Q&A The Bowser Questions and Advice Thread

[MikeMoney]

Yes you do it as fast as possible to catch there DI off guard its especially deadly (and rewarding) to catch someone off guard and kill them with the klaw. ledge hoping and droping are usally when I get my klaw kills or at high percentages when my oppenent gets scared and hold there sheild up for to long.

 

[Gimpyfish62]

alright so when you say "all bowsers" you must me "gimpyfish sometimes" because theres not that many bowser videos out there lol

anyways, sometimes you toss right away to catch their di off guard, othertimes i actually bite multiple times until they start to struggle then i toss, generally high % bthrow kills are done instantly so theres a VERY small window for DI (pre-chomp) at lower % i chomp a few times until they start to struggle so hopefully i can get either a poorly di'd fthrow combo or a bthrow kill at lower %...

so yeah, mindgames mindgames mindgames, its all about trickin their di, or giving them no time to di once you klaw them

 

[Gray]

Er... Is it good that I spam Up-B out of shield in the instances I happen to use Bowser?

 

[Gimpyfish62]

well when forward asked me how to play bowser i said

UP B!

he said

I already do!

I said

UP B MORE!

he said

I already do!

i was so mystified that he actually already used up b more ALREADY that i didn't even know how to react at that point.

true story.

 

[KevinM]

i actually use Up-B too an excessive amount.. like in real life my teacher told me to give me her homework, she died at 90% what a lightweight

 

[Gimpyfish62]

your teacher said "give me homework"?

i dont get it.

 

[CowEar]

i have a question, how the hell does jiggs beat Bowser!?!??!?!? i jst dnt get it. O.o









CANTt ANSWER THAT CAN YOU!!?!?!?!?!?!?! btw can u house me for the next GC? =)

 

[Deathcarter]

That post needs to go in the Bowser matchups thread. It is there for a reason. Bowser gets owned by a good Jiggs, but if he wants to have a chance, spacing is a key element. I am pretty sure Boozer fair, ftilt, and bair can outrange Jiggs's non-fair attacks. I am just guessing really so I won't be surprised if this is wrong.

 

[CowEar]

uhhhh..... joke..? lol

 

[Eggz]

I'd prefer housing Canada for the first time in my life. and by I, I mean Nate/Otto.

GimpyFFFFish, where do babies come from?

*baby bowsers

 

[KevinM]

Never mind gimpy my grammer mistake made that fail

 

[CowEar]

I'd prefer housing Canada for the first time in my life. and by I, I mean Nate/Otto.

GimpyFFFFish, where do babies come from?

*baby bowsers

lol i was happy, thn u sais nate/oggo

 

[Eggz]

I stay with Nate and Otto too Ryan haha

 

[CowEar]

lol oo O.o for the whole night!?

 

[Gimpyfish62]

stop spamming this thread or i'll start giving infractions.

i think we covered jigga a little bit in the matchups thread already

 

[Eggz]

Oh noes, not infractions!

Thats spam and disrespect to a mod.

Anyway, regarding bowser. Does he have ledge tricks on Kongo Jungle 64? How about Mushroom Kingdom (the one with the blocks and 2 holes)?

 

[CowEar]

i love how u ask a question where u already know the answer hahaha

 

[budahboi]

how do i get past DK's wind up punch?

i keep getting edgeguarded with it.
even when i airdodge bowser doesn't get farther than DK's body.

curse bowser's stubby arms.


or does this go in char matchups? whatever. advice please.

 

[CowEar]

just ask GirlMpyFish

 

[Gimpyfish62]

Anyway, regarding bowser. Does he have ledge tricks on Kongo Jungle 64? How about Mushroom Kingdom (the one with the blocks and 2 holes)?

kongo jungle tricks? kongo jungle is the really really big stage with teh dip in the middle right?

you can cancel fortresses at the right time from the rotating platforms in the middle, but generally its sort of the same as any normal stage, the mushroom kingdom's both have great tricks you can fortress cancel, you can run off instagrab on the opposite ledge to getup or whatever else, and you also get some trixy down b stuff on that stage as well, the platforms are good to bowser on that stage, though i dont really like it as a bowser stage because theres no edgeguarding at all lol

you can definitely sweetspot so a giant punch doesn't hit you, use some variety in your recovery, it shoudln't be "easy" for teh giant punch to guard you by any means haha

 

[QTx314159]

*bowser fsmash*
<3
XD

 

[TJJ]

How do you flame cancel?

 

[KevinM]

Jump and right before you hit the ground use your B, it will cancel the beginning animation of the flame

 

[Wave⁂]

Flame canceling comes out in 1 frame, so i think there could be some fancy-ish combos you could pull off with flame canceling. Does anybody know of anything like that?

 

[KevinM]

Well i mean, technically you could d-throw to tech-chased flame breath, but the ending lag is still there so it would only tag on an extra maybe ten percent, and then your screwed, so idk, i'd much rather just use the dash n bash

 

[CowEar]

just Ask GIMPYFISH!!!!!!!!!!! =)

 

[SPAWN]

Gimpy, what is a comparison of a Sheik chain grabbing a Bowser? Just how bad/mean is it?

 

[KevinM]

You can't compare watching something you love get haplessly beaten on..

 

[HideousBeing]

Gimpyfish, I was playing a Bowser CPU on Kirby's Dreamland 64 and experienced something weird. Bowser did his bowser bomb, landed on the edge of a platform, and sort of fell off in an instant (almost like he instantly L-cancelled the move), only fell off the side of the platform. If I recall correctly, the wind was not blowing. Is there a way to cancel the bowser bomb upon landing by directing it somehow off the edge of a platform or the stage? Similar to the way Link can be running, and perform his spin attack as he reaches the edge, and if done properly, Link will fly off the ledge, still doing the move as he would on the ground.

 

[KevinM]

Yea its been mentioned before, this is edge cancelling, if you've ever watched perfect control, SDM does it with Link's dair, its timing and positioning the move so that you clip it and DI off the edge so your ending lag is completely cut off... Its impractical because of how hard it is to do.

 

[QTx314159]

kevin, is your name gimpyfish?

 

[KevinM]

Nope, but he's not here, and i play a ton of bowser, and can answer these questions just as easily

 

[Gimpyfish62]

nothing is impracticle because its difficult, compare metagame foxes 3 years ago to them now lol

its impracticle because the bowser bomb doesn't do near enough damage, doesn't have near enough priority, and in general is just a garbage move for everything other than trixy ledge grabs

 

[KevinM]

... i got owned by gimpy >.>

 

[petre]

is there anything that actually combos into an fsmash, as in, impossible to escape? or is it all mindgames???

 

[NES n00b]

Maybe an upair to fsmash might work on fast fallers at low percents but good luck pulling that off consistently in matches. >.>

 

[Gimpyfish62]

it has nothing to do with consistency it has to do with DI, its not like its difficult to up air into fsmash at lower % its just easy to escape from through the most common setup (klaw) at such a low %

 

[NES n00b]

My bad.

The guilt and the shame of giving bad advice.

At least I did not spam at QT's garbage thread. I was very tempted.

Another edit from sheer boredom. Is there another way to get an fsmash in a combo (however unlikely) because I think it would be the "kutest" thing a bowser could do.

 

[KevinM]

nah the kutest thing was the gojira f-smash.... that thing owned

 

[NES n00b]

@KevinM Actually, that is so true.

N00b question time!!!! :D When was that match because what was m2k doing?