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Pianta 3

Pianta 3 requires well-timed damage boosting to make it through the fiery goop.

Right Side Damage Boost

Beginner
This is a very basic strat that loses roughly 6 seconds to the intermediate damage boost.

  • Perform jump dive rollouts following the pattern below until reaching the tree
  • Stand at the base of the tree and allow a wind spirit to hit you
  • Using the invincibility frames from the wind spirit, jump dive into the goop and rollout to the rail
  • This will cause Mario to ledgegrab the rail. Walk forward and jump dive and rollout through the safe spots in the goop
  • Spin jump, sideflip, and jump up the structure until reaching FLUDD
  • Jump onto the platform with the gold mushroom, the sideflip out from under it
  • Hover back to the edge of the gold mushroom, ledgegrab, then spam spray and talk to the mayor and collect the shine

Normal Boost, No GWKD

Intermediate
This strat loses roughly 2 seconds to the advanced strat.

  • (Jump) dive and rollout across the bridge following the pattern in the video below
  • Triple jump dive then rollout between the Piantas and stopping at this spot at the edge of the fiery goop

  • Allow the wind spirit to knock you forward into the goop, then jump dive, rollout, and jump dive onto the rail
  • Rollout onto the box and sideflip (or spinjump) onto the mushroom
  • Sideflip dive on the platform, hold back and peform a small rollout, and sideflip up to the next platform
  • Jump up to FLUDD, jump to the next platform, and sideflip out from under the gold mushroom
  • Hover back to the edge of the gold mushroom, ledgegrab, then spam spray and talk to the mayor and collect the shine

Normal Boost, GWKD

Advanced

  • After the wind spirit knocks you forward into the goop, buffer a spinjump dive out of the getting up animation and rollout onto the rail
  • Spin jump dive to the mushroom, then insta-momentum spin up left towards the ledge
  • GWKD off the ledge by pressing Y+A+B, then hold right and ground pound onto FLUDD
  • Jump to the next platform, and sideflip out from under the gold mushroom
  • Hover back to the edge of the gold mushroom, ledgegrab, then spam spray and talk to the mayor and collect the shine