The Weaknesses of Bowser

[iX_Martyr_Xi]

This thread is simple. What are the weaknesses of Bowser? What characters does Bowser struggle against? Where does Bowser have trouble where other characters could do better? What is a bad situation for Bowser?

 

[Osmosis124]

Slow and Fat.
I myself struggle against lucario, falcon, mario, fox, and shiek
Comboing, hitting evasive opponents, approaching, dealing with someone that is grab happy, getting out of combo/strings.
Neutral straight up.

 

[Duplighost]

He struggles against Sheik. I'm a Sheik main, and I'm not being boastful, but I have never come across a Bowser that I have had trouble with as Sheik. Her grabs can lead into some great combos, working especially well against large, heavy characters. This applies to Ganondorf, Donkey Kong, and King Dedede as well.

On the flip side, I always have trouble against light charcters like Sonic and Jigglypuff.

Edit: He doesn't struggle against just Sheik, but characters who rely on grabs and fast combos to get kills. I meant to use Sheik as an example among other characters (Captain Falcon, possibly Sonic, Pikachu, Lucario, etc).

 

[Christopher Rodriguez]

Slow and Fat.
I myself struggle against lucario, falcon, mario, fox, and shiek
Comboing, hitting evasive opponents, approaching, dealing with someone that is grab happy, getting out of combo/strings.
Neutral straight up.

This is the perfect answer. End of discussion, aside from the other characters he struggles with as well like Peach, Sonic, Diddy, Ice Climbers, Link, and more.

 

[meebius]

The Z button

 

[Abeebo]

What a short thread.

 

[Eisen]

Slow, huge and thus easy to combo, not very great at comboing (mostly because he can't get in), the neutral, projectiles, and recovery.

Basically, just about everything except kill power. He's what people claim fox is (he isn't): "Easy to combo with a bad recovery"

 

[Vandire]

Slow and Fat.
I myself struggle against lucario, falcon, mario, fox, and shiek
Comboing, hitting evasive opponents, approaching, dealing with someone that is grab happy, getting out of combo/strings.
Neutral straight up.

/thread

 

[Candypants]

Bowser is a perfect manly bastion of awesome.

 

[Arcalyth]

his biggest weakness is getting grabbed, easily. In fact, I'd say he has everything he needs to mitigate every other weakness (his size).

Up-B OOS tho.

 

[Vandire]

Also forgetting thats he just one giant Jab reset.

 

[Gayl0rd]

Being grabbed, for sure. If you don't have a platform nearby, some characters can chain grab you for extended periods of time if they read your DI correctly.