An eccentric overhaul for Sarasaland’s princess.

Extra special thanks to Askew, Suddy, WuBoy, Mad Villain, chrispo, naps, Peardian, and Glithware for their assistance in making this possible!

General

Daisy has had a large amount of her animations adjusted, with the goal of leaning more into her spunky and energetic personality, as opposed to carrying over some of Peach’s more dainty and elegant motions. These new animations additionally have better consideration for skins that swap out her dress for more athletic outfits, which you may find fit her new abilities quite well…

There are too many to name, so please try her out yourself and see what’s new!

Other bullet points:

• [*] Corrected Daisy’s idle animation when holding an item to match her normal idle animation, instead of reverting to Peach’s

Before	After

• [$] Added unique animations for Daisy’s third jump

• [$] Side Taunt

  • The slightest tap of the button may now result in an unexpected cameo…
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  • There are 25 different dialog options for this special taunt, chosen at random
  • Pressing side taunt within the first few frames of a parry will also summon this little scoundrel

• [$] Down Taunt

  • Completely new animation based on Strikers Charged
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  • Opponents may not want to get too close to Daisy while she’s showing off. She’s hot stuff!

• [*] Fixed an issue where Daisy would freeze in place when getting her shield broken

Grab/Throws

General

• [$] Toad has been removed from all grab and throw animations, letting Daisy take matters into her own hands
• [$] Pummel, forward throw, and down throw have all had their animations changed, inheriting Peach’s previous animations from Smash 4

Forward Throw

• [$] Added hit effects
• [$] Hit SFX: Normal -> Slap

Grounded Attacks

Jab

• Jab 1
  • [$] Cleaned up hitboxes
  • [$] Adjusted expressions and VFX
  • [-] Hitbox Duration: F2-4 -> F3-5
  • [-] Hitbox Size (hand): 3.5u -> 3.0u
  • [-] FAF: 16 -> 17

Before	After

• Jab 2
  • [$] Adjusted animation to better reflect the launch angle
  • [/] Hitlag Multiplier: 1.8x -> 1.2x

Forward Tilt

• (!) New animation, resembling a typical soccer kick

• [R] Active frames: F6-15 -> F6-12
• [R] Damage: 7.0% -> 8.0%/9.0% (early) / 6.0% (late)
• [R] Angle: 65/80/92 (early) / 90 (late) -> 361
• [R] BKB: 57/60 (early) / 40 (late) -> 50 (early) / 40 (late)
• [R] KBG: 100/90 (early) / 120 (late) -> 100
• [R] FAF: 37 -> 33
• [R] Repositioned hitboxes

Before	After

Up Tilt

• (!) New animation, inspired by Peach’s up tilt in Melee

• [R] Active frames: F7-14 -> F6->15
• [R] Damage: 6.0%/7.5% -> 5.0%/6.0%
• [R] BKB: 70/60 -> 60/50
• [R] FAF: 38 -> 32

Before	After

Down Tilt

• [$] Updated animation
• [-] FAF: 28 -> 29
• [/] Hitlag Multiplier: 1.0/1.1x -> 1.0x
• [$] Hit SFX (outer hitboxes): Punch -> Magic
• [R] Repositioned hitboxes

Before	After

Dash Attack

• (!) New animation, resembling a slide tackle from Strikers (or, y’know, soccer…)

• [-] Active frames: F6-18 -> F7-18
• [R] Angle (outside hitbox): 361 -> 60
• [-] FAF: 36 -> 38
• [/] Repositioned hitboxes

Before	After

Forward Smash

• (!) Daisy will now always use the tennis racket, and has new animations for all 3 angles
• [$] Effects and sounds have been updated to match

• (!) This attack can now reflect projectiles
• [$] Adjusted voice clip frequency
• Up-angled
  • [+] Added an outer hitbox
  • [-] Damage: 16.0% -> 14.0%
  • [/] KBG: 78 -> 82

Before	After

• Neutral
  • [R] Reworked travel arc and simplified hitboxes
  • [-] KBG: 80 -> 75

Before	After

• Down-angled
  • [R] Reworked travel arc and simplified hitboxes
  • [+] Damage: 13.5 -> 16.0%
  • [R] Angle: 27 -> 22
  • [R] BKB: 65 -> 75
  • [R] KBG: 69 -> 35

Before	After

Up Smash

• [$] Adjusted voice clip frequency

Down Smash

• [$] Updated animation
• [-] Removed reduced FAF on hit
• [+] FAF: 55 -> 52
• [$] Hit SFX: Cut-up -> Kick
• Multihits
  • [R] Reduced from 6 to 3 hits
  • [=] Damage: 1.5% -> 3.0%
  • [/] Hitbox size: 2.5u -> 3.0u

Before	After

• Launcher
  • [R] KBG: 225 -> 175
  • [/] Hitbox size: 4.3u -> 3.0u
  • [/] Hitbox moved upwards by 1.2u

Before	After

Aerial Attacks

Forward Air

• (!) New animation, now utilizing the frying pan. Bonk!

• [-] Active frames: F12-16 -> F14-17
• [+] Damage: 13.0% -> 15.0%
• [/] KBG: 86 -> 78
• [R] Repositioned hitboxes

Before	After

Up Air

• [$] Added voice sequence to the attack

Down Air

• (!) Total number of hits reduced from 4 to 3, now spiking on the third kick
• [$] Updated animation to match

Special Attacks

Crystal Smash! (Neutral Special)

(!!!) Wait… huh?? Toad has been entirely replaced by a new move: Crystal Smash!
Inspired by Strikers, Daisy strikes with a crystalized fist to create crystals and send opponents flying. The model for her gauntlet is used with permission from Glithware, so thanks a bunch!

• When performed on the ground, Daisy will strike the earth and summon crystals that sprout from the ground around her
• When performed in the air, Daisy will leap forward before descending diagonally with her strike
  • The descent spikes opponents and links into the finishing blow, given Daisy subsequently hits the ground
  • When landing, a cluster of crystals will form around Daisy in the same manner they do for the grounded version of the attack (only slightly weaker)
  • The descent can be canceled into a wall jump
• This move carries momentum, can be reversed during the startup, and can be edge-canceled
• Kirby has it too!

• Descending hitbox
  • Active frames: F20-44
  • Damage: 5%
  • Angle: 315
  • FKB: 50
• Burst hitbox
  • Active frames: F22-25
  • Damage: 17% (ground) / 12% (air) / 6% (weak hit)
  • Angle: 75 (ground) / 60 (air) / 75 (weak hit)
  • BKB: 64
  • KBG: 83 (strong hit) / 78 (weak hit)
  • FAF: 63

Descent	Burst

Daisy Bomber (Side Special)

• (!) No longer halts Daisy’s vertical momentum when used in the air
• [R] Adjusted travel and on-hit physics
• [$] Adjusted landing animation
• [+] Hitbox Duration: F21-36 -> F16-31
• [+] Angle: 75 -> 78
• [/] BKB: 90 -> 60
• [/] KBG: 60 -> 75
• [-] Additional Hitstun: 2F -> 0F
• [+] FAF (whiff/hit/wall): 79/28/51 -> 79/27/29

Crystal Uppercut (Up Special)

• (!) Daisy now performs an uppercut with her crystal gauntlet, rather than using her parasol

• [+] Gravity (startup): 0.5 -> 0.25
• [=] Height Multiplier: 0.8x -> 0.725x
• [+] Can now reverse grab ledges
• [R] Will now transition directly into special fall, bypassing the transitionary ending motion
• Early hit
  • [+] Damage (early): 10.0% -> 14.5%
  • [R] Angle: 361 -> 65
  • [+] BKB: 40 -> 70
  • [/] KBG: 118 -> 75
  • [$] Hitlag multiplier: 1.0x -> 1.3x
  • [$] Hit SFX: Cut-up -> Heavy
  • [R] Now a single hitbox

Before	After

• Late hit
  • [+] Damage: 1.0% -> 9.0%
  • [R] KB: 90 FKB -> 70 BKB / 77 KBG
  • [$] Hit SFX: Magic -> Punch
  • [R] Repositioned hitbox

Before	After

Vegetable (Down Special)

• (!) Daisy has switched from pulling turnips, to carrots! This new vegetable is a callback to Mario Land 2, but it isn’t just for show! The model for the carrot is provided by Peardian, with permission.
• [R] The pulled item no longer has random strengths it can be assigned; There is only a singular strength of carrot that can be pulled
• [R] There is still a small chance to pull an item, but the possible items have been changed
  • Mr. Saturn -> Soccer Ball
    • When pulling a soccer ball, it will immediately drop to Daisy’s feet
  • Bob-omb -> Fire Flower
  • Beam Sword -> Beast Ball
  • Of the 0.62% chance to pull an item, the RNG weight has been standardized such that each individual item has an approximate 0.2% chance of being pulled at any given instance (on paper anyway)
• (!) The carrot’s hurtbox has entirely reworked behavior, and can be launched by attacks from both Daisy and the opponent

• [R] HP: 4 -> 30
• [R] Item lifetime: 180f -> 360f
• [R] Item pickup range: 6x5u -> 2x2u
• [R] Ground collision radius: 2u -> 1.5u
• [R] Adjusted speed parameters to better accompany the new functionality