Hello fellow Samus players! I am here to discuss and inquire about bombs and their uses.
We all know that SWD and bomb jumps are of the most notable uses of these, so I am hoping to focus more on the other uses of it, practical or not.
I use my bombs most often for defense and spacing with a touch of edgegaurding. I'm pretty sure I use my bombs more than I should. Around 65+% after being hit, I will drop a bomb (midair) to push myself farther away as well as using the bomb as an obstacle for my opponent to prevent them from following up with a combo. There is more that can be said on this, but I want to know if there are any others that use bombs in this manner.
Another utility of bombs is edgeguarding. I have read some posts in other threads of users dropping a bomb on Fox/Falco's head during their Up-B (their idle time). I have never used bombs in this manner. I will typically run to the edge after a homing SHMC or something and drop a bomb off the edge. This works very well against Marth as it can turn him around.
On other stages, I will drop a bomb and run off the edge to get hit by Marth's Up-B, having him get hit by the bomb leaving me time to Bair him with a stage spike. It works on FoD at roughly 40-50% on Marth.
I believe it is almost useless to use bombs in any of these manners against Shiek or Fox due to their speed. Falco is slow enough where this would work. Regarding the use against Puff or any other match-up, I have no clue.
So does anyone use bombs in these manners? Are there any uses that have some success that I do not know about?
Perhaps this is just a low-level playstyle which is why HugS, Plup and all the other acclaimed Sami don't use bombs like this.
`Captain (CPT)
We all know that SWD and bomb jumps are of the most notable uses of these, so I am hoping to focus more on the other uses of it, practical or not.
I use my bombs most often for defense and spacing with a touch of edgegaurding. I'm pretty sure I use my bombs more than I should. Around 65+% after being hit, I will drop a bomb (midair) to push myself farther away as well as using the bomb as an obstacle for my opponent to prevent them from following up with a combo. There is more that can be said on this, but I want to know if there are any others that use bombs in this manner.
Another utility of bombs is edgeguarding. I have read some posts in other threads of users dropping a bomb on Fox/Falco's head during their Up-B (their idle time). I have never used bombs in this manner. I will typically run to the edge after a homing SHMC or something and drop a bomb off the edge. This works very well against Marth as it can turn him around.
On other stages, I will drop a bomb and run off the edge to get hit by Marth's Up-B, having him get hit by the bomb leaving me time to Bair him with a stage spike. It works on FoD at roughly 40-50% on Marth.
I believe it is almost useless to use bombs in any of these manners against Shiek or Fox due to their speed. Falco is slow enough where this would work. Regarding the use against Puff or any other match-up, I have no clue.
So does anyone use bombs in these manners? Are there any uses that have some success that I do not know about?
Perhaps this is just a low-level playstyle which is why HugS, Plup and all the other acclaimed Sami don't use bombs like this.
`Captain (CPT)