When tournaments are hosted on smash.gg, organizers have the ability to save data such as characters and stages for sets. Over 6000 games were reported with character data in 2016. We have previously analyzed the data for Captain Falcon, Marth, Sheik, and Samus. The next character in this series is Peach!

For Peach we looked at 649 games reported, which is a bit more than Samus. Even so, we still had to lower the number of total games required for review to include Samus and Jigglypuff. Both have over 30 games reported, but since the data pool is a bit smaller the results may be a bit skewed.

The most obvious data point that sticks out to me is Peach vs. Ice Climbers. While Peach’s win-rate is still pretty high (48%), the fact that it leans in favor of IC’s is quite the surprise. Is it just the fact that even at lower levels wobbling can out-do the down-smash?

I talked to Midwest Peach main Kalamazhu to go over his thoughts versus ICs at the lower level.

The data shows that Peach slightly loses to Ice Climbers across all levels of play. I was initially surprised about these results because I would expect that Peach beats Ice Climbers, especially at low levels of play. There are two factors that I believe give Ice Climbers the advantage at lower skill levels. The first is that wobbling gives even low-level Ice Climbers a perfect punish game on peach, whereas the punish game by peach on Ice Climbers is not as straightforward. The Second is that because of the common misconception that the match-up is so “free”, Peach players don’t pay much attention to the Ice Climbers match-up and expect to win easily. Overall, I do believe that Peach does in fact beat Ice Climbers solidly, although not as badly as people have thought in the past. Recently, Ice Climbers players have been giving Peach players some trouble with their careful play and crazy wobble setups. However, because of peach’s ability to separate and kill Nana very efficiently with float canceled fairs, Peach can give Ice Climbers some trouble.

I was also curious regarding his thoughts about Peach vs. spacies, and whether he agreed that the data suggests that Peach has more of an edge when facing Fox vs. Falco.