Female Wire Frame inSuper Smash Bros. Melee
Universe	Super Smash Bros.
A boss in	Melee
Availability	Hacking
Tier	Banned

Female Wire Frame (謎のザコ敵軍団, Mysterious Small Fry Enemy Corps), is anunplayable character inSuper Smash Bros. Melee and only playable viahacking. She is unvoiced and aclone ofZelda.

When playable, as is the case with mostMulti-Man Melee-style characters, Female Wire Frame is worse than all of the playable roster, and arguably the worst character in the entire game, sansSandbag. Zelda is already considered to be a profoundly unviable character inMelee, but with no specials, she lacks the recovery ofFarore's Wind and the option to turn intoSheik, making her worse by a very wide margin. Her native 15 frames oflanding lag force her to land in unorthodox ways, her lowerknockback on most of her moves makes her poor at closing out stocks, and her lack of burst options anddisjoints give her a poor shot atapproaching. There is very little for Female Wire Frame to do outside of setting up admittedly strongtech chase situations with her improved dash attack and down throw, but it doesn't save her from being the worst of the unplayable characters.

In the event of winning inVS Mode orSpecial Smash, without additional modifications, Female Wire Frame crashes the game upon theresults screen being reached, due to lacking a winning animation. Losing allows the game to progress, where the game erroneously calls herSheik.

Codes[edit]

Female Wire Frame can be played as using the following Action Replay codes and choosing any character on theCharacter select screen. Alternatively, she can be enabled withDebug mode.

Attributes[edit]

Female Wire Frame is a brawler of average speed and among the highestdouble jumps in the game, giving her uniqueedgeguarding capabilities, as well as the potential toKO off the topblast zone. Some ofZelda's positive traits remain: Herdown tilt gains more range and remains an effective poke, herforward andback throws are very strong, and herdown smash is an effectiveledgetrapping tool.

Where she excels most, however, is tech chasing. Her improved dash attack, in tandem with ameteor smash-ingdown throw and a much-improved grab range, can reset tech chases very easily, with her dash attack being particularly spammable. On platforms, with less places to go, it can become very difficult to escape. Because Female Wire Frame doesn't have theElectric effect on herforward smash, it becomes a far more reliable grounded attack, even making it usable inneutral. With a larger model making for a superior pullback animation, it also allows for mix-ups during tech chases against potential attempts to counterplay her dash attack, even being able to putMarth's aerials in check. Herup throw has some decent combo ability alongside up tilt andup smash, making for some extremely basicjuggling situations.

However, it is very hard for Female Wire Frame to take a stock. Her moves deal very littledamage andknockback, making her exceptionally vulnerable tocrouch cancelling, and her aerials are extremely mediocre. As a result, while her up tilt is great for platform pressure, she has a lot of trouble capitalising on it: Her aerials are frequently unsafe on hit and can end up actually worsening her situation, rather than catching the opponent's landings or punishing their landing options. Thus, to take stocks, she is extremely reliant on her forward and back throws, or alternatively, playing a slow ledge game with down tilt and down smash.

Female Wire Frame has very poor survivability. While most of her traits are copied fromMario, herweight wasn't, making her much easier to launch compared toMale Wire Frame. She only has her admittedly highdouble jump and anair dodge of decent drift to rescue her, meaning that if she spends her double jump and is hit, she invariably gets KOed. She has more mix up potential than her male counterpart, but it really doesn't mean much compared to every other character on the roster, easily beinggimped by even minor setbacks when trying to return to the stage. Additionally, her floaty physics and native 15 frames oflanding lag force her to land in extremely elaborate ways, either bywavelanding orl-cancelling an aerial to at least protect herself with, but in the latter case, no aerial she has is reliable for the purpose, the hitboxes being decidedly poor and being unsafe on hit until very highpercentages. Thus, once Female Wire Frame is in a disadvantageous position, she has a lot of trouble clawing her way out of it. Her back throw and long rolls give her some decent ability to come off the ledge once she gets there, with the back throw being extremely threatening as a way to reverse a situation and take a stock. This does, however, do little to distract from her extremely poor disadvantage state in general.

Differences fromZelda[edit]

In general, Female Wire Frame is floatier and slower than Zelda, and has weaker attacks. Contrasting this, she has faster attacks with larger hitboxes and, curiously, many of them deal more damage or are more consistent. With a lack of multi-hit attacks, her moves are, however, less active overall.

Aesthetics[edit]

• Female Wire Frame is larger than Zelda (Model Scaling 1.26 → 1.7), giving her better reach, but a larger hurtbox, and this can also cause some moves to miss against shorter opponents.
• Female Wire Frame's Victory Screen Model Scaling is different (23 → 32), though this is never seen in-game due to a lack of an animation.
• Female Wire Frame is unvoiced.

Attributes[edit]

• Female Wire Frame has no special moves.
• Female Wire Frame can't charge smash attacks.
• Female Wire Frame's arms and legs are grabbable.
• Female Wire Frame's hurtboxes are generally much thicker.
• Female Wire Frame's normal shield is overall worse due to her model size changes, hardly covering her feet even with angling, making it vulnerable to beingShield stabbing.
• Female Wire Frame's Maximum Walk Velocity is higher (0.7 → 1).
• Female Wire Frame's Dash & Run Terminal Velocity is higher (1.1 → 1.5).
• Female Wire Frame'sjumpsquat is 1 frame slower (6 → 7), causing her aerial actions to be inherently a frame slower across the board.
• Female Wire Frame's Maximum Horizontal Jump Velocity is higher (1.1 → 2).
• Female Wire Frame'sDouble Jump Multiplier is higher (0.86× → 1.3×).
• Female Wire Frame's Regular Terminal Velocity is higher (1.4 → 1.8).
• Female Wire Frame's Fast Fall Terminal Velocity is lower (1.85 → 1.8).
• Female Wire Frame's Ledge Jump Initial Velocity is higher (2.1 → 2.3).
• Female Wire Frame's Wall Jump Horizontal Velocity is lower (1.3 → 0.5).
• Female Wire Frame's Wall Jump Vertical Velocity is lower (2.1 → 1.6).
• Female Wire Frame's Item Throw Velocity is higher (0.8 → 1), making items thrown stronger.
• Female Wire Frame'srolls go much further, especially her ledge roll.
• Female Wire Frame'sShield Break Initial Velocity is much higher (2.4 → 5), causing her to rocket up off-screen, but not enough to take her stock. Because she isintangible for the shield break, this does not affect gameplay outside of running out the timer.
• Female Wire Frame's damage dealt when spat at another opponent from Kirby's Inhale is higher (15% → 17%).

Ground attacks[edit]

• Female Wire Frame's grounded attacks don't havetranscendent priority.
• Female Wire Frame's Jab is interruptible a frame earlier (27 → 26).
• Female Wire Frame's Jab's hitbox is a single hit instead of a multi-hit, making it more consistent.
• Female Wire Frame's Jab gains a body hitbox, making it connect against shorter characters despite her increased size, though it requires her to be close for it to connect.
  • However, it deals less damage overall (8% from four hits → 5%/2%).
  • It also has less hitbox activity (Active frames 11, 13, 15, 17 → 11-12).
• Female Wire Frame's dash attack deals less damage (13%/9% and 8%/7% → 10%/8% and 6%/6%).
• Female Wire Frame's dash attack sourspot lasts 5 frames longer (9-13 → 9-18).
• Female Wire Frame's forward tilt is interuptible a frame earlier (37 → 36).
• Female Wire Frame's forward tilt deals less damage, and is the same throughout (13%/12%/11% → 9%), always launching the opponent away.
• Female Wire Frame's down tilt is interruptible a frame earlier (30 → 29).
• Female Wire Frame's down tilt consistently deals 8% instead of having a 7% sourspot.
• Female Wire Frame's down tilt hitbox has more range.
• Female Wire Frame's down tilt always launches at theSakurai angle. This removes its followups against grounded opponents, but allows it to gimp airborne opponents.
• Female Wire Frame's up tilt deals less damage (11% → 7%).
• Up tilt deals much less knockback. This removes its KO ability, but allows it to combo for longer.
• Female Wire Frame's forward smash is a single-hit move instead of a multi-hit.)
  • It no longer has theElectric effect, making it much less vulnerable toSDI and far more reliable.
  • However, it deals less damage overall (19% from 5 hits → 13%).
  • Matching the final frame of Zelda's forward smash, it is only active on frame 13, but without the multi-hits prior.
• Female Wire Frame's down smash's damage is varied instead of consistent.
  • The first hit deals less damage (11% → 10%).
  • The second hit deals more damage (11% → 12%).
• Female Wire Frame's down smash is interruptible a frame later (32 → 33).
• Female Wire Frame's down smash lacks legintangibility.
• Female Wire Frame's up smash deals more damage overall (16% → 22%), and with two hits.
  • It no longer has anElectric effect, making it less vulnerable toSDI.
  • The second hit lasts the duration of what would be Zelda's second multi-hit segment, further increasing consistency.
• Female Wire Frame's up smash comes out much later, on both segments (First Hit: frame 5 → 10, Second Hit: 24 → 26).
• Female Wire Frame's up smash is interruptible sooner (51 → 48).
• Up smash's first hit doesn't have set knockback, and thus will stop comboing into the second hit at higher percents, reducing the move's potential damage output (16% → 12%).
  • Though this means the first hit can KO on its own, making it impossible for the opponent to survive with SDI alone like they can with Zelda's.
• Both hits of up smash are weaker than the final hit of Zelda's, reducing the move's KO potential when the opponent fails to escape Zelda's.
• Female Wire Frame's increased height, and the altered hitbox placements makes her up smash much less effective at hitting opponents on the ground.
• Female Wire Frame's down smash deals different damage on each hit (11% (front and back) → 10% (front)/14% (back). This makes the front hit KO later, but the back hit KO much sooner.
• Down smash has more ending lag (FAF: 32 → 34).

Aerial attacks[edit]

• Male Wire Frame's hard landing lag is much higher (4 → 15), though this can be somewhat mitigated bywavelanding, which replaces the landing lag with the standard 10 frames for airdodge landings.
• All of Male Wire Frame's aerials have 30 frames of landing lag (NAir/FAir/BAir: 18 → 30, UAir: 25 → 30, DAir: 24 → 30).
• Female Wire Frame's neutral aerial multi-hits deal less damage on average (2%/3% → 2%/1%).
• Female Wire Frame's neutral aerial lacks a finisher.
• Female Wire Frame's forward and back aerial lack theLightning Kick sweetspot, and the remaining hitboxes are even weaker than the sourspot (10%/20% → 8%) neutering theirKO potential completely.
• Forward and back aerial also have smaller hitboxes.
• Female Wire Frame's up aerial is no longer an explosion spell, now being a disjointed upward poke.
  • It comes out two frames later and has one less active frame (14-16 → 16-17).
  • It deals less damage (13% → 10%), and much less knockback.
  • It has a much smaller hitbox.
• Female Wire Frame's down aerial deals more damage (8%/7% → 9%/9%), dealing consistent damage, though it still has a sourspot that deals less knockback.
• Down aerial has smaller hitboxes.

Grab attack[edit]

• Female Wire Frame's grab range is much longer, on-par withMarth's.
• Female Wire Frame's down throw is ameteor smash, forcing atech likeFox andFalco's.
• Female Wire Frame's ledge attack had its body hitbox removed, making it always deal 10%.

Moveset[edit]

• Unlike regular fighters, Female Wire Frame lacksspecial moves and cannot chargesmash attacks.

For a gallery of Female Wire Frame's hitboxes, seehere.

Announcer call[edit]

BothFighting Wire Frames have an unused announcer call, which can be accessed if made selectable on theCharacter select screen. It is present in all versions.

Taunt[edit]

• Holds her hands together, as if in a prayer, like Zelda.

Idle pose[edit]

• Flips her hair back like Zelda.
• Holds her hand to her chin in contemplation, as Zelda does.
• Turns away, holding her left arm with her right hand, identical to Zelda's.
• Holds her left arm with her right hand and looks down. Unique to Female Wire Frame.

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  Female Wire Frame's first idle pose.

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  Female Wire Frame's second idle pose.

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  Female Wire Frame's third idle pose.

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  Female Wire Frame's fourth, unique idle pose.

Incompetitive play[edit]

Due to Female Wire Frame only being playable throughhacking, she has been banned in competitive play since the release ofMelee. This is not due to her strength, but her accessibility: Modifying the game takes time away from setting up tournament matches and thus delays tournaments, and this is worsened by the game crashing should Female Wire Frame win a game without further external modifications. This is compounded by the potential forGiga Bowser to become legal alongside the other unplayable characters, who is feared to be potentially metagame-warping. Female Wire Frame's own terrible traits as a character have resulted in her seeing minimal competitive experimentation^[1], even less thanMale Wire Frame, and thus there are minimal arguments being made for her unbanning, even if her impact would be nonexistent.

In 1-P Mode[edit]

InMulti-Man Melee[edit]

Female Wire Frame in 100-Man Melee.

Female Wire Frame, as part of the Fighting Wire Frame duo, is a central fixture in Multi-Man Melee, with them attacking the player in gangs. She appears in all modes, includingCruel Melee, where they are extremely threatening. In these modes, Female Wire Frame usually has a handicap, changing her statistics dramatically.

Trophies[edit]

Female Wire Frame's trophy inMelee

Female Wire Frame

This is the female model of the Fighting Wire Frames. The female's abilities are roughly the same as the male model's. All Fighting Wire Frames lack the ability to use special techniques, and their attacks lack any real physical strength. Additionally, they're slow and are therefore easy to outmaneuver. They tend to attack in gangs.

Super Smash Bros. Melee (12/01)

Fighting Wire Frames's trophy inMelee

Fighting Wire Frames

The Multi-Man Melee mode consists of 10-Man, 3-Minute, Endless, and other such matches, which pit you against the Fighting Wire Frames under varied rules. Of particular note is the Cruel Melee, where the Wire Frames pull no punches; they'll come after you with a single-minded fury rarely seen in CPU opponents.

Super Smash Bros. Melee (12/01)

Trivia[edit]

Male and Female Wire Frame on the No Contest screen, labelled asSheik.

• While winning with Female Wire Frame causes the game tocrash on the results screen, this does not occur if losing or quitting mid-game, where they are erroneously labelled as Sheik.
• Female Wire Frame's ponytail has environmental collision, so when walking under a platform, it can be dragging across the top.

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