to throw off your opponent’s timing. But in the end, Parasol is Peach’s only real vertical recovery option—and its slow descent allows opponents to catch up to you quickly, so try to get to the edge with it to gain some invincibility.