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*

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

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

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.

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

"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.

Mods removing the category: 1. Too arbitrary 2. Too difficult 3. Too few active runners Why all of those reasons are stupid: 1. Thats literally why category extensions exist 2. SM64 has 0 star, 1 star, 16 star, 70 star, and 120 star categories. 70, 120, and 0 all make sense, but why include 16 star and 1 star? That’s because 0 star has an incredible difficulty barrier. This way, runners can start with the easier categories before moving on to the harder ones. This can easily be done the same way for Min Caps; for example, 12 captures, 9 captures, and 3 captures. Also, the most obvious point to make is that difficulty should never determine whether or not a run should have a leaderboard. That really just doesn’t make any sense. At all. 3. That’s.. how category extensions always are. None of the categories have many active runners. If that’s a reason for removing Min Caps, then you might as well remove every single other category. Not to mention that the removal is extremely disrespectful to not only the runners, but also to the people that worked so hard to find new tricks to make these runs possible, especially since none of the aforementioned people were consulted by the mods before the removal. And all this stuff about biased polls and refusing to show the results of those polls just puts a disgusting taste in my mouth. I really hope SMO category extensions gets a staff change soon, because the current mods are acting very immature and childish in regards to the situation. idk just felt like giving my two cents because I love watching these runs

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*

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.

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

This is the only channel where you can be watching a speedrun one second and an arm wrestling match the next

2019: Wet Nut Jump is the hardest trick in this speedrun. 2020: HAHA

Nintendo Employee: Sir, I think I found an issue. Boss: What is it? NE: I've found a way to glitch Cappy's distance from Mario, and you can use it to reach Metro early. Boss: Interesting... NE: How should I fix it? Boss: Don't. NE: What? Boss: AND MAKE SURE THE SCRAP MECH ISN'T THERE WHEN YOU REACH METRO!

“This is the first time a sequence break has been used in a run!” *cries in Bruncheon for Star%*

6:18 when he said "wait 3.13 seconds" the left hemisphere of my brain shut down, and then it just kept getting more convoluted

nobody: me randomly thinking of the nut: ya hoo hoohoo ya hoo hoohoo ya hoo hoohoo ya hoo hoohoo ya hoo hoohoo ya hoo hoohoo

"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).

for so many older game speedruns like mario 64 and such, its hard to appreciate all the little skips that have been done. but seeing all the ways minimum captures has decreased really puts into perspective the amount of strats, discoveries and skips found for each run

How do people find this, does some random person think, “oh i might as well jump around in this random spot for 3.13 or something seconds exactly and perform a bunch of complicated manoeuvres”.

Smallant at the inverted pyramid in All Moons: “This is the hardest clip in the game.” At least 1 month of not doing the inverted pyramid clip later: Gets inverted pyramid clip first try. How does he do it.

I love how when a less capture run is done... It nullifies the entire leader board

22:05 Technically, it's 2 captures, since he made 3 captures and took 1 capture

The setup for the warp sounds like a shitpost

“Wait 3.13 seconds.” Someone in Chat: “π seconds” Dude...

I didnt hear "skipping madam broodal" I heared "skipping the damn broodal"

"it's probably is going to be this if they ever do find a skip..." Later: *6 new skips, including that exact one*

If we ever get to 0 captures, we calling it "no cap"

My first thought on the arm wrestling thing was "THIS IS WHAT HE TRAINED FOR WITH THE PENCIL SHARPENER SPEEDRUN"

"Its probably going to stay at 3 captures for years" 4 weeks later: "-1 captures is possible"

A video about the progression of minimum captures would be such a good video

I really hope that this trick was discovered by some casual odyssey player who just wanted to get from the island to the metro mainland.

Smallant - "I can do min caps with only 3 caps." Speedrun mods - "We can't so we're going to take that off the leaderboard."

Challenge: Take back your rightfully deserved minimum captures record.

Man I've seen a lot of your runs on youtube in less than a week and I basically got the whole history of minimum captures with your videos xd Good job btw, you are amazing

Amazing! Wish we could see it from Cappy's point of view.

2017: "There is no way people make it under 14 Captures to the end" 2020: "Hold my beer"

ant: in the middle of a super stressful skip random viewer: 17:16

"They took out 6 of them." *holds up 4 fingers*

If this should ever get marathon safe, you just have to do it at GDQ.

2:52 "there is so much in this run now, its the gift that keeps on giving" - Smallant1 "lets remove the category from the website" - Speedrun moderator what?

I just came from your old min cap run, back when it was 13 and your sub goal was 25 subs. Shit's wild how much you've grown!

I've been watching your channel for like two weeks now, and man have they been good content. You deserve every sub

Girl: I like bad boys. Ant: *skips Night Metro*

Who else remember when nut jump was considered the hardest strat ever and was the key to min caps

First stream I got to see in a while! Hype af seeing stuff like this live.

12:10 that’s been my moto for life

I love how Professor Smallant teaches us like we're actually going to do it ourselves

Nintendo; hey! Here's all these cool captures, all with unique mechanics! Ant; three, take it or leave it

One of your video's popped up in my reccomendations and it caught my eye, you got a good channel keep it up consider myself subscribed

Ive beat this game like three times and watched most of SmallAnt’s SMO videos multiple times and I JUST REALIZED THE JOKE. “CAP”-TURE. WHY AM I SO BLIND

Someone has to message gamechamp3000, he predicted this in his “Games are Dumb” video

"Wow we have 9 caps now and I did it" *1 week later* "Yeah it's 3 caps now" Jesus christ this game's community never ceases to amaze me. Great job, keep up the grind.

At 4:29,someone in the chat said that in SMW,there is a way to warp right to the credits from the first level by code execution,which means killing and jumping on the right enemies. This also happens in SMB3. For all we know,they're right.

11:09 Smant: “my left arm is significantly weaker” Me: that’s your right arm

Breaking news: plumber finds a way to warp hat through time and space. Find out more tonight at 11

3:55 "... it's a bit tricky." Jesus Christ, it really wasn't that long ago that THIS was THE trick. This was the hardest new strat, look how far the run has come.

It's so cool how much the route for 3caps has changed over the last couple of months

You have so much patience to grind these strats out, wow!

Last time I was this early, Fearsome still held the Minimum Captures world record

"your heart is beating? mine is too! it means your alive." - Smallant feb 17 2020

2 maybe capture skips: CRC to Ruined Kingdom arena and maybe Cappy triggers the fight, maybe in Cap Kingdom CRC to see if Cappy and hit the loading zone for Cascade Kingdom

Weird how this speedrun gets longer every time I hear about it...

the first wire skip 2 was really hype to watch, and that was just me watching the vod

Nintendo: we made this cool new feature where you can capture things and then you can play as them Smallant: well yes, but actually no

Touval not only helped discover the sequence breaking gelato skip in sms but now this...he's insane and how he does it is amazing

"The first sequence break in a run in SMO" Star%: *AM I A JOKE TO YOU?*

I'm so glad the little smolSass got left in there at 9:09, I laughed so hard I got tears in my eyes, but to be fair myself and the rest of the viewers had gone hysterical from two hours of cappy groundpounding to that sick beat. Best day off watching this stream start to finish :)

Hey, anyone remember when the wet nut glitch was the hardest glitch to do...

It's very satisfying to see Mario capture the binoculars from so far away

I saw things in this that defy logic. Thanks for posting 👍

This was already a really impressive showcase, but it just got infinitely better.

"Steven reveal" really caught me off guard xD

The reason I play Mario Odyssey is because I watch Small Ant. His content is so cool and it makes me want do the same thing so I gave Mario Odyssey a try and I loved it. Small Ant is by far my favorite RU-vid and I literally can’t stop watching him.

This is just mind blowing, by the time he was doing the last moon segment I could feel myself tearing up a little.

Love how this run is always changing giving us more content

Hello to everyone in the future that came from SummoningSalt's video.

10:48 is some interesting new speedrun tech I haven't seen before.

Smallant:they took out 6 Also smallant :holding 4 fingers

I was here for this historical run!

"3 captures is where it'll stay for a long time" Why do I have a feeling this isn't gonna age well?

You are CRAZY! Good job.

Dude this is so nerdy. I love it.

I believe if an infinite height glitch is found for Ruined it could also be used to skip the Cap pylon by triggering the loading zone. Just a theory, though.

Eventually it's gonna be no captures... just give it time... he'll find it.

This dude is one of my new favorite streamers easily LOL

Small ant when he tries CRC the first time : smol ant Small ant arm wrestling on wooded kingdom : *STRONK ANT*

when i saw the thumbnail, i expected this to skip one capture. BOY, WAS I WRONG!

I remember when gamechamp3000 joked about the metro skip

I can‘t believe that was 3 years ago. I‘m speechless how fast time is passing by. Always enjoy every moment you have, it could be gone faster than you think

Genuinely, how does someone develope that much patience and determination?!? I would loose my mind after an hour of trying to do one skip