Super Mariomon Any% FAQ

Super Mariomon Any% FAQ

Q. What game is this?
A. Super Mariomon, a brand new game with an Emerald base, created by Too Many Productions and commissioned by Alpharad. Completely original world, where Pokemon are replaced by Mario characters.

Q. How does the speedrun work?
A. Similar to a Pokemon game, collect 8 stars (badges) and beat the Elite Four and Champion

Q. Any interesting mechanics?
A. A lot. Some nice QoL stuff (like instant text, instant HP bars, text skip), scaled EXP, built in nuzlocke mode, and a toggle to use level caps.

Q. Will you be using level caps?
A. As of now, no. There are two separate categories currently - with and without level caps

Q. Any glitches or useful bugs?
A. No, avoiding any bugs for now as they'd likely be patched out anyway. There are some intended skips/tricks that are used however.

Q. Which Pokémon..err..captures do you use in the run?
A. I start with Piranha Plant, which is a grass type. It has solid Attack and gets me through the first two Worlds. I will then catch a high level Broozer (Ghost/Fighting) to handle the rest of the run. Broozer has incredible base stats (100 Attack and 110 Speed) and is an awesome counter to a lot of opponents.

Q. Any manips?
A. Yes, I manip both my Piranha Plant and Broozer. Both are done using stabdard Gen 3 (RSE) mechanics. The starter manip uses the same S&Q seed as Ruby/Sapphire, and I manip frame 724 (Adamant 14 HP 28 Atk 24 Def 10 SpA 29 SpD 29 Spe). I could manip the god Naughty that is used in Sapphire speedruns, but its Defenses are worse and the Attack is not much better, so it's not worth it.

I do a S&Q encounter manip for Broozer. I will use a Lure to force it to be L41, and it has a Lonely nature, with IVs of 25 HP 26 Atk 29 Def 8 SpA 1 SpD and 31 Speed. Incredibly nuts I found this IV spread manually using Bizhawk while routing. There is also a YOLO ball, which is 18 (!!) frames wide as we use a Football Cap (Quick Ball) to catch it.

Q. Hardest fights?
A. World 1, namely Peach and Luigi 2, can be annoying as their leads both know Charm - in particular the Peach fight is very scary if she uses it. For Peach, I either have to flinch her lead or I have to get lucky and it chooses a damaging move. For Luigi 2, since his captures have random natures (yes, this is a thing!), I am exactly 50/50 to outspeed his lead.

From there, the rest of the fights aren't too bad as Broozer is so OP. The Elvin Gadd E4 fight is an instant loss if he crits, as is the Champion.

Q. Goal time?
A. Sub-2:10 (my PB is currently a 2:13:xx)