Editing Trio Shuriken

{{M&L attack infobox
|image=[[File:MLPJ Attack Icon Trio Shuriken.png]]
|points=13
|location=[[Peach's Castle]]
|first_appearance=''[[Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam]]'' ([[List of games by date#2015|2015]])
|ml5=Aim the cursor at the falling enemies with the Circle Pad. The cursor will lock on to an enemy. At that point you can release the Circle Pad. Depending on who is holding the shuriken, throw it with either A or B. As the shuriken nears an enemy, press Y to deal a lot of damage. The character holding the shuriken will switch each turn. Keep throwing the shuriken to attack by pressing A Y B Y A Y B Y. Throw a giant shuriken at the end with A, and don't forget to press Y. Aim for when the enemies overlap to deal a lot of damage at once.
}}
'''Trio Shuriken''' is the fourth [[Trio Attack]] for [[Paper Mario (Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam)|Paper Mario]] in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam]]''. It is received upon returning to [[Peach's Castle]] after defeating [[Bowser Jr.]] and [[Paper Bowser Jr.]] It uses 13 [[Bros. Point|BP]].

When the attack is initiated, Mario and [[Luigi]] appear in a Japanese style dojo with a line of Paper Mario copies to the left and right of them (the amount depends on how many active copies Paper Mario had before the attack started). Their enemies will now then start falling down the screen, with the Mario Bros using a crosshair to aim and fire shurikens at them (with {{button|3ds|A}} for Mario and {{button|3ds|B}} for Luigi). The player can also press {{button|3ds|Y}} as the shuriken approaches the enemy to make Paper Mario attack it with more power.

If the Mario Bros. hit six enemies with shurikens, the Paper Mario copies will form into a giant shuriken that Luigi grabs hold of. At this point, any remaining enemies will start falling down the screen en masse, and the final shuriken can be thrown at them to take them out. Hitting at least one enemy with this shuriken will give the player an excellent rating and blast down the back wall of the dojo, revealing a night scene with a large full moon and hills. Mario or Luigi can only lock onto one enemy (or segment of an enemy) with the large shuriken, and cannot choose a different enemy after locking on, so they must wait until as many falling pieces of paper are within the shuriken's range before firing. There is always a pivotal moment where all pieces of paper merge together, meaning it is not too challenging to hit all enemies at once.

Striking one, three and five enemies in the initial stage of the attack will yield an "OK", "Good" and "Great" rating respectively. The amount of times {{button|3ds|Y}} is pressed does not affect the "Excellent" rating, despite it causing a considerable difference in damage caused.

The [[Attackathon]] replaces the falling enemies with cards. Mario and Luigi have to fire their shurikens at the cards bearing power-ups and let the cards bearing an image of [[Bowser]] fall to the floor. Letting a card fall to the floor will result in damage, as does striking a card with an image of Bowser, and the run ends after taking three damage. Striking a card with a [[POW Block]] picture will clear out all the cards; striking cards with an image of Bowser this way will not damage the player. Striking a card with a clock symbol causes the cards to freeze in place for some time. Later rounds introduce cards that can be hit by only one Bro.'s shurikens, as well as cards that flip over, forcing the player to memorize them.

Each round finishes with large targets bearing the images of several enemy characters (i.e. [[Pokey]], [[King Boo]], [[Bowser Jr.]]) that move around, at which point the Paper Mario clones fuse into a giant shuriken that is used to hit those targets.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Mario and Luigi Paper Jam Trio Attack.png|Official artwork of the Trio Shuriken
MLPJTrioShuriken.png|The trio preforming the move
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|SpaA=Estrella Trío
|SpaAM=Trio Star (in Spanish Shuriken is also Estrella Ninja (Ninja Star))
|Ger=Trio-Shuriken
|GerM=Trio Shuriken
|FreE=Shuriken trio
|FreEM=Trio Shuriken
|Ita=Shuriken trio
|ItaM=Trio shuriken
|Rus=Триониндзя
|RusR=Trionindzya
|RusM=Trio Ninja
|Jpn=トリオシュリケン
|JpnR=Torio Shuriken
|JpnM=Trio Shuriken
}}

==Trivia==
*If the final shuriken goes in a straight line after hitting an enemy (i.e. not above the screen), then it will also tear through the moon and hills in the backdrop.
*Not unlike [[Cannonball Chuck]], if the player gets an Excellent rating, Luigi will fly off the screen, along with the shuriken.
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