Glitz Pit Strategy Contest - Hooktail (#1)

Hooktail (No Attack FX R)
10HP/5FP/9BP (Level 3)
Badges: Fire Drive, Power Plus
Items: Power Punch*, Point Swap*, Horsetail
Partners: Goombella
T1: Power Punch [Mario], Jump (8) [Merlee-ATK boost] (6HP)
T2: Tattle, Fire Drive (0)
T3: Point Swap [Goombella -- 5FP, 0HP], Fire Drive (2) [Burn] (1) (guard, 2HP)
T4: Horsetail [Burn] (0) (1HP)
*Power Punch is obtainable from Spiky Goombas (held). Point Swap is obtainable from Dull Bones.
Power Punch is a fairly reasonable drop to get (roughly 1.5% chance per battle with Spiky Goombas, and also tossed by audience), but you can easily substitute the Point Swap for a Honey Syrup without changing very much.

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Fire Drive is so cool cause it just looks at all the way that Hammer got nerfed to shit between 64 and TTYD (better rush badges encouraging more attack stacking, getting hammer upgrades after jump ones) and just goes "nah, i'd win"