Lava Piranha

Lava Piranha is an enormous overgrown Piranha Plant boss in Paper Mario. The Lava Piranha is the only Lava Piranha seen in any Mario games so far, but according to Goombario, there are more than one Lava Piranhas. They are supposedly a species of Piranha Plants that live in lava; Lava Piranha is a huge overgrown beast of a regular Lava Piranha.

Lava Piranha is the chief, king, boss, and commander of Mount Lavalava on Lavalava Island, where he is found. He is found in a small lava pool where the other Piranha Plants report to him and obey him.

Lava Piranha speaks in shouts and shrieks, blathering out insults at Mario when Mario confronts him for the fifth Star Spirit, Misstar. Lava Piranha was ordered by Bowser to guard Misstar from Mario particularly.

His attacks are rather simple. Mostly, he relies on his Lava Buds to do his battling work. When he attacks, he spits out an orb of fire at Mario that does five attack damage to Mario.

It is also important to note that Lava Piranha is battled twice. After Mario has done forty damage to him and defeated him, he suddenly rises up and gets forty more HP that Mario must eliminate. The second time, Lava Piranha's head is on fire and his tongue is sticking out.

Appearance
Lava Piranha looks slightly like the boss Naval Piranha from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, except smaller and with less Piranha Buds and tentacles. Lava Piranha has a large tongue and ringed white spots instead of filled white spots on his head.

Lava Piranha

 * HP: 80 (has 40 HP per round)
 * Attack Power: 5/7 (Round 1: normal) (Round 2: on fire)
 * Defense: 0
 * Location: Mt. Lavalava
 * Tattle: Lava Piranhas are plants that can somehow survive in lava.
 * Regular Tattle: They blow out huge balls of fire to attack. That is one big flower! Wow!
 * Tattle when on fire: Since their bodies are on fire, you'll take damage if you stomp on 'em. Don't worry of you're fire proof. They'll try to burn you with their fire breath. They're creatures born of fire, so water attacks will work extremely well against them.

Lava Buds

 * HP: 16 (have 8 HP per round)
 * Attack: 4 (regular only)
 * Defense: 0
 * Tattle: Lava Buds are little flower branching out from the main stem of the Lava Piranha. They love it in the lava. Hey, if you were a fiery plant you'd love it in there, too.
 * Regular Tattle: They blow small seeds or other projectiles to attack, the small Lava Buds attack power is 4.
 * Tattle when on fire: They blow out Petit Piranhas. The Lava Bud's stems themselves won't attack you.

Petit Piranhas

 * HP: 1
 * Attack: 6
 * Defense: 0
 * Tattle: Petit Piranhas spew from Lava Buds. These things can do some serious damage, so watch it!