Winning a stage allows the participating characters to gain EXP and level up. After recruiting a character, you can replay his/her/its stage again for a rare chance of getting items after winning. Said ability can be swapped by using a Dash Mushroom, which only works on certain characters.

Once the character joins you, you can use them as your own attack icons, which have their own ability that can be used to your advantage. Later updates improve this by adding Super Friend Boost, which, while also depends on chance on activation, will raise the recruit rate even more if the first try fails (in addition to the boost from the second try). After doing so, the character may want to join you, but their decision is up to luck. The objective is to deplete the target character's HP to nothing in a limited number of moves or time. Create a match by lining up 3 or more character icons. Much like the base game, you use your stylus to move the character icons around. 2.3.1 Launch Celebration: Beat Banzai Bill.

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