Star Power

This article is about the Star Power meter in Yoshi's Island. For the stat point in Paper Mario, click here.

Star Power is a timer of sorts in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Island DS. When a Yoshi takes damage, the baby he is currently carrying floats off in a bubble. Star Power protects the baby for a short time. The Yoshi starts with ten points of Star Power. For every second the baby is off the Yoshi's back, the Star Power decreases by one. If it reaches 0, Kamek's Toadies take the baby away and the Yoshi loses a life.

When the Yoshi retrieves the baby, its Star Power will slowly restore to ten points. The Yoshi can also collect Stars to boost the Star Power by one point for each Star collected, to a maximum of thirty points. However, if the baby gets knocked off the Yoshi's back while the Star Power is more than ten points, the points will not restore once the Yoshi gets the baby back.