Banjo vs Yoshi
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YoSHI
BACKGROUND
After going on holiday to Dinosaur Land, Peach was (once again) kidnapped by Bowser. But this time, shortly after setting out to rescue her, they came across a dinosaur like creature. The Yoshi, named Yoshi, helped the Mario Bros. rescue the princess, and they helped him rescue all of his friends that had been trapped in eggs by the Koopa Kids. From then on, Yoshi would appear both as an individual and as a species to help Mario out, from transporting him as a baby to his parents after the stork carrying the brothers were attacked by Bowser's forces to allowing Mario to possess him through Cappy in order to pass some platforming challenges. And with a strong tongue coupled with a seemingly insatiable appetite, Yoshi can certainly pull his weight while adventuring.
EQUIPMENT
Regular Eggs
Can ricochet off of flat surfaces
Can ricochet off of water
Knocks a giant Koopa over with repeated eggs
Knocks back a giant Burt the Bashful
Easily plows through dirt
Eggs can pierce through enemies
Breaks large spikes off of the ceiling with an egg
Destroys spikey metal balls
Destroys cracked stone blocks of about Yoshi's size
Breaks large stone blocks with two eggs
Destroys a large stone block with an egg
Large Eggs
Capable of easily destroying large amounts of pipes
Easily break stone when thrown
Sends a kaiju Baby Bowser back with a large egg
Eating giant metal enemies allows Yoshi to creates enormous metal eggs which roll along the ground, easily destroying stone and letting Yoshi sink through water
Giant eggs will bounce twice off of walls before losing all momentum
Power Flower
Allows Yoshi to breathe fire for a period of time
Mushroom
Makes characters giant, allowing them to destroy brick blocks, Bullet Bill launchers, and thwomps by walking into them, and no-sell large rolling metal balls with ease
Wario with the mushroom was unharmed by rolling boulders slightly bigger than him in this form, though it's unknown if this is just because of his greater strength to begin with
Dash Pepper
Makes Yoshi run forwards, fast enough to run up walls and across ceilings
Runs on water
Yoshi's Wings
When Yoshi collects a pair of wings, he turns blue and gains the ability to fly
Blimp Berry
Fills Yoshi with gas, making him float upwards as he blows the gas to propel himself
Turbo Tulip
Turns Yoshi into a large egg and allows them to launch themselves at high speeds
Heart Fruit
Upon eating a Heart Fruit, Yoshi becomes invincible, gains unlimited eggs to throw, can flutter jump for longer, and can stick their tongue out much further for a limited period
Yoshi Star
Allows Yoshi to run along walls and ceilings
Makes Yoshi invincible to enemies and spikes
Red Yoshi Star
Yoshi blitzes through the air for a short time, easily breaking large stone blocks and pipes
Caps
In Super Mario 64 DS, Yoshi can put find the caps of Mario, Luigi, and Wario throughout some levels, as well as put them on at the start of each level if they've been unlocked. Putting on the cap transforms Yoshi into that character until it's taken off.
Mario can shatter brick blocks with a punch, as well as wall jump
Mario is the only character with access to the wings, which allow him to fly around for a short period of time
With the Power Flower, Mario becomes inflated and floats around, bouncing off surfaces slightly. This automatically goes away after a short period of time, or can be forced away by ground pounding
Luigi can shatter large brick blocks with a punch, scuttle to slow his descent, spin after conducting a backflip to also slow his fall, and run on water for a short time.
With the Power Flower, Luigi turns invisible and intangible, capable of walking through wire fencing, a magic mirror, and some walls, while also being immune to toxic gas
Wario can smash large black brick blocks and giant boulders with a punch, as well as hit posts into the ground with a single ground pound while other characters require three.
With the Power Flower Wario turns metal, becoming immune to enemy attacks, not needing to breathe underwater, and be unaffected by poisonous gas
Bulb Berry
Makes Yoshi create a large amount of light that diminishes as the effect starts to wear off
Has a minor x-ray effect
TRANSFORMATIONS
Ball
Allows Yoshi to bounce around. Like this, he can damage and break large stone cubes, albeit badly cracked ones
Jackhammer
Yoshi turns into a jackhammer, capable of quickly destroying large stone blocks
Car
Makes Yoshi a car, able to raise himself off of his wheels to avoid enemies
Mine Cart
Rolls along as a mine cart capable of jumping
Bobsleigh
Quickly moves along snowy terrain, capable of jumping
Mole Tank
Allows Yoshi to easily dig through dirt
Can drive up walls and ceilings
Train
Turns Yoshi into a train, which can shrink and travel along track drawings on walls
Hot Air Balloon
Yoshi transforms into a slowly descending hot air balloon
Flies through the air as one in Yoshi's New Island"
Helicopter
Lets Yoshi fly through the air as a helicopter
Sailboat
Yoshi turns into a sailboat
Boat
Yoshi turns into a propelled boat, capable of jumping out of the water
Submarine
Allows Yoshi to easily move through water, and allows him to fire homing torpedoes
Torpedoes can destroy blocks of rocks
Torpedoes can destroy large stone blocks with two torpedoes
ABILITIES
Eating
Keeps a rabbit almost as big as him in his mouth
Keeps a crazy crate (a block which is bigger than him) in his mouth, but is still affected by its bouncing
Eats a large spiky plant
Eats an apple bigger than him
Instantly eats a giant pineapple
Eats a Wiggler
Abilities - Offensive
Can spit out enemies at high velocity as opposed to swallowing them
Puts a Bullet Bill in his mouth and spits it out as a means of destroying things
Holds Spineys in his mouth and spits them out with enough force to hit a giant Laikatu high into the air, flipping several times
Green watermelons allows Yoshi to spit speeds rapidly, each of which are capable of destroying a small amount of dirt
Eats fire from a campfire and keeps it in his mouth, releasing it later to melt ice
Spits fire after eating a fire-based enemy
Eating a fire-spitting Piranha Plant allows him to spit a fireball
Yoshi can put a red shell in his mouth to spit out three fireballs capable of shattering blocks
Red watermelons allow Yoshi to breathe bursts of fire, capable of instantly melting large blocks of ice
Eating an ice-spitting Piranha Plant allows him to spit a ball of ice
Blue watermelons allow Yoshi to spit ice that instantly freezes enemies
By holding a yellow shell in his mouth, Yoshi lands every jump with a ground pound
Abilities - Other
With a blue shell in his mouth, Yoshi sprouts wings and can fly
Yoshis can change their colour, and the juice they can spit, based on the fruit they eat
Eating enemies can make Yoshi create star bits
Can eat ghosts
Undoes the curse that turned Egglings into apples by eating them
Laying
Yoshi can swallow enemies and almost instantly create eggs by swallowing them
Bigger enemies create bigger eggs
With some effort, can swallow comparatively enormous enemies and create enormous eggs
Eating enormous metal enemies creates enormous metal eggs
Creates numerous eggs after eating fruit, with the amount created differing between fruits
After eating 5 of a certain type of fruit, Yoshi lays an egg which contains a power up
By eating two pink berries, Yoshi lays an egg which hatches to reveal a cloud that drops coins with smiling faces
Jumping
Flutter Jump: Also known as the hovering jump, has Yoshi rapidly run in the air for a short time, keeping himself suspended in the air and even gaining some height towards the end
Triple Jump: Jumps three times in sequence, each jump getting him extra height
Wall Jump: Jumps between two nearby walls, gaining height while doing so. Yoshi can use his tongue to do this
After using his tongue to wall jump, he latches onto the wall
FEATS
Strength
Shatters a wooden crate
Breaks large blocks made of stones by ground pounding
Breaks brick blocks by ground pounding
Shatters the shell of a giant Koopa with repeated ground pounds to its underside
Can shatter a Whomp with a ground pound
Damages a large Whomp with ground pounds to the back
Slams in a stone switch that's unaffected by his weight
Drives a post into the ground
Ground pounds a brick column into the ground slightly, though it needed to be done to drain the water and therefore was designed to go down when enough force was applied
Plows through dirt
Creates waves in the ground
Flips an anthropomorphic elephant by ground pounding near it
Knocks numerous Shy Guys out of a tree by ground pounding in front of it
Shatters crystal with his head (782 KW/cm2)
Pushes a large box
Pushes a spherical boulder about the same size as him
Pushes around a chomp rock that's bigger than Yoshi and heavy enough to break a platform made of stones after falling a short distance and destroy metal spiked balls by rolling on them
Pulls a large amount of wood with his tongue
Throws a large egg far into the distance
Destroys a koopa shell by landing on it
Breaks a large block made of stones by jumping into it
As Mario, shatters a giant brick (11 MW/cm2)
Speed
Runs up a pillar
With Dash Pepper, is fast enough to run up walls and across ceilings (170 mph)
Durability
Has baby Mario fall through the sky and onto his head, but is fine
Has baby Bowser fall a large distance onto him
Gets hit by a grown Raphael the Raven, sending him flying to what seems to be a very small moon in the sky
Gets fired out of a cannon with enough force to break part of a brick wall
Can land on Jumping Piranha Plants without getting hurt
Jumps on Pokeys without being hurt
Unhurt by holding Spineys in his mouth
Unhurt from eating a large spikey plant
Jumps off the roof of Peach's castle, seemingly into a river
Is fine being launched between tiny planets
Holds fire in his mouth and later spits it out
Is swallowed by a frog and comes out the other end after a boss fight, unharmed by its stomach acid
Smashed his face into a f**king crystal (782 KW/cm2)
BANJO KAZOOIE
BACKGROUND
Banjo is a lazy but good-hearted bear that plays the banjo. Kazooie is his freeloading, snarky bird pal. They go on many adventures and defeat the evil witch Gruntilda on multiple occasions. Their goal is the collection of golden puzzle pieces, musical notes, colorful little birds, eggs, feathers, extra lives, honeycomb, and practically anything else they can get their hands on.
EQUIPMENT
Pack Whack
This technique allows Banjo to hit enemies with his backpack.
Taxi Pack
This technique allows Banjo to carry large objects around in his backpack.
Snooze Pack
This technique allows Banjo to regenerate health by sleeping inside of his own backpack.
Shack Pack
With this, Banjo can both protect himself from hazardous liquids such as boiling water, and fit through gaps normally too small to fit through.
Sack Pack
With this technique, Banjo can hop into his backpack like a sack race sack and hop over dangerous terrain.
Wading Boots
These are boots that Kazooie can pick up and wear temporarily. This allows Banjo and Kazooie to walk across dangerous terrain such as the crocodile-infested waters of Bubblegloop Swamp.
The Turbo Trainers
The Turbo Trainers are another pair of shoes that Kazooie can wear. They allow Banjo and Kazooie to move quickly for a short amount of time!
The Amaze-o-Gaze Glasses
These are basically binocular goggles with a zoom feature.
Springy Step Shoes
These shoes allow Banjo and Kazooie a powerful jump
Claw Clamber Boots
These shoes allow Banjo and Kazooie to walk up walls.
TRANSFORMATIONS
Termite
In Mumbo's Mountain, Mumbo grants Banjo the power to transform into a giant termite.
This termite has the ability to walk on slanted surfaces that even the Talon Trot cannot move across.
Crocodile
In Bubblegloop Swamp, Mumbo grants Banjo the power to transform into a crocodile.
This crocodile has the ability to wade through the water without getting attacked by other crocodiles.
Walrus
In Freezeazy Peak, Mumbo grants Banjo the power to transform into a walrus.
The walrus is unusual in that it has no special abilities, but the transformation is used to befriend a timid walrus and acquire an item from him.
Pumpkin
In Mad Monster Mansion, Mumbo grants Banjo the power to transform into a pumpkin.
This pumpkin is so small, it has the ability to reach areas that Banjo-Kazooie would otherwise not be able to reach.
Bee
In Click Clock Wood, Mumbo grants Banjo the power to transform into a bee.
This bee, like all other bees, has the ability to fly as well as the ability to traverse harmful snapping flowers unharmed. This transformation also appears in an improved form in Cloud Cuckooland, in which the bee has the ability to shoot stingers at foes
Mouse
Mumbo grants Banjo the power to transform into a mouse
Being a mouse allows Banjo to nibble through things
Candle
Mumbo grants Banjo the power to transform into a candle
As a candle, Banjo can illuminate dark areas.
Octopus
Mumbo grants Banjo the power to transform into an octopus
As an octopus, Banjo can swim in dangerous waters and jump really high
Tank
Mumbo grants Banjo the power to transform into a tank (!!!)
As a tank, Banjo can fire powerful blasts from his main cannon
Stony
In Mayahem Temple, Humba grants Banjo the power to transform into a stout, rocklike version of himself.
This rocky critter has the ability to perform a powerful barge attack.
Detonator
In Glitter Gulch Mine, Humba grants Banjo the power to transform into a TNT detonator.
This, as you might expect, grants him the power to detonate explosives.
Van
In Witchyworld, Humba grants Banjo the power to transform into an armored van.
This van, besides being armored enough to drive through lava like it isn’t a big deal, is also loaded with cash!
Submarine
In Jolly Roger Lagoon, Humba grants Banjo the power to transform into a submarine
This submarine is fully armed and capable of firing torpedoes as well as emitting a powerful sonar attack.
T-Rex
In Terrydactyland, Humba grants Banjo the power to transform into a baby T-rex, as well as a BIG Daddy T-Rex.
It’s a T-Rex, what more do you need to know? They can be pretty scary.
Washing Machine
In Grunty Industries, Humba grants Banjo the power to transform into a washing machine.
This transformation allows Banjo to… wash clothes. Hey, they can’t all be winners.
Snowball
In Hailfire Peaks, Humba grants Banjo the power to transform into a big snowball.
This snowball grows bigger the more snow it rolls in
Dragon Kazooie
After being gifted with the powerful Mega-Glowbo, Humba grants Kazooie the power to transform into a draconic form
This form allows Kazooie to breathe fire.
ABILITIES
Banjo can jump. (Wow, incredible)
Banjo can perform a larger standing jump, and Kazooie can attack with her beak. (Holy shit)
Banjo can swim. (Marvelous)
Banjo can climb trees. (What a bear)
Banjo can do forward somersaults.
The Ancient Ways of the Egg
The Ancient Ways of the Egg is a technique that allows Kazooie to store and fire eggs, either out from her mouth or rear end (excuse me?).
Egg Aim
This simply allows Kazooie to aim her eggs with more finesse and accuracy by looking down ironsights. They later get an upgrade allowing them to do this while in the air and underwater
Breegull Blaster
The Breegul Blaster allows Banjo to hold Kazooie in his hands and shoot eggs out of her like a rifle.
Beak Bayonet
This is an upgrade to the Breegull Blaster that allows Banjo to attack enemies with Kazooie’s beak like a bayonet while in Breegull Blaster mode.
Battery Eggs
Battery Eggs are a different kind of egg that Kazooie can fire. These eggs are electrically charged, and can power machinery or shock bad guys.
Fire Eggs
Fire Eggs are similar to the regular old eggs Kazooie usually fires, but - as implied by the name - they have an incendiary twist.
Grenade Eggs
Grenade Eggs are different from the normal eggs that Kazooie fires in that they are highly dangerous explosives. Banjo and Kazooie have to handle these with care, because they can hurt themselves with the blast.
Ice Eggs
These eggs are freezing cold hunks of solid ice, which apply a chilling effect on whatever they hit.
Clockwork Kazooie Eggs
These eggs are clockwork, Kazooie-shaped bombs that can be remote-controlled.
Golden Eggs
These are a limited-time only powerup. When activated, they allow Kazooie to rapidly fire eggs with unlimited ammo.
The Beak Buster
The Beak Buster is a move which can be used while Banjo and Kazooie are in midair. Banjo flips upside-down and Kazooie appears out of his backpack. Banjo falls down and Kazooie smashes whatever is below him with her beak.
The Talon Trot
The Talon Trot is a move in which Kazooie supports Banjo on her back and runs around. This is useful for clambering up steep inclines.
Flying
Kazooie can fly (no shit), and carry Banjo while flying, with the help of red feathers.
The Shock Jump Spring
The Shock Jump Spring is an exceptionally high jump that Kazooie can perform.
Invulnerability
This move has Kazooie shield Banjo with her wings, making him invulnerable (Bottles specifically says it will make Banjo invulnerable). However, this invincibility is temporary, and requires valuable golden feathers to use.
The Beak Bomb
The Beak Bomb is a move that can be used while Banjo and Kazooie are flying. Kazooie darts forward in midair and spears whatever is in front of her with her beak.
Grip Grab
This is a move that allows Banjo and Kazooie the ability to… shimmy across ledges. Hey, have to walk before you can run!
Bill Drill
This move allows Kazooie to perform a drilling attack with her beak.
Talon Torpedo
This is an underwater move where Kazooie can act like a torpedo, plowing her way through aquatic obstacles.
Breegull Bash
When all negotiations fail, Banjo can grab Kazooie and slam enemies with her like a club. Poor Kazooie!
Split Up
This incredible move allows Banjo and Kazooie to act separately. Yes, they need a mole to explain to them how to move around independently of each other.
Pack Whack
This technique allows Banjo to hit enemies with his backpack.
Wing Whack
This technique allows Kazooie to attack enemies with her wings.
Hatch
This technique allows Kazooie to actually hatch eggs.
Leg Spring
This technique greatly increases Kazooie’s jumping height.
Glide
This technique allows Kazooie to glide indefinitely.
FEATS
Banjo dodges a large fireball/meteor from Gruntilda (possibly mach 5)
Banjo can also survive getting hit by these meteors, something that is acknowledged by Gruntilda in-game. (Possibly 439 KW/cm2)
Banjo survives getting crushed by a trash compactor (something you have to do to get a Jiggy) and then fully regenerates using Snooze Pack. (Possibly 35 KW/cm2
Kazooie destroys a boulder that is larger than Banjo.
Kazooie smashes a large chunk of ice into pieces.
Kazooie breaks apart a brick wall.
Kazooie knocks a wrought-iron gate a far ways off its hinges.
Kazooie breaks a metal door into scraps with a single blow.
Kazooie can knock back Gruntilda, who is much larger than Banjo, with a peck.
Kazooie smashes a metal cage.
Kazooie body-checks a large column hard enough to shake it
As a tank, destroyed a giant stone structure (73 KW/cm2)
VERDICTS
NIKODY
Ok, So for the next battle (Banjo & Kazooie Vs. Yoshi). I think that Banjo may win. First of all Kazooie is able to lift up banjo and fly, this gives him the aerial advantage against yoshi. Another thing, Banjo can use Kazooie as a gun of some sort which can shoot eggs out of her mouth. Anyways another thing banjo can do is use his grenades. I am not good at predictions but I think Banjo might win.
ADVERT
Alright, so, Yoshi is physically superior to Banjo and Kazooie. Even when including questionable feats, Yoshi still has enough power to end Banjo in a single hit. If you wanted to include questionable scaling to that meteor Banjo dodged to say he’s mach 5, you could do the same for Yoshi by scaling him to Mario, who has a very similar and arguably more valid feat. And considering Yoshi can literally use a cap to transform into the Mario Bros, this scaling is more reasonable.
Banjo has a very wide and versatile arsenal, as well as a number of transformations. However, Yoshi counters with many of his own. The dude can become a car and a helicopter.
Honestly, not much to say, the boys can explain better than me.
PAPA SMURF
Before I get into this, do be aware that there will be no bias in this prediction. With that out of the way, this is a clear cut Yoshi win. Whatever Banjo and Kazooie have Yoshi either matches, counters or outright ignores it. In phsyical attack power Yoshi has in advantage, Durability is the same and in Speed he obliterates. Now that already would give him the win but lets compare some of the others. In Intelligence, while Banjo and Kazooie are portrayed as lazy, they still have enough knowledge to create functional vehicles and solve different types of puzzles but at the same time Yoshi does that, and sometimes more excluding the vehicle building part, all the time. Even looking at combat experience, Yoshi is extremely higher than the duo. He’s been fighting Bowser since he was a baby and has battled opponents with exceptionally high skill levels consistently. Baby yoshis have even been shown to keep up with people like Mario in combat fresh out of the egg. At close and long range Banjo would have a hard time keeping up. Finally, we have items and hax, and Yoshi has so much stuff he would debatably win even if you took away all of his phsyical stats. Transmutation hits Banjo hard since turning into other things is one of their main gimmicks, so any immunity or resistance is lost (Yoshi even has a resistance due to him turning back after a certain amount of time) and Yoshi practically bathes in transmutation items. Bubble sealing will take banjo out and Yoshi’s own transformations will be a struggle to deal with. There are so many win conditions Yoshi has while Banjo realistically only has a few and those aren’t foolproof at all. He could trap Yoshi in his backpack but he’d need to take kazooie out of his backpack, leaving him limited, and actually grab Yoshi. Waiting Yoshi out with wonderwing won’t work since A. Yoshi’s stamina can last for days and B. He has options to match that. Finally grabbing Yoshi with their wrench and holding him there. Just like the backpack they would have to grab Yoshi first and that’s a struggle on its own, along with the fact that they need to hold Yoshi without him escaping, and eventually they’ll be open for a counter. Or he just uses an item like the everything pow and turn them into a star while in their grasp. All In all, Yoshi just has more viable options to take the win more often than Banjo and Kazooie could dream of.
MKF4
Greetings everyone, MKF4 here again with another prediction. This time around I’m predicting for Banjo-Kazooie vs. Yoshi.
How does this fight go under most rulesets?
Well, I would curl up on my couch, grab the remote, and say…
There’s literally no contest under most rulesets, Yoshi just annihilates Banjo and Kazooie. It’s honestly pretty brutal. However, this is Smash Bracket, so we actually have some questions and a debate we can address. That being said, I think the winner is pretty clear cut this time around. Or at least more than usual, but not to the same level as when Kirby and Sephiroth destroyed Pokèmon.
Getting started, we’ll dive right into everyone’s favorite term in VS. Debating, the lousy annoying stat triangle. Looking through the data that’s been found, it appears that Yoshi should have a massive edge.
From what I know, Banjo’s best feat would be shattering a massive stone formation in Banjo-Tooie with a Grenade Egg. Frankly, this doesn’t surprise me at all, I expected the Grenade Eggs to be some of his best weapons in this fight. That being said, Yoshi should have him beat in spades. As Advert noted, the shattering was not a violent fragmentation, so it wouldn’t yield that many watts of power. Yoshi has a handful of AP feats that surpass it. For example, we have that one weird incident with the raven and the moon that I’m not sure Bracket will buy. Or more realistically, destroying brick blocks with egg launching, Eggdozer destruction power, etc.
Speed isn’t a contest in most scenarios Bracket will likely present, the Dash Pepper and Super Yoshi absolutely destroy any speed stats Banjo or Kazooie can output.
Finally, we have durability. Banjo survived getting crushed by a trash compactor, and Advert still hasn’t given me the calculation for watts.
LATER…
Alright, I got the calcs from Advert at last, and it comes out to 35KW/cm2.
That’s nice, but Yoshi’s raw output alone should be enough to surpass this durability feat.
So yeah, I feel Yoshi comfortably wins the stat-triangle without much to any issue whatsoever.
“But wait a minute, MK! Does Banjo have some sort of crazy hax that could totally change the fight in his favor?”
Yeah, no need to say anything else. Doesn’t help that all the transformations are down the drain due to needing outside help.
That being said, Banjo does have extra equipment. He’s got an army of vehicles. What do those vehicles do?
Well, they get around faster, so they really will help Banjo in the mobility game. It helps that the Wrench will let Banjo summon a vehicle whenever he needs one, so he might have an overall advantage there. Maybe, we’ll get to that.
Problem is, the vehicles don’t really do much else. They’re kind of like Wario’s vehicles in the last fight. They let Banjo close a gap and travel, but they can’t do too much in a fight. They have some useless hax like tech manipulation, which is worthless in this fight.
Don’t get me wrong, the vehicles have some useful stuff, like a flamethrower, just not anything that’ll be a major gamechanger. Elemental attacks are nice, but Yoshi deals with that sort of thing all the time. Forcefields are useful, but given Bracket’s ruleset, Yoshi should be able to break them.
And finally, Yoshi has reliable ways to stop the vehicles. Let’s talk about Yoshi’s hax and abilities.
In short, the tongue. That thing is really useful for getting rid of stuff Banjo can use. A Grenade Egg? Yoshi can grab it and promptly blast Banjo. Other projectiles? Same thing. Banjo brings out a literal car?
Well… Yoshi can’t exactly just eat them right off the bat, but…
Thanks to Advert’s math, we know the Giant Shy Guys Yoshi eats to make Eggdozers are just a bit smaller than the average Banjo vehicles. Meaning under usual circumstances, Yoshi can’t eat them. Problem is, if we’re giving Banjo everything, Yoshi gets everything.
And that includes mushrooms.
Yep, Yoshi gets way bigger and should reasonably be able to eat bigger stuff. If he doesn’t just step on the vehicles, he can eat them and turn them into Eggdozers. Even without eating the vehicles, Yoshi could still reasonably handle them most of the time. The Dash Pepper, Winged Yoshi, and Super Yoshi allow him to keep up in the mobility game and perhaps surpass the vehicles. Fire breath allows Yoshi to handle elemental attacks with his own. Watermelons allow Yoshi to keep up with his own projectiles. Transformations allow Yoshi to turn into vehicles himself. In short, anything Banjo and Kazooie can do, Yoshi can likely do, but Yoshi’s got stuff Banjo can’t do. And the skill and experience gap is enormous. Yoshi’s been on loads of adventures, while Banjo is frankly lazy. Some might say Yoshi is lazy as well, given the peaceful life he craves, but I will counter that. There is a difference between peaceful yet ready to do battle the instant you are needed and being so lazy you lost literally all of your powers. Yoshi is far more skilled, experienced, and capable.
So, does Banjo have any chance whatsoever in this fight? I think he could pull it off, but I personally doubt it. Wonderwing and Banjo’s projectiles help, but Yoshi can manage that. The vehicles help, but Yoshi can handle them as well. And Banjo is facing a stat-stomp against someone who actually gets to use their transformations and power ups, a serious uphill battle.
Given how Bracket works, I could very well have missed a feat or something that enables Banjo to win, and I’ll be fine with that, though I’m personally rooting for Yoshi. But from what I’ve seen and looked through, I personally feel that the mean green dino machine should come out the victor in this clash.
When these warriors battle and soar through the air,
There will be no victory for bird and bear!
Yoshi’s skill is just too great,
His victory will be first-rate!
