Magman is at first intimidating, but he'll be molten rock before long. The first stage of this battle, will be on four platforms. Magman will stay in the background, and send out long lava tentacles and do different attacks with them. These tentacles are your target for the first part of the battle. Sometimes they'll come up and then just drop down, other times they'll raise platforms, and finally they may come up from the side and dro down on Kirby. Either way, you have plenty of time to move.

You can use an ability that is good from a distance, or take advantage of the Magoos hoping up between the attacks.

In the second phase, you'll be on Magman's turf as you both reach solid ground. He'll take one side and then shoot out Burnis'. These are great to inhale and shoot at him in the head. He'll also cause a rock fall when he shakes. He'll switch between sides of the platform, but just fly up and avoid him when he does it. His most dreaded attack is when he makes himself stand real high, and then shoot out a big burst of flame. Just keep shooting at this boss to make him cool down.