AI Can’t Train Amiibo AI

by Doc – Owner, Founder, Irreplaceable… by AI

I’ve started receiving a handful of disturbing comments on the Amiibo Doctor Youtube channel about people using ChatGPT to tell them how to train their amiibo, and the amiibo turns out poorly. First, if that’s you, just know that I have shed many a tear over those comments. Second, if that’s not you, just know that I have had immense chuckles over people choosing to ask ChatGPT instead of the actual amiibo training community.

So I asked ChatGPT how to train a Mario amiibo. Here’s part of the output of what I got. (Prompt was simply “how to train Mario amiibo”).

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🧩 STEP 4: Training Techniques

Early Training (Lv. 1–30)

• Fight it yourself on 1v1, 3-stock matches.
• Use good fundamentals: spacing, shielding, punishing, combos, edgeguards.
• Don’t SD (self-destruct); amiibo can pick up bad habits.

Mid-Level (Lv. 30–50)

• Mirror matches: train Mario vs. Mario to refine neutral and combo game.
• Let it fight different characters to build adaptability.
• Occasionally lose a stock so it learns about kill confirms and spacing.

Max Level (Lv. 50)

• Have it fight other amiibo for refinement.
• Test it against human players.
• It’ll continue adapting even after reaching level 50.

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🏋️‍♂️ STEP 5: Advanced Training

If you want to go deep (like competitive amiibo trainers do):

• Turn off items and stages with hazards — keeps learning focused on combat.
• Track behavior: does it jump too much? Roll often? Overuse one move? Retrain by punishing those habits.
• Use “Conditioning”: make it learn certain moves in specific situations (e.g., punishing recoveries with forward smash).
• Retrain by scanning to reset its learning data if it becomes too predictable.

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🔁 Optional: Spirits Mode

Spirits make your amiibo absurdly strong in tournaments:

• Use Armor Knight + Strong Throw / Critical Hit builds for power.
• Experiment — Mario benefits from improved jump or combo attack bonuses.

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ChatGPT Is a Problem For Amiibo Training

I’m sure that to the untrained eye this output looks totally fine for amiibo training! After all, what’s wrong with letting it adapt to fight other characters, teaching it kill confirms and spacing, and having it learn combos? Those certainly sound like a great Mario amiibo that can certainly compete.

That’s not how it works.

As I’ve said a million times on the channel and on here, you can’t use other characters (except in specific brain transplant circumstances that high level trainers focus on) to train characters. If you’re using Mario, you’re training Mario. Amiibo combos only exist a character-by-character basis. You can’t teach it to them. Amiibo don’t do “spacing”. You can’t teach that either. Everyone who actually trains knows this. I cannot underline enough how ridiculous it is that this information is being honestly put out there, and there’s other pieces of info in this output that’s also completely wrong.

But that’s the problem with the internet today! There were plenty of websites that, back when “amiibo training” was a long-tail keyword that could pull a little bit of revenue, would fart out a “guide” on how to train amiibo by someone who had never learned the first thing about it in a sad attempt to scrape out a few more viewers and get some revenue. I complained about this the other day already, so I’ll spare you the bore. My point is that AI doesn’t know about stupid profit motives and takes in bad information like this as gospel truth. And when you have the handful of websites and media that make up the competitive amiibo media resources, versus the dozens of cheap-traffic sites that regurgitate someone’s best guess, the uninformed websites win out every time.

Don’t ask AI how to train your amiibo, guys. We have Discords and websites set up for this for a reason. If you want to learn how to train amiibo, go ask here, not some AI.