User blog comment:Paleomario66/Mario's Higher-End feats: Outliers or not?/@comment-33067344-20180809224134/@comment-30294856-20180812133519

The Fire Flower and Blue Shell barely boost his power though. Also, in other games, such as Superstar Saga, Mario can use even better forms of fire than the Fire Flower does, such as the ones used by the fire god.

I looked into it, and yeah, Bowser was defeated through strategy, but later, Mario can defeat a clone of Bowser directly from Belome, who can clone anyone who is in battle, so Bowser having infinite HP and Mario having to use strategy to defeat him should be a game mechanic.

Bowser used the Star Rod to become all-powerful in comparison to 7 other 2-B characters, that doesn't mean him being 2-B is an outlier. Bowser was also far weaker back then compared to Mario Party 5, Dream Team, Colour Splash, and Super Paper Mario. This is because the Star Spirits remember the Mario cast from Paper Mario, Dream Team takes place after other M&L games, which Superstar Saga is demonstrably after Paper Mario because of the Blocks in the Hooniversity, and the other Paper Mario games reference the past ones.

If you're wondering about evidence that Bowser got more powerful, Mario scales to Star Rod Bowser in the first Paper Mario game and then Bowser later somewhat is able to pose as a challenge to Mario on multiple occasions in TTYD, which takes place chronologically after the first Paper Mario.

Mario scales to 2-B characters on five occasions, and saying that the Star Rod feat is an outlier is a flimsy point since Bowser was much weaker back then.

How is it a hyperbole though? Also, is a pit it has no bottom, then it goes down forever, which is literally the definition of infinite.