What Is the Least Amount of Fruit Required to Beat Pikmin 3? 

You know, I might be imagining it, but I'm starting to suspect Press A doesn't think very highly of me.

Lemon loses by default because he is, in fact, a fruit.

I love this feud so much because it means we get twice the pikmin content

About the disapearing watermellon piece, the first piece of fruit you collect in a playthrough is always a cutscene (usualy intended for the sunseed berry in the garden of hope), but because the watermellon was the first piece, the drake tried doing that cutscene with that

The first fruit you collect will show the cutscene of it turning to juice in the moment you collect it. You must have skipped it

I love how you specifically credit the game over screen as Lemon's footage, because no way you would have gotten that screen yourself

I think the baby crying in the background is my favorite part of the video.

LOL THE RIVALRY CONTINUES. We need to see press a do a dark souls challenge one of these days

28:57 “And, on my second try, I didn’t lose a single Pikmin.” Shows footage of him losing a single Pikmin

Knowing now that Louie won't steal your fruit if you have nothing to steal, I wonder how many days you can stall him for after rescuing him by only collecting enough fruit for exactly one canister each day.

What happened on day 4 with the watermelon is fairly simple. The first time you collect a fruit in the game, it automatically juices it and plays a cutscene, which you probably skipped. It still counted the watermelon piece, it just didn't update the fruit icon in the corner

Oh man, Lemons gonna be upset 😭 Let's hope he starts doing more Pikmin challenges tho! I love the rivalry between you and Lemon! It's awesome ^^

You should enter Lemon’s domain and try a dark souls challenge run! That would be an interesting experience lol

Lemon: does any sort of Pikmin challenge Press A: “Hold my beer”

the funniest detail of pikmin 3 is that if you check the file select and return to day 1 you will find out they actually started out with 7 canisters of food, a clever reference to the fact the least ammount of days is 7

14:18 I believe I know. In a typical playthrough, the first fruit you get is juiced on the spot, whether it be a strawberry or a lemon, the very first fruit you ever get is immediately juiced. As a result, it doesn't show up at the end of day count. My theory is the first watermelon piece got juiced the moment it was collected, and you likely skipped the acquisition cutscene (or it just didn't play for some reason) thus explaining why you only had 4 pieces at the end count, and half a bottle was already full: The first piece was actually juiced, you just didn't see it. Hope you see this, PA!

The happy baby noises made this guy somehow even more endearing than he already was, idk a more wholesome and entertaining gaming channel rn

The plot twist is that Lemon and A are the same person just using a voice mod

The drake always juices the first fruit you find in a cutscene you can skip. The game just expects it to be the strawberry that you pass by on day 2.

my favorite are the albino pikmin, theyre so dopey looking

I believe the actual reason for the first piece not counting is because collecting your first fruit triggers a cutscene where it automatically turns it into juice. Since you didnt collect fruit beforehand you triggered this cutscene with a watermelon piece

Saw video title and immediately went "oh this is a fued video isn't it" lol

i'm surprised nobody has created a pikmin low percent until now

Ive watched all the pikmin videos you've made in the last 5 months starting with the pikmin 3 video beating it without a whistle. I have never played a pikmin game, but I enjoy your content. Thank you for the videos

14:36 no this is not a glitch whenever you collect your first piece of fruit of the play through it will show a cutscene of it getting juiced instead of at the end of the day to show new players that collecting fruit will give you more days at least I'm pretty sure that's what happens as for why it doesn't show up as being collected I have no clue. By the way I absolutely love the content and the Pikmin challenge runs can't wait to see Pikmin 1 red's only if that ever does happen that challenge sounds absolutely insane.

Well done ! Progressing game knowledge out of spite and rivalry is such a beautiful thing to witness :)

The tech in this is so crazy dude mad props

I'm absolutely in love with this little rivalry, it's made me subscribe to both of you!

A: It takes 7 pieces Me: Why not use halves that have more juice to need less? A: All you need are 3 star fruit pieces Me: Why not use the watermelon pieces to make it easier? A: It takes 1 star fruit piece and 2 watermelon Me: About time

I just found your two's rivalry, and I've been loving it lol I just watched his no fruit run yesterday

Pikmin: No Fruits Challenge (Dan and Ty have to find someone else to play the game for them.)

This fued is hilarious the gaslight from lemon

15:28 We dandori today, so we can dandori tomorrow, so we can dandori as many times as it takes to beat twilight river in a single day!

The first premise to the run is rivalry and I'm all in for this!

Video Spoilers: So, you said your goal was the minimum NUMBER of fruit pieces collected. If the number of pieces is the goal, then wouldn’t you try and only collect the pieces that have the highest juice yields? Grapes are horrible since they give so little juice per fruit piece. Whereas the watermelon half is excellent as it gives 1.5 juices. Wouldn’t it make more sense to collect the watermelon half (1.5 juice), one of the other largest pieces of watermelon (0.5 juices), and half of a starfruit (1 juice) for 3 juices total with only 3 pieces of fruit? Edit: You definitely over complicated it for yourself! Glad to see you made it there in the end though 😂

Been binging your stuff recently and it’s really making me wanna replay all of Pikmin 1-3 again, since I just played 4 last summer

I like seeing people talking about multi part fruits in this game. They made finding out how many flavors of juice there are total absolute hell.

For shaggy long legs early You don't actually have to dodge the loading zone. You can go to where you throw captains to a ledge and hold a Pikmin and walk at the right angle and glitch up on a wall to get to shaggy long legs. :)

Basically what is happening with the watermelon is the game expects you to pick up a strawberry in the garden of hope, right before you unlock Brittney, upon doing so it triggers a cut scene where the strawberry is juiced in the middle of the day, since you skipped this, I think it confused the game and automatically juiced the watermelon as if it was the strawberry

Amazing video as always, you really went the extra mile with redoing days to get the true lowest fruit!

Is Lemon a fraud? No, he's just plays easier games like Dark Souls. You can't blame him for not being up to real challenges like Pikmin

This is so cool dude! I love how you give credit to any clips you use, and the effort you put into your videos :D

I love this rivalry

and the bromance continues

The first fruit you acquire in a playthrough automatically triggers a cutscene where the ship juices it. Which is why the first piece didn't show and why there was already juice in the canister

30:34 the real reason they are avoiding the juice is that it turned Brittney into a large green man

this is a great year for disses

You and kemons little rivalry is really funny. Also i dont know how you guys keep thinking of funky ways to beat pikmin

I love this stupid little rivalry so much, it makes me laugh every time. ♥

Don't diss our academy! kidding, your videos have been a great way to learn more and more about Pikmin, and great fun too

The first fruit you grab in the game will never show

You can complete the entirety of distant tundra within 1 day, it’s honestly not that difficult at all if you split your Pikmin up as much as possible

About the watermelon thing. The first fruit you ever collect. The game has a cutscene where it analyzes and juices the fruit to teach you how to get more food. Normally this is done in Day 2 but because you skipped all the fruit it led to this Watermelom being used up in the tutorial, so the first piece is juiced up right when you get it instead of being saved for the end of the day like the rest

More vivalry, more fruit- wait... more Pikmin content.

I'm really amazed, not just he finished the game with only 7 pieces of fruit, he finished the game in 7 days, something I think I'm not good enough to do. Not satisfied, he them tryed to finish the game with just 3 piece of fruits. He achieved it. Congratulations guy, you are incredible!

the first piece of fruit is automatically juiced, because there's normally the whole cutscene with the strawberry on the day you rescue brittany. if you skip the strawberry then the next fruit you get is counted as the "first fruit" and gets juiced regardless

The firs time you collect a fruit is is automatically added as juice, complete with a cutscene telling you that fruit gets juiced, all others are added at end of day. You're supposed to do it with the strawberry, and not a partial fruit. The partial fruit being the first one breaks the cutscene, but still adds the juice

This is a good challenge because even if you lose, your efforts will not be fruitless.

The missing watermelon is caused by the cutscene that plays when you get your first fruit, but due to it not being a full fruit the cutscene is skipped

The first fruit usually activates a cutscene usually for the sunseed berry (strawberry) so the game probably juiced it up

Sega reference was actually classic

the first fruit you get in this game causes a juicing cutscene to start (think the strawberry in the garden of hope) so since it's already been juiced it doesn't appear in the end of day juicing cutscene

Re: Missing Watermelon The fruit on the side of the screen are fruit that have not been juiced yet. Since the watermelon was the first fruit collected in the run, the cutscene for juicing it played but he skipped it. Just like when you connect the first strawberry, you get a cutscene and it doesn't appear in the side of the screen.

Good job getting the count down to 1.16~ fruit! Depending on how you count the watermelon, 2/6 pieces is either 1/3. 2/3 juice canisters could be, 2/3, or the large half piece and medium quarter piece could be 3/4. Add that to the 1/2 a starfruit and bam, you get a differing value. I'm of the opinion that the best run is either the absolute least collections total to get the 3 canisters, OR, the least total collected, using the juice rating of each piece as a measure of collection percentage... which, I think only the watermelon has differing values on individual pieces to really matter? but still.

It's so funny to me that this challenge basically defeats the whole purpose of Pikmin 3 and dooms the entire population of Koppai

Fascinating!

35:05 do you hear the little Pikmin in the background ? Looks like at press A, they're a capitain having to take care of lousy and cute little creatures IRL as well

We are gonna have to start calling you the DANDORI MASTER. Sheeeeeeeeeesh

So for the watermelon, since it was the first fruit you picked up, it tried to do a cut sense, but with it being a boss fruit and not the normal fruit, it just credits the juice to my knowledge my first fruit was grapes didnt show anything

For the watermelon piece glitch, I think the phone was collected at the exact same time, triggering a cutscene and stopping parts of the collection process from occurring.

when the meerslug is doing the underground phase, I believe it's possible to charge a large amount of pikmin onto its lips (it might need to be rock pikmin but I'm not sure) and it'll do enough damage to make it fly up into the air before it gets the chance to eat any pikmin.

The shaggy long legs in distant tundra can be reached as soon as you build both bridges by going back into the yellow onion cave and throwing a captain. It's still too slow, but it doesn't require the winged pikmin

I am deeply impressive, really well done!

What could have happened with the watermelon is the game glitched out because normally your first fruit has a cutscene where it’s juiced immediately, and the game didn’t know what to do with the watermelon and not a strawberry so it just juiced it immediately with no cutscene

from outward appearances, the only way to reduce the fruit count further would be to change the metric for counting, being that 7 days is a hard minimum. if we say a Piece of Fruit is equal to a Whole Fruit and forego the in-game count, I'm sure you can route 2 fruits w/ a 2.5 & .5, or a 2 & 1 juice fruit pairing (this seems like the most likely evolution imo). alternatively, we count a partial fruit as equal to its corresponding whole fruit (collecting 1 grape from a bunch is counted the same as collecting all 20) at which point, collecting the whole watermelon would be a "single" fruit which fulfills the entire 3-juice requirement on its own

What happened with the fruit is that normally you get the Sunseed Berry first which then triggers a cutscene where the Drake juices it for you immediatley and doesn't count it. But since your first fruit was the Watermelon piece first it did the same thing but without the cutscene most likely due to the fact Nintendo didn't predict you getting a fruit that far in the game first.

The problem you had with the watermelon was because you got your first fruit. They’re supposed to be a cut scene showing the fruit getting juiced during the day but the game probably didn’t register the cut scene because it’s supposed to be done at the garden of Hope. You want proof, start a new game of Pikmin three and go to the point where you find your first strawberry collect it and see what happens😁

This is your very first fruit you got. The first fruit you ould get is the strawberry before you save Brittany. When the first fruit gets to the ship it shows the fruit getting juiced. So the game registered as if you are seeing that cutscene. That's why you have 4 peices and 5 watermelon amount of juice.

Meeslug tip : when he creates the big pit you can rush your entire squad and he'll pop out before he can swallow any pikmin he eats !

the first fruit u get is adamantly juiced because in a normal run it juices the straw berry that u get as a tutorial to get fruit

13:48 it is because the first piece of watermelon was the first piece of fruit you collected and the game turns your first piece of fruit right in juice

Even without getting all 3 fruits, you could probably get a lower total if you removed some number of the grapes/watermelon and used half a starfruit for 1 canister

"Low% is simple. Just get the smallest number of things!" Pikmin 3: Are we talking Pikmin, fruit, or fruit counter?

OH THE RIVALRY CONTINUES

just need to find a credits warp before the end of day 4

When you collect your first fruit it juices it immediately so that’s what happened to the melon you just skip the cutscene

During normal Pikmin 3 gameplay, once you collect your first piece of fruit the game will interrupt you with a cutscene of it juicing the fruit, the first fruit you ever collect will be juiced instantly after collecting instead of at the end of the day, my guess is that because this scene happens in garden of hope and you were in tropical wilds when you first collected your first fruit (it being the watermelon mind you) the game had a brain fart because it technically shouldn’t be possible for you to do that, so it skips any cutscene, I bet if the first piece to go in was the biggest one, it would have shown you that you got a jar out of the blue

14:24 I know what's happening! When you collect your first piece of any fruit the game plays a cutscene for it, not count it in the UI, and automatically juice it. In a normal playthrough, this cutscene will play for the sunseed berry in the garden of hope. But because you skip it the game treated the watermelon piece as the first piece of fruit.

13:56 first fruit of the run = cutscene = you get the juice from the cutscene before the end of the day.

I think i know what happened with the watermelon. That was the first fruit you have collected in the run, which was pretty far in by game standards. I think what happened was that the game was expecting to already have a partial, so it just assumed the watermelon piece was collected on a previous day.

My respects.

You don't have to do the entire weight puzzle in Tropical Wilds to get the Star Fruit. You can throw Yellows onto the fruit from the ledge just up from the first "elevator". Throw 10 Yellows up the first ledge, put lone Captain onto elevator, throw two Yellows onto bouncy mushroom, throw 10 Yellows onto Star Fruit, done.

We saw Lemon in Pikmin a few times. I would love you two to battle at his home turf, Dark Souls

So I've got a terrible, terrible idea: You and Lemon playing through the 2 campaigns of Warlocked for the Game Boy Color.

when you collect your first piece of fruit, it goes into a cut scene and the fruit is juiced. the fruit still counts, but it doesn't show up at the end of the day with the others because it was kinda pulverized. you must have skipped the cut scene and not have realized.

Re 14:00: when I made my video I did an "all cutscenes" run. The first fruit you collect gets juiced in the cutscene.

Now imagine if he also did it with the minimum amount of pikmins, it would be really funny 🙂

14:02 actually what happened is the game usually forces you into a cutscene when you collect ur very FIRST piece of fruit. This cutscene actually shows the fruit being juiced MID-DAY thus adding juice to a canister. You skipped this cutscene so that's probably why it didnt make any sense on how you had juice already. Also you probably need to still count that one then bc it does indeed exist

The very first fruit you collect gets juiced immediately, rather than having to wait until the end of the day to see it. You just skipped the cutscene, or the game didn't play it since it's a fruit you wouldn't normally get first.

I love all the little comments along the likes of "if you know what you're doing", subtly implying that Lemon didn't hehe love your little Pikmin rivalry