Lucky Start

Lucky Start

BP needed	4
Buy price	70 coins
Sell price	50 coins
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
The Thousand-Year Door description	Make something good happen when you first enter battle.

Lucky Start is a badge in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It is found in Creepy Steeple, though only after Mario defeats the Atomic Boo, who is formed after Mario is swarmed by Boos and knocks them away with the Spin Hammer. If the badge falls into the hole in the floor after the Atomic Boo is defeated, it cannot be retrieved. However, it will become available for purchase from Lovely Howz of Badges for 70 coins so it can be obtained.

When equipped, Mario and his partner will enter every battle with a randomly-selected, positive status condition that will last for 3 turns:

HP Regeneration — Recover 2 HP per turn.
FP Regeneration — Recover 2 FP per turn.
Dodgy — 50% chance of evading incoming attacks.
Electrified — Direct attackers will fail their attack and take 1 damage. Negates Electrified condition of enemies.

All of these effects are shared with another badge or item in the game, namely Happy Heart and Slow Mushroom, Happy Flower and Gradual Syrup, Repel Cape, and Zap Tap and Volt Mushroom respectively.

If both the Lucky Start and Zap Tap badges are equipped, the Electrified condition can still be selected to occur, but nothing happens as Mario will already have this condition from the Zap Tap badge.

Names in other languagesEdit

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ナニーカラッキー Nanīka Rakkī	Something Lucky
Dutch	Buitenkans	Outside Opportunity
French	Bol au pif	Random luck
German	Elektriker	Electrician
Italian	Lotteria	Lottery
Spanish	Algo de Suerte	A Bit of Luck

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (GCN) / Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Switch) items
Battle items	Boo's Sheet • Coconut Bomb • Courage Meal • Courage Shell • Dizzy Dial • Earth Quake • Egg Bomb • Fire Flower • Fright Mask • Hot Sauce • HP Drain • Ice Storm • Love Pudding • Mini Mr. Mini • Mr. Softener • Mystery • Peach Tart • Point Swap • POW Block • Power Punch • Repel Cape • Ruin Powder • Shooting Star • Sleepy Sheep • Spite Pouch • Stopwatch • Thunder Bolt • Thunder Rage • Volt Mushroom • Zess Dynamite
Badges	All or Nothing • Attack FX B • Attack FX G • Attack FX P • Attack FX R • Attack FX Y • Bump Attack • Charge • Charge P • Chill Out • Close Call • Close Call P • Damage Dodge • Damage Dodge P • Defend Plus • Defend Plus P • Double Dip • Double Dip P • Double Pain • Feeling Fine • Feeling Fine P • Fire Drive • First Attack • Flower Finder • Flower Saver • Flower Saver P • FP Drain • FP Plus • Gold Medal^a • Hammer Throw • Hammerman • Happy Flower • Happy Heart • Happy Heart P • Head Rattle • Heart Finder • HP Drain • HP Drain P • HP Plus • HP Plus P • Ice Power • Ice Smash • Item Hog • Jumpman • L Emblem • Last Stand • Last Stand P • Lucky Day • Lucky Start • Mega Rush • Mega Rush P • Money Money • Multibounce • Nostalgic Tunes^a • P-Down, D-Up • P-Down, D-Up P • P-Up, D-Down • P-Up, D-Down P • Peekaboo • Piercing Blow • Pity Flower • Power Bounce • Power Jump • Power Plus • Power Plus P • Power Rush • Power Rush P • Power Smash • Pretty Lucky • Pretty Lucky P • Quake Hammer • Quick Change • Refund • Return Postage • Shrink Stomp • Simplifier • Sleepy Stomp • Slow Go • Soft Stomp • Spike Shield • Super Appeal • Super Appeal P • Timing Tutor • Tornado Jump • Unsimplifier • W Emblem • Zap Tap
Equipment	Badge • Boots • Hammer • Super Boots • Super Hammer • Ultra Boots • Ultra Hammer
Recovery items	Cake Mix • Choco Cake • Coco Candy • Coconut • Couple's Cake • Dried Bouquet • Dried Mushroom • Electro Pop • Fire Pop • Fresh Juice • Fresh Pasta • Fried Egg • Fruit Parfait • Golden Leaf • Gradual Syrup • Healthy Salad • Heartful Cake • Honey Candy • Honey Mushroom • Honey Super • Honey Syrup • Honey Ultra • Horsetail • Hot Dog • Hottest Dog^a • Icicle Pop • Ink Pasta • Inky Sauce • Jammin' Jelly • Jelly Candy • Jelly Mushroom • Jelly Super • Jelly Ultra • Keel Mango • Koopa Bun • Koopa Tea • Koopasta • Life Mushroom • Mango Delight • Maple Mushroom • Maple Super • Maple Syrup • Maple Ultra • Meteor Meal • Mistake • Mousse Cake • Mushroom • Mushroom Broth • Mushroom Cake • Mushroom Crepe • Mushroom Fry • Mushroom Roast • Mushroom Steak • Mystic Egg • Omelette Meal • Peachy Peach • Poison Mushroom • Slow Mushroom • Snow Bunny • Space Food • Spaghetti • Spicy Pasta • Spicy Soup • Super Mushroom • Tasty Tonic • Trial Stew • Turtley Leaf • Ultra Mushroom • Whacka Bump • Zess Cookie • Zess Deluxe • Zess Dinner • Zess Frappe • Zess Special • Zess Tea
Other	Dramalama Plaque • Fat Dog • Gold Bar • Gold Bar x3 • Inn Coupon • Marvelous Compass • Mushroom Full Course • Nitro Honey Syrup • Southern Fried Egg Dog of Tastiness • Star Piece • The Big Green 01
Important Things	Attack FX B • Autograph • Badge Trophy^a • Battle Trunks • Black Key • Blanket • Blimp Ticket • Blue Key • Blue Potion • Box • Briefcase • Cake • Castle Key • Champ's Belt • Chuckola Cola • Cog • Contact Lens • Cookbook • Cooking Trophy^a • Data Disk • Dubious Documents • Elevator Key (Riverside Station) • Elevator Key (X-Naut Fortress) • Galley Pot • Gate Handle • Gold Card • Gold Ring • Goldbob's Pass • Gold Whacka Bump^a • Green Potion • Grotto Key • House Key • Lottery Ticket • Magical Map • Mailbox SP • Moon Stone • Necklace • Old Letter • Orange Potion • Package • Palace Key • Platinum Card • Poisoned Cake • Present • Prince Mush's Belt^a • Puni Orb • Ragged Diary • Red Key • Red Potion • Routing Slip • Security Key • Shell Earrings • Shine Sprite • Shop Key • Silver Card • Skull Gem • Special Card • Star Key • Station Key • Steeple Key • Storage Key • Strange Sack • Sun Stone • Superbombomb • Super Luigi • Tattle Trophy^a • The Letter "p" • Threatening Note^a • Train Ticket • Ultra Stone • Up Arrow • Vital Paper • Wedding Ring • Wrestling Magazine
^a Exclusive to the Nintendo Switch remake

Lucky Start

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