Power Smash

Power Smash
BP needed	1
Sell price	50 coins
First appearance	Paper Mario (2000)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
Paper Mario description	Lets you do a Power Smash. Uses 2 FP. Hammers an enemy using lots of attack power.
The Thousand-Year Door description	Wear this to use Power Smash. 2 FP are required to use this attack, which lets you whack an enemy with huge power. Wearing two or more of these badges requires more FP for the move, but increases the Attack power. (GameCube) Wear this to use Power Smash. 2 FP are required to use this attack, which lets you powerfully smash a foe for increased damage. Wearing two or more of these badges requires more FP for the move, but increases the Attack power. (Switch)

Power Smash is a badge in Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. In Paper Mario, it is in the Toad Town Tunnels, behind some destroyable blocks, and is only accessible after Mario obtains the Super Hammer. In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, it is given by Professor Frankly, serving as a tutorial on how to equip and use badges. Additional Power Smash badges can be bought at the Pianta Parlor for thirty-four pianta tokens with the Silver Card, and can be rarely dropped after battle by Buzzy Beetles, Spike Tops, Spinias, Spanias, and Spunias. If Mario equips the badge, he is able to use Power Smash, a hammer attack that requires two FP to use. If the Action Command is timed correctly, Mario deals a single hammer attack that deals two more points of damage than a regular timed hit with a hammer. Unlike other hammer moves (excluding Piercing Blow), the move has multiple Stylish moves that make Mario perform multiple backflips in succession, if timed correctly. Equipping multiple copies of the badge will double the amount of FP previously required to use it, but also increases the move's damage by one for each equipped badge.

Drop Rates

Badge rates in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Power Smash
Roll over Rate types for descriptions, and dotted-lined rates to show percentages out of 100.
Enemy	Hold rate	Drop rate
Buzzy Beetle	0/200	2/300
Spania	0/200	1/300
Spike Top	0/200	2/300
Spinia	0/200	1/300
Spunia	0/200	2/300

Merluvlee's prediction in Paper Mario

• "I see...a Power Smash Badge. You enter the Private pipe in Toad Town and head left, smashing blocks as you go. You enter a pipe and continue left once you emerge. After breaking a block to make a jump pad fall, you leap up to the Badge's resting place."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ガツーンナグーリ[?] Gatsūn Nagūri	Stylization of「ガツン」(gatsun, Japanese term for "forcibly") and「殴り」(naguri, "striking")
	ガツーンハンマー (Paper Mario move)[?] Gatsūn Hanmā	Stylization of「ガツン」(gatsun, Japanese term for "forcibly") and "Hammer"
Chinese	重击勋章[?] Zhòngjī Xūnzhāng	Heavy Strike Badge
Dutch	Krachtklap	Strength clap
French	Coup Fort[?]	Powerful Blow
German	Power-Hauer[?]	Power Hitter
Italian	Mazzapicchio[?]	Club-hit
Korean	파워스매시[?] Pawo Seumaesi	Power Smash
Spanish	Golpe Potente Golpe potente (The Thousand-Year Door remake)[?]	Powerful Strike Powerful strike