Super Smash Bros. Melee/Attributes

Introduction

Every character in Melee has a large array of attributes that makeup their movement, speed, and mobility.

Weight

Weight is the attribute that measures how much a character resists knockback.

In Melee, the average weight of a character is 90, with the lightest playable character being Pichu at 55, and the heaviest being Bowser at 117.

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Rank	Character	Weight
N/A	Giga Bowser	140
1	Bowser	117
2	Donkey Kong	114
3	Samus	110
4	Ganondorf	109
5	Yoshi	108
6-7	Captain Falcon	104
	Link
8-10	Dr. Mario	100
	Luigi
	Mario
N/A	Male Wireframe	100
N/A	Sandbag
11	Ness	94
12-14	Peach	90
	Sheik
	Zelda
N/A	Female Wireframe	90
15	Ice Climbers	88
16	Marth	87
17-19	Mewtwo	85
	Roy
	Young Link
20-21	Falco	80
	Pikachu
22	Fox	75
23	Kirby	70
24-25	Jigglypuff	60
	Mr. Game and Watch
26	Pichu	55

Sourced from SSBWiki's weight list[[1]]

Fall Speed

Fall Speed is how fast a character moves downward towards the ground in mid-air. A character has two fixed fall speeds: Regular, and fastfall. Fastfall is initiated once you are past the apex of your jump and press downwards, accelerating you quicker downwards, though this difference in regular and fastfall speeds is different on a character to character basis.

In Melee, Falco has the fastest regular and fastfall speeds, at 3.1 and 3.5, and Jigglypuff has the slowest at 1.3 and 1.6 respectively.

Rank	Character	Regular Falling Speed	Fast Falling Speed	Speed Increase
1-2	Falco	3.1	3.5	12.9%
	Captain Falcon	2.9		20.7%
3	Fox	2.8	3.4	21.4%
4-5	Link	2.13	3	40.8%
	Sheik
6	Donkey Kong	2.4	2.96	23.3%
7	Yoshi	1.93	2.93	51.8%
8	Roy	2.4	2.9	20.8%
9	Pikachu	1.9	2.7	42.1%
10	Ganondorf	2	2.6	30.0%
11-12	Marth	2.2	2.5	13.6%
	Pichu	1.9		31.6%
13	Bowser	1.9	2.4	26.3%
14-18	Mario	1.7	2.3	35.3%
	Dr. Mario
	Mr. Game and Watch
	Mewtwo	1.5		53.3%
	Samus	1.4		64.3%
19-20	Young Link	2.13	2.2	3.3%
	Ness	1.83		20.2%
21-24	Luigi	1.6	2	25.0%
	Kirby
	Ice Climbers
	Peach	1.5		33.3%
25	Zelda	1.4	1.85	32.1%
26	Jigglypuff	1.3	1.6	23.1%

Sourced from ssbwiki's fall speed chart [[2]]

Gravity

Gravity is how fast a character reaches their top falling speed .

In Melee, Fox has the highest gravity value at 0.064, and Jigglypuff has the lowest gravity value at 0.064.

Units below are in units/frame².

Rank	Character	Gravity
N/A	Giga Bowser	0.25
1	Fox	0.23
2	Falco	0.17
3-5	Captain Falcon	0.13
	Bowser
	Ganondorf
6	Sheik	0.12
7	Roy	0.114
8-11	Link	0.11
	Pikachu
	Pichu
	Young Link
12-13	Donkey Kong	0.1
	Ice Climbers
14-16	Mario	0.095
	Dr. Mario
	Mr. Game and Watch
17	Yoshi	0.093
18	Ness	0.09
N/A	Male Wireframe	0.09
19	Marth	0.085
20	Mewtwo	0.082
21-22	Kirby	0.08
	Peach
23	Zelda	0.073
N/A	Female Wireframe	0.073
24	Luigi	0.069
25	Samus	0.066
26	Jigglypuff	0.064
N/A	Sandbag Sandbag	0.05

Sourced from SSBWiki's gravity chart [[3]]

Ground Movement

Walk Speed

Of the three ground movements, walking, dashing, and running, Walking is the slowest form.

In Melee, Fox has the fastest walk speed at 1.6 and Bowser has the slowest at 0.65.

Rank	Character	Speed
1-2	Fox	1.6
	Marth
3	Falco	1.4
4-5	Pikachu	1.24
	Pichu
6-10	Donkey Kong	1.2
	Link
	Roy
	Sheik
	Young Link
11	Yoshi	1.15
12-15	Mario	1.1
	Luigi
	Dr. Mario
	Mr. Game and Watch
16-17	Mewtwo	1.0
	Samus
18	Ice Climbers	0.95
19-21	Captain Falcon	0.85
	Kirby
	Peach
22	Ness	0.84
23	Ganondorf	0.73
24-25	Jigglypuff	0.7
	Zelda
26	Bowser	0.65

Sourced from SSBWiki's walk speed chart [[4]]

Jumping Attributes