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Instakills (and Quick Kills)

Instakills are when you instantly down Shadow Mario with a point-blank spam spray, and there are many different setups for each kill in order to get enough speed and the right position in order to pull it off.

Quick kills are when you otherwise down Shadow Mario with your spray nozzle (usually from a distance).

Instakill/quick kill setups vary, and are described on each respective Shines page. Since there is no where we can reasonably insert Delfino Shadow Mario tutorials (no shine involved), they will be on this page.

Bianco Rising

Quick Kill

  • Hover slide over to Shadow Mario
  • Optimally you can slide through the goop then jump dive as shown in the video, or you can rollout over the M and waterslide again towards Shadow Mario.
  • Rollout and make sure to land a reasonable distance away from Shadow Mario (you want to walk into his trigger)
  • Spray while running straight
  • As long as you down Shadow Mario before where the sun starts/the shade ends, you will save ~8 seconds. The farther he goes, the more time you lose.

Instakill

  • Again, sliding through the M is faster
  • This time you want to do an instant hoverslide out of the goop (again you can alternatively rollout over the goop and start a new hoverslide)
  • Aim just to the left of Shadow Mario
  • As your nozzle is about to touch his feet, press Digital R and A together (make sure to try not to press Analog R, you want a fast R press as shown in the video)
  • Optimally you want a 1 frame A press as well for the smallest jump to trigger the text ASAP

Sirena Entry (Any%)

Shadow Mario Left/Right RNG - Click to Expand

The direction Shadow Mario runs is RNG if he chooses left or right. Left is optimal as the banana is very close. Luckily to the right still has a banana over under the fruit seller awnings, but still loses several seconds. The RNG is weighted as you approach Shadow Mario more directly from the side as shown in the image below.

Quick Kill

  • This video is an IL, so they approach Shadow Mario rather aggressively here. For RTA, a suggestion would be to approach from further from the right.
  • Spray Shadow Mario while keeping your distance. Once he starts to line up with the tree, jump and do a couple digital spam sprays (analog spam sprays will angle further downwards, likely missing the banana).
  • Dive into your water and rollout, buffering a B grab into the banana if possible (or just dive into it while holding b).
  • Either run or throw the banana over to Yoshi depending on how close he is.
  • Do a spin jump off same spot in the grass texture to get a clean triple jump and eat the pineapple.

Instakill

  • Same setup as the last video, but you spot spraying Shadow Mario slightly earlier, and do a digital spam spray rollout over him to down him instead.