What does the Pow Block do to every Paper Mario: The Origami King Boss?

[@ZXMany]

Please consider clicking subscribe if you enjoyed this video! A big thank you to a KZbin viewer (Sans the Skeleton) for sharing the original POW block video with me, which gave me the idea for this video! My playlist of more Paper Mario: The Origami King memes/ analysis: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmnXqp99a6qZf6c

[@benjicrugaming527]

So close to 1000 subs!!!

[@ZXMany]

@@benjicrugaming527 Yeah, we're so close, I'm really happy about that! I've had the goal of getting to 1000 before the end of the summer (September 22) for a while, and we're so close!

[@benjicrugaming527]

@@ZXMany I really wish you get the 1000 subs before September 20! Are you exited for the 3D all stars?

[@ZXMany]

@@benjicrugaming527 Thanks so much! Yeah, it sounds really cool, I loved Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine growing up, and I'm looking forward to trying Mario Galaxy :)

[@ZXMany]

@@benjicrugaming527 Are you excited for it?

[@rayan40397]

Very interesting idea. I forgot that the POW block even existed in this game.

[@ZXMany]

Thanks a lot! Yeah, I didn't use very many items in my first playthrough of the game, so I've been experimenting with some items to see if there's anything interested with them :)

[@MadWeegee]

Yeah, me too, I don't think I ever used one in my playthrough

[@goodgorillaplaysvr6098]

Ne sides the blue crab

[@brawlernado3223]

I only use fire flower and ice flower

[@kevleebob]

I didint even know it exists in this game.

[@BronzeSpaceComet]

The POW block is a really weird item. There are very few situations in the game where it's actually practical to use it due to how battles work in Origami King; plus it's basically useless entirely in boss battles, which is counterintuitive since that's when you'd normally think you'd want to take advantage of those attack items. Really interesting to see this new perspective. Keep up the good work!

[@ZXMany]

Thanks for checking out the video, and thanks for your thoughts! The only place I've used POW Blocks where it was kind of useful was when facing sidesteppers because it flips them upside-down

[@BronzeSpaceComet]

@@ZXMany Oh good point. I suppose the puzzle in the Water Vellumental Shrine where you have to hit the POW block in the overworld to get back the piece serves as a hint towards that.

[@ZXMany]

@@BronzeSpaceComet Yeah, that's a good point!

[@robertsifuentesiv3721]

The pow block is useful for if I accidentally messed up the rings is in my first attack and use the pow block so that it makes the enemies off-balance so I don't get any damage

[@sebastiansanchez1012]

The POW block was obviously just for normal enemies if you mess up lining them up the developers thought that why would you use the pow block on bosses when you can jump

[@ZXMany]

That's a good point! The POW block can be useful on side steppers or a messed up a lineup, but outside of that, it's not a very useful item. And it's also very funny that you can carry a very limited amount of them in the game

[@JMFSpike]

You must not have played very many Rpgs, or perhaps you're just not a very curious person. You try all kinds of stuff because you just never know what you might discover by doing so. Rpgs are usually chock full of secrets.

[@localshape]

Toads: I can feel the POWer! Most Bosses: Well I can't.

[@Lennertje]

I definitely think the pow block is very interesting and I don’t think the developers expected people to use the pow block in boss fights.

[@ZXMany]

It's pretty funny how little damage the POW block does in fights, it does 0-1 damage on many of the bosses. It's a good way to find out exactly how much HP a boss has though :)

[@varietychan]

The reason why the Sumo Bros no longer softlocked is because patch 1.0.1 released earlier which fixed this bug

[@ZXMany]

I was thinking it might be patched because I heard some people say this glitch was discovered after that patch! So I'm not sure if it is patched already or if I'm just doing something incorrectly when replicating it, it could be patched already!

[@GoldenYoshi1]

Interesting. I think I only used a POW Block once just to see what it did in my playthrough XD

[@ZXMany]

Yeah, exactly, I didn't use too many items either! It's kind of useful on sidesteppers

[@Zero_de_Nova]

Its funny, the POW Block was in Sticker Star the best Item becouse it coude give the enemy a state ẃho makes all damage x2!

[@ZXMany]

That is really funny! The POW block is pretty underwhelming on bosses in The Origami King, and it could be useful on sidesteppers, but I haven't really used it outside of that

[@shasagss]

3:26 the toad in the backround lol

[@skimbeeble8115]

I always had a pow block on me but it just sat in my inventory. I saw it like a back up option if fleeing did not work

[@ZXMany]

I did the exact same thing! And I do the same thing in many games! If I get an item, I think, "Let's save this until we REALLY need it, because I don't want to have to use it if I don't have to." Then I end up beating the game without using it

[@skimbeeble8115]

They are dirt cheap really but I'm stingy with my money

[@ZXMany]

@@skimbeeble8115 Yeah, that's relatable!

[@CrypticWaves]

Nintendo fixed the sumo bros glitch in the 1.01 update or something like that

[@ZXMany]

It might be, yeah! I wasn't able to replicate it, and I don't know if that's because it has been patched since it was originally found a few weeks ago, or if I just couldn't replicate it correctly :) I think this glitch was discovered after that first patch, so I'm not sure if it's been fixed yet

[@CrypticWaves]

ZXMany yea I went through the updates and most glitches got patched maybe even all the known ones

[@ZXMany]

@@CrypticWaves Do you know if the station clip got patched?

[@CrypticWaves]

ZXMany after checking the patch notes it doesn’t seem like it but I’m not sure

[@ZXMany]

@@CrypticWaves Yeah, I guess we'll find out with time, or with more experimentation :)

[@FoldTrace]

They just need to tilt the wiimote for no damage

[@ZXMany]

Wait, I'm not sure I understand the reference, can you explain this to me?

[@FoldTrace]

@@ZXMany in mario kart wii theres the pow block and if you tilt the wiimote you avoid it :)

[@toadsty1900]

That’s what most bosses are doing

[@ZXMany]

@@FoldTrace Ahh, I see!

[@CorporateSalmon]

This is such a great video. I’d subscribe again if I could, definitely matches the quality of the Lowest Turn bosses video

[@ZXMany]

Really glad you enjoyed it, and thanks so much for the comment! More to come :)

[@reedrobinson9881]

You can unsubscribe then subscribe again

[@fawfulthegreat64]

What about Olly's Earth Vellumental form? Since you couldn't test the POW block on the original version of the boss.

[@ZXMany]

Great question! This was a while ago, but I think the POW block had the same effect as on King Olly's other forms. I actually found a way to edit the game's save data to let me test out a POW block on the first two bosses! On the Earth Vellumental, it does basically nothing (I think it does 1 damage), and I haven't tried it on Colored Pencils yet

[@joelparker5388]

Great video mate. You must have to play loads to test all these scenarios out!

[@ZXMany]

Thanks so much, really glad you enjoyed it! And yeah, some of these scenarios took a lot of testing to get right!

[@MadWeegee]

So scissors has 336 hp? You learn something new every day

[@ZXMany]

Yeah! I thought that was a strange amount of HP to give scissors, why not 335 or 340 😂

[@user-zq5jl8hi8y]

I heard the sumo bro softlock with the pow block happens if you do the station clip instead of going the normal way in Autumn mountain

[@ZXMany]

Oh really? That's a very strange condition to make the glitch work like that, I wonder why that would happen only if you station clip

[@fawfulthegreat64]

@@ZXMany that sounds bogus tbh, the glitch being patched is more believable

[@ZXMany]

@@fawfulthegreat64 Yeah, I agree with your skepticism. The game does keep track of certain story triggers and if you've progressed past them, but I can't imagine how something much earlier in the game would affect a softlock on a much later boss from a POW block

[@MarioBrother642]

That POW Block has so much POWer it breaks the game.

[@augustbornone]

Good video, tho I was hoping for an attentive methored for beating that freking Rubber Band boss WITHOUT using the 1000 Fold Arm Ability I fount that beyond tedious.

[@ZXMany]

Thanks so much! I've done some experimenting on the Rubber Band boss, and it looks like you need 1FA both to finish off phase 1 and phase 2, nothing else can end the phase from what I've tried :(

[@augustbornone]

@@ZXMany Well ok, what I hate about is the fact that this rubber prick can uttery cheap shot you while your trying to grab her, and from what I heard, you HAVE to tank a hit or else it won't count, which I found to be one of the DUMBIST design choose I seen in a Paper Mario game.

[@ZXMany]

@@augustbornone It's really tough, yeah, you can get hit while trying to do the final attack! It's possible to get the grab without getting hit, I'm pretty sure I manage to do that in this video

[@augustbornone]

@@ZXMany It is? That's cool.

[@fishyaustin3350]

The pow block barley any damage :(

[@ZXMany]

Yeah, it certainly made testing if we could defeat some of the bosses with the POW Block extremely difficult haha

[@magolorthegreat809]

The glitch with Sumo Bros has probably been patched which is why the game didn't crash for you

[@ShyGuy.]

0:17 Toad: Use a POW block! C'mon

[@TboiEnjoyer8]

The fire dragon is the most EZ boss ever like he isn’t like the rubber band when he uses his weakness to attack HE DOESNT HEAL IT BACK unless you use 1,000 fold arms and fail. So he is pretty much an easy boss for any Vellumental

[@ZXMany]

Yeah, exactly!

[@dracos0024]

Pretty sure he's a bird, not a dragon.

[@dracos0024]

@@TboiEnjoyer8 It's a phoenix. It's a fairy tale bird. It's wings can be any size Nintendo wants. Plus, if it's a dragon, why does it have a beak?

[@dracos0024]

@@TboiEnjoyer8 I'm not? I'm just pointing out it's not a dragon. Not everyone who disagrees with you is "starting a fight", pal.

[@LoonyBoony]

6:52 I have literally never seen this attack

[@ZXMany]

Thanks so much for the comment! The stapler only does that attack if you end your turn in one of the two outermost rings! The stapler will do a different attack if you end your turn in one of the two innermost rings :) Have a great day!

[@LoonyBoony]

@@ZXMany oh wow, thanks!

[@terracoco9629]

No one is talking about how scissors poofed out of existence when you finished it with POW block

[@robbie5899]

4:12 That's because it only crashed in very early versions of the game.

[@The_Gh0st_ls]

I believe if you try to use a pow block on the earth vellumental it won’t work but I think if you use it in the colored pencils boss I think it can do at least 1 or 2 damage on the boss but you can only test this if you hack your items

[@ZXMany]

That's right, we can only get the pow block that early by hacking our items! I did test it out a little while ago, and it ended up doing either no damage or a small amount of damage, but it wasn't anything special 🤷 It's interesting to note that there's a default battle with Toads in the game where you can fight 4 toads (that are called goombas when you hover over them), and POW blocks don't reach them! We cover that in my Unreachable Piranha Plant video if anyone's interested!

[@ZXMany]

Here's the link for anyone who is interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nX3Eq6Gkfc6tptU

[@The_Gh0st_ls]

But what if their was a way to use pow blocks in the paper macho fights like the pokey and gooper blooper where it appears in When you press Y and it could hit it and break it

[@ZXMany]

@@The_Gh0st_ls That's a really interesting idea! Using items on enemies in the overworld makes me think of Super Paper Mario

[@The_Gh0st_ls]

Exactly

[@OrangeStaringCat]

Very interesting, for the Boss Sumo Bro, I think that glitch is fixed

[@ZXMany]

Yeah, it might be! The original video was 3 weeks old, so I don't know if it's been fixed, or if I'm not replicating it correctly. I'll have to do some more testing :)

[@ZXMany]

Also, I didn't get notifications for some of your replies on the Li'l Oinks video, and I just saw the replies now, so I replied to them! Sorry about that!

[@OrangeStaringCat]

ZXMany yeah would be cool!

[@OrangeStaringCat]

ZXMany oh doesn’t matter, thanks!

[@otakumarcus]

4:49 very true as someone who experienced that myself. I legit thought that you had to use POW blocks to defeat this asshole.

[@ZXMany]

That's really interesting!

[@ThePikachuGaming3978]

The normal attacks for king olly when he is in the earth vellumemtal form because if you use your hammer on a limb it will do 1 damage

[@borb43]

I was expecting that you’d hack in the pow block for the first two bosses

[@denischen8196]

Can you use hacks and mods to put panels and magic circles into boss battles that are normally impossible to access?

[@iAmPurpleBeepBoop]

I heard that the hole punch boss is pretty hard. I saw that on your videos about finishing the game with 1 hp and 10hp

[@robloxguy7821]

this happens to me when i used the pow block on the boss sumo bro

[@ZXMany]

It crashes or doesn't crash for you?

[@robloxguy7821]

@@ZXMany crashes

[@ZXMany]

@@robloxguy7821 Oh wow that's interesting! Did you have both of the little Sumo bros alive or just one of them?

[@robloxguy7821]

@@ZXMany One of them

[@ZXMany]

@@robloxguy7821 Ah, maybe that's what makes the game crash, if only one is left alive! Because I have both alive, but in the video, there was just one little sumo bro alive :)

[@jamescoleman132]

Wait wait wait but can you survive the hole puncher Mecca move 990 HP with that invisible HP up

[@ZXMany]

From the scissors boss, yeah :)

[@ajrissmiller8375]

WAIT WAIT WAIT ZXmany you make video about every boss do by a pow block? But you forgot about the earth vellumental or jean-pierre colored pencils 5 legion of stationery know not rubber band not hole punch or not tape but scissors and stapler it really work 3 fire and ice vallumental never work but water one very good and can work let me guess um? i get 0 damaged two bosses you forgot or 1 damaged?

[@ZXMany]

That's a really great question! You normally can't get a POW block that early in the game, so you can't normally use a POW Block on the Earth Vellumental or the Colored Pencils boss! I did test it out later on when I learned more about game hacking/ save file editing, and it didn't do anything special, the POW Block just ended up working normally on them 😂

[@giabradley5146]

Maybe Nintendo patched the glitch

[@ZXMany]

Yeah, it could be that! I'm not sure if it's been patched or if I just couldn't replicate it properly

[@cagandemircioglu8216]

My favourite one is Hole Punc

[@ZXMany]

Yeah, that's a cool boss!

[@1179next]

8:39 BOWSERS ARMS!!!

[@bowser_the_flamingshell]

WISH YOU COULD SKIP RUBBER BAND

[@ZXMany]

I have a guide for that boss on my channel if you're looking for some help!

[@bowser_the_flamingshell]

@@ZXMany I'L TRY TO FIND IT

[@ZXMany]

@@bowser_the_flamingshell Got it right here :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqOpaaepi6yBntU Good luck!

[@zarahaight208]

Game didn't softlock? Well I found out that the glitch is actually patched!

[@MusSupremeJAR03]

So, sadly, is the worst item :

[@ZXMany]

Yeah, it's not very useful in a lot of places. It can flip the sidesteppers upside-down, and attack a lot of enemies at once, but that's about all it does

[@MusSupremeJAR03]

@@ZXMany Is sad, but is the reality :/

[@germanguy2]

4:14 MAYBE they fixed it

[@theglitchygamers5340]

I never use the POW block. It is too weak.

[@Mickeyink]

i think i got patched

[@ZXMany]

It might have! There was a big patch recently, but I think this glitch was discovered after that! So I'm not sure if this was also patched, or if I'm not able to replicate it correctly. I'm going to try defeating the Boss Sumo Bros with just one little sumo bro left and see if that crashes. I'll post an update on Twitter/ pin a comment on this video if it works :)

[@robertsifuentesiv3721]

I think i know why your not able to replicate you crashing again with the boss dump bro. the game had its first update and maybe it patched it out

[@ZXMany]

Yeah, that's possible! I didn't expect that because the original video was posted after the patch, so I was thinking I must have been replicating it incorrectly

[@robertsifuentesiv3721]

Or he could've made the video before the patch and he uploaded it after the patch

[@ZXMany]

@@robertsifuentesiv3721 Yeah, exactly my thoughts!

[@i_saidmeow2469]

You cant attack handaconda with fire flower

[@ZXMany]

Yeah, handaconda swats away the fire balls that come towards it

[@OzzyNe0n]

6:58 "BIG BUTT!"

[@TeamVoldemort]

Your my faverete!!!!!! The best in the world!!!!!!!!!!

[@redshadoworozco7910]

Hey you can land a exelent with a pow

[@ZXMany]

It's based on the timing when you press the A button. I'm not sure exactly when it is (is it when you jump or when you hit it or before you jump?) Sometimes I get it and sometimes I don't, I just try to press A and hope to land the action command haha

[@redshadoworozco7910]

@@ZXMany you have to touch the pow and press a to do it

[@redshadoworozco7910]

@@ZXMany also I keep on getting exilents on that thing

[@ZokLoc]

The disco devil is the best paper mario boss

[@ZXMany]

It's a cool boss! A fun one that can provide a nice challenge :)

[@nguyentram1483]

Who else thinks the rubber band boss looks cute

[@Snaps12345]

I wish the combat system wasnt that inconsitent

[@ZXMany]

Yeah, there's some interesting stuff that happens with how items affect bosses

[@Snaps12345]

@@ZXMany In the older games youd just use pow block and it would deal 2 dmg. No extra gimmick bs

[@ZXMany]

@@Snaps12345 Yeah, and it was cool how it would flip over shelled foes with defence and that would drop their defence :)

[@Snaps12345]

@@ZXMany Yeah because it was a consitent rule. I wish more of these rules would be established in this game. Why cant the game show me the actual stats of the bosses and enemys? Or why do attacks sometimes seem to have a different strength than usual. I was really wondering if all the numbers in this game arent just made up. There is no way the fire vellumental has an actual hp stat

[@ZXMany]

@@Snaps12345 Yeah, the Fire Vellumental's HP is based on how many feathers it has left. And oh boy, trying to figure out the exact HP of some bosses is so difficult haha. If only we could "Tattle" them

[@kevinsneaky0922]

Amazing

[@Jasmine-pc4qp]

is this just a coincidence or is this based on my comment? 🤔

[@ZXMany]

Yeah, thanks so much for sharing that POW Block video 3 days ago! That actually inspired me to dig deeper and explore this more, and I decided to make a video about this, so it's thanks to you that this video was made :) Thanks a lot!

[@amytanner1816]

169!

[@wilderduran5431]

Moltres is BAD? lol

[@daniellediaz4276]

Tape is very easy

[@thatoneplushguy]

POW

[@Jasongigili]

Nooooo

[@ProFireuhh]

69 HP lol

[@user-newcharacter]

와 진짜 고생하셨네 ㄷㄷ

[@user-newcharacter]

하트 감사합니다

[@ZXMany]

@@user-newcharacter You're welcome!

[@alcatrazjyh6293]

I'm the 666th like to this video! *THAT'S AN OMEN!!!*

[@ZXMany]

I appreciate you leaving a like and a comment, thanks so much! Have a great day :D

[@alcatrazjyh6293]

@@ZXMany No problem, bud! Happy to help!

[@ZXMany]

@@alcatrazjyh6293 Much appreciated 🙏

[@alcatrazjyh6293]

@@ZXMany 😁😁😁

[@Catt_Murdock]

Locos noobs

[@chanhongyu2072]

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