The hardest Mario Odyssey Challenge just got harder... (Minimum Captures)

Shoutouts to everyone who helped find this glitch! Luigi's Hat, roblox, Icay, qflame, warspy, grady, relaxmas, touval, mnyush many many more, but especially syrkl! GG's Ant!

Mario: I think I forgot something Peach: If you forgot, then it wasn't important Mario: Yeah, you're right Hard cut to the wiggler terrorizing Metro Kingdom

2019: "min caps is dead" 2020: "min caps has been reduced" Today: "min caps now involves teleporting" 2021: min caps is 0 captures now"

WAIT WHEN YOU TOOK THE SCREENSHOT IT SAID "CAPTURE TAKEN" IT'S A 4 CAPTURE RUN

smallant: trust me, i'm a zoomer just like you me [age 39] [muttering into a 20th century microcassette recorder]: i'm blending in perfectly

The setup sounds like one of those old "how to unlock Luigi in Mario64" setups.

"How much do I lift? I don't lift at all" Smallant underestimating his ability to carry this category completely on his shoulders.

the real chad move is that HE KNEW NO ONE WOULD BOTHER trying to beat the record, so he took his sweet time with it.

The best part of those instructions is that it ends with "And hope you hit the checkpoint."

Smallant: Is gone for half a week Entire speedrunning community: I’m gonna do what’s called a pro gamer move

"So how do we skip the night kingdom if we see it at night the first time we arrive? Well, first we need to talk about parallel universes--"

10:59 Steven: Left arm Me: Are lefts and rights opposite in Canada.

me: oh cool they found 8 caps smallant: so we're doing 3 caps today

This is legitimately insane. If you had told me a year and a half ago that at some point you could beat the entirety of SMO with only three captures, I would've laughed in your face, yet here we are. And I do believe we will be stuck at 3 captures minimum for at least 10 years. GG lads.

I haven't looked into Mario Odyssey speedrunning since early 2018, and while the CRC glitch discovery is insane, what Smallant is doing at 18:53 is legitimately jaw-dropping for me.

I was so ready for you to lose that arm wrestle because you play video games and are skinny, and you won I was like, "wtf."

For those wondering about the remaining 3 captures: 1. Cap Kingdom Pylon: Probably impossible. It has been proven via modding that the pylon is NOT necessary to reach cascade, there's a loadzone super far off in the distance. HOWEVER there's no known way to reach it, and, perhaps more importantly, the odyssey does not spawn in cascade unless you physically move while in the cap pylon. This results in a softlock. In order to skip cap kingdom pylon you would have to somehow find a way to trick the game into updating the state without using the cap pylon, and there's no known method that would accomplish this. 2. Ruined Kingdom Pylon: Unlikely. The pylon in this kingdom isn't necessary to progress game logic, so it's the most likely option at the moment, but it's still probably not going to happen any time soon. You would need infinite distance/height to perform this. But, I hear you asking in your head, doesn't a crc achieve this? Well, yes, but only for cappy. So it would only be useful if you could hit a checkpoint. There is no checkpoint in ruined. Furthermore, there's so little available to work with in ruined that there is virtually no chance of an inf height/distance trick. 3. Bowser: Very unlikely. It has been proven via modding that you cannot trigger the ending pylon without bowser. This pylon is not a capture, it is a bowser-specific object that triggers the end of the game. While this hasn't been as extensively tested as the cap pylon, it's pretty safe to assume this is impossible to skip. In order to skip this you would need to be forcefully spawned as bowser, without directly capturing it, or you would need to do some sort of frame perfect fake capture to get in the pylon similar to the metro taxi loadzone, but we don't know if this is possible. Purely speculation. Of course, all of these could also be skipped if a tech was found that could let you capture something without it counting as a capture, but that isn't very fun is it :) EDIT: UPDATE! So, while it's true that BOWSER is required for the PYLON it turns out you actually don't need the pylon at all to trigger credits. There is a loadzone super far out in the distance (and behind an invisible wall, because Nintendo likes to make things difficult), and the pylon is only used to bring you there! So theoretically if you could find a way to get mario through the escape sequence, gain a ridiculous amount of distance, and pass an invisible wall, you could beat the game without a bowser capture. This isn't likely to happen, but it's definitely significantly more possible than previously thought. It's probably about as unlikely as ruined pylon, now.

Speed runners: “This is brilliant” Playing the game as intended Speed runners: “But I like this” Using the mechanic the whole game revolves around only 3 times

Next thing you know there's going to be a way to skip the Bowser Capture with something called a "Kingdom skip"

"Your Arms are so long" That is a bad thing for arm wressling because the strength doesnt come from the hand bat from the shoulder, that means the person with the shorter arm has the longer lever (the other persons arm).