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Fighting Smithy with a painfully average team.
1st Form - 01:53 / 2nd Form - 11:25
Final boss time and Smithy's first phase has one of my favorites music in the SNES library.
I went for this fight with Bowser and Mallow for the sake of a challenge and something different since nearly every other video I see has Geno/Toadstool, Geno/Bowser or Bowser/Toadstool but no love for Mallow.
The team is balanced but each character bends sharply to one specific type of damage; Bowser is a physical powerhouse and Mallow has powerful specials while Mario is a mixed bag. I have to juggle the healing duty between all characters depending on what Smithy does, especially on his second form.
I also avoid using overpowered stuff like Jinx Belt, Quartz Charm, Super Suit, or any of the two Lazy Shells since I want to show how dangerous Smithy actually is to the average player.
The first phase is all about handling Smelter and Shypers all while enduring Smithy's powerful attacks. While this is very easy to manage with Toadstool/Peach, and her extremely useful Group Hug special, without her everything changes as the battle can easily spiral out of control if you get a Sword Rain/Meteor Swarm combination as it's all but guaranteed this will KO Mario or Bowser unless they're at full HP.
Smelter will create up to two Shypers which can use Sword Rain, a powerful all party attack spell on its own. Combine with Smithy himself, who is no pushover, and his dangerous Meteor Swarm and you can easily get a party wipe if you let Smelter create two Shypers to help Smithy.
The second phase of the battle is where Mallow truly shines; he can dish heavy damage to two of Smithy's most annoying heads (Tank and Welder Mask) with Shocker and Snowy respectively. The chest head takes extra damage from Fire and the Mage head gets heavy damage from physical attacks.
My strategy to win here without Toadstool was to rely heavily on Megaelixirs and Kerokero Colas (bought at Tadpole Pond after helping Toadofsky with his compositions). While my stock of healing items is big this is a VERY expensive solution and much more cumbersome to do with Toadstool's Group Hug, besides far more limited stock of items forces me to play much more aggressively since once I run out of healing items I'm good as dead.