User blog comment:Paleomario66/Mario's Higher-End feats: Outliers or not?/@comment-33067344-20180809224134/@comment-30294856-20180811140911

Mario scaling to Bowser
In most of those times (especially in SMB and NSMB DS), Mario can also defeat Bowser with fireballs, so he didn't need to outsmart base Bowser in order to win. Also, in Super Mario RPG, Bowser was stomped by Mario. You can defeat Bowser by throwing fireballs at him in SMB and NSMB, though. Mario easily defeats Bowser at the beginning of the game. Bowser is like the first main enemy of the worlds, and he is far weaker than every other boss you fight later. Also, in Super Mario RPG, Mario stomped Bowser. Mario did attack the chain, but Bowser's attacks do very little damage to Mario, so there's no reason to say attacking the chain was Mario's only way to win. Bowser in Super Mario RPG is the very first boss period, and he's far weaker than the other ones later one. What's more, in SMB 3D Land and the original SMB, Mario can defeat several false Bowsers as well as Bowser himself. The False Bowsers have a physique similar to Bowser himself, and only show their true form once they are defeated. In SMB, they only show their true form if they are defeated with fireballs.

Most of your examples you listed are ones where Mario can defeat Bowser strategically, but he can fight him directly as well.

Dream Depot Stuff
I'd hardly call that an outlier since Bowser and Mario fought Dimentio, who surpassed the Void, which was going to destroy not only the Dream Depot, but all of existence. As shown above, everything made up of color is made up of some amount of black paint, including dreams, which makes the Dream Depot possible.

SMB3 Stuff
How does it not debunk your argument? I don't even see how your initial argument refutes mine.

Multipliers for 4-D
I don't even know why VSBW says that multipliers can't be applied to 4-D characters. There's very little reasoning for it.