Since the end of December of 2017, I’ve been keeping tabs on the players who challenge run Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. I did this mainly because despite there not being an official list of the best players from the Glitz Pit Discord, there’s still discussion about it. Also, I like tier lists.
No extra fluff like last update. The only thing I’ll mention is I didn’t write a little blurb unless your position changed in some way or something really stood out. So, let’s jump right in.
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+ symbol means edge case for next tier up
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This is my personal opinion; I repeat: this list is NOT objective.
GOD TIER
— The best of the best. The cream of the crop.
(sorted alphabetically)
COMBINED
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Jdaster64
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Kappy — The + goes away. To be honest, I definitely feel like I’m on a decline, and I’ll bet a lot of people are thinking the same. I’ve been focusing on my personal life (since I got a new puppy) and my other streaming endeavors, putting challenge running on the back burner without finishing everything I wanted to do (particularly in TTYD). In order to 110% cement myself as the Greatest Of All Time in Paper Mario challenge running, I’m going to be kicking myself into high gear next year. I don’t like getting rusty, and I’m feeling more determined than ever.
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Koop
TTYD
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ilikepieinmouth — Pie has now completed Impossible Pit and a slew of ultra superguard heavy Pit runs. At this point, I would go as far as to say he is the best superguarder in TTYD. However, I think he’s going too far into these superguard-heavy runs. I’d like to see Pie demonstrate that he can strategize with the best of them and not need to rely on raw superguarding to push through to victory — in fact, I’d like to see some superguardless runs. At this point, just seeing him superguard everything is getting stale, and while his position here is pretty stable, you can always fall from godhood; in my eyes, he will if he doesn’t change up his game…
64
None.
ELITE TIER
— Players in this tier are highly proficient in their game of choice. These are some of the best.
(sorted alphabetically)
COMBINED
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Fatguy
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GamerFourFun — With a recent Level -1 completion in 64 (including Final Bowser), GamerFourFun has reached Elite level in both games. This guy just keeps completing runs from fun to difficult. I hope he continues to play…he has potential to push through to God tier in either game. I think he goes relatively unnoticed, which is too bad. Go watch this guy!
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MilesLuigi
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Olmi
TTYD
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A. A. Ran
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amazydayzee
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Gibstack — With a flurry of Pit challenges and some cool other challenges that aren’t the Extreme Randomizer, I think Gibstack has finally earned his spot as an Elite player in TTYD! His best asset is his strategy, which is something I rarely see in Elite TTYD players — most of them lean on the superguard side.
64
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DarkMario1000
GREAT TIER
— Players in this tier are proficient in their game of choice. These are what I would consider to be a “general” challenge runner.
(sorted alphabetically)
COMBINED
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MellowMathTeacher
TTYD
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DarkMario1000
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Dyla+
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Kyle — Another explosive challenge runner. Like Dyla, he completed a bunch of Pit challenges: PHP, PHP NMRP, 10 HP PHP NMRP, Prologue Pit, and then 10 HP Prologue Pit all blazing fast. A couple things are holding him back, but to summarize — not enough strategy-involved challenges, and not enough footage. If he’s trying to be the best superguarder, then I’d say he’s easily the 4th best superguarder…but I’d like to see how his consistency evolves over time before I say he’s better than any of the current top 3.
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Miccat87+ — Miccat has completed Disabled Pre-Ch2 Pit, and is now working on BP Only and No Damage. This will be a great chance to see how he strategizes, and might be what pushes him over the edge into Elite. We’ll just have to wait and see…
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StarmanOmega
64
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Timmy — Now that the 64 community challenges have gone through almost the whole game, I’ve been able to see more of Timmy’s play. The more I see, the more I like, and with Pro Mode Single Partner already on his resume, there’s other place but Great. We’ll see if he can push further than this.
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TwoPieRadian
GOOD TIER
— Players here have breached past what I would consider “casual” and are officially challenge runners (or have the skills to be one). Most new challenge runners will be put her since usually they’ve only completed one or two challenges or are in the process of completing their first one.
(sorted alphabetically)
COMBINED
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simodomino
TTYD
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Gible_V
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TwoPieRadian
64
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A. A. Ran+ — Thanks to the Community Challenges, I can see a clear improvement in A. A. Ran’s play in 64. There’s a lot of strategizing coming from him, and while his strategies aren’t the most elegant, they’re definitely getting better. I expect him to be Great tier by the end of them.
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Jon — A newcomer with the community challenges underway. He’s not bad; I can easily seeing him pushing into Great soon, but we’ll see how he fares from there.
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Lolyuri — Another newcomer thanks to the community challenges! Lolyuri is good, and I’m seeing some nice play…he could push into Great easily if I see more.
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Mailguy — Yet another newcomer with the 64 Community Challenges underway. He relies a little too heavily on RNG as his core, but shows promise. He just needs to work more reliability into how he plays.
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Miccat87
INACTIVE TIER
— Inactive Players. Players have their last tier listed for reference.
(sorted alphabetically)
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Auron Nomcario — Great Tier (64) | Good Tier (TTYD)
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avengah — Elite Tier (TTYD)
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Blanket P.I. — Great Tier (COMBINED)
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catbooger — Good Tier (TTYD)
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Codebox — Great Tier (COMBINED)
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DiamondCrafterA — Good Tier (TTYD)
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Dount Cooku — Good Tier (TTYD)
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Feposo — Good Tier (TTYD)
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Gradis — Good Tier (TTYD)
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Jayjar100 — Good Tier (TTYD)
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JakeTheSnake — Good Tier (TTYD)
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Mathcat — Good Tier (TTYD)
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Michael The Fox — Great Tier (TTYD)
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Mr_Some1 — Good Tier (TTYD)
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ngburns — Great Tier (TTYD)
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OmegaRaptor — Good Tier (TTYD)
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Prentiscool — Good Tier (TTYD)
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Skawo — Elite Tier (COMBINED)
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Snowy — Great Tier (TTYD)
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Starlad — Good Tier (64)
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stebbdogg — Great Tier (TTYD)
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Wayoshi — Elite Tier (TTYD) | Great Tier (64)
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ThatOneSpyGuy — Elite Tier (TTYD)
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TRex Quisite — Great Tier (COMBINED)
NOTABLE CHANGES & THOUGHTS
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Pie, in my opinion, has succeeded me as the current best superguarder in TTYD. Congrats, Pie! Your hard work in that area has paid off!…but seriously, go do some superguardless challenges.
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Kyle really shook up the game. If he completes Impossible Mode soon I think he’ll be ahead of A. A. Ran and become the third best superguarder.
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Congrats to GamerFourFun for becoming Elite in both games!
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It’s been 1 year since I started making these. I hope you all have been enjoying them as much as I have making them!
And that’s it for this version of the tier list! I hope you all enjoyed reading my thoughts on this. If you’re interested in making it on this list, start challenge running (and if I missed you, let me know)! A great resource for challenge runners is the Glitz Pit, a Discord server dedicated to challenge running the Paper Mario series.
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