Piercing Blow
Paper Mario Thousand-Year Door
D-Down Pound Badge.png Icon of an item from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
Icon of an item from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) BP 2 1
Icon of an item from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) FP 2 2
Price Coin75 Coin75
Effect Lets Mario use Piercing Blow to hammer while ignoring defense.
Description(s)
Lets you do a D-Down Pound. Uses 2 FP. Disables an enemy's defense power and injures it. (Paper Mario)
Wear this to use Piercing Blow. 2 FP are required to use this attack, which deals damage that pierces enemy defenses. (The Thousand-Year Door, GameCube)
Wear this to use Piercing Blow. 2 FP are required to use this attack, which deals damage that ignores an enemy's Defense. (The Thousand-Year Door, Switch)

Piercing Blow, formerly known as D-Down Pound, is a badge in Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It is a counterpart to D-Down Jump. When equipped, the badge grants Mario a hammer move that costs 2 Flower Points and bypasses the enemy's defense.

In Paper Mario, wearing Piercing Blow uses 2 Badge Points; in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, it only uses 1.

Although multiple Piercing Blow badges can be obtained in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, equipping more than one has no effect.

LocationsEdit

In Paper Mario, D-Down Pound can be bought from Rowf's Badge Shop after chapter 1 for 75 coins. It uses 2 BP.

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Piercing Blow can be bought from the Lovely Howz of Badges for 75 coins. There is a 1 in 150 chance for this badge to drop after winning a battle against Spiky Parabuzzies.

Merluvlee's predictionEdit

Drop ratesEdit

Badge Rates in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
 
Piercing Blow
Roll over Rate types for descriptions, and dotted-lined rates to show percentages out of 100.
Enemy Hold Rate Drop Rate
Spiky Parabuzzy 0/200 1/150

Names in other languagesEdit

Language Name Meaning
Japanese ツラヌキナグーリ
Tsuranuki Nagūri
From「貫き」(tsuranuki, "piercing") and stylistic variant of「殴り」(naguri, "strike")

Chinese 穿刺重压勋章 (Paper Mario)
Chuāncì Zhòngyā Xūnzhāng
Piercing Smash Badge

Dutch Verweerpletter
Defense Crusher
French Coup Min Déf
Hit Min Def
German Anti-V-Hieb
Anti-D-Strike
Italian Perfora Difesa
Punch Defense
Spanish Golpe Bajar
Golpe bajar (The Thousand-Year Door remake)
Lowering Hit
Lowering hit