Bowser (SSB4)/Up throw

Hitbox visualization showing Bowser's up throw.

Overview

Bowser throws the opponent on top of his shell, spinning to grind them, launching the opponent afterwards. After 1.1.3 was released, the buffs to the throw made it a great combo starter, being able to combo into up tilt or up smash at low percents, neutral or forward aerials at mid percents. and most notably up aerial at higher percents. The throw's knockback is low enough to where there is a large percent window for up aerial to connect and kill, and DI barely affects the throw at all, and rage allows the kill confirm to come around even earlier, especially thanks to his super heavyweight status allowing him to consistently get high levels of rage. Alternatively, at the ledge, up throw into back aerial can kill, although at very specific percent with good timing and bad DI.

It also has minor use in doubles, where the collateral hitbox's low angle and high knockback can put opponents at a very bad position, sometimes not even being able to recover at all.

Overall, combined with Bowser's greatly ranged grab, the move is extremely useful, being a central part of Bowser's gameplay and combo game due to the strengths of both his grab and up throw.

Update history

1.1.3

• Ending lag (FAF 69 → 64).
  • The move becomes interruptible later into the animation (frame 69 → 75) however, the move now has a frame duration speed of 0.5 from frame 53 onward (effectively doubling the animation speed from frame 53 onward), negating this change and reducing the move's ending lag.
• Hits 1-7 damage (1% → 0.5%).
• Hits 1-7 hitlag (1.0x → 0.5x).
• Throw angle (70° → 82°).
• Knockback: (0 (base), 100 (scaling) → 80/200 (hit 8); 90/80 → 25/155 (throw)).

1.1.4

• Throw knockback scaling (155 → 180).

Throw and Hitbox Data

Hitboxes

ID	Part	Rehit rate	Damage	SD	Angle		BK	KS	FKV	Radius	Bone	Offset			SDIx	H×	T%	Clang	Rebound	Type	Effect	G	A	Sound	Direct	Hit bits	Blockable	Reflectable	Absorbable	Piercing	Heedless	No GFX	Flinchless	Stretch
Hits 1-7
0	0	0	0.5%	0		Standard	0	100	0	9.6	0	0.0	20.0	1.6	1.0x	0.5x	0%							Slash		63								—
Hit 8
0	0	0	1%	0		Standard	80	200	0	9.6	0	0.0	20.0	1.6	1.0x	1.0x	0%							Slash		63								—

Throw

ID	Damage	Angle		BK	KS	FKV	Bone	FFx	Type	Effect	Sound
0	2%		Forwards	25	180	0	0	1.0x			None
1	3%		Forwards	40	100	0	0	1.0x			None

Timing

Invincible	1-18
Hits 1-7	21-24, 25-28, 29-32, 33-36, 37-40, 41-44, 45-48
Hits 8	49-51
Throw	53
Interruptible	64
Animation length	68

Legend (1 square = 1 frame)

Lag time

Vulnerable

Invincible

Throw point

Bowser's moveset

Neutral attack (1 · 2) · Forward tilt · Up tilt · Down tilt · Dash attack · Forward smash · Up smash · Down smash
Neutral aerial · Forward aerial · Back aerial · Up aerial · Down aerial
Grab · Pummel · Forward throw · Back throw · Up throw · Down throw
Forward roll · Back roll · Spot dodge · Air dodge · Techs
Floor attack (front) · Floor getups (front) · Floor attack (back) · Floor getups (back) · Floor attack (trip) · Floor getups (trip)
Edge attack · Edge getups
Neutral special (def · c1 · c2) · Side special (def · c1 · c2) · Up special (def · c1 · c2) · Down special (def · c1 · c2) · Final Smash