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LOLI'm going to make a bold claim right now, and that's that Bowser is the 2nd worst character in the game. This guy needs to drop and far.
I'm just thinking in terms of match-ups. I think every mid tier or better character has a clear advantage over him and the only question is magnitude. Even characters like PT and Sonic just have so much more going for them than Bowser that I see them overall probably beating Bowser on the sheer quality gap. So among low tiers, Yoshi, Link, and Samus definitely camp Bowser to death. Ike shouldn't even be low tier because his jab is a better character than Bowser. Captain Falcon is really horrible, but one of the few good things about his moveset is that it's pretty good at exploiting large, low mobility characters... like Bowser. Speaking of being good at exploiting low mobility characters, Bowser is a dream come true for Jigglypuff. If he is up in the air for any reason, she destroys him and quite possibly ends it by gimping him. She can run away from him trivially if she wants to run the clock. I think it's pretty clear Jigglypuff beats Bowser. That leaves us with Lucas, Mario, and Ganondorf. Obviously Bowser beats Ganondorf by virtue of not being Ganondorf. I'd believe Bowser beating Lucas for a few reasons, but at best for Bowser that's going to be a small advantage. I'd be surprised if Bowser vs Mario is any better for Bowser than even. I don't think anyone else outside of Ganon himself is facing a match-up spread that bad.
Remember when considering Bowser's match-ups that he has a virtual auto-lose against King Dedede on top of everything else bad about him; it just raises a lot of questions about what this character could do. Not only does he not offer serious advantages, but if someone somehow were having trouble beating a Bowser main, he could counterpick King Dedede for a massive advantage. Bowser's consistent rock bottom tournament placements (his results are on the noise level, effectively zero) are no surprise to me, and I doubt they will ever change.
If people disagree over my Bowser analysis, I'd like to hear the competing logic, but I just look at this guy and think "who does he beat or even just go even with?" and end up thinking "he could very well be 2nd worst in the game".
I'm not sure whether he is the hardest character to kill when it's used or not. This is probably true as his momentum cancel is great and he is the second heaviest character in the game. Bowser's indeed the first.I was under the impression that dk was the heaviest. Or at least the hardest to kill with momentum canceling?
Link mains also believe they have an advantage against Ivysaur. :/Bowser is pathetic. When Link mains believe they have an advantage over another character, you know something's wrong.
It's four frames slower than Charizard's with a thicker flame. Is it really that big of a difference?Bowser's projectile is a lot worse than Charizard's - comes out notably slower, enough that an opponent playing it safe shouldn't be taking a hit from it, and in fact should generally have enough time to set up for a punish.