

Giga Bowser has immunity to knockback essentially having armor for his entire presence.Giga Bowser's voice clips are now Bowser's voice clips played at 75% speed rather than sharing Bowser's voice clips.


However, his forward aerial, back aerial and a few other moves remain the same as in Melee. Most of Bowser's new attacks and options (such as Flying Slam and crawling) are also available for Giga Bowser.However, despite the armor, Giga Bowser can still experience hitlag while the timer decreases, meaning that it can be difficult to deal significant damage if overwhelmed with multi-hit attacks or items like the Smart Bomb. Many of Giga Bowser's attacks have elemental effects and the smash attacks are even capable of one-hit KOs, making the Final Smash very powerful. While in this form, Bowser has passive super armor, but can still receive damage, which may leave Bowser severely weakened and open to KOs after the transformation expires. Thus, Giga Bowser can be seen as a semi-clone rather than a straight moveset upgrade. Giga Bowser can be freely controlled for 660 frames (11 seconds) in Brawl and 480 frames (8 seconds) in Smash 4.ĭespite Bowser's core changes over the course of Smash, Giga Bowser retains many of Bowser's old attacks in each of his appearances, such as the old back aerial and run animations. Bowser transforms into Giga Bowser, granting him his immense strength and primeval moveset from Super Smash Bros.
