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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)...

Dealing with Falco's Lasers as Bowser

- February 22, 2018

Falco gets to dictate the pace of the neutral game in a way that no other character can due to the power of his lasers. Asking for Falco advice generally leads to being told stuff like "learn to deal with lasers", which while true, I don't think is as helpful as it could be. Due to their versatility in application, there's hardly going to be a one-size-fits-all solution to working around Falco's lasers. I think there are a lot of Falco players at low-mid level who use lasers and rely on them fully shutting down their opponent's movement. While it's not an unfounded assumption to think lasers can shut down movement, they definitely aren't perfect. In this writeup, I'm going to detail movement options that Bowser can use even while under incredible laser pressure. Note that although this writeup is centered around Bowser's options, most of them aren't fully Bowser-specific, and the methodologies would be transferable between characters. TA...