Piercing Blow

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Piercing Blow
Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door
D-Down Pound Badge.png Icon of an item from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
Badge Point BP 2 1
Flower Point FP 2 2
Attack Atk. Hammer2
Super Hammer4
Ultra Hammer6
Hammer2
Super Hammer4
Ultra Hammer6
Price Coin75 Coin75
Effect Lets Mario use Piercing Blow to hammer while ignoring defense.
Description(s)
Lets you do a D-Down Pound. Uses 2 FP. Disables an enemy's defense power and injures it. (Paper Mario)
Wear this to use Piercing Blow. 2 FP are required to use this attack, which deals damage that pierces enemy defenses. (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo GameCube)
Wear this to use Piercing Blow. 2 FP are required to use this attack, which deals damage that ignores an enemy's Defense. (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo Switch)

Piercing Blow, formerly known as D-Down Pound, is a badge in Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It is a counterpart to D-Down Jump. When equipped, the badge grants Mario a hammer move that costs 2 Flower Points and bypasses the enemy's defense.

In Paper Mario, wearing Piercing Blow uses 2 Badge Points; in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, it only uses 1.

Although multiple Piercing Blow badges can be obtained in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, equipping more than one has no effect.

Locations[edit]

In Paper Mario, D-Down Pound can be bought from Rowf's Badge Shop after Chapter 1 for 75 coins. It uses 2 BP.

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Piercing Blow can be bought from the Lovely Howz of Badges for 75 coins. There is a 1 in 150 chance for this badge to drop after winning a battle against Spiky Parabuzzies.

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Drop rates[edit]

Badge rates in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Sprite of the Piercing Blow badge in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
Piercing Blow
Roll over Rate types for descriptions, and dotted-lined rates to show percentages out of 100.
Enemy Hold rate Drop rate
Spiky Parabuzzy 0/200 1/150

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ツラヌキナグーリ[?]
Tsuranuki Nagūri
From「貫き」(tsuranuki, "piercing") and stylistic variant of「殴り」(naguri, "strike")
つらぬきハンマー[?]
Tsuranuki Hanmā
Piercing Hammer Paper Mario move
Chinese (simplified) 穿刺重压勋章[?]
Chuāncì Zhòngyā Xūnzhāng
Piercing Smash Badge Paper Mario
贯穿敲击徽章[?]
Guànchuān Qiāojī Huīzhāng
Penetrating Knockout Badge The Thousand-Year Door remake
Chinese (traditional) 貫穿敲擊徽章[?]
Guànchuān Qiāojī Huīzhāng
Penetrating Knockout Badge
Dutch Verweerpletter[?] Defense Crusher
French Coup Min Déf[?] Hit Min Def
German Anti-V-Hieb[?] Anti-D-Strike
Italian Perforadifesa[?] Defense-piercer
Korean 관통스매시[?]
Gwantong Seumaesi
Penetrating Smash
Spanish Golpe Bajar[?] Lowering Hit
Golpe bajar (The Thousand-Year Door remake)[?] Lowering hit