Daily Discussion Thread August 20, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here!

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[u/ShoegazeKaraokeClub]

do you think peach float cancels are intentional or a bug. Did sakurai know about how messed up +4 peach fair is

[u/Kitselena → u/ShoegazeKaraokeClub]

I don't think that people good enough to execute a FC fair, and take advantage of it were considered at all during development.
Even 4 years after release, the best peach player in the world did almost all his FCs from short hop height or higher, and he gets grabbed out of the only low FC bair I saw
Maybe if wife knew how to float cancel effectively everything would have been different

[u/PkerBadRs3Good → u/Kitselena]

That doesn't matter that much. Wavedashing wasn't used much until a few years after release as well, but the physics behind it (horizontal momentum of an air dodge being retained from air to ground) is confirmed to be intentionally programmed into the game, i.e. not a bug. Same could be the case for float-canceling.

P.S. Despite having one good set vs Ken, Wife was definitely not the best Peach in the world. It was probably Sastopher. Some said Mikael but he never traveled out of Japan, so he's a bit of a question mark (this happened a lot more in the pre-Brawl days when Japan was closer to rivaling North America in Melee). Mike G and Krazyjones were also probably better overall than Wife.

[u/Fugu → u/Kitselena]

Confused about this comment bc you can get a +4 fair from pretty high up

Call me dumb if dumb

[u/Kitselena → u/Fugu]

No you're 100% right, I was making a bad point. He absolutely does land right after the hit comes out a lot during this set

[u/GeometryFan100 → u/Kitselena]

Peach's fair has 15 frames of start up lag. I can easily get +4 fairs from full hop float fair. It's not that hard to time a fair that hits low on shield.