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Since 2001, Super Smash Brothers Melee has harbored a beast in the depths of its code. A creature that, were he to be legal, could change the game's competitive metagame forever. For a time during the COVID-19 quarantine, he nearly did.

When in 2020, Giga Bowser was accidently unleashed onto Melee's netplay servers, a handful of players would push the character to previously unseen heights. This is their story. This is Giga Bowser's story.

This video amounted to about two months of on-and-off work from research to interviews to writing and editing. I hope that you come away with a better understanding and appreciation of Melee's greatest monster and the nuances of The Big Turtle Guy.

Should Giga Bowser be legal in SSBM? Sound off in the comments!

If you know more about the competitive history of Giga Bowser that you feel is not adequately covered in this video, feel free to DM me on twitter @wusstunes or email me at [email protected]. I tried my best to be thorough, but I imagine there is some pre-2020 G. Bowser history that I missed out on.

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Thank you for all your support with this! This video took a lot of work from me and a lot of reaching out to players who were kind enough to share their stories (and in some cases, gameplay footage) with me. With that in mind, please be respectful towards them! I'm not trying to spur up any sort of harassment here.

In addition, this video is currently unmonetized due to me being not good at setting up my google adsense! If you liked it, consider buying me a coffee. I will drink it happily.
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further reading:
Developing a Meta: Giga Bowser -    • Developing a Meta: Giga Bowser  
Mew2King with New Developments in the Giga Bowser Matchup Meta -    • mew2king with new developments in the...  
Are you a Giga Bowser Player? -    • Are You a Giga Bowser Player? (Parody...  
Play as Giga Bowser - Instructional Video    • Play As Giga Bowser Online In Slippi ...  
Deleted Scene -    • these melee characters will NEVER be ...  

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:35 What is Giga Bowser
01:48 Giga Bowser is Kinda Broken
03:44 The Second Coming
05:50 The Three Tenets
08:47 The Giga Gamble
14:40 A Second Chance
22:47 Regarding Legality
27:27 Coda, a Farewell to Giga Arms
30:25 song list ;)