All Things Paper

Alright, I've finally finished all of Paper Mario: The Origami King No Equip Run, and here's what it's all about.

Rules: No equipping any armor upgrade and badges. All items are allowed, but no help from Toads (note: no Toads is optional. I did it for further challenge)

This run is mostly doable (we'll get to the one part later), with the biggest hurtle against you being how long the battles will be post Earth Vellumental due to the base attack being so low (it maxes to 24 for boots and 28 for hammer). The Hearts scattered across the game will be mandatory to survive (especially for Green Streamer and Origami Castle), as well as a decent stock of all battle items (Fire and Ice flowers, Tails, the shiny variants, and the POW Block).

Here's all the enemies you cannot one-shot after maxing out (hammer and boot attack only):

Hammer, Fire, Ice, Boomerang, Sledge and Sumo Bros., Piranha and Ptooie Plants, all Spike variants, Chargin' Chucks, Bone Goomba, Crowber, Spike Top, Grass Ninji, Stingby, Rocky Wrench, all Cutout Soldiers, and Blooper

Here's the boss guide:

Earth Vellumental: Easiest boss due to it being a tutorial (also equippables have not been fully introduced yet so we're fine here).

Colored Pencils: Another relatively easy boss. The battle isn't terribly affected by not having anything equipped.

Water Vellumental: This boss is where you start to feel not having anything equppied, with draining it's HP taking longer than an average playthrough, but other than that it isn't terrible.

Rubber Band: Not affected by the run due to only using 1000-Fold Arms.

Fire Vellumental: The biggest waiting game in the run. Wait until it has about 1/4 of its HP before using the Water Vellumental and 1000-Fold.

Hole Punch: Another boss where it simply takes a lot longer than normal to finish it due to dealing less damage.

Ice Vellumental: Not terrible since the boss is mostly puzzle based.

Tape: Surprisingly the first phase was the hardest due to it taking 3-4 hits to get rid of just one part of the dispenser. Second phase easy since it's just magic circle shenanigans.

Boss Sumo Bros.: Painfully long (I think this fight took me the longest). Since the little Sumo Bros. have 45 HP each, it takes multiple hits to take the ones you need out.

Handaconda: Not affected since it's just Rock-Paper-Scissors.

Scissors: This was probably the second longest fight since I got killed and had to face it again, but it is doable.

Stapler: Not affected by the challenge, so it's easy.

King Olly: Also not affected by the run since all phases do not use the attack command.