Uploaded January 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Thanks to a new skip (youtube.com/watch?v=vYw-B1Ls-sA) this may no longer be useful, but we still need to test stuff.
With perfect luck (a 1 in 6250 chance) this strat takes 2:50. With the worst luck possible (a 1 in 10000 chance) this strat takes 9:10. Dying to the paper bob-ombs without using cards takes 11:25. So for now, this strat is the fastest way to do this, but if there was a way to actually beat the minigame, without buying any extra cards, then that would probably be fastest since we'd need 1050 less coins. With amiibo this strat could be done without buying any extra cards, so it is likely the fastest strat for an amiibo run.
Nman36 (youtube.com/channel/UCxnlVfUuVonMw0UDXfifNzA) figured out you could use the deal damage to get star points card or an amiibo card to die quickly, but he didn't realise that your cards don't reset to how they were before a mission when you fail it.
I figured out we could reconfigure the battle card deck to save time, jump on an enemy using Paper Mario's Comet Boots instead of eating a nut (the card doesn't work if everyone's at 1 HP), and timed everything.
In this video I only fail the minigame 4 times. That's because I attempted it once before on this file and then saved. In an actual speedrun you would have to die 5 times.
Thanks to a new skip (youtube.com/watch?v=vYw-B1Ls-sA) this may no longer be useful, but we still need to test stuff.
With perfect luck (a 1 in 6250 chance) this strat takes 2:50. With the worst luck possible (a 1 in 10000 chance) this strat takes 9:10. Dying to the paper bob-ombs without using cards takes 11:25. So for now, this strat is the fastest way to do this, but if there was a way to actually beat the minigame, without buying any extra cards, then that would probably be fastest since we'd need 1050 less coins. With amiibo this strat could be done without buying any extra cards, so it is likely the fastest strat for an amiibo run.
Nman36 (youtube.com/channel/UCxnlVfUuVonMw0UDXfifNzA) figured out you could use the deal damage to get star points card or an amiibo card to die quickly, but he didn't realise that your cards don't reset to how they were before a mission when you fail it.
I figured out we could reconfigure the battle card deck to save time, jump on an enemy using Paper Mario's Comet Boots instead of eating a nut (the card doesn't work if everyone's at 1 HP), and timed everything.
In this video I only fail the minigame 4 times. That's because I attempted it once before on this file and then saved. In an actual speedrun you would have to die 5 times.
