Skip the Podcast Skip the Tutorial

The Comeback of the Pokemon Elite Four! The Elite Four League in Pokémon have seen better and worse days - until Generation VII brought new life to the Pokemon League. With the new features of the Elite Four and Champions of Pokemon Sun and Moon & Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee, the franchise is finally making a return to its original charm. So today, let’s tackle the Generation 7 approach to the Elite Four - in this episode of Skip the Tutorial’s Boss Battle Breakdown! 

Smash Ultimate Makes Bowser a Better Boss! When Super Smash Bros. adapted Bowser for a boss fight, it had to keep his famous battle progression from the Super Mario series while also changing the format from a platformer to a fighting game. To do this, Smash added in Giga Bowser, a more powerful boss version that plays like a more traditional and better boss fight. So today, let's see how Smash Ultimate's version of Giga Bowser makes the iconic boss even greater - on this episode of Boss Battle Breakdown!

Smash Ultimate Makes Kirby’s Marx Even Better! Marx is one of Kirby’s most famous bosses, so when HAL Laboratory adapted him as a boss in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, they had big shoes to fill. Luckily, this Smash boss fight in the World of Light and Spirits modes is very faithful to the original fight from Kirby Super Star, and it might even be a better boss battle due to the changes Sakurai’s team added. Let’s discuss that, on this episode of Boss Battle Breakdown!

Kirby Star Allies Saved Meta Knight! Meta Knight was always the antihero of the Kirby series - but in recent games, HAL Laboratory drifted away from using him in that way. That was until the 2018 release of Kirby Star Allies on the Nintendo Switch - which made him a familiar boss and rival for Kirby again. So today, let’s dive into how the Kirby franchise brought Meta Knight back to his pattern from Kirby’s Adventure - in this episode of Boss Battle Breakdown!

King Dedede Keeps Getting Better! King Dedede has been a staple boss in Kirby ever since appearing as the final boss in Dreamland - but how does HAL Laboratory keep him so interesting and memorable? Let’s look at how his story inclusions across the franchise make him such a great character right up to Star Allies, even if his moveset stays the same. Here’s why King Dedede is so great - on this episode of Boss Battle Breakdown!

Bosses that keep you coming back post-game! Designing a post-game is tough to do for an RPG - so here are three different approaches to making great bosses after the story mode. Grinding gets boring, so here are bosses to fill your time after the credits roll - so let's discover the tactics of these bonus bosses - on this episode of Boss Battle Breakdown!