How Many Throws Does It Take To Collect Every Fruit in Pikmin 3?

Join me as I push the limits of a decade-old game in the continued quest to achieve arbitrary goals in gaming.
I finally uploaded after so long, let's go. I absolutely didn't start this video 2 years ago and lost access to my footage, no way did that happen.
Pikmin 3 Min Throw Full Run:
• Pikmin 3 Min Throw Run
Mokaygee's Pikmin 1 ABC:
• (Part 1) Pikmin 1 A-Bu...
Music Used:
Mission Mode Menu - Pikmin 3
Alph's Landing Site - Pikmin 3
Garden of Hope - Pikmin 3
Tutorial Time - Pikmin 3
Distant Tundra - Pikmin 3
Tropical Wilds - Pikmin 3
Twilight River - Pikmin 3
Creature Montage - Pikmin
Celerion Park - Tinykin
Captain Charlie's Jam - Pikmin 3
Lands of Ambrose - Tinykin
City of Sanctar - Tinykin
Challenge Mode Results - Pikmin
River/Tundra - Pikmin 3 Deluxe
Today's Results - Pikmin

[@LukeRkam]

10 years without a new mainline game does something to a person

[@max_imumfries]

half life

[@ChomperRex20]

Not quite on the same level, but Silksong

[@joseleonardohernandezcanela]

Minecraft💀💀💀☝️🤓

[@sillygooberbutsillier]

Roblox 💀💀💀

[@catsdogswoof3968]

​@@sillygooberbutsillierroblox dungeons

[@purplekoop]

Maaaaan, this is incredible! Probably one of the best challenge run videos I've seen in a while even! The amount of insane strategies on display I haven't seen anywhere else is mind-boggling, backed up by solid commentary! Seriously, fantastic work! Really hope this video takes off, you've earned it!

[@melofelo4484]

Speaking as someone who was there through the making of this video, it’s still mind boggling that you managed to cut down ALL the garden of hope throws You and everyone in the pikmin community are bonkers for figuring this stuff out.

[@WaluigiGoesWa]

Awesome job on the challenge. The juicy gaggle was stupid in a challenge run I did as well. I wasn’t allowed to use yellows at the time so I couldn’t access the scale, and I didn’t know about the places to throw up captains. I ended up using the destructible wall to get up by throwing a captain on it after using 2 bomb rocks.

[@Pikmanfan2002]

That’s hilarious

[@crepeobreak8219]

I really like how you didn't just show the best solution but showed the process of how you lowered the amount of throws Also I typically watch videos this long in multiple sessions but this was so engaging I did it in one go Amazing video !

[@grassdigger8695]

Fun stuff! I laughed at the first Dodge Roll segment, only to get blown away by what followed ;) By the way, spoilers, but I'm sure you'd find it fun to know that Pikmin 3 takes the same number of throws as SM64 takes A-button presses right now.

[@eddiemcmerlin2641]

Wow, awesome video. That was super fun and really well researched. That must have taken days of attempts to find ways for some of the fruits, you have my respect :D

[@ez3560]

Its very poetic how this challenge starts and ends with the only two medusal slurkers in the game.

[@Subreon]

Once I saw the effort put into the slurker, I knew you were serious and this was gonna be fire

[@hotcocoa8373]

This is my first Pikmin challenge video I've watched explaining any sort of challenge glitch. Great stuff! I also adore the persistent refusal by any fans to call any fruit by their real life names.

[@lasercraft32]

Honestly Pikmin challenge videos have to be some of the most interesting and fascinating challenge videos ever.

[@LiamLLP]

Awesome video, man! This went really in-depth for a challenge video of this kind, especially for a game with not all the research already done on it like this! It’s very impressive just how much you managed to accomplish in this one video considering how much you were forced to figure out in exploits and stuff.

[@aperson1373]

Incredible work! I loved your creativity with some of those solutions!

[@RoundusMongus]

I’m pretty sure there were a couple changes made to the winged pikmin’s pathfinding in 3 Deluxue, mainly with the Garden of Hope’s astringent clump to avoid the charging trick used in the WiiU version. Don’t take my word on it though.

[@joesphterry3319]

Yeah I tried to cheese that fruit but it didn’t work

[@DoradoDee]

Great video, seeing the wing pikmin do all the work on the final fruit was really hype

[@cindy8966]

This video was fantastic. The amount of optimization and strategizing is insane.

[@GamerScottYT]

23:14 god i love the pause and you can just tell the feeling of "holy hell what did i just do!?!"

[@kkosmosL7]

This is easily the most feel-good challenge run video I’ve seen! Keep up the great work!

[@SuperAlex6450]

Genuinely amazing video! Clearly a lot of effort went into this, and I’m surprised that this video doesn’t have many views.

[@phanterratic]

pikmin 3 but the koppaittes they picked for the expedition had sore arms and wanted to throw as little as possible

[@thegrimreaper6787]

Wow, just wow. This is the best video I've seen in a long time. Thank you for the amazing viewing experience, and i really hope you make more

[@thatoneguylucas9879]

great video, got me more intrigued in the concept the longer it went on

[@gravity119]

This is an incredible video! Thank you so much for making it, it was deeply entertaining and educational

[@orchidquack]

never played or watched pikman anything, got recommended this and hey, great video!

[@DJL_Pass]

Cool video, dude! Well done!

[@NezumiGG]

Awesome video, keep up the good work 👍

[@duckboss0005]

now that pikmin 4 is out will you do a minimal throw for pikmin 4? I would be stoked to see that.

[@RocketRidge]

I am shocked this has so few views, especially with the recent boom in Pikmin viewership. Awesome video that is extremely high quality, here's to the wackiness of Pikmin 4!

[@Actual-Knight]

it just occurred to me that candypop buds appear in the special version of the tundra on day 1. most other stuff is gone, but the candypop buds exist. Maybe that works in the tropical area as well? it could theoretically be possible to obtain a rock pikmin on day 1 that way without fighting the slurker, although I'm not sure it would be possible to take it into the garden of hope

[@fickificki5oro]

bro this vid was insane :O

[@Actual-Knight]

I have successfully created a method for creating a crush-zombie pikmin that can be carried between loading zones without any throws and using only two red pikmin. so now the only struggle is to find a way to reach either the scutterchucks or the yellow wollywogs with only a single team member and red Pikmin. There's an easy way to get out of bounds on the left side of the hill after the big bulborb area, but I've not had any luck breaking the actual boundaries of the level yet. Also worth noting is that enemies can push captains up walls they cant normally climb, the easiest way to see this is to get the female sheargrubs on day 1 to push alph into the walls near the pellet posies. I've been trying to manipulate the large bulborb in garden of hope into pushing alph up onto a nearby ledge, because that might help with out of bounds quite a lot.

[@Pikmanfan2002]

Keep up the good work!

[@sapphireaurora9634]

I've never considered a challenge like this. You have my interest

[@sonicthehedgehog1723]

this is funny as hell haha. good shit!

[@thomas-tj7dy]

Deserves way more attention

[@jess648]

pikmin challenge runs are always fascinating

[@tylazermk8271]

Even though I'm not *that* into Pikmin, I had a great time watching both videos and you did a great job at making them enticing and satisfying.

[@slimballs9650]

0:14 33 throws in Pikmin 3? Sounds fitting to me!

[@supercouchpotato9698]

Awesome video!

[@evening-ir3ws]

This was fascinating

[@lemonking3851]

love the tinykin music and a great video about one of the best video games ever

[@REAL-Darshada]

This mind blowing.

[@Picked-man]

One time I Cheesed the concrete wall with the pear by using a Yellow Pikmin, but I couldn’t get the pikmin out of that area and it was almost the end of the day so I panicked and I thought of a decent strategy of whistling the second the bell hits zero and sends me away and I tried it and it worked and I got all the pikmin out of there and the next day the pear was on the outside, so that was fun

[@BBPJ5]

Amazing video :0000

[@haydes1285]

It’s been a while since I played 3, but can you get spicy spray before the first slurker to shred it faster/with less throws?

[@Bulblorb]

9:18 Rare footage of a swooping snitchbug being useful

[@Bogeynator]

Could it be possible to skip the Brittany throw tutorial by having the day end at the exact perfect time? After looking closely at a video of the whole encounter, it seems like there's exactly 1 frame where the wall's broken and the cutscene that leads up to the tutorial hasn't started yet. The clock appears to still be running, too, so if the day ended on that one frame, maybe the tutorial could be skipped, or at least you could do it with zero pikmin?

[@saljaf79]

For the last fruit, I used what you did as a tutorial to get the fruit and got it

[@RoundusMongus]

20:03 “The Everything Cave”. Yeah, name fits.

[@elicenyne]

thank you for forcing the spider through suffering :3

[@notloopers1110]

this video reminds me how much i love all the stupid ass names the pikmin have for the fruit

[@ethanahhh]

You could use a glitch to escape the Charlie tutorial

[@barneybetsington7501]

I don't know what a pikmin is, but I like fruit, so I'll give you a like.

[@alexiaatheducc]

great video

[@AlfonsoSRT]

28:41 I can't believe you wasted the chance to say your efforts were fruitless.

[@gigglenose1990]

doing cutscenes after you normally should is wonderful. Try turning on the light in the yellow pikmin cave after doing yellow onion skip and defeating the phosbat.

[@lobster_legs]

Thanks for the awesome video! I can’t get the clip through wall glitch to work in P3 Deluxe. How are you dropping the captain while holding them? Do you know if this glitch was fixed?

[@Pikmanfan2002]

I do know a lot of the clips are slightly different in 3 Deluxe. I'm not sure of the specifics, but they're still possible. Check out some Any% runs of 3 Deluxe to see them for yourself, it looks like they drop the captains at different angles.

[@lobster_legs]

@@Pikmanfan2002 thank you so much!

[@danielksletsplays2789]

Tinykin music in the pikmin video. Makes my brain go all funny.

[@mutanttepig4759]

Honestly I absolutely loved that last part with the stump clip. And of course the Zest bomb collection through blowing it up.

[@gcrmgamer]

how the HELL dose this man not have more subs

[@Actual-Knight]

I wonder if it would somehow be possible to get your hands on a spicy spray by getting out of bounds with a Pikmin on day 1? That could potentially reduce the number of slurker throws. I tried using the day 1 Charlie glitch in order to get multiple captains in the tropical area on day 1, but unfortunately that loads a different version of the map without the "master onion" present despite still being day 1. I'm also currently working on getting up to the scutterchuck area in the garden of hope in order to make a crush-zombie pikmin to fight the slurker, will let you know if I've figured anything out

[@Genosxii]

This video is rock pikmin approved

[@weckar]

If you could initially just skip getting rockies entirely - save for a wall or two and the mawdad, do you need them anywhere before getting pinkies?

[@amandagulley6200]

17:36 just actually makes sense with the text

[@cassiaclark7693]

Why is the Pikmin leapfrogging sending me into giggles😂

[@MapleLunii]

that final fruit was insane

[@Stereocrabs]

The ultimate Pikmin gaming

[@zachbicknase2275]

Now do all of the collect treasure, defeat enemies, and defeat bosses with minimum throws

[@RDGamer321]

17:35 Seems like you angered the spirit of the Vehemoth Phosbat with that one.

[@Zolerian]

4:13 What the heck happened to the cursor here for it to look like that? I haven't seen the cursor like that before.

[@Raisei-with-an-ak47]

11:40 so I guess this is why that blue didn’t move in the final boss I accidentally did this glitch

[@thepikmin3385]

you take my hand : )

[@aurachanneler8396]

could you get the rock pikmin out of your squad after breaking the brittany gate by just charging it and running away or does the game force it back in?

[@Pikmanfan2002]

It drags in every Pikmin nearby the gate into your party, so running away still requires the Pikmin throw

[@grantforester1864]

I kinda wanna know how many pikmin would die in a throwless run, cause so many of these strats you just sacrifice pikmin for progress lmao

[@raine6813]

couldnt you use the "crushing glitch" to take down the first medusal slurker in just one throw?

[@liondiamond1237]

W video

[@Mr._Leaf]

For the blond impostor could it be possible to chain bomb rocks together? If the arachnode can detonate bombs you could chain bomb rocks in a row to blow up the crystal

[@xavierguilbault1800]

Hold up, can you use the zombie throw on that first medusal slurker to save 2 throws?

[@Pikmanfan2002]

Every enemy that can crush Pikmin are behind crystal walls, which is just incredible

[@Wistful720]

16:25 pikmin 2

[@killiantruegames3670]

Love it

[@beeb5400]

How does he only have 570 subs cmon guys

[@jliscano8614]

Technically if you have winged pikmin if rushes don’t count then you can almost get every fruit !

[@imaplaygames633]

Wouldn't using flowers against the Medusal Slurker kill it faster and maybe only need 2 pikmin throws?

[@duckwithaknife.]

One time when I was trying 100% pikmin 4 I was transporting a toy train and a magnifying glass (underground) and I forget to open the gate to the SS Beagle and the magnifying glass CLIPPED UNDER THE BRIDGE I lost some pikmin and I had to wait 3 days to get it :(

[@mattyb3rd6764]

just a quick point, in the pikin 3 min pikmin run the yellows in the tutorial area dont count so i would debate on the point that those 5 throws dont count

[@Pikmanfan2002]

In a min Pikmin run, those yellows wind up not affecting the total Pikmin or death counter at the end of the run. Min throws has no in-game tracker, and the way I see it, the tutorial for throwing Pikmin has you throwing Pikmin. It'd be weird to create an exception for that specifically, especially when the definition of a throw is inherently arbitrary enough.

[@annefiber8571]

Turned British for a sec. 27:24

[@glitchyderkekgott1692]

DAMN THEM THROWS 18:31

[@glitchyderkekgott1692]

i really hope that wasnt the challenge run

[@Pikminbro]

Those throws weren’t required so he probably threw so it would be easier

[@AnimateMii]

In the Garden of Hope you might have been able to disband the Red Pikmin by a Pellet Sprout and spawn about two new Pikmin, and let them sit for a little while to turn into Flowers, dealing more damage with fewer throws.

[@Pikmanfan2002]

Flowers only increase movement speed.

[@IcyPK_Studios]

Now do challenge mode Edit: nvm I tried this with Challenge Mode, here are my findings so far. Pikmin 3 challenge mode minimum throws -Collect Treasures- Tropical Forest - 3 for Medusal Slurker, 5 for Face Wrinkler, total 8 throws Tropical Forest DX - 2 for Medusal Slurker, 5 for Face Wrinkler, total 7 throws Silver Lake - 1 throw to get a captain to yellows, total 1 throw Silver Lake DX - 1 throw to get a captain to yellows, total 1 throw -Battle Enemies- Tropical Forest - 1 for each Swooping Snitchbug (inconsistent af), 5 for the ungrounded Spectralids, total 7 throws Tropical Forest DX - 1 for each Swooping Snitchbug (inconsistent af), 5 for the ungrounded Spectralids, total 7 throws

[@Mathi5000]

carrying the pear behind the rock wall and skipping to the next day in the twilight river doesn't work on the switch version. Also the puzzle in the garden of hope doesn't let you grab the fruit with wing pikmin anymore. how was that solved?

[@Pikmanfan2002]

Short answer, they both still work on Deluxe. Here's the current 3 Deluxe All Fruits WR, and you can see them perform a version of the pear trick at 33:53, collecting it around 51:40. You can also find the Garden of Hope scale puzzle fruit at 41:05. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXakk6lpj851qbs

[@mikmin2.0]

the puzzle in the GOH is still possible in deluxe, you just need to charge ur wings multiple times now lmao

[@lukeblack8146]

If you've already taken down the swooping snitchbug in distant tundra, you can just walk up the wall next to the cave Brittany comes out of, in a similar manner to the example in the boss fight.

[@droughtender4831]

That trick only works on the deluxe version, unfortunately

[@jwhite8540]

I love it

[@mattman3122]

Dont you technically have to throw a captain out of bounds? Or does pressing "b" just drop them behind you? I cant remember its been awhile since I played this game

[@Pikmanfan2002]

Yeah, whistling with B drops whatever you're holding behind you.

[@mattman3122]

@@Pikmanfan2002 ahh I see. Thanks for clarifying.

[@glitch1906]

I did the juicy gaggle glitch on accident by throwing them in the hole and I went in they fell from the sky and not the main exit it has a wrong warp scenario and sends them through the top and not the side

[@stuartgee212]

Idea! Flower your red pikmin and they will do more damage to the medusal slurker

[@melonmag]

You could attack the sac with a charge once it goes down and if you have enough pikmin it will die before going up and it saves 3 throws. 2:00

[@Pikmanfan2002]

The sac is an active hitbox, sending Pikmin at it just forces them into the Slurker's attack

[@melonmag]

@@Pikmanfan2002 oh i thought you could sorry

[@Actual-Knight]

I wonder if some of the three slurker throws in garden of hope could be reduced by creating a crush-zombie Pikmin with either a wollywog or the mireclops?

[@IcyPK_Studios]

No, wollywogs are behind a crystal gate, so they’re locked behind rock Pikmin, and reaching Mireclops on day 2 isn’t yet possible outside of hacks.

[@aaronholderman1182]

For a 11 year old game this game is fun

[@Cappucceetle]

I could have gotten every fruit in my hard mode game but a fruit got lodged in a movable platform and another was in the shaggy long legs and i was not dealing with that

[@VitorHugo-jx9fh]

Now do it with no Pikmin deaths

[@chimeratriplett2319]

this rules, so im commenting to boost in the algorithm