Weight

Weight is a measure of how far a character can be knocked back horizontally by an attack, if damage is held constant. It also affects vertical knockback in concert with falling speed.

It is usually considered an advantage for a character to be heavy; however, extra weight can make characters slightly more susceptible to combos. A notable example in Melee is that characters with lower than 87 weight fall down when hit by Fox's shine, and thus are invulnerable to his shine combos.

SSB weight ranking

This is the ranking of characters in the first installment. It was recently calculated by Blue Ninjakoopa and is listed from heaviest to lightest.

Super Smash Bros. Weight List
Very Heavy	Heavy	Medium	Light	Very Light
1. Donkey Kong	2.Samus 3.Link 4.Captain Falcon	5.Yoshi 6.Mario 7.Luigi	8. Fox 9. Ness	10. Kirby 11. Pikachu 12. Jigglypuff

SSBM weight ranking

Following are the characters in Super Smash Bros. Melee, ranked in order of heaviest to lightest. This list is based on horizontal knockback on the Mushroom Kingdom 2 weight scale and was tested by Mew2King with credit to Blake Mutschler and Aaron Kurtz. Metal weights assume that you multiply by 3 in order to achive them. Super mushroom weights are 1.6 times the original weight of the character and poison mushroom weights are 5/8 of the original weight.

Rank	Character	Weight (NTSC)	Weight (PAL)
1	Bowser	117	118
2	Donkey Kong	114	114
3 (NTSC) 4 (PAL)	Samus	110	110
4 (NTSC) 5 (PAL)	Ganondorf	109	109
5 (NTSC) 3 (PAL)	Yoshi	108	111
6-7	C. Falcon	104	104
6-7	Link	104	104
8-10 (NTSC) 8-9 (PAL)	Dr. Mario	100	100
8-10 (NTSC) 8-9 (PAL)	Luigi	100	100
8-10 (NTSC) 10 (PAL)	Mario	100	98
11	Ness	94	94
12-14	Peach	90	90
12-14	Sheik	90	90
12-14	Zelda	90	90
15	Ice Climbers	88	88
16 (NTSC) 16-19 (PAL)	Marth	87	85
17-19 (NTSC) 16-19 (PAL)	Mewtwo	85	85
17-19 (NTSC) 16-19 (PAL)	Roy	85	85
17-19 (NTSC) 16-19 (PAL)	Young Link	85	85
20-21	Falco	80	80
20-21	Pikachu	80	80
22 (NTSC) 23 (PAL)	Fox	75	73
23 (NTSC) 22 (PAL)	Kirby	70	74
24-25	Jigglypuff	60	60
24-25	Mr. Game & Watch	60	60
26	Pichu	55	55

SSBB weight Ranking

Here is the order of characters' weights in Brawl. These weights have been thoroughly re-calculated by Blue Ninjakoopa with credit to Oxico for the division classes. The link to the previous Weight Rankings calculated by Mew2King is shown below.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl Weight Ranking
Super Heavyweight	Heavyweight	Middleweight	Lightweight	Featherweight
1. Bowser 2. Donkey Kong 3. King Dedede 4. Charizard 5. Ganondorf	6. Samus 7. Snake 8. R.O.B. 9. Wario 10. Link 11. Ike 12. Captain Falcon 13. Wolf	14. Yoshi 15. Lucario 16. Ivysaur 17. Mario 18. Luigi 19. Sonic	20. Diddy Kong 21. Toon Link 22. Marth 23. Ness 24. Pit 25. Lucas 26. Ice Climbers 27. Sheik 28. Zelda 29. Peach 30. Zero Suit Samus	31. Falco 32. Olimar 33. Fox 34. Meta Knight 35. Kirby 36. Pikachu 37. Squirtle 38. Mr. Game & Watch 39. Jigglypuff

References

• Brawl weight list and falling speed calculations