Swampire

Swampire
Sprite from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
Variant of	Swooper

Swampires are a powerful variant of the Swooper and the strongest of its relatives found in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Its name is a portmanteau of the words "Swooper" and "vampire", referring to its batlike nature and health-sucking ability. Swampires have notably high HP, tied with several enemies for the second highest HP of any non-boss enemy after the Dark Koopatrol. Like other HP-sucking enemies, such as Fuzzies, they replenish lost health equal to the amount of damage dealt to their attack's target. However, this ability is disabled by the Electrified status, incapable of damaging the affected target regardless of the Swampire's attack power.

Swampires cannot be battled during the main story of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. They are only encountered after floor 90 in the Pit of 100 Trials.

Profiles and statistics

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

GameCube

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Swampire
	Max HP	20	Attack	6	Defense	0
	Location(s)	Pit of 100 Trials (Levels 91, 92, 94-96, 98, 99)	Role	Common	Level	35
	Sleep?	50%	Dizzy?	90%	Confuse?	50%
	Tiny?	75%	Stop?	55%	Soft?	80%
	Burn?	100%	Freeze?	50%	Fright?	50%
	Gale Force?	75%	KO?	20%	Moves	HP Drain (6, Piercing)
	Exp. points	2	Coins	2 - 4	Items	Ice Storm, Ruin Powder, Super Shroom, Boo's Sheet
Tattle Log #: 66	Log	A feared health-sucking bat that lives in the darkness. It steals your HP to add to its own.
	Tattle	That's a Swampire. It's a feared health-sucker that hides in the darkness. Max HP is 20, Attack is 6, and Defense is 0. It sucks health from its prey to add to its own HP. And that...totally grosses me out like you wouldn't believe. If you let it feast on you, its HP will get really high. Focus your attacks on it!

Nintendo Switch

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Swampire
	Max HP	20	Attack	6	Defense	0
	Location(s)	Pit of 100 Trials (Levels 91, 92, 94-96, 98, 99)	Role	Common	Level	35
	Sleep?	50%	Dizzy?	90%	Confuse?	50%
	Tiny?	75%	Stop?	55%	Soft?	80%
	Burn?	100%	Freeze?	50%	Fright?	50%
	Gale Force?	75%	KO?	20%	Moves	HP Drain (6, Piercing)
	Exp. points	2	Coins	2 - 4	Items	Ice Storm, Ruin Powder, Super Mushroom, Boo's Sheet
Tattle Log #: 69	Log	A feared health-sucking bat that lives in the darkness. It steals your HP to add to its own.
	Tattle	That's a Swampire. It's a feared health-sucker that hides in the darkness. Max HP is 20, Attack is 6, and Defense is 0. It sucks health from its prey to add to its own HP. And that...totally grosses me out like you wouldn't believe. If you let it feast on you, its HP will get really high. Focus your attacks on it!

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ヴァンパイヤーン Vanpaiyān	Derivation of "vampire"
Chinese	吸血蝠 Xīxuè Fú	Vampire Bat
French	Vampirion	From "vampire" and possibly "Centurion"
German	Swooperatu	From "Swooper" and "Nosferatu"
Italian	Swoopipistrello	From "Swooper" and pipistrello ("bat")
Korean	뱀파이앙 Baempaiang	Transliteration of the Japanese name
Spanish	Vampirito	From vampiro ("vampire") with the diminutive suffix -ito

Trivia

• Swampires' green coloration resembles the debut appearance of Swoopers in Super Mario World.