Paper Mario Any% Route v3.0

Last Update: 1/30/2019
Note: This is the 2nd fastest route for any%. The 1st fastest is this (frame perfect, no backup refight goomba king to save 3 seconds is not worth it at this time): https://pastebin.com/bjDwtT9d

This route skips the island Life Shroom in Chapter 8 and instead dupes on the maple after door 2. This route also skips star storm on hallway bowser and instead does charge strats. A 3 cap means you lose the fight (15.9%). Also final bowser is now always a turn 1 peach beam fight, meaning that you can get screwed by close call by not being in danger when it is needed.

 --Prologue--

- Jr. Troopa Skip
- Get Fire Flower and trampoline coins [4 coins]
- Equip Power Jump
- Goomnut
- Hit two coins blocks on next screen [6 coins]
- Get Close Call

Goomba Bros:
T1: Power Jump Red; Headbonk Red
T2: Power Jump Blue; Do Nothing
T3: Fire Flower [Up 1]

- Eat Goomnut [Mash A]

Goomba King:
T1: Power Jump; Headbonk the tree
T2: Power Jump; Headbonk

- Go to Shooting Star Summit

Magikoopa: 8 HP
T1: Power Jump; Do Nothing (Blocking will save frames)
T2: Power Jump

- Black Toad Skip

        --Chapter 1--

- Get 1 coin block [7 coins]
- Get Fright Jar
- POW Block

Fuzzy Fight: [Mash A and B to save 13 frames when it works on all 4]
T1: Fright Jar [Down 1]

- Get 5 coins on the ground [12 coins]
- Thunder Bolt
- Hidden Fire Flower
- Hit Heart Block
- First Strike Koopa with Jump

Koopa Fight 1: Key
T1: Power Jump; Shell Toss (untimed) [3FP]

- Get Power Bounce
- Staircase Skip
- Blow up wall [Face Right]

Jail Fight:
T1: Fire Flower [Mash A]; Body Slam

- Get 8 coins from Jail Fight [20 coins]
- Honey Syrup
- Go to Toad Town
- Log Skip
- Get 1st Flower Seed in south room from the Bub-ulb
- Take Train to Chapter 2

        -- Blue House Skip --

- Find 3 Letters and bring them to Parakarry
- Get 2 Whacka Bumps
- Get 2nd Flower Seed Early
- Get Parakarry
- Sell Whacka Bump [Mash A]
- Buy T. Rage
- Get Speedy Spin
- Take off Power Jump
- Equip Speedy Spin and Power Bounce
- Blue House Skip
- Switch to Parakarry [Down 1]

Dark Koopa
T1: Shell Shot; T. Rage [Mash A]

    Level Up: FP
    10, 10, 3

Blooper: 30 HP
T1: Bounce; Shell Shot
T2: Bounce; Sky Dive

        -- Chapter 5 --

- Get Life Shroom
- Get Ultra Hammer
- Get Maple Syrup from 2nd block

Peach Scene: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2

        -- Enter Flower Fields --

- Get Jammin' Jelly
- Get Volcano Vase
- Talk to Kolorado to get 3rd Seed from him
- Go to Forever Forest

Forever Forest:
- Right 2x
- Left 1x
- Left 1x
- Go left for Flower Seed 4
From the Seed:
- Right 1x
- Give all seeds to Toad girl

        -- Flower Fields --

- Early Lakilester
- Get Shooting Star
- Bomb rock
- Talk to the Sun
- Switch to Parakarry [Down 1]

Spike Fight: 50 HP - Block (2/4) ~ It's 12 frames faster to block than to not block
T1: Thunder Bolt [Up 2]; Shell Shot
T2: Shooting Star [Mash A]; Shell Shot
T3: Refresh [Down 1]; Shell Shot
T4: Star Storm [Up 3]; Shell Shot
T5: Shell Shot; Star Storm [Up 3]

- Go to Volcano and Peach Warp (Get Ultra Boots if you're going risky, don't forget hidden Life Shroom and Maple Syrup)

Peach Scene: Sneaky Parasol

        -- Chapter 7 --

- Get S. Jump Charge
- Get Ultra Boots (or don't if you have them already)
- Get hidden Life Shroom
- Get hidden Maple Syrup
- Go to Volcano and Peach Warp

Peach Scene: Hold B

        -- Chapter 8 --

- Upgrade Parakarry [Up 2] - [Up + Z]
- Get Repel Gel behind tree
- Upgrade Bombette [Down 2] - [Down + R]
- Go to Shooting Star Summit

        -- Bowser's Castle --

Koopatrols:
T1: POW Block [Up 1]; Power Bomb

- Get Tasty Tonic
- Get Jail Life Shroom
- Quiz answers: 1, 1, 2, 1, 1

Item Duplication:
- Hit the Maple Syrup out of the block (Mario will face Left)
- Jump on Lakilester
- Eat Honey Syrup [Up 1]
- Throw Repel Gel
- Pick up Repel Gel

- Maze Hallway: Up, Down, Down, Up, Down, Up

Duplighosts: Block (3/4)
T1: Power Shell; Switch to Bombette [Down 1]
T2: Power Bomb; Star Storm

~ You need at least one to transform
~ If all transform into Bombette just Power Bomb them

        Level Up: BP
        10, 10, 6

- Equip S. Jump Charge and Close Call
- Switch to Parakarry [Down 1]

Jr Troopa:
T1: Charge; Shell Shot
T2: Shell Shot; Whacka [Up 1]
T3: Charge; Shell Shot
T4: Shell Shot; Maple Syrup [Down 1]
T5: Charge; Shell Shot
T6: Bounce x5; Do Nothing
T7: Star Storm if 4 capped

- Eat Maple Syrup [Down 2] [Down 3 if Triple Close Call]
- Eat Ultra Shroom if you're at 3 HP (Skip if at 10HP)
~ If Triple Close Call you can eat the Life Shroom [Up 1] instead of the Ultra Shroom

Library:
- Get Life Shroom [Lost 2 Life Shrooms to Jr. Troopa]
- Skip Life Shroom [Lost 1 or 0 Life Shrooms to Jr. Troopa]
- Get Power Rush
- Take off Close Call
- Equip Power Rush

Hallway Bowser:
T1: Charge; Shell Shot
T2: Time Out [Up 3]; Shell Shot
T3: Maple [Up 2]; Shell Shot
T4: Charge; Do Nothing
T5: Bounce x5; Sky Dive if 4 capped

        Level Up: FP
        10, 15, 6

- Take off Speedy Spin
- Equip Close Call
~ Jammin' Jelly is always [Up 2] [Up 1 if you ate the Life Shroom after Triple Close Call]

Final Bowser: Phase 1
T1: Charge; Shell Shot [95]
T2: Bounce x3; Shell Shot (Purposely fail on 3 bounces) [76]
T3: Star Beam

Refer to this sheet for the different variations. Warning: Do not do a run without studying this sheet first, you won't be able to react fast enough if you don't have the sheet on the correct part. In general this is how the fight should go.
FINAL BOWSER:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ehgg-aUJyZJHTKnYjoLmThrSYDmlwLFqfCm0OLx3xiY/edit?usp=sharing
For the item list during this fight look here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11DRHctthFluIy-WWYVdTAoKX7f6vfvxTnCxGtkHZXeM/edit?usp=sharing

Turn 1 Peach Beam:
T1: Peach Beam
T2: Charge
T3: Charge
T4: Charge
T5: Repel Gel [Mash A]
T6: Jammin' Jelly [Down 1]
T7: Charge
T8: Repel Gel [Mash A]
T9: Charge
T10: Peach Beam
T11: Bounce x5; Shell Shot
T12: Jump x2 if danger / Star Storm if not in danger

- Luigi Skip :)