Vivian does the full damage with a failed action command, making her useful in action commandless challenge runs as well.

“Yoshi’s ground pound is a phenomenal attack” (shows footage of it doing zero damage)

it's crazy that mario is so extremely overpowered that "make mario go again" is so unbelievably overpowered

Goombella is literally 2 Marios. It's not even fair.

I actually had no idea about Bobbery's appeal clearing fog, thats so freaking cool lol. Great video!!

I recognize Bombombast is extremely inefficient but tbh few things match blowing the entire enemy line to hell through a piss easy action command

One thing with goombella's tattle that maybe makes it worth C Tier If for some unbeknownst reason you don't want to do damage, but you're also not in danger, Tattle will still give you progress towards getting a bingo, so it's actually more useful than defending in that sorta scenario

Infatuate was SO bad, that a mod for TTYD made it instead brainwash the enemy target into fighting with you as an ally, for that battle only

Interesting thing about Koops: he’s the ONLY partner in the game with natural defense. It doesn’t change a lot about his ranking but it makes him situationally better than people think he is.

"Yoshi's ground pound...PHENOMENAL attack" *proceeds to show clip of Yoshi doing no damage to an enemy with defense* xD

One thing you definitely glossed over with Mini Egg is that it's the only move that hits more than twice in the game that *doesn't* lower the damage by 1 for each hit beyond the first hit, meaning on a single target it can actually outperform Ground Pound's damage in many scenarios.

Alright hold on, Flurrie i never used her until i tried her in the pit of 100 trials with FP reducers, and flower finder, and you literally can just blow all the enemies away in the 2nd half of the pit of 100 trials which are near the strongest enemies in the game. To add on to this, when I was casually doing a pre chapter 4 I found that flurrie can just outlive whatever Bonetail throws out without doing any grindy badge stacking (power rushes) just use like lip lock on spam and sweet treat with Flurrie in front and Mario in the back and both of them will NEVER die. To note I did do this in the remake and not the original but I found tons of niche use out of her lol

One could argue that Yoshi's Gulp is S tier because it's the only required move to beat the game 🙃

"a Koopa with a hoodie in 2004 goes super hard" PREACH

If think the extra character without the attack orb is probably supposed to be their over world ability.

The partners were in alphabetical order, which is why Bobbery was first.

I once did a full playthrough where I cheated in Ms. Mowz to have her in my party at the beginning, and exclusively used her for the whole game (in battle, anyway). You're right - in the very early game, Love Slap is a pretty decent alternative to Headbonk and Shell Toss. She's easily the best of the three at dealing with Clefts, for example. But she falls off pretty much as soon as you get Flurrie and start upgrading partners, at which point there's very few enemies in the game where Love Slap is the best option. I did actually wind up using Smooch a bunch near the end, because I had a surplus of FP.

I calculated the averages of each character's "score" according to the rankings of their individual moves. Basically, since there are 28 moves, I gave each move a numerical value (28 for the move at the top of S, 1 for the move at the bottom of F) and these are how each character fared: 1st place: Goombella (21 pts) 2nd place: Yoshi (20 pts) 3rd place: Koops (14 pts) 4th place: Flurrie (13.5 pts) 5th place: Vivian (13.25 pts) 6th place: Bobbery (10.25 pts) 7th place: Ms. Mowz (9.75 pts) Pretty much the same as your initial ranking, although I will say the drop from Yoshi to Koops is a lot steeper than I'd imagined.

They should buff Ms.Mowz’s love slap so it hits multiple times like Bow from paper Mario 64

Love that Bobbery, the old geezer, is most useful as a meatshield.

I could be wrong but without using an appeal boosting badges I think goombellas tattle gives more star power with a stylish than the appeal command. This can be helpful since it won’t damage her or the target making it a slightly better way to star power without messing with the hp numbers of the target of you are trying to keep the target at a certain hp range or can’t hit due to being spiky

Having bias in your own list is totally fair. Yoshi is my favorite video game character, but I love Vivian in this game since she's so well written for a Mario character, and I always use her when I play this game even though I know other strategies would be better. Bow was my favorite in the first Paper Mario so I guess the series did a good job of making me like ghosts. (Or at least ghostlike entities.)

No way I was today years old when I figured out that Koops' clothes is a hoodie and not a collar from a shirt!? I had this game since childhood haha His character got 100× cooler for me wow

I love how Tattle not only has use in casual play but has niche uses for challenge runners as well. Specifically allowing SP to be regained after Sweet Treat is used to basically make the move free and activating bingos during the Bonetail battle. It also has one of the easiest stylishes to hit in the game since you just mash A after executing the move which is nice for a move meant to be used by first time players.

Respect going for something a little different over being just purely combat-focused. LOL. That being said, Shell Shield def being slept on a little :)

So basically the one utility Ms Mowz has is guaranteeing any badges you find on enemies in battle, especially if two enemies have badges and you want both.

I do actually quite like shell shield. I recently did a 5 health danger Mario challenge (inspired by your videos!) and when one missed super guard means death, having a barrier is extremely useful. Not to mention that if you DO hit the superguard, the shell doesn't take damage, so it's great insurance.

Gulp should have been in F tier for all of the challenge exceptions it has caused.

i have a challenge that might be fun to try, you can only use things found in the chapter to complete the chapter, you can only use the partner of the chapter, badges and items found in the chapter and anything that can be obtained at any time has to be 'assigned' to a chapter, meaning you can use danger mario strats, but only for one chapter, cause it would be silly otherwise

Flurrie is once again underrated as a tank. She's the absolute best in defensive builds. Plus, Dodgy Fog + the lucky badges = Mario is pretty much invincible.

4:30 Mini egg is so fun to use against bosses that it works on and does great damage, i dont see why its whatever 😔

I would have ranked mowz above flurrie since thief can be pretty useful for getting extra badges, and also her ability outside of battle is basically essential for getting 100% completion.

Yo Bringles! Just wanted to tell you that Tattle can be useful in battle since it gives you a guaranteed Bingo slot for using it

Controversial opinion: Mini egg is a better Multibonk: Costs the same FP as Multibonk, Applies Shrink status most of the time, Doesn't lower your attack power by 1 with egg (as far as i remember), Hits anywhere, anyone, Scales incredibly with damage upgrades (with one Power Plus it goes from 4 to 8 damage). Everything i just said might be misremembered, because i havent played this game myself in a long time, so point it out please.

I won’t tolerate Ms. Mowz slander! Her thief ability has come in clutch in getting those badges and items.

Bobbery and Vivian are my favorite character/design wise.

No way Lip Lock is C, it's what makes Flurrie the game's premier tank

Vivian my beloved

I would also agree with most of the list but I also would say that with Bobbery, besides the queen fight, can use bomb squad on Cortez on the stage where he is weaker when he shows his chest jewel you can immediately get him to show his chest so you have an even easier time defeating him. Bobbery’s moves are niche, but can help things move along. I feel that move can move up a set at least because it’s use in speed runs. Otherwise, great tier list!

I think one of the things you forgot to mention on the first half was the field abilities, Yoshi is even more of an MVP for allowing you to traverse the world faster

Flurrie is a better tank than bobbery because of lip lock. She can tank hits and get health back

One of my favorite uses for yoshi’s mini egg is during the raw hawk fight if you use it while he’s holding the ceiling he will shrink,, fall and lose access to that attack. which to me is comical and useful because Ive always found the ceiling shake attack annoying

I love how Bringle was like "My rating for Kiss Thief is going to be controversial" and then put it exactly where I would've put it. I was thinking "Yeah, not a super amazing move, but it's by far Ms. Mowz's best move and actually has some good uses if you wanna disarm an enemy or steal their item for yourself. No other partner can do that, and it's genuinely a useful ability to have, even if her other moves all suck.". Like Kiss Thief is a bad *attack* since it's not one. But it IS a good move since it has a useful ability that you can't get anywhere else. If this were a tier list of damage, yeah it'd score terribly, but in terms of abilities and how useful they are, Kiss Thief is definitely up there for it's utility.

Flurrie with Lip Lock was the only partner move that helped me get through the bonetail fight with the badges I had and the star power available to me. It was right after chapter four.

Next challenge run you should do a hammer only play through. I recently did one and it was surprisingly fun! Especially if you stack a few power smashes and use charge, mario can do some DAMAGE.

I'd argue flurrie is a better tank than bobbery due to lip lock doing piercing and life steal damage

Ima be using Ms Mowz as much as possible just for the adorable voice they added alone 😎👌

Bomb Squad is the funniest move in the game in my opinion. I love chaining two together and watching them all blow up at once

I saw Vivian in chapter 2 and my first thought was "her sister is so MEAN to her, I wish I could ask her to join US" II was SO psyched in Twilight Town

V is in B tier because B is for Best Girl

AYO BRINGLE have you played Bug Fables? goated game

I agree with this list for the most part, but I think you did Flurrie dirty! She’s an absolute tank and her skills are pretty good all-around. I’d say she’s got more going on than Koops at least! (I don’t dislike Koops, but it sucks that his attacks can only damage enemies on the ground…)

Lip Lock on Flurrie is really nice early game. It goes past enemy defense

I would have loved to hear your thoughts on ranking each of the partner's abilities in the overworld :D

You made me want to play this game and experiment with the different set ups! Cant wait for the remake

So, one thing I think you underrated about Mowz is that she does damage that ignores defense *for free*. Her basic attack goes through defense without costing FP. I absolutely would never have made it through my first run of the Pit without her (granted I wasn't playing optimally since I was still young in my understanding of the game). Still, free true damage is free true damage and I think you undersold that.

kiss thief in low A is crazy, I understand your reasoning but I can't really agree with it, stuff worth stealing shows up much too infrequently to get much use out of it, like maybe in the deep pits you'll see some really good badges or that stopwatch scenario you mentioned but aside from that, I can't really think of any scenarios where I thought "I should switch to mowz to steal what that enemy has", at least in an unmodded ttyd, which I assume this list was made for

I always thought Vivian was considered the strongest partner in battle. She was definitely my go-to every playthrough

I've always loved the Siren design, so cool

Hey dude! Keep up the great stuff! Looking forward to hitting my 6 month badge!

I find it funny that I got a lot out of Flurry just because she can tank damage like crazy with her life drain kiss, it was against the bone dragon soooooo yeah very important stuff xd.

I was thinking that those extra copies of the partners were going to be used for the field moves--the special abilities they have outside of battle.

Seeing Goombella being S tier and best companion for the adventure is good enough for me. Multibonk is the boss slayer and Rally Wink is essentially "Make the best character you control move again".

Loved this video!!! Can you do a quick guide on stylish moves? Been binging all your videos recently and notice you always hit those, there are no other guides I can find on KZfaq

Yoshi is hard for me to use cuz Ground Pound has you mash the R button, which is difficult for a disabled man such as me. I just wish they didn’t have moves where you had to mash, or have accessibility settings to help with button mashing.

13 more days lets go, looking forward for future videos

Flurrie is one of the single greatest video game allies ever how dare you

I love the idea of being "impartial" but also giving leway to characters you have a biased to and being more strict on ones you don't.

Two more weeks until your channel grows like crazy!!!!!

Baby Yoshi's stampede is very powerful, especially if you keep adding "Charge" to it. Trust me, I've done it SEVERAL times.

"Yoshi's ground pound is phenomenal!" *Shows clip of Yoshi's ground pound doing 0 damage*

An insane Yoshi Gulp "badges permitting." Is still insane

Bobbery may not be optimal, but nothing will stop my love for sailor hats helms and explosives.

Thank you I needed this tier list because I’m gonna play the remake for the first time 🙌🏻

I'd say Dodgy Fog is actually a good move. from what I see you will dodge an average of 3 attacks for its one use. Assuming you don't super guard those attacks. But if you hit every super guard then barely anything is a threat anyways.

So what I took from this video is that an ultralong single battle (say like, 100,120 straight enemies) would shake this tier list inmediately.

Goombella is S tier for me. I played most of the time with her. And her rally wink is so overpowered. You can use two Mario attacks and this is fantastic. And I love her multibonk together with charge or other attack buffs. Her story is ok but it goes better. Koops is B tier for me. Until you have vivian he is good for multi-targets but I prefer Vivian‘s fiery jinks. In hooktail‘s Castle he is useful but After that I used him Not that often. His story is also only ok. Because he want to grow up. Flurrie is D tier for me. I used her only when you have to blow something away but in battles I used her 2 or 3 times. If i have to block an attack or in the battle with Bonetail to get her buff for Mario. Her story is nothing special but it is cool that she returned back to the spotlight After the adventure. The Yoshi is S tier for me. His attacks a very good except for enemies with 1 defense or more. His gulp is very good for enemies to break their defense and with charge or other attack buffs he is so powerful. His story is cute and I like that he wants to be a champion in glitzpit like mario. Vivian is A tier for me. I Iove her fiery jinks and her shade fist and the fire effect is almost always guaranteed. Her veil is not that good as outta sight from Lady Bow because veil is so strange. When Mario attacks and after that you veil the enemy can attack twice but I‘m sure you know that. Her story is also wonderful and she switched the sites because she was bullied by Beldam. Bobbery is A tier for me. His bomb attacks are good but his power bomb is very expensive and his other moves are not that good and I never used them. His story is the best of all from Mario‘s partners and I love his whole story sections on chapter 5. Ms. Mowz is D tier for me but better than flurrie. I used her only if the enemy is carrying an item that I want to own. Or on the moon because she bypasses the defense of the enemies. Her story isn‘t special but she is better than flurrie in my opinion. That was a cool idea to rank the partners and their moves.

No, the comment on the special defense being thrown off by which companion you have is completely valid!

There's some mechanics in this game that I feel like I definitely overlooked when playing the game. Especially as a kid. Knowing Vivian can hit pretty much anyone (not Bristles) with shade fist means that enemies like spiky parabuzzies can be a little less annoying. Although, at the same time, by the time you get Vivian, you can just get the Spike Shield badge and it won't be a problem anyways. Lol. Hopefully, I'll remember some of these things for when the remake comes out.

I like how in Japan Rally Wink is actually Support Kiss. It really shows Goombella how much she cares for Mario. She alongside Yoshi Kid and Ms Mowz are my favourite character wise.

There's literally only one time I use Flurrie in battle ever: To blow away Cortez's weapons in Phase 3 of his battle. Aside from that, I've never used her over someone else.

8:20 "Pierces defense I think" proceeds to show a clip of the move not piercing defence

I use to get Ms. Mowz before Admiral Bobery. And she's my favorite, since she can steal badges, witch is the only useful partner move after stacking Power Rushes.

This is literally my favorite game of all time and I had no idea Flurrie was a cloud this WHOLE TIME until you said it. I genuinely thought she was a ghost my whole life lmao

Mowz best use is to steal badges from enemies

Man, ms. Mowz dismissal will never stop hurting. Especially since you say you also consider personality etc. She's such a fun character that way. I'm at least glad you put kiss thief so high. If this was a pure be as tactical as possible in combat tier list it would be a bad move. But as you say, if it's just playing the game and having fun with it is phenomenal. I do disagree with her base attack though. You can buff it with badges, it doesn't cost any FP, it's fun to use, it has a great animation and there are definitely times where it's objectively the best choice. Yes, some moves might do more damage. But if her damage is enough to kill, who cares? Especially since the other option will cost FP and relies on missable action commands. If an enemy has enough defense that it requires 4 or 5 bonks from Goombella for example, I should make that. But sometimes I just don't. But it's impossible for me to not make Ms. Mowz her action command if I go for it. She's a definite C for me. Other than that I don't think I would do my list differently, except I wouldn't have any character in F. Because all characters have at least some use.

Flurrie is an unkillable tank and has the best move in the game. Very few enemies have any resistance to being blown away. She doesn't need any badges to destroy the whole field.

This was a super fun video! I really appreciate that the casual side of things was also taken into account. It would have been a fun extra 5 minutes or so to rank their field abilities too :p Super excited for the remake! Less than 2 weeks away!

I consistently failed the Shell Shield action command and it still served me well.

Tease being considered better than Flurrie's Mist is absolutely wild to me. They essentially do the same thing but tease is not only a debuff that might not even stick but its got the most painful command input than most other abilities. Like at least the mist you're guaranteed to apply even if you fuck up most of the commands but its still there. Tease you gotta hope it gets applied AND hope the enemies miss.

I personally think Fiery Jinx is an S-tier move, because of it targeting everything, good damage and 100% burn chance on everything it can damage. It has to have been one of my most used moves out of everyone.

If we're putting partners in a personality and design tier list, vivian tops it every day of the week ❤

While I don't want to make this solely focused on combat, as I do like how your rank the partners in a vacuum rather than just combat. For instance, I LOVE Goombella, I love how she's allowed to be a bit of a smartass, yet still friendly and helpful. I really do miss when female characters have sass to them and weren't just overtly motherly or nice. But I also feel you downplayed Flurrie a bit. I won't say she's great or anything, but Gale Force and Lip Lock are good utility moves that easily provide her more use than Vivian or Bobbery. While I completely understand the cheese in just deleting enemies, at the same time that is what makes Gale Force so good, especially in certain pit runs it can come in super clutch and the miss chance I'd argue doesn't matter much when you can just run. And what makes me rank her above Vivian is I feel people don't really acknowledge how many things Vivian just can't hit with Shade Fist or Fiery Jinx. And it's quite a bit, and those enemies Vivian can't hit Flurrie can. Unless you factor in things like Shadow Queen, or certain low level runs I feel the utility you get from Gale Force will outweigh the utility from Vivian a lot of the time. GF also gives Star Points, gets rid of fog (even though it doesn't have barring on combat) and I feel out of all RNG options, its risk reward feels the most serviceable, as your reward is worth the luck, as opposed to something like Lucky badges or luck overall which just amounts to a gamble. Lip Lock also just turns Flurrie into a mad tank against the dragons and Magnus. I find this move makes her more useful as a tank than Bobbery. I also feel you massively underrated Shell Shield. It's really good! Again, I don't want to sound pedantic, as I get the criteria of your measurement here, honestly if we're going by overall perspective your list is a lot of fun. I just thought I'd provide my own perspective. I overall enjoyed the list! :D As a side note, Mowz also deserves flak for Love Slap not only dealing pitiful damage but causes the audience to boo and gives less star power than any other move, and you have to stylish just to get them to like the move, it also has hammer range so its front locked, is affected by contact. and Tease is the worst attack in the game, its literally just worse Dodgy Fog and Infatuate. lol

Hear me out. Flurry slam is free, does 5 dmg AND hit's ceiling enemies, Koops has to 4 FP just to do 6 dmg to grounded enemies only.

Bro ms.mowz helped me so often because she can pierce shield and make 5 damage like there are enemies that have 2,3 or 4 defense and she is so useful for those kind of enemies

I actually really like Bomb Squad as a move. It can deal good area damage. And I'm pretty sure if you use it back to back (it doesn't go off until after the second turn), all 6 go off at once so you can trigger the second round early. Unless that's only if they hit each other? I don't remember.

Crazy how I was a hammer guy and so I preferred bomber and used peekaboo instead of goombrella😅 so my mains were yoshi and explosive tank especially higher levels mainly because of the def penetration and consumed hella FP since I’d spam gulp and bombers ultimate so I’d make sure to have enough FP items to clear levels fast 😅😂 fun asf for me to nuke the entire enemies with 9+ dmg

This video was interesting to me because I don't really think about a partner not being valuable since I always use quick change. In my last playthrough I was very attack heavy and I used Ms. Mowz to one shot a chain chomp cause she could do 7 piercing damage. I laughed when you put her in F tier cause I initially wanted to defend her but realized that I literally only used her against one enemy lol

hope they release some goombella merch really love her

You can press A as soon as you line up the cursor for Flurry’s attack command. You don’t have to keep it lined up!