Bow rushing

[Boondocker]

Doc's pills are generally seen as good partly because of the slow movement speed of them. This allows Doc to arrive at his oppontent around the same time the pill does. Pikachu can do the same thing with Thunder Jolt as well. YL's Bow is generally not used much, but can YL use it in a similar manor to Doc and Pikachu?

Advantages:
Comes out on frame 13 while the Boomerang comes out around frame 30
Trajectory is very useful while approaching from the air
Can be charged to throw opponent off if they tech away from it
Forces opponent to react and possibly open themselves up to a bomb
Doesnt have the return animation of the boomerang
Projectile spam-for situations when you have a bomb out and your boomerang is returning

Disadvantages:
Ending lag until frame 38. Boomerang has lag until frame 45.

 

[Stannum]

while the bow in theory could be situationally useful, in practice it is just better to have a bomb in hand and use that. I guess if you are going for some flashy edge stuff you could throw some edge-canceled arrows into the mix, but that's just to style on people really. [edit: you cant edge cancel arrows lol >.<]

While you may not get outright punished for using the bow, you've got to think about if you can be approaching or camping more effectively.

I think people don't use the bow a lot because there are better options.