Who's the Strongest!? All of the Koopalings EXPLAINED!

#koopalings #nintendo #mario

[dennisellis]

I remember at one time Miyamoto said that Bowser adopted the Koopalings. I think they should stay with that story instead of just being his minions

[nintendolife]

Yeah, I think it’s safe to say Ludwig is the strongest and smartest among the Koopalings. He even managed to trick the Best Fitness Friends, the antagonists in Bowser Jr’s Journey.

[tyrian_baal]

The namer of the Koopalings actually clarifed on Larry's name, saying that he wasn't named after anyone rather that he "just looked like a Larry"

[animalnstinct]

To me and most Mario fans, we reject Miyamoto's retcon. The Koopalings will always be Bowser's kids. love the idea of him being a dad to a bunch of spoiled brats.

[cmrobbins]

So basically Larry is the youngest and the rookie, Morton’s the muscle, Wendy’s the token fashionista, Iggy’s the unhinged maniac, Lemmy is the playful short king, Roy is the cool but crude dude, and Ludwig is the brains and the leader.

[hollowcrafter]

I have always loved Iggy’s carefree attitude with a bit of insanity. Ok, well, a lot of insanity.

[nqlvbyc]

CAN WE JUST TALK ABOUT HOW FIRE MORTONS CHARACTER DESIGN IS??!?!?!

[malstygian]

Ludwig is my favorite for his maniacal laugh in the cartoons.

You mentioned that Roy was the final Koopaling boss only in Color Splash. Although you can play the areas in any order, he was also the last Koopaling boss in Yoshi's Safari (SNES) (1. Lemmy 2. Ludwig 3. Wendy 4. Larry 5. Morton 6. Iggy 7. Roy).

[torri]

Seriously, the Super Mario lore is insanely deep for a simple family friendly series. It's why I keep coming back to it, even as an adult. I really appreciate the way you use the RPGs for your reasoning, considering how deep they are.

[arthuralexander]

iggy is also my favorite one, but i always kinda disliked that they changed his design because when i was younger i used to create some headcanons about the koopalings due to them not having much character traits outside of the tv show, and the one i had for iggy and lemmy was that they were twins and thats why they looked so similar, and like every pair of twins in fiction, they had opposite personalities, with lemmy being a playful idiot and Iggy a insane genius

[Ihonestlydek]

Ludwig is obviously the strongest, my guy can fire multiple projectiles, a decently sized shell AND FLIES, bruh he takes the cake easily

[DarkCreed]

I never knew there was retcon. I always thought of them as Bowsers children and Bowser Jr as the youngest child and his chosen heir. I suppose they could be the children of Bowsers rivals, who he killed to become undisputed King.

[aidanroxks]

Iggy for sure is my favorite koopaling, it makes sense seeing how he's green and that's fav colour, I love that his world is always something to do with nature, and I love his sense of humor, you can definitely tell he's the funniest koopa, but is also quite smart in using chain chomp in his battles.

[m.]

I decided to do some math

According to the Mario Wiki, there are 10 games in which the Koopalings are fought. I chose to give them a point system, where being the boss of world 1 gave you 1 point, being the boss of world 2 gives you two, and so on and so forth. I averaged their difficulties by dividing the point total by 10

In order, these were the scores

Larry has 2.9 (Thus making him the weakest on average)
Morton has 3.1
Wendy has 3.7
Lemmy has 3.8
Iggy has 3.9
Roy has 4.6
Ludwig has 5.6 (Thus making him the strongest on average)

Interesting notes

Wendy and Ludwig are the only two Koopalings who have not been a world 1 boss. The earliest Ludwig has been fought is world 2, and the earliest Wendy has been fought is world 3.

No koopalings have been fought at least once in all 7 places in the order (The closest is Morton, who is missing a 7th spot

No world/fighting spot has had all 7 koopalings in them either (The fourth spot is missing roy)

Ludwig has 6 appearances as the 7th koopaling fought. (Roy has 2, Larry and Iggy have 1 each)

Wendy has 5 appearances as the 4th koopaling fought (Every other koopaling except roy has 1 appearence in world 4 each)

Lemmy has 4 appearances as the 6th koopaling fought (2 roys, 2 wendys, an Iggy and a Morton are the other appearences.)

Larry has 4 appearances as the 1st Koopaling fought ( 2 Lemmys, 2 mortons, a Roy and an Iggy are the other appearences.)

[SHADOWEMPERORB]

Roy deserves his own game where he’s the main character and he’s chill with everyone because he’s such a chad

[gamesier]

I found rare you didn't talk about bowser jr's journey, the koopalings really have time to shine in that game, they are basically the protagonists

[elizabethcoen]

3:26 What a coincidence! Iggy also happens to be my favorite Koopaling as well. So what if he's a bit unhinged, I think he's funny!

[-butterfly-]

I love all of the koopalings, but my favorite of all of them has to be Iggy, followed by Lemmy and Ludwig. I like the craziness about Iggy, and I actually also have a shirt with him on it.

[FlavoredGenuine]

Ludwig von Koopa and Roy Koopa are two of my favorite Koopaling bosses because they actually give us Mario fans a challenge and for us to use everything we learned in each of the Mario games.

[Chaoywowey]

I still never understand why Nintendo took them being bowser children away from him