Hyper Cleft
A Hyper Cleft inPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
First appearance	Paper Mario (2000)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
Variant of	Cleft
Variants Hyper Bald Cleft
Comparable Hyper Spiky Goomba

AHyper Cleft is a bright greenCleft with purple shoes, capable ofcharging its attacks to do a very large amount of damage, like the other "hyper" enemies. Like normal Clefts, they are spiked, sojumping on them will not work unlessMario is wearing theSpike Shieldbadge. Also like normal Clefts, they have relatively high defense, so using an attack that flips them over or pierces defense is effective.

History[edit]

Paper Mario[edit]

InPaper Mario, Hyper Clefts appear inGusty Gulch alongsideHyper Goombas andHyper Paragoombas, effectively acting as a more difficult substitute for a hyper versionSpiked Goombas. They act like normal Clefts on the overworld but are much faster. While charged, their attacks cause eight points of damage if not blocked.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]

Hyper Clefts reappear inPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and itsNintendo Switch remake inTwilight Trail, where they again appear alongside other "hyper" enemies, which now includesHyper Spiky Goombas. When charged, they now do nine points of damage if not blocked, but are no longer as fast as they previously were on the overworld. A spike-less subtype calledHyper Bald Cleft appears earlier, in theGlitz Pit.

Profiles and statistics[edit]

Paper Mario[edit]

Paper Mario enemy
Hyper Cleft
		Max HP	4	Attack	3	Defense	3 (standing), 1 (flipped)
		Role	Common	Type	Ground, Top-Spiky (standing), Ground (flipped)	Level	15
		Strong	Fire	Weak	None	Moves	Spike Charge (3), Charge Up, Missile-Charge (8), Struggle, Stand Up
		Sleep?	40%, -1	Dizzy?	50%, -1	Shock?	50%, 0
		Shrink?	90%, 0	Stop?	90%, 0	Fright?	30% (standing); 0% (flipped)
		Air Lift?	30%	Hurricane?	30%	Coins	2 + 1-3
		Items	None	Run	18	Location(s)	Gusty Gulch
Tattle	This is a Hyper Cleft. Hyper Clefts have more defense power than normal Clefts. Max HP: 4, Attack Power: 3, Defense Power: 3 They sometimes charge their power before attacking. That charged attack will take away 8 HP, so watch out when they start to glow. It'll miss you if you can become transparent. Their defense power will fall to 1 if you use an explosion to flip 'em over. And in case you hadn't noticed, they have spikes up top! It'll hurt if you jump on 'em.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]

GameCube[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Hyper Cleft
	Max HP	4	Attack	3	Defense	3
	Location(s)	Twilight Trail,Pit of 100 Trials (Levels 32, 35, 37)	Role	Common	Level	17
	Sleep?	40%	Dizzy?	40%	Confuse?	40%
	Tiny?	65%	Stop?	90%	Soft?	100%
	Burn?	0%	Freeze?	60%	Fright?	40%
	Gale Force?	30%	KO?	95%	Moves	Charge (3), Charge Up (ATK+6), Missilecharge (9)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	1 - 4	Items	Dried Shroom (drop only),Earth Quake,Mini Mr. Mini,Repel Cape,Super Shroom
Tattle Log #: 82	Log	A hyperactive Cleft that uses charge moves to boost its Attack power to 9.
	Tattle	That's a Hyper Cleft. It's basically a Cleft that uses charged-up moves. Max HP is 4, Attack is 3, and Defense is 3. When it charges up, its Attack power rises to 9. Couple its rock-hardness with its ability to charge up... and things get scary. If you're confident, you may wanna try doing Superguards to send its attacks back... If you can't, you'd better use some items, or you'd better hightail it out of here.

Nintendo Switch[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Hyper Cleft
	Max HP	4	Attack	3	Defense	3
	Location(s)	Twilight Trail,Pit of 100 Trials (Levels 32, 35, 37)	Role	Common	Level	17
	Sleep?	40%	Dizzy?	40%	Confuse?	40%
	Tiny?	65%	Stop?	90%	Soft?	100%
	Burn?	0%	Freeze?	60%	Fright?	40%
	Gale Force?	30%	KO?	95%	Moves	Charge (3), Charge Up (ATK+6), Missilecharge (9)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	1 - 4	Items	Dried Mushroom (drop only),Earth Quake,Mini Mr. Mini,Repel Cape,Super Mushroom
Tattle Log #: 85	Log	A hyperactive Cleft that uses charge moves to boost its Attack power to 9.
	Tattle	That's a Hyper Cleft. It's basically a Cleft that uses charged-up moves. Max HP is 4, Attack is 3, and Defense is 3. When it charges up, its Attack power rises to 9. Couple its rock-hardness with its ability to charge up... and things get scary. If you're confident, you may wanna try doing Superguards to send its attacks back... If you can't, you'd better use some items, or you'd better hightail it out of here.

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