Editing Reclusa

===First Phase===

Reclusa is fought in four phases. During the first phase of the fight, he continuously flees the Bros. as they ride a plug hot on his heels. Mario and Luigi have to avoid Doom Bloom shots, which they can neutralise by blasting those shots with the opposite element (Mario uses fire while Luigi attacks with ice.). If the Bros. collide with a Doom Bloom, they have to fight it and a Glohm-infected enemy or one of Reclusa's minions. After defeating the enemies, the chase will resume at the point it stopped. If one of the Bros. is KO'd when the enemies are defeated, they will get up with 1 HP.  

Eventually, the Bros. will catch up to Reclusa, who will charge up with either a fire or ice attack; with the brother of the opposite element having to continuously attack him. If the Bros. succeed, Reclusa will be stunned and they can charge up a Bro Bomb to blast him and make him dizzy for one turn before he flees again, resuming the chase. If the Bros. fail to stun him, Reclusa will attack, either shortly freezing the Bros if ice or stunning the plug if fire. This likely will result in them running into a Doom Bloom. If the Bros. attempt to Bro Bomb Reclusa before stunning him, he will dodge it.

===Second Phase===

During the second phase of the fight, Mario and Luigi have to deal with four Doom Blooms, one of which captures [[Snoutlet]]. Weeping Reclusa has three attacks. In the first one, he will swing his arms low, followed by some flames creeping in from the same side as the swung arm. If a Bro. jumps onto the swinging arm, he will be carried high and then tossed at the other Bro. and must be caught to avoid damage. Weeping Reclusa's second attack involves a spiked green ball falling at the Bros., who must repel it with a hammer strike; doing so will cause the ball to fly at Weeping Reclusa, stunning him for a few turns. The last one involves Weeping Reclusa firing ice projectiles at the Bros., then he launches a giant fireball which must be countered by both Bros.; doing so will cause it to fly at Weeping Reclusa, also stunning him for a few turns. If he and Mario have freed Snoutlet, Luigi can use his [[Luigi Logic]] skill to have Snoutlet create another plug-like craft to fly into Weeping Reclusa's mouth. However, the Bros. have to avoid Weeping Reclusa's shots and wooden protrusions as they head towards the beast's maw as the fight will repeat from the beginning if the Bros. are hit. When they reach the end, Weeping Reclusa will launch dark energy, which the Bros. must repel with a Bro Bomb. If their Bro Bomb successfully repels the dark energy, the Bros. will enter Weeping Reclusa's maw.

===Third Phase===

The third phase involves him encasing himself within the spiked ball called Weeping Core. In this state, Reclusa can attack by rolling into the Bros., and must be repelled with hammer strikes. After enough repulsions, he must be repelled by both Bros. His second attack has him extend spikes and spin around, which can change direction and speed; these must be jumped over. He will also analyze moves used against him; two uses of the same move will cause the core to take significantly reduced damage from that attack permanently. After the Weeping Core breaks from enough damage, Reclusa emerges in his normal form from the wreckage to commence the fourth phase of the fight, turning the background red.

===Fourth Phase===

Reclusa has several attacks during this phase of the fight. In one, he splits into seven copies, three of which flash emblems of the Bros. Four random copies will fire bullets with only those that had the emblem firing directly at the corresponding Bros. who have to repel these bullets with hammer strikes; the finale involves all remaining copies (including those whose previous shots were not countered) simultaneously firing a stronger variant of the bullets all at once. Another one of his attacks (only done while not having any Bro. knocked out) has him disable one of the Bros (draining his color), so the other Bro. is forced to carry him. The still-active Bro. has to dodge Reclusa's hand blasts (which are launched in pairs) and claw swipes in this attack. The barrage is ended by a large fireball being thrown, and the colored Bro. has to use his hammer to repel it, otherwise the disabled Bro. will take massive damage in comparison to the colored. The grayed-out Bro. will regain his color after the large fireball attack or if the active Bro. gets knocked out midway.

 

Afterwards, Reclusa attempts to send Mario and Luigi to their doom by destroying the floor. In this final leg, both Bros. have to use their hammers to bash at Reclusa's head before they hit the ground since all three are descending rapidly; however, the Bros. must charge Bond power to add more strength. Ten charged hits to Reclusa's head will defeat him once and for all.