However, since weight affects high knockback values more than low ones, this advantage is less significant compared to the disadvantage of being easier to KO the size of a character's hurtboxes, as well as their falling speed and gravity prior to Ultimate (and especially in Melee), have a larger impact than weight on how vulnerable a character is to combos. Because of the higher knockback they receive, they can usually escape combos earlier. Lighter characters do have their own advantages. Rool, Incineroar, Snake ( Brawl only), and Ganondorf ( Ultimate only). These characters commonly include Donkey Kong, Bowser, King Dedede, Charizard, King K. In Brawl 'lightweight' often encompasses characters who are knocked down by King Dedede's down throw, with a weight of 85 or below ( Zelda, Sheik, and all lighter characters).Īnother commonly used weight class is the 'super heavyweights', which describes the heaviest characters in the series, who also usually have the largest sizes and hurtboxes and often shake the screen upon landing on the ground. In Melee, 'lightweight' usually encompasses characters who are knocked down by Fox's shine (with a weight of 85 or below) thus Marth is often considered a middleweight in NTSC but a lightweight in PAL, due to his decreased weight in that version of the game. 'Middleweights' are usually described as characters with a close to average weight, or a similar weight to Mario, who is often seen as the 'default' character in Super Smash Bros. Weight class divisions are often arbitrary and not universally agreed upon. characters are often divided into separate 'weight classes', with the most common method being a separation of the roster into three roughly equal groups: lightweight, middleweight, and heavyweight. In Ultimate, weight is a factor in determining how much a character can be pushed by an opponent running into them, and how far they will push other opponents. Because throwing heavier characters causes the throwing animation to continue longer once the target is released, the ending lag of the throw is increased and thus the viability of throw combos may be affected for example, in Melee, Captain Falcon is not vulnerable to many of the up throw chain grabs (such as from Marth) that the space animals are vulnerable to despite his equivalently fast falling speed in Brawl, the Ice Climbers' infinite chain grabs are more difficult to perform on heavyweights as the increased ending lag gives the player a smaller window in which to execute regrabs and in Smash 4, Robin's down throw to up aerial 'Checkmate' KO setup doesn't true combo for a KO on Bowser and Charizard at any percent, due to the combination of their weight extending the throw's ending lag enough and their slow falling speed allowing them to stay out of the up aerial's range at KO percents. Additionally, in Melee, Brawl, and Smash 4, many throws take longer to execute on heavier characters, giving the opponent being thrown more time to properly react to throws and to DI effectively.

Because of this, it is generally considered an advantage for a character to be heavy, as less knockback makes it harder to KO a character. Weight is, in practice, understood as how difficult it is to send a character flying away. From Melee to Smash 4, some throws had different speeds depending on the weight of the character being thrown.

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