PAL Differences in Melee

PAL Differences for Melee:

FOX

- Fox's smash attacks are weaker, and U-smash's knockback is dramatically weakened (kills later)

- Fox's F-air has increased range on its hitbox

- Fox can tech out of Falco's D-throw in PAL

MARTH

- Marth, Fox, and Mario are each lighter, putting Marth below the weight threshold of standing up sure Fox's shine (this weakens Fox in the Marth MU)

- Marth's D-air is a Meteor smash (forcing a reliance on up-B combo finishers, instead)

BOWSER

- Bowser, Kirby, and Yoshi have better survivability because they are each heavier

- Bowser's D-throw can hit G&W (personally did not know that it couldn't in NTSC, lol)

YOSHI

- Yoshi's F-smash is more powerful (better kill option)

- Yoshi's D-air inflicts less than half the damage as in NTSC, from 44% in NTSC to 21% in PAL

SHEIK

- Sheik's U-air isn't as strong (making it a less viable kill option off of the top).  It also has one less frame of hitbox lag

- DI on Sheik's D-throw has been augmented, making re-grabs more inconsistent (and not guaranteed)

GANONDORF

- G-dorf's D-air inflicts 1% less damage

- G-dorf's F-air has dramatically decreased knockback, but his B-air is more powerful

LINK

- Link's spin attack no longer has spiking properties

- Link's super jump glitch was removed

SAMUS

- Samus's extended grapple beam was removed

- Samus lost her ability to cancel the aerial grapple with bombs

OTHERS

- Falco's D-air only spikes for the first half of the animation. The rest sends the opponent slightly up (this weakens Falco)

- Peach's dash attack is less powerful

- Luigi's N-air is less powerful

- Falcon's A-attack combo (the "Gentleman") is much easier to execute

- The ICs freeze glitch was removed

MISCELLANIOUS

- Lag and loading times have been reduced

- The "Special Movie" was removed

- In Home-Run Contest mode, the platform is longer and the invisible back-wall is a bit farther