Petey Piranha

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## **Boss Info**

Petey Piranha is a gigantic mutated Piranha Plant and is rumored to be the ruler of his kind. With a ring of petals around his head and a polka-dot speedo Petey Piranha is capable of spitting out goop as well as Piranha Plant Seeds. He may look like a bit of a goober, but he’s surprisingly strong and can match the strength of foes like Bowser and Donkey Kong. When the Shroobs invaded the Mushroom Kingdom they made use of a young Petey Piranha to swallow Princess Peach making their invasion easier.

## **Boss Fight Details**

Petey Piranha towers above the stage as he faces forward. He starts out in the center of the stage and takes up a considerable chunk of space just as he did in Brawl. Petey’s only form of movement is to leap high into the air and land in another spot. Petey will only be able to occupy either the dead center of the stage, the far left, or the far right. To clarify when he’s on either the far left or right he’s not teetering on the edge, but the width of his body, leaves and all, reaches just to the edge with only a small amount of space in between. Petey Piranha only has a hitbox around his head so attack his leafy hands or his body will do no damage. Only attacks that hit the head will harm Petey.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl Petey Piranha would attack by swinging two large cages that contained Princess Peach and Princess Zelda. For Smashtopia Petey has been reworked to no longer have these cages and uses a greater range of attacks.

## **Attacks**

### **Rapid Goop Spit**

Petey Piranha will reel his head back before spitting a rapid-fire volley of goop in an almost machine gun-like fashion towards the player. Once he begins spitting Petey remains locked in place. This can make the attack easy to avoid if the player is able to bait Petey into attacking one spot then dodging somewhere safe. Each hit of the goop does a small amount of damage, but it’s pretty easy to get chained by multiple hits.

### **Goop Bomb**

Petey Piranha will spit out a large ball of goop up above the stage where it will either fall down in one of the same three positions on the stage where Petey Piranha himself can jump. This Goop Bomb cannot land on the same spot that Petey currently occupies. This attack deals very damage and deals high knockback with the amount of each increasing based on how dead center the hit was.

### **Goop Piranhas**

With a roar Petey Piranha will summon up a bunch of goop on the stage around his feet which extends about a quarter of the stage beyond on each side of him. The goop itself isn’t damaging, however standing in it will reduce the movement speed and jump height of the player. Additionally, small goopy piranha plants will appear out of the goop quickly to do a quick attack that deals minimal damage to the player. Several goopy piranha plants can appear from various points in the goop and they both appear and disappear with great speed.

### **Petey Jump**

Throughout the battle Petey Piranha will leap high into the air and land on either the left, middle, or right side of the stage. Doing this is both an evasive maneuver as well as an attack for Petey Piranha as if the player is below Petey when he lands they will not only be damaged, but be sent flying away. When Petey Piranha has lost half of his health he will use this attack with greater frequency.

### **Leaf Slap**

For this attack Petey will lean back just a bit before swinging one of his leafy appendages through the air as he attempts to slap the player away. Like many of Petey’s other attacks this one doesn’t deal a whole lot of damage itself, but is more an attempt by Petey to know you away from him.

### **Leaf Tornado**

This attack is first signaled by Petey sticking out his tongue before he begins spinning around rapidly in place and swinging his leafy arms about. The hits from his leaves don’t deal a lot of damage, but a player who gets hit will be pulled into the rest of the attack where they will rack up additional damage before the final swing knocks them away.

### **Leaf Sweep**

This attack sees Petey have a bit of startup wind-up as he swings back with one of his leaves before swinging it with great speed across the stage. This attack isn’t as damaging as others, but it can send players away pretty easily. Petey can use this attack to either attack towards the left or towards the right and it is meant to be similar to how he would attack with the cages in Brawl.

## **Soundtrack**

* **Paper Mario: Sticker Star**
	+ Petey Piranha