Impossible Mode Pit

Impossible Mode Pit is considered to be the hardest challenge run that Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has to offer. It takes the rules from regular Impossible Mode and applies them to a gauntlet of grueling consecutive battles that will test the player's skill, resilience and luck.

Due to the insane amount of luck required to defeat Bonetail, the challenge is considered complete once Floor 99 is cleared; similar to how regular Impossible Mode ends after defeating Grodus and Bowser in Chapter 8.

• Difficulty: Crystal
• Execution Rating: 15.3
• Strategy Rating: 5

Rules

• Only upgrade Badge Points upon leveling up.
• Do not equip badges.

*Peekaboo and any badges that require 0 BP may be equipped if desired.

• Do not rank up any of Mario's partners.
• Do not use Items.
• Do not use Special Moves.
• Do not swap partners during battle.
• Do not use Merlee.
• Only Superguard.
• Do not retry battles (Switch).

Completions:

Video proof is required to be added to this list.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (GCN)

Player	Floors Cleared	Defeated Bonetail	Challenge Completion Link
Justyce	99	✓	Link
talksick	99	✓	Link, Bonetail
Aarantula	75
Fatguy703	75		Link
MHNidas	66
StarmanOmega	63		Link
Redfalcon	62
Olmi	49
Kb	48
Warspyking	45
Gible_V	40
Gamerdog	33

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Switch)

Player	Floors Cleared (without Continues)	Continues Used	Defeated Bonetail	Challenge Completion Link
praisethecarpainter	67			Link
Angel	63			Link

Tips & Tricks

• Due to the sheer amount of trials that you have to go through, it's strongly advised to learn the Superguard timing of all enemies in the Pit, as the main form of healing will come from HP drops, FP drops, and leveling up. This playlist includes videos about some of TTYD's most difficult Superguards.
• Running is a very powerful tactic in this challenge. It can be used to force advantageous RNG, stage hazards that lower the required number of superguards in a fight, and BINGOs to heal the player via BINGO buffering.

Related Challenges

• Impossible Mode