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Bowser Priority?!
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Liquid Gen
Smash Ace
Uh.. His jab is awesome in terms of priority iirc, it cancels out alot of projectiles and clinks with a lot of attacks.
His down smash is.. Lacking. Bad range, good power. I only use it to punish rollers or near the ledge, if at all. I guess it's priority is okay but... I barely use it so I don't know.
His UpB's priority is ****. It cancels out everything (or in my experience it has). It even cancelled out a fully charged neutral B from Marth, lulz.
Bowser isn't made of priority, though, so it's not really something to dwell on.
TL;DR = Jab and UPB..
His down smash is.. Lacking. Bad range, good power. I only use it to punish rollers or near the ledge, if at all. I guess it's priority is okay but... I barely use it so I don't know.
His UpB's priority is ****. It cancels out everything (or in my experience it has). It even cancelled out a fully charged neutral B from Marth, lulz.
Bowser isn't made of priority, though, so it's not really something to dwell on.
TL;DR = Jab and UPB..
Liquid Gen
Smash Ace
=/
None of Bowser's moves have disjointed hitboxes, except maybe FTilt.
None of Bowser's moves have disjointed hitboxes, except maybe FTilt.
Blistering Speed
Smash Champion
The one move with ridiculous priority is Fortress. Nothing else is hugely out of the blue.
SuSa
Banned via Administration
You have never used Fsmash.
There's like a complete missing "hitbox" UNDERNEATH his head after the swing
L = Ledge
B = Bowser
O = Opponent
- = air space
--------B
------L
O
Opponent can still get hit.....
1 :mewtwo: 353 Created using PokeScript - by Havokk
Veggi
Smash Champion
The Whirling Fortress' name finally makes sense now.
The Sex Puma
Smash Lord
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definitely up b
actually when i think of it you're right
MrEh
Smash Hero
Bowser's jab has freakish amounts of priority, for a jab anyway. It clanks with Pit's Fsmash. 
All of Bowser's moves generally have good amounts of priority though. I'm not going to mention the Fortress, since we all know that crap rules.
Fsmash has a humongous hitbox though. It outranges Marth's Fsmash. I CAN HAS HITBOX PLEASE?!?!?!?
All of Bowser's moves generally have good amounts of priority though. I'm not going to mention the Fortress, since we all know that crap rules.
Fsmash has a humongous hitbox though. It outranges Marth's Fsmash. I CAN HAS HITBOX PLEASE?!?!?!?
Liquid Gen
Smash Ace
True about FSmash, don't know why I didn't catch that, lul.
Hyrus
Smash Journeyman
The tip of Ness/Lucas forward smash will hit Bowser if it hits the tip of his FTilt. That crap pisses me off.
Inferno_blaze
Smash Lord
Bowsers claws are disjointed so even if it's tiny a lot of his moves have a bit.
upB clanks with near everything in the game making it an amazing projectile block. The only projectile that WON'T clank afaik is Wolf's laser but that thing doesn't seem to get blocked by anything.
Jim Morrison
Smash Authority
Firebreath.
LinIsKorean
Smash Journeyman
I'm going with UpB on this one.
And regarding his forward smash, there is like... a huge spot right in front of him where he doesn't hit at all, so if your opponent is close enough nothing hits them.
I'm not sure if that was what Havokk was talking about, but he does also have space in front of his head that counts as a hitbox.
And regarding his forward smash, there is like... a huge spot right in front of him where he doesn't hit at all, so if your opponent is close enough nothing hits them.
I'm not sure if that was what Havokk was talking about, but he does also have space in front of his head that counts as a hitbox.
lampiaio
Smash Cadet
I like the priority of his bair.
Yea, I've been thinking about that.
I am not a very good player (actually not good at all), but to me it seems like a good way of approaching with bowser: short hopped bair, meaning that it will cancel many moves thanks to it's priority (I might be wrong, but it seems that it has more priority than marth's fsmash) and you can always claw your way instead if the opponent shields.
Now wether the 2% damage and priority are worth the landing lag and the "punishability" if you mess up... I can't really tell yet.
I am not a very good player (actually not good at all), but to me it seems like a good way of approaching with bowser: short hopped bair, meaning that it will cancel many moves thanks to it's priority (I might be wrong, but it seems that it has more priority than marth's fsmash) and you can always claw your way instead if the opponent shields.
Now wether the 2% damage and priority are worth the landing lag and the "punishability" if you mess up... I can't really tell yet.
Liquid Gen
Smash Ace
Short hop back air...
IS terrible.
Good move for edgeguarding, terrible in a short hop. Bad landing lag, plus the predictability of it, will mean that you're going to get shield grabbed or worse.
No.
IS terrible.
Good move for edgeguarding, terrible in a short hop. Bad landing lag, plus the predictability of it, will mean that you're going to get shield grabbed or worse.
No.
Blistering Speed
Smash Champion
Agreed, the landing lag on B Air is horrible from a SH. People used to visually show the effects of L Cancelling in Melee to noobs by L cancelling Bowser's B Air lawl.
Jim Morrison
Smash Authority
SH F-air to SH F-air, to F-air of stage to double jump F-air is win.