Clothing

Clothing are items in the Mario & Luigi series that serve much like armor in SMRPG. Clothing mainly exists to boost defense power, but some clothes boost other stats as well.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Clothing in this game can also come with special effects. If a small number is listed in the last column, look at the end of the table for the special effect. All Clothing adds HP and/or DEF to a brother.

Special Effects

– No effect. 1 Allows the characters to always move first. 2 Enemies will always drop Mushrooms. 3 60% chance of evading the Poison status. 4 Randomizes gravity for each attack to either Normal, Heavy or Light. 5 More Mushrooms in possession means more frequent Lucky hits. 6 Luigi's turn will always come right after Mario's. 7 Automatically recovers 2 HP every turn. 8 Luigi's turn will always come right before Mario's.

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
In this game, clothes only boost stats. Badges are used to get special effects.

Mario & Luigi RPG 3!!!
For Mario & Luigi RPG 3, the clothing system received an overhaul. In this game, there are several different clothing types available. These include overalls, gloves, socks, boots, and accessories for the Mario Bros, and shells, arm bands, rings, and fangs for Bowser. The maximum number of articles of clothing that a character may equip is dependent on rank, but two of the same type of clothing can never be equipped simultaneously. Since the function of badges has also been overhauled, most of badges' old functions are now applied to articles of clothing.

1 - This has a great number of possible translations. Hearty, exciting, stirring, lively, heroic, largehearted, and splendid are all possibilities. 2 - From wwwjdic: 勝ち越し 【かちこし】 (n) more wins than losses (sport); (P) 3 a b - シェル sheru, an English loanword for "shell," is used for shells that Mario & Luigi can equip. こうら koura, a native Japanese word for "shell," is used for shells that Bowser can equip. 4 - Possibly a combination of "O-," meaning respected, and "choushi," meaning older sister or oldest child, among other things. 5 - Probably from 「燃える」 Moeru meaning to burn. 6 - Bokosuka is prefixed to the name of all of Bowser's special attacks. Its meaning is unknown.