Besides your equipment, Battle Plugs are the main part of your kit that you will need to manage in Mario & Luigi: Brothership. These new equippable items can give you a wide range of different bonuses to make even the toughest challenge more manageable. Between the Battle Plugs you earn naturally, ones you can buy, and others made by crafting, there are dozens of plugs and thousands of possible combinations to equip. Because you only have so many Power Taps to equip them in, you will need to make some tough choices about which ones you think are most useful. Let’s team up and go over some of the best Battle Plugs in Mario & Luigi: Brothership that you should build around.
The best Battle Plugs in Mario & Luigi: Brothership
When considering which Battle Plugs to use, it is important to remember that some can make combos. You won’t know which pairs will make combos until you try them, but we will also share any possible combos we know of here.
Surprise Iron Ball
One of the early Battle Plugs in the game is a great one to keep using for the first half of the game or so. When you nail an Excellent rating with any Jump or Hammer attack, a spikey iron ball will fall onto the enemy to deal bonus damage. This is especially effective against bosses.
If you also equip the Kaboom Attack plug, then they will combo into Ka-Ball. This will deal bonus damage to your individual target like normal, but also deal splash damage to nearby targets.
Dizzifying Attack
Another offensive Battle Plug, Dizzifying Attack has two benefits. First, you get a flat 15% increase to Jump and Hammer attacks, but the real treat is that getting an Excellent rating has a chance to cause dizzy. This is a bit easier to use since you can always count on that 15% extra damage even if you don’t get the Excellent or the dizzy doesn’t trigger.
Combo this plug (or any status effect plug) with Kaboom Attack to create Statusplosion. Doing so simply increases the odds that you will get that dizzy trigger.
Auto Mushroom
Spending a turn to heal can lead to a death spiral where you’re constantly healing instead of attacking until you eventually lose. Instead of wasting that turn healing, Auto Mushroom will automatically use a Mushroom (assuming you have one) whenever your HP gets too low.
In the later stages of the game, the usefulness of this plug will fall off unless you combo it with Deluxe Auto to use whatever the best healing item you have when at low HP instead of just a Mushroom.
Coiniplier
Mario & Luigi: Brothership doesn’t require you to grind coins too much, but there are times when you may find yourself low on items or see some expensive gear you want to get your hands on. Coiniplier can be put on to reward you with coins for hitting enemies based on how much damage you deal. This is essential if you don’t want to spend hours going for those coin-related challenges.
Charge Bank
This is a passive Battle Plug that you should add in if you have an extra slot and a set of plugs you want to focus on. Whenever another plug drains some of its charge, this one will drain instead so you can keep using your more powerful ones.
Notdroppin
Bosses can be tough in Mario & Luigi: Brothership and if it comes down to the wire and you end up getting hit with one bad attack, it can sting. Notdroppin is a Battle Plug that, as long as you have more than 2 HP, will prevent your HP from going down to 0 in a single hit and keep you on 1 HP instead. That gives you one extra opportunity to heal up and swing the fight back in your favor.
