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Its good you played against doc cause thats who my friend plays as so it's pretty much the exact same battle for you and me.
1. Now my friend who plays doc loves to pill rush/ pill camp. I noticed that your doc was more prone to attacking and thats totally fine but i'd just like to point out that the majority of docs will use their pills quite often and i noticed that you were very vomerable to those few pill attacks doc sent at you. Make sure that if you ever challange another doc to stick close to him if he plays the pill throw style. Not only will it decrease the number of pills they throw at you but it's very intimidating.
2. You were quite open for shield grabs. Mario have some pretty far grab range and though your friend never used it much except in the end of the second vid you'll need to work on your spacing between you and your oponent. While you want to put pressure and attack them you dont want to set your self up for a sheild ----> grab ----> back throw, which for chars like doc could mean the end for you. Try to predict your oponents movements. If you think he's going to attack you in a certain place set your attack to attack there. That way when you do your jump foward a your might just end up setting up your oponent for a missed shield grab and opening an oppertunity for you to do something.
3. You had some really good recoverys both in terms of distance and in your ability to dodge your oponent. However, i noticed you rarely used bowsers roll attack from the edge except for a few times. While it's not good to spam a move, that roll move is very good because of its length and its ability to set your oponent up for a claw grab after they try and get up, or what ever you want to do. Thats what i use it for though. Its something that you should try to incorporate more into your ledge game.
4. Lastly, your edge guarding. While not bad, i think you used your smash foward a way too mcuh to try and edge guard. Fire is really useful. Try to use that instead sometimes, and also back a from the air. While it'll take some time to get used to that move is very good because of its ability to hit things before they touch the edge. Fire is just a good move to set them up for a screw up so you can then try and use your smash when they over shoot the recovery or just a plain foward a or what ever. Its very much mind games in the edge guard w/ bowser.
None the less i liked your use of black bowser, i thought it looked very cool. Good job beating the doc in your first vid. It's something very few people can say the can do w/ bowser!!
