Yo fammmmm the Glitz Pit community, a community of Paper Mario series challenge runners, just finished their official tier list for the TTYD (Switch) version of the game! This list takes into account the specific mechanics changes between the GCN and Switch versions. A group of 8 panelists voted their badge rankings with the community discussing badges beforehand, then the mean and median of all panelists badge placements were averaged. Big gaps in those numbers led to tier separations between badges.
Panelists voted using the following criteria:
- General use effectiveness
- Efficiency in strategies
- How often you're really using them
- Are they good in specific challenges, or can they be used across multiple challenges easily?
- Are you using them as filler, or building around them? Can you build a strategy around them?
- What's it competing with? (Other badges, Partners, Special Moves, items, etc...)
- How do they fare against bosses? In the Pit of 100 Trials??
It also didn't include Pianta Parlor/badge grinding for duplicate badges. In particular, the "Danger Mario" strategy was not included when ranking badges. Badges that don't have an effect in combat were not included (Refund, Money Money, Peekaboo, Timing Tutor, Chill Out, etc...)