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User:DatOneWeeb/Piranha Plant (Main)

From The Codex
That's a Piranha Plant. In fact, I think this is the strongest type of them all. Max HP is 15, Attack is 9 and Defense is 0. Its Attack power is absurdly high... It may look like a normal Piranha Plant, but don't be fooled! It's super-tough! If we get beaten by a flower, we'll never hear the end of it, know what I mean?
~ Goombella

Background

Piranha Plants (also known as Piranha Flowers and Piranhas and misspelled as pirana plants in early manuals) are large, carnivorous plants encountered throughout the Mario franchise. They are seemingly based on Venus flytraps and eat anything that approaches them.

The head of a Piranha Plant is most commonly either red or green with multiple other colors. Originally, Piranha Plants were found exclusively in pipes, darting out and biting anything near. Currently, Piranha Plants can be found both in and out of pipes, and may constantly bite or wait for Mario to approach to do so.

Despite being plants, Piranha Plants have been depicted as being sentient and capable of speech in a few appearances, though unlike several other enemies in the Mario series, they have never been shown forming societies. Piranha Plant characters such as Petey Piranha, Piranha Bean and Dino Piranha, among others, reveal that some Piranha Plants can have animal-like bodies, making them capable of walking. Mom Piranha, Dino Piranha, and Peewee Piranha are all depicted hatching from eggs, suggesting that Piranha Plants may be oviparious. However, relatives of Piranha Plants, Nipper Plants, are implied to have a different reproduction method as they are shown to evolve from spores in the Yoshi's Island games.

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Powers and Stats

Tier: 7-C

Name: Piranha Plant

Origin: Super Mario Bros.

Gender: None

Age: Unknown

Classification: Plant

Attack Potency: Town level (Stronger than a Bob-omb, who can exert this much force with an explosion)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Travel Speed: Supersonic

Combat Speed: Supersonic (Scales to Bullet Bills, who can move at a similar speeds to a cannon ball)

Reaction Speed: Supersonic

Lifting Strength: Class 10 (Much like Spike, can spew out a big iron ball)

Striking Strength: Town Class (In Color Splash and Minions Quest, Piranha Plants can harm each other)

Durability: Town Class (Has enough HP to survive a Bob-omb explosion. More durable than a Goomba, who can survive both the Koopa Cruiser and Bowser's castle blowing up)

Stamina: Very High (Can fight for hours in Minion's Quest and Junior's Journey)

Range: Standard Melee Range, Tens of Meters with projectiles

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Fire Manipulation (Spews fire balls), Fragrance Manipulation (Can spit a fragrance that makes you dizzy), Creation & Plant Manipulation (Can spit out Fly Guys and Nipper Spores), Water Manipulation (Can turn water orbs into health orbs in Puzzles and Dragons), Status Effect Inducement (Induces sleep, scarecrow, or dizzy), Transmutation (Can turns others into a scarecrow), Sleep Manipulation (Can put others to sleep), Healing (Passively heals themselves), Resistance to Mind Manipulation (Resists the gas from Fawful that mind controlled other enemies)

Standard Equipment: None

Intelligence: Genius (Can cure deadly viruses that have killed and invaded people from space in Dr. Mario World)

Standard Tactics: A Piranha Plant will generally spit out fire or chomp as its first tactic.

Weaknesses: None

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

  • Fire: They can spit either one ball or a barrage of fire balls.
  • Ptooie: Piranha Plants can spit out metal balls.
  • S'crow Dust: Piranha Plant an turn their enemies into a scarecrow.
  • Pollen Nap: Sends out pollen to put enemies to sleep.

Battle Records

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