Jumping

Jumping is an action that moves the character from the ground into the air. It is one of the 6 actions required for basic movement. It can be performed by pressing the jump button which is assigned to a key as configured by the player. All characters can jump a second time while in midair if they are not attacking, air dodging or in a helpless state. Jumping can be used as a form of evasion as well.

Trivia

 * Introduced in demo v0.9b, some characters, like Mario, Samus, Ness, and Meta Knight, have been given backwards jumping animations, but not midair backwards jumping animations.
 * Mario is the only character who has a different backwards jumping animation from the Super Smash Bros series. In the official games, Mario does a double backflip similar to Super Mario 64 apart from a single backflip in SSF2.