Hammer Throw (badge)

Hammer Throw
BP needed	2/1
Sell price	37 coins
First appearance	Paper Mario (2000)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
Paper Mario description	Lets you do a Hammer Throw. Uses 2 FP. Hits one enemy with the Hammer, no matter where the enemy is.
The Thousand-Year Door description	Wear this to use Hammer Throw. 2 FP are required to use this attack, which lets you throw a hammer at one enemy, no matter where the foe is. Wearing two or more of these badges requires more FP for the move, but increases the Attack power. (GameCube) Wear this to use Hammer Throw. 2 FP are required to use this attack, which lets you throw a hammer toward one enemy at any distance and damage them regardless of their Defense. Wearing two or more of these badges increases the Attack power, but the move will require more FP. (Switch)

Hammer Throw is a badge in Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. In Paper Mario, it is on a roof in Goomba Road, accessible if Mario knocks a spring out of a tree with his hammer. In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, it is found inside a ? Block halfway through Twilight Trail, can be bought at the Pianta Parlor for fifty pianta tokens with the Gold Card, and can be rarely dropped after a battle by Hammer Bros., Swoopers, Swoopulas, and Swampires. If Mario equips the badge, he gains access to the Hammer Throw move, a hammer attack that requires two FP to use. On use, Mario throws a hammer at the targeted opponent, dealing the same damage as a regular hammer attack. The exception to this is green Monty Moles, who take an extra 3 damage from a Hammer Throw attack. In the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Hammer Throw now pierces defence and instead does 2 damage regardless of which hammer Mario is using, however the damage can be increased with badges. Unlike the regular Hammer attack, Hammer Throw is able to target any enemy on the stage regardless of their location and without going close to them, while most other hammer attacks can only attack the frontmost enemy on the ground while standing right next to them. Equipping multiple copies of the badge increases the cost of using it for every equipped badge, but also increases the strength of the move.

Drop Rates

Badge rates in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Hammer Throw
Roll over Rate types for descriptions, and dotted-lined rates to show percentages out of 100.
Enemy	Hold rate	Drop rate
Boomerang Bro (Glitz Pit, Hamma, Bamma, and Flare)	0/200	2/300
Fire Bro (Glitz Pit, Hamma, Bamma, and Flare)	0/200	2/300
Hammer Bro	0/200	2/300
Hammer Bro (Glitz Pit, Hamma, Bamma, and Flare)	0/200	2/300
Red Magikoopa (Glitz Pit, Magikoopa Masters)	0/200	2/300
Swampire	0/200	2/300
Swooper	0/200	1/300
Swooper (Glitz Pit, Wings of Night)	0/200	1/300
Swoopula	0/200	2/300

Merluvlee's prediction in Paper Mario

• "I see...a Hammer Throw Badge. It lies in a treasure chest atop the gate you pass under when entering Toad Town from Goomba Village. You notice a jump pad hidden in the tree near the gate. You knock it down and leap on it."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ハンマーナゲール[?] Hanmā Nagēru	Hammer Throw;「ナゲール」is a stylistic version of「投げる」(nageru, "to throw")
	ハンマーなげ (Paper Mario move)[?] Hanmā Nage	Hammer Throw
Chinese	飞锤勋章[?] Fēichuí Xūnzhāng	Flying Hammer Badge
Dutch	Hamerworp[?]	Hammer Throw
French	Lance Marto[?]	Hammer Throw
German	Hammerwurf[?]	Hammer Throw
Italian	Lanciamazza[?]	Hammer Throw
Spanish	Lanzamiento Martillo Lanzamiento martillo (The Thousand-Year Door remake)[?]	Hammer Throw Hammer throw