Bowser vs Peach: Matchup Outline

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Matchup Outline


Peach's POV Rundown

+ Peach has a lot of really good short-ranged grounded options.
+ Peach has a very strong CC, with a lot of great options she can use after taking an attack. 
+ Peach's FC aerials are very good on shield and against CC.
- Peach has limited aerial mobility both vertically and horizontally. 
- Peach's doublejump, while giving her a DJC, makes it very hard to get up very high quickly. 
- When Peach commits to floating high in the air, she does not have a lot of quick horizontal control.

Bowser's POV Rundown

+ Bowser is uniquely as fast or faster than Peach for most airborne interactions.
+ Bowser's movement strengths (Ledge, feints, wavelands) correspond exactly to areas where Peach's movement is poor.
+ Bowser is better at abusing platforms than Peach is.
+ Bowser has a better ledge game than Peach, but it's not as free as it is with other characters.
- Bowser gets comboed and edgeguarded by Peach very hard.
- Bowser cannot take advantage of his grounded attacks, even UpB OoS, very well in the matchup due to Peach's incredible CC. 
- Bowser has a tough time doing meaningful combos on Peach.


Bullet Points:

- Try as hard as you can to move around faster than the Peach in Neutral.
- Don't land near Peach unless you're going to use Koopa Klaw.
- You can safely poke her shield and CC with the very tips of Fair and Bair.
- Use lots of tomahawks and doublejump feints.
- Try to play the PPMD style of neutral where you just keep out-speeding her until she's at high enough percents where she dies.
- Slow down the game by sharking for aerials and circle camping.

Things to Work On Implementing:

- Ftilt to beat Peach approaching with a Float
- Double Jab as a get-off-of-me attack
- Dash attack or Fair to beat sweetspot UpB
- Doublejump DownB to grab ledge if she tries to overcommit offstage.


Things to Lab

- Weak dash attack to Utilt
- Spamming quick UpBs during Dsmash scuffles


Misc. Information

- You can sometimes clank every hit of Peach's Downsmash with Bowser's UpB. It looks really janky.

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