How To Defeat The Ice Vellumental

This is IGN's Paper Mario: The Origami King Walkthrough. Use this page to help you discover every, Non-Abysmal Hole, ?-Block, and Collectible Treasure in the Ice Vellumental Mountain! Since in that location are SO many secrets in each world that it can go a picayune overwhelming, we've highlighted each hugger-mugger so that they're easier for you to find! We as well accept tips for the Water ice Vellumental boss battle!

In that location are no Toads in the Ice Vellumental Mountain!
To find every Not-Bottomless Hole in the Ice Vellumental Mountain, look for the green-colored highlights!
To find every Collectible Treasure in the Ice Vellumental Mount, wait for the blue-colored highlights!
To find every ?-Cake in the Water ice Vellumental Mount (yea even the subconscious ones), look for the yellow-colored highlights!
To skip to the Water ice Vellumental Boss Battle tips, click here.

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How to find the Ice Vellumental Mountain

Ice Vellumental Mountain is found in Diamond Isle, a sunken island in the Great Bounding main. Afterwards unlocking the island and going inside, the path to the Ice Vellumental Mountain is to the left of the red Trial of Power temple. Destroy the two big snow blocks near the Save Cake; so, apply the path to walk up the mount.

To view our walkthrough guide on how to discover Diamond Isle and the Diamond Key, click here.

Welcome to Water ice Vellumental Mountain

Every bit the name suggests, you lot'll encounter many ice-type origami enemies within. Yous might want to consider stocking up on some Shiny Fire Flower items. Burn down Flowers and Fire Hammers are super effective against these enemies.

Cross the bridge that spans betwixt the two bear statues. Then, striking the ?-Cake on the correct side to gain Flashy Iron Boots. There are two origami Sidesteppers paces left and correct, between you and the doorway in the back, likewise as an origami Ice Bro that'll shoot ice when you lot approach. Y'all'll be revisiting this area later, so it'due south best to take them all out now for skilful. Hit one of the Sidesteppers with your Hammer when it's near the other ane to trigger a Wave Battle. Think that Sidesteppers are considered spiked enemies, so when attacking with Boots, always select your fe-blazon ones. After the Sidesteppers, yous'll need to battle the Water ice Bro. The battle contains a mix of Ice Bros. and Hammer Bros. Utilise the doorway to enter the next room.

The Floor is Water ice

Be careful as you walk around the Ice Vellumental Mountain considering many of the floors are covered in ice. This makes them very slippery! This rooms contains Not-Bottomless Holes #i-3 on the flooring and Not-Bottomless Hole#four on the right wall. In that location are several origami Sidesteppers pacing in this room. Since they simply motion side-to-side on their lane, they can exist avoided by only walking around them. There's a bag of i,000 coins in the back correct corner of the room. You lot can go it, without fighting any of the Sidesteppers. Await for the Sidestepper in the back to pass by and walk upwardly to the dorsum wall. Hug the wall, and you tin but walk to the left behind the Sidestepper and get the bag of coins.

It seems that Newspaper Mario: The Origami King took more than than just a Triforce reference from the Legend of Zelda serial, because Water ice Vellumental Mount is full of sliding water ice block puzzles. To the game's credit, though, it does make interesting use of them. Stand up on the flat ice block (we'll call these ice sheets for the remainder of the walkthrough) and face up the large snow block that'southward blocking the entrance to the next room.

When continuing on an ice sheet, if y'all hit a wall/breakable object with your Hammer, you'll demonstrate Newton's 3rd law of motion (refresher: for every activity, there is an equal and contrary reaction). This volition send you, and the ice sheet, sliding in the opposite direction of your swing.

By standing on the ice sheet and breaking the snow block, you'll slide the ice sail onto the missing department on the floor and patch information technology upward. This allows you to walk under the ?-Cake . Hit it to gain some coins. Now, employ the open passage to enter the side by side room.

Slide and Destroy

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In the next room, fix Not-Abysmal Holes #5 &6 on the flooring. The water ice sheet in this room is on the front-right corner. Y'all'll need to slide it into position in front of the doorway on the left side of the room.

In that location's also a doorway on the correct side of the room. This leads to a minor room with a confetti refill and a ?-Block containing 100 coins.

Ice sheets can destroy origami soldiers if they slide into them. This room is your introduction to that! Stand on the ice sheet and hammer the front wall to slide to the back-left corner. Then, apply your hammer on the left wall to slide to the back-right corner. Keep to use your hammer to slide to the front-right corner, so to the middle, and lastly to the back of the room, to access the left doorway and enter the next expanse of the mountain.

Caput'southward Upwards

Walk across the icy bridge. When you get about halfway through, you'll encounter an Origami Sledge Bro above that'll brainstorm to jump – causing icicles to fall from in a higher place and destroy the residuum of the bridge. You need to accept out the Sledge Bro. Get to him past using the new ice platform on the right and reach the ledge with the ?-Cake (100 coins). Go up the stairs to attain the Sledge Bro.

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Well-nigh halfway upwardly the staircase, you lot'll need to fix Non-Bottomless Hole#vii to continue. At the same time, you'll need to dodge the hammers that the Sledge Bro is throwing at you. Information technology takes about three tosses of confetti to patch the pigsty. To avoid beingness hitting by the hammers, dorsum abroad after each confetti toss. If you stand up nonetheless too long, the hammer will hit you, causing 20 damage. Attain the finish of the staircase to initiate a wave battle with the Sledge Bro. Sledge Bros. accept over 35HP. With a lineup bonus, Shiny Burn Flower takes out a Sledge Bro. with a unmarried Excellent hit, and it knocks out Ice Bros. with minimal endeavour.

After the battle, apply the Magic Circle to smash the large icicles with the one,000-Fold Arms. They'll drop and let you to employ them as platforms to cease crossing the bridge. If y'all're a daredevil, you lot can do a bullheaded jump and hopefully state on the new ice platforms – instead of on the big spikes that environs them on the ground below.

The safer pick is to use the staircase to walk back downwardly. This option also allows yous to see the new platform that formed on the left side of the bridge. Leap beyond it to find a hidden hole in the left wall, with a breast containing a MAX Up Heart +5! Jump back onto the bridge and make your way to the Save Cake in the background.

The Grin Comport

After crossing the bridge, you'll accomplish an surface area with a massive bear head on the wall. In the middle of the area, there's a missing section in the floor. Not only is this department the verbal size of an ice sheet, there is as well half of a Magic Circle on it. Y'all'll need to find that missing piece and slide it here to restore the Magic Circle.

Go up the stairs on the left. At the top of the stairs is a doorway that leads to a small room containing a healing heart. This doesn't seem like much, only this small room is really useful. If y'all ever make a mistake that impedes you from completing the puzzle, simply walk in and out of this room to cause the puzzle to reset.

There are likely several ways to solve this puzzle. Check out the image to a higher place and the accompanying text to guide you through i solution. Use your Hammer to break the 4 snowfall blocks with the Hammer Icon, as shown in the image higher up. Breaking the snow block with the red assertion marking forces you to battle Ice Bros. After breaking only those 4 blocks, walk along the path and fix the left Not-Abysmal Hole(#8) . And so, hop onto the ice sheet.

You'll need to move the ice sheet to the correct and down, along the path you lot just created. Apply the image to a higher place for reference. Hammer the side indicated by each letter in alphabetical order. Before hit the terminal snow block, footstep off the water ice sheet and walk over to the wall to gear up Not-Bottomless Hole #ix . And then, step dorsum on the ice sheet and hammer the terminal snowfall block to have the ice sail home.

Stand on the Magic Circle and use the 1,000-Fold Artillery to dial the carry on the nose and open a passage into the next room. Don't forget to utilize the Salvage Block before entering the adjacent room.

The Spiral Staircase

As shortly as you enter this room, fix Not-Bottomless Hole#10 to attain the stairs. At that place are two origami Snow Spikes rolling large snowballs downward the stairs. One Spike is halfway upwardly the stairs, and the other is continuing at the very peak of the colonnade. If a snowball rolls over y'all, it'll carry you forth until information technology breaks.

You tin can avoid this by using the crevices in the center of the staircase for cover, or you can destroy the snowball with your Hammer right before it reaches you. Be sure to set up Not-Bottomless Hole#xi on the flooring inside the second crevice. When yous reach the Snow Spike halfway upwards the stairs, hit it with your Hammer to initiate a battle.

Some of the Snow Spikes you battle may be belongings a snowball above their head. The snowball shields the Snow Spike from your commencement Boots assault. To ignore this, merely attack with a Fire Blossom instead. Fire Flowers hit a line of enemies simply similar Boots do, simply they striking them from the forepart side – ignoring the snowball completely!

After the battle, in that location's a few secrets to make it this area. Before opening the chest containing Collectible Treasure No.90 Paper Manlike Buzzy Beetle , jump on top of it, then leap again to reveal a Hidden ?-Block floating above the chest. If you've already opened the chest, it'll be more hard to jump on top of it from the front. Stand behind the chest (where the hinge is) and jump to get on tiptop of the opened lid. Avoid the snowball, and make your way up the next gear up of stairs. The left railing has a gap in it. This gap lets you jump from the stairs onto the primal pillar. Collect the coins and fix Not-Abysmal Hole#12 .

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Subsequently fixing the pigsty, hammer the large fissure on the ice pillar to cause information technology to crumble. The second Snow Spike volition autumn on you and trigger a battle. After the boxing, continue going up the stairs and exit through the doorway at the top.

An Even Bigger Puzzle to Slide Through

The doorway in this hall leads to another small room and is used to reset all the blocks in the upcoming puzzle. Before going in, relieve yourself some fourth dimension and keep walking to reach the puzzle. Destroy the three snowfall blocks on the back-right corner of the puzzle room to exist able to fix the three Non-Bottomless Holes(#xiii-xv) on the walls.

And so, backtrack slightly to enter the doorway into the minor room and reset all the blocks. While you're here, refill your confetti and hit the ?-Block to gain 1,000 coins. Exit the room, use the Salve Block on the left, and so become toward the right to begin the puzzle.

There are likely several means to solve this puzzle. Use this to guide you through i solution. Use your Hammer to break the four snow blocks with the Hammer Icon, every bit shown in the image above. Breaking the snowfall block with the red exclamation marker forces you to battle Ice Bros. Later on breaking merely those four blocks, walk along the path and hop onto the ice canvass at the back-correct corner of the room.

You'll need to movement the water ice canvas so that it ends near the centre. Use the image higher up for reference. Hammer the side indicated past each letter in alphabetical guild.

Sliding in the Large Room

The journeying leaves you and the water ice canvass against the right wall of a very large room. In this room, you'll demand to hammer the walls/bear statues as you slide to go to the destination. Your goal is to make it onto the ledge in front of the big behave head. There are a few ways to practice this, but before that, there are a couple of things of which you should take notice.

Not-Bottomless Hole#16 is on the right wall near the front-right corner of the room.
Not-Bottomless Hole#17 is on the left wall most the dorsum-left corner of the room.
There the origami Ice Bro in the back-right corner will shoot you when you're close by.

Y'all should too note the doorway in the back-left corner that leads into a pocket-size room. Like with previous puzzles, enter the small room if you e'er demand to reset the position of the water ice canvas. When reset, the ice canvass is positioned on the right wall, as it was when you lot offset arrived in the large room. This small room has a little more than going on though. Use the warp pipage to travel to another minor room.

Open the chest in this room to proceeds Collectible Treasure No.91 Ice Vellumental Bust . Earlier going dorsum through the warp pipe, hammer the off-colored portion of the correct wall to open a passage to the entrance of the Ice Vellumental Mountain. After creating the opening, utilize the warp pipe and render to the ice sheet in the large room.

There are several means to slide the ice sheet and attain the ledge of the big bear head. Use the image above to guide you through ane method that allows you to accomplish the ?-Cake and ledge in 1 trip.

A) Stand up on the ice sheet and hammer the right wall to offset sliding to the left.
B) Hammer the bust as you're sliding to change direction toward the foreground.
C) Hammer the left bust to slide to the correct.
D) Hammer the front bust to travel to the back wall.

From hither, jump onto the ledge on the back-correct corner and boxing the Ice Bro. After the boxing, hitting the ?-Block to proceeds ane,000 coins; and then, jump back onto the ice sheet. Hammer the back wall and bound onto the bear head ledge equally you slide past it. Go inside the bear's oral cavity.

The Point of No Render

Gear up the final two Not-Bottomless Holes (#eighteen & xix) to receive 100% completion on all the Non-Bottomless Holes in the Ice Vellumental Mountain. Utilize the Relieve Block and jump over the step to find an ice canvass on the track side by side to you.

Once you lot ride this water ice sheet to the other side, you'll be unable to leave Water ice Vellumental Mountain until yous defeat the Ice Vellumental. If you lot demand to buy equipment or accessories before the boxing, do it now. Use the warp pipage you constitute earlier to travel to the entrance of the mountain; then, once you're ready, jump onto the water ice sail, hammer the wall, and enjoy the ride.

When yous land on the other mountain, hit the final three ?-Blocks to gain a Flashy Mushroom, a Shiny Burn down Flower, a Shiny Tail, and earn 100% completion for ?-Blocks in Ice Vellumental Mountain! Go up the steps on the right to boxing the Ice Vellumental.

Ice Vellumental Dominate Battle

The Ice Vellumental uses several defensive techniques to protect itself from your attacks. At the start of the battle, it'll ever encase itself in ice! You'll need to use the Fire Vellumental to melt information technology, but you won't exist able to do it right abroad. You'll need to open the chest to reveal the ON icon - this should be your showtime goal! While y'all're working to get the chest, end your turn on an Action Console to attack. If you are in the two inner rings, attack with a Fire Hammer. If you're in the outer ii rings, assault with a Fire Flower. If you lot have no more than Fire Flowers remaining, use a Hurlhammer. These attacks won't do more ane or 2 HP worth of damage on the Vellumential – just hey, it'due south something! If possible, walk over a red x2 or blueish + to increase the effectiveness of your attacks. Never use the Boots while the Vellumental is encased in ice –Mario will just slide off information technology and do 0 damage.

The Vellumental volition still attack while within the ice. Press A to cake some of the damage from the attacks. The Vellumental has several attacks that tin can exercise over 35 points of damage in 1 hit! After attacking, information technology'll encase itself in water ice again! Information technology'll continue encasing itself until you melt the water ice.

Once you've revealed the ON icon from the chest, your next turn should focus on activating the Magic Circles and landing on a Fire Vellumental space. Range doesn't affair when using the Burn Vellumental, and then use information technology anywhere you tin! The Burn Vellumental doesn't practise much damage either, but information technology does remove the ice around the Vellumental, which allows you to finally deal significant damage in the next turn.

After melting the ice encasing the Vellumental, don't set on with your Boots or Hammers. They'll all the same do very little damage. Non but that merely afterward using one of those attacks, the Vellumental will encase itself in ice again! This makes the battle very long. Your all-time option is to attack with the one,000-Fold Arms! You lot'll need to walk over the ON icon to activate all of the Magic Circles again. Activate them and end the plough on any of the one,000-Fold Arms Magic Circles. Y'all'll be able to hit the Vellumental from whatever distance, and so range doesn't matter for the i,000-Fold Arms in this battle. Repeatedly bash the Vellumental in the head, and you'll accept out, roughly, a third of its health with the set on. This too leaves the Vellumental stunned and unable to attack on its turn.

After attacking with the 1,000-Fold Arms, the ON icon disappears for a turn. Information technology is not on the battlefield, nor is it within a chest. The ON icon will return to the battleground on the following plow. For the residual of the battle, chests will only contain red x2/ blueish + icons, healing hearts, or coins. You'll demand to use a regular Action Panel to assail while you wait for the ON icon to return. The Vellumental volition as well encase itself in ice later on its plow - simply that's non all! It'll also first creating hazards on the battlefield!

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The Ice Vellumental forms frosty patches of ice that create a hazard on the battlefield. You can still move and slide frosted spaces like you would normally – only never walk over ane! If you walk onto a frosty space, it'll immediately freeze Mario and terminate your plow!

The Vellumental'due south other take chances is created past dropping chunks of ice onto the battlefield. These accept the same furnishings as the frosty patches, just you tin break them and even so use the panel they were roofing. To break the ice chunks, you need to slide the panels they're on, and so that the ice chunk travels to the other side of the ring. Yous can practice this by moving the panel into, or abroad, from the center. Later breaking the water ice clamper, it'll stay broken no thing where you position the panel. If you cancel the movement, yet, the ice chunk returns. Follow the same strategy to fight the Water ice Vellumental until it has nearly 25% of its wellness remaining.

Activate the Magic Circles and utilize the Burn Vellumental to melt the ice.
Later melting the water ice, activate the Magic Circles and assail with the i,000-Fold Arms.
Whenever you're unable to use the Magic Circles, attack with a Burn down Hammer, Hurlhammer, or Fire Flowers.

One time the Vellumental has about 25% or less of its health remaining, it'll use the Ice Maze move. True to its proper name, Ice Maze creates an icy maze on the battlefield. The maze has only i solution, which is shown to you at the start. Ice Maze isn't that bad on its own. The annoying attribute comes from the movement that immediately follows information technology: Glace Shuffle.

Slippery Shuffle spins three of the four rings around, shuffling the maze. It's important to annotation that you don't need to remake the maze again to assault. Remaking the path shown in the maze activates and finishes movement on the Magic Circumvolve. The 1,000-Fold Arms is the nigh efficient assault, but if you just can't solve the maze, you can yet do some damage by ending in a regular Action Panel and attacking with your weapons. Hither are some tips that can help you out.

Afterwards the Vellumental creates the ice maze, take a screenshot with the capture button. After Slippery Shuffle, go to the Switch habitation menu and await at the screenshot to see the solution to the maze.
The rings always rotate and never slide. You'll only need to slide them if you need to pause an ice chunk that's blocking your path.
The Slippery Shuffle always leaves at least one of the rings untouched. During the shuffle, spot any stationary rings and make sure not to move them.
Earlier the shuffle, look for a unique panel (like the ON icon or chest) on each ring to meet where they're located. Then, use them as your guide when repositioning the rings.

After defeating the Ice Vellumental

Olivia uses the Ice Vellumental ability to freeze the water surrounding the platform. This allows you to access the exit on the right side of the room – but don't leave yet!

First, go to the left and down the steps. Go on left, past the 3 floating blocks, and jump onto the ice toward the foreground. Follow the water ice to the left to discover a chest containing Collectible Treasure No.92 Origami Craftsman .

Afterwards getting the treasure, utilize the exit in the far right and slide down the ice. Yous'll cease your trip on top of a bear statue at the Water ice Vellumental Mountain entrance. Jump off the bear, and walk toward the left side to find Collectible Treasure No.93 Diamond Island ! You've gotten 100% for everything in Ice Vellumental Mountain, and with the new Water ice Vellumental ability, you're now able to do all of the trails in Diamond Island! Click hither to continue with this walkthrough on Diamond Island.

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