Mario & Luigi: Brothership adds a new layer to the series’ turn-based combat with Battle Plugs, special gear that gives the bros extra abilities in the game’s battles when equipped.
Battle Plugs can be earned throughout the game, by crafting plugs using Lumenade gathered from Sprite Bulbs. Some Battle Plugs are given to Mario and Luigi as the story progresses. Each plug can be equipped in a Power Tap — a socket, basically — that expands over time. Mario and Luigi can equip only two Battle Plugs in their Power Tap at the beginning of the game, but they’ll earn additional Power Tap slots over the course of Brothership’s adventure.
Battle Plugs have limited charges, and need to be recharged. Battle Plugs will recharge when not in use.
All Battle Plugs list in Mario & Luigi: Brothership
A handful of Battle Plugs are unlocked from the start of the game, and a few can be crafted early on in Mario & Luigi: Brothership. To unlock more, you’ll need to craft a certain number of plugs and progress through the game’s story.
Here’s every Battle Plug available in Mario & Luigi: Brothership and how to unlock them.
Battle Plug Combos
Certain Battle Plugs, when equipped at the same time, confer special attack bonuses on Mario and Luigi. Here are the Battle Plug combos available in Mario & Luigi: Brothership.
- Boosted Kaboom — If you use Attack Boost with Kaboom Attack, you’ll generate more impact waves.
- Surprise Iron Boost — If you use Attack Boost and Surprise Iron Ball together, you’ll increase the number of iron balls that fall.
- Iron Ka-Ball — Pair Kaboom Attack and Surprise Iron Ball plus together to make iron balls fall on all enemies hit by the impact wave.
- Statusplosion — If you use Kaboom Attack and a plug that causes status ailments together, the status ailment will spread to all the enemies hit by the impact wave.
- Ka-Specialist — If you use Kaboom Attack and a Specialist-type Battle Plug together, the critical effect will spread to all enemies hit by the impact wave, as long as the Specialist type affects them.
- Broadly Specialized — If you use multiple Specialist-type plug effects that overlap, it will boos the damage you deal. The more overlapping effects, the more damage will be increased.
- Dizzy Burn — Pair the Dizzifying Attack and Fiery Attack plugs, and a fiery tornado will appear, increasing the damage you deal.
- Dizzy Ice — Pair the Dizzifying Attack and Icy Attack plugs, and a icy tornado will appear, increasing the damage you deal.
- Hot, Cold, and Dizzy — If you use Dizzifying Attack, Fiery Attack, and Icy Attack together, a bomb tornado will appear, increasing the damage you deal even more.
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