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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (TTYD)
How to Defeat Bonetail
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Bonetail is a boss you can fight in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (TTYD). Read on to learn more about this boss, its stats, and how to beat it!
List of Contents
How to Beat Bonetail
- Prevent Status Effects with Feeling Fine
- Prepare a Lot of Recovery Items
- Use Power Lift to Increase Attack and Defense Powers
- Flurrie's Lip Lock is Very Effective
Prevent Status Effects with Feeling Fine
| Most Recommended Badges | |
|---|---|
 Feeling Fine
|
 Feeling Fine P
|
Remember to equip Feeling Fine and Feeling Fine P badges to prevent getting affected by status effects, such as Sleep, Frozen, and Confusion, from Bonetail's powerful attacks.
Prepare a Lot of Recovery Items
| Most Recommended Items | |
|---|---|
 Life Shroom
x2 |
 Jelly Ultra
x3 |
Prepare a lot of recovery items, like Life Shroom, to revive knocked out characters, and Jelly Ultra, the best healing item, for the long battle with Bonetail, who has a high HP of 200.
Use Power Lift to Increase Attack and Defense Powers
You can use the Power Lift special move to increase your attack and defense powers to reduce the damage from Bonetail's very powerful attacks.
Note that Bonetail cannot be affected by any status effects except being burned, so the basic strategy is to increase your stats and then use powerful attacks.
Flurrie's Lip Lock is Very Effective
Madame Flurrie's Lip Lock move is very effective against the Bonetail because the move ignores the enemy defense and allows Flurrie to damage the enemies by stealing their HP and then heals her own.
It's also a good strategy to position Flurrie in front, so she can shield Mario and fight while recovering.
Bonetail Rewards
999 Coins
You will get 999 coins once you defeat Bonetail, which is a lot more compared to the chapter bosses in the game.
Combined with the amount of coins you can get while going down the Pit of 100 Trials, you'll be able to get a lot of coins if you're able to clear the dungeon.
1 Star Point
You will also get 1 Star Point after defeating Bonetail, even though it is a challenging fight.
How to Level Up Fast and Level Cap
Return Postage Badge
After defeating the boss, a chest will appear in the area which contains the Return Postage badge. This also acts as the last badge reward in the Pit.
How to Get Return Postage Badge
Bonetail Details and Stats
| Tattle Log No. 104 | |
|---|---|
 Bonetail
|
|
| Description | The oldest brother of Hooktail. He's just bones now. He's incredibly tough... Maybe even the toughest? |
| Type | Secret Boss |
All Enemies in Paper Mario TTYD
Stats
| HP | 200 |
|---|---|
| Atk | 8 |
| Def | 2 |
Move Resistances
| Move Resistances | ||
|---|---|---|
Jump 
|
Hammer
|
Showstopper
|
| Gulp
|
Gale Force
|
Kiss Thief
|
Status Effect Resistances
| Status Effect Resistances | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Burn 
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Freeze
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Dizzy
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Confuse
|
Sleep
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| Soft
|
Shrink
|
Fright Mask
|
Time Stop
|
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Related Guides
All Bosses
| Paper Mario TTYD Bosses | ||
|---|---|---|
 Chapter Bosses |
 Mini Bosses |
 Secret Bosses |
Secret Boss List
| All Bosses | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Atomic Boo
|
Bonetail
|
 Gus
|
 Prince Mush
|
 Whacka
|
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