Defense

Defense is a common stat that appears in the series mainly the RPGs. As such, it first appears in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.

Paper Mario series
In this series, Mario's default defense is always 0 unless he wears a Defend Plus badge that permanently raises his defense to 1. Mario's partners also have 0 defense except for Kooper, Parakarry, and Koops as they are all Koopa Troopas that always have a point of defense. Using certain items such as Courage Shells also raise defense but only for a few or so turns. Certain abilities such as Sushie's Water Block] and Koops' Shell Shield also raises defense for Mario only.