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Cuphead: Botanic Panic! walkthrough

Inkwell Isle One, on foot: three garden vegetables come up out of the soil one after another.

  • About 1–2 min in the videos
  • 1 part · 3 steps
  • 1 boss

Compiled from 3 playthrough videos and 5 guides · checked Oct 18, 2026

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Video: ProsafiaGaming on YouTube. Loads from youtube-nocookie.com only when you press play.

What each player can do here

P1 · Cuphead
  • IGN's suggested loadout: Peashooter and Chaser with the smoke dodge charm (Smoke Bomb).
P2 · Mugman
  • Mugman can join or leave at any time. If one of you goes down, the other brings them back by parrying their heart while it is still on screen.

If your skill levels differ: Cuphead and Mugman play the same way, so split by job rather than by character. A fallen player only comes back if the partner parries their heart, so the steadier player should play it safe; a newer player can take the Smoke Bomb charm, which makes you invincible while dodging. How to split the roles

The fight

Part 1 of 1. Beat the boss phase by phase.

  1. BothPotato: jump the balls of dirt and parry the pink worm that ends each volley to build your super meter.
  2. BothOnion: keep moving under the falling tears; look for the pink ones if you need extra parries.
  3. BothCarrot: shoot down the homing carrots and stay on the move when its third eye fires.

Boss

The Root PackThe boss of this fight

  1. Potato: Spits balls of dirt along the ground, finishing each volley with a pink worm.
  2. Onion: Cries tears that rain down from above; some are pink.
  3. Carrot: Launches homing carrots and fires a beam from its third eye.
  • IGN suggests spending the Peashooter super on the onion, using the Chaser against the carrots, and running back and forth under the eye beam instead of jumping it.

Achievements and extras

  • Secret: if nobody attacks the onion, a fourth vegetable shows up.
Sources (8)

Steps compiled from 3 playthrough videos and 5 text guides, checked Oct 18, 2026, and written in our own words. We did not play the game for this guide.