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Rognut's Bowser Almanac

An organized account of relevant competitive Bowser knowledge for Super Smash Bros. Melee with an emphasis on catering to human limitations and practical applicability. If there's flaws in my thinking or ideas, please point them out. Corrections will result in quicker improvement.

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- December 30, 2017

Matchup Outlines

**Project on hiatus-- only Falco and Peach are usable right now**

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Bowser Controller Grip and Movement Methodology

- February 09, 2018

**Correction: In previous versions of this writeup, I was using extremely unconventional terms to refer to the different mechanics behind what is commonly known as Crouch Cancelling. CC is composed of two independent mechanics, the Crouch knockback reduction, and the ASDI down portion. For the purposes of this writeup, I will refer to ASDI-down as "Ground Cancelling" aka GC, and the Crouch knockback reduction as CC. Thank you to /u/cagliostro9 and /u/Bones_Zero for talking me through the common naming conventions for the mechanics.** In the Bowser discord , we've been toying with different ideas for what the ideal controller grip for Bowser might be. This might seem like an easy question, but in fact there's a lot of room for movement optimization with unconventional controller grips. The conventional controller grip involves only two actionable fingers on the face of the controller, and an additional two on the triggers. If you can hold the controller in such a way

Bowser Video Archive

- February 09, 2018

This post hopes to be a resource for quickly finding footage of Bowser for analysis or combo video reasons. Each name on this list is clickable and will lead to a playlist. I will try to keep this updated, but obviously that will be hard-- if there are notable matches missing from the playlists, you can message me and I'll get it added ASAP. Matchup Playlists: (70) Bowser vs Fox (29) Bowser vs Marth (67) Bowser vs Falco (12) Bowser vs Jigglypuff (38) Bowser vs Sheik (23) Bowser vs Captain Falcon (15) Bowser vs Peach (3) Bowser vs Ice Climbers (14) Bowser vs Samus (6) Bowser vs Luigi (2) Bowser vs Pikachu (3) Bowser vs Yoshi (13) Bowser vs Ganon (3) Bowser vs Dr. Mario (11) Bowser vs Mario (1) Bowser vs Young Link (6) Bowser vs Donkey Kong (6) Bowser vs Link (2) Bowser vs Mr. Game and Watch (1) Bowser vs Pichu (10) Bowser vs Mewtwo (1) Bowser vs Zelda (3) Bowser vs Ness (3) Bowser vs Roy (2) Bowser vs Kirby (10) Bowser vs Bowser

Bowser's Ledge Intangibility Refresh

- February 01, 2018

Bowser has one of the easiest ledge intangibility refreshes in the game, needing only to fastfall and doublejump to retain a cycle of full intangibility. Ideally, staying fully invincible at the ledge should be something you're able to do without even thinking about it-- you should be using that time to look at your opponent and react to how they're moving about the stage to try and find an opening. Since it's composed of just two actions, fastfalls and doublejumps, there is actually a wide range of frame data with which the technique will work. I will detail the two that I have personally practiced, the lowest and highest variations of the intangibility refresh. For the lowest variation of the technique, the inputs are very simple. It just requires a fastfall from the ledge as soon as you're actionable, then a doublejump after 7 frames. It's important to note that you're still fully invincible if you fastfall for 6 or 8 frames as well as the 7 frames desc