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

I try and beat Pikmin 3 with the least amount of fruit possible and trust me it's way less than you think.
Thanks to ‪@TheBacklogs‬ for being such a good sport and thanks to the Pikmin speed running community for finding all the awesome tricks used in this video.

[@TheBacklogs]

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

[@RubescentDragon]

Actually Press A is a Tsundere who actually loves you sooo much that he can only express his love through being mean because he doesn't know a better way to express his love

[@callowguru2611]

Me, a Pikmin content enjoyer: yes, keep feuding

[@Grayfox251]

The only way he’s actually doing that is to somehow do a dark souls challenge as a flex, but how would he go about it? And which souls game?

[@callowguru2611]

Maybe you two do the Pikmin 3 DLCs co-op?

[@majesticeagle6629]

@@Grayfox251any souls game, fist only would be the ultimate flex

[@idontwantahandlethough]

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

[@King_Luigi]

_"What? No... that's doesn't--"_ ☁

[@RealestShaggyRogers]

"And I'm not talking homosexual, I mean a literal fruit. Eggplant!"

[@crandria2001]

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

[@flixgames4141]

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[@Genevis]

This is just like when my parents divorced and told me I would get two birthdays!

[@flixgames4141]

@@Genevis ummmmmmmmmmmm

[@throwaway7679]

@@Genevis Hahaha so funny...

[@Genevis]

@@throwaway7679 It’s funny because it’s true, my parents are actually divorced!

[@CaptnStarFry]

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

[@hippie_pixie420]

I was just about to comment this. It takes the first fruit you ever collect for analyzing to see if it's edible and then all the fruit after that registers

[@slucaasio8192]

I also wanted to comment this.😂😂😂😂

[@martinmnagell2894]

Bro really skipped the cutscene and then blamed the game.

[@starryfae]

yeah, this is exactly what happened lol. i can understand being confused, but the first fruit you collect gives a cutscene about it, so it doesn’t pop up on the right side.

[@icecreamget]

@@martinmnagell2894 Nah the game just never even played it

[@volvoman5262]

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

[@Stray_Alec]

just what I was going to say

[@pressaTD]

I didn’t skip it, I swear. That was the first thing I checked. In the footage it doesn’t even show five pieces of watermelon just the 4.

[@Kafaldsbylur]

@@pressaTD My hypothesis is that the game didn't expect the first fruit you collected to be part of a multi-piece fruit, so it glitched trying to show the cutscene. However, it still juiced and processed the piece as though it had. Because the behaviour you encountered is essentially what would have happened if you had juiced one piece of the watermelon, finished the day, then brought back the rest the next day (So essentially, your first piece of watermelon was juiced in its own pseudo day, but the cutscene glitched and was skipped)

[@bottlerocketboy8492]

@@pressaTD They means it shows it as soon as you collect it. In the gameplay, as you collect the first piece, a cutscene started- notated as the skip prompt at 14 mins in. THAT's the cutscene where the watermelon was juiced.

[@TrueLucinova]

​​@@pressaTD You did seem to skip it, it triggers at 13:05 in the video; the very first fruit you collect is immediately juiced on its own, rather than stocked for the end of the day

[@ClassicPopble]

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

[@nicolasberube]

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

[@Bagel.404]

i thought i was imagining that lol

[@chrishart4034]

31:16 ish?

[@Shadowonwater]

Oh that was the video? I thought that was coming from outside my window!

[@Fisherington]

​@@Shadowonwater...i sure hope you don't live on like the 5th floor of a building or something

[@Athesies]

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

[@cool3996]

It would only be fair, lmao

[@pressaTD]

Oh I’m so down

[@cool3996]

@@pressaTD YES

[@weckar]

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.

[@TriforceWisdom64]

Does that mean you can softlock by collecting all the available fruit, consuming all but one juice, then saving him on the last day? I know even in that case you would just rewind to an earlier day, but it'd still be weird to give the player an unwinnable day.

[@thecatinthehat125]

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

[@davidthecommenter]

"On my second try, I didn't lose a single Pikmin." The one soul visibly seen floating away: 🗿

[@TruGamer1127]

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

[@TruGamer1127]

I assume it didn't update the counter properly since it was already juiced, so it wouldn't be listed in the list of fruits currently in storage, similarly to how the first strawberry you (normally) collect on day 2 works

[@weckar]

It is that, PLUS not having any juice at that time.

[@sharkdoesstufff]

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 ^^

[@sticccboi3886]

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

[@pressaTD]

I think that’s the plan lol

[@yaqbulyakkerbat4190]

​@@pressaTD*Watches pikmin rip apart the tauros demon*

[@bobsmith7066]

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

[@Rimoraj99999]

Real

[@alex_-yz9to]

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

[@ILoveKillingGaysAndFurrys]

According to someone else (not sure if it's true or not) they left with 7 juice canisters and lost 4 in the first crash

[@pinkducklett1051]

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

[@pressaTD]

That’s why I left them in and not totally not because I was lazy

[@DoctorTex]

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!

[@vineheart01]

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

[@austinclements8010]

my favorite are the albino pikmin, theyre so dopey looking

[@rmsmith122198]

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

[@sonnitude]

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.

[@j1t176]

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

[@montydoesgames]

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

[@PennyForMyThoghts3.1415]

I agree I was going to say the same thing

[@j1t176]

The tech in this is so crazy dude mad props

[@mysteriousmog51]

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.

[@Goobywoobygoo]

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

[@Yuristar]

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

[@darkwind8998]

This fued is hilarious the gaslight from lemon

[@Luigistar2401]

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!

[@colvion4407]

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

[@shopnil4]

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

[@ElsyeaR]

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

[@thegameplayer125]

and the bromance continues

[@Ricka_seven]

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

[@AndresD.deLeon]

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

[@Insaneitems]

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. :)

[@Jacobturtle]

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

[@Hidden_Fern]

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

[@yoshilord724]

I love this rivalry

[@JakeyBoyGamez]

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

[@WaluigiGoesWa]

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.

[@SuperKamehameha2]

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

[@zeropointer125]

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

[@demonark3391]

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

[@ForrestSanchez]

The first fruit you grab in the game will never show

[@thedanjago]

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

[@foggy8298]

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

[@FeatheredCreature]

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

[@ellueccid8625]

this is a great year for disses

[@draconesetmagicae9]

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

[@ILoveKillingGaysAndFurrys]

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[@nicolasn12]

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

[@princeofhyrule2205]

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 😂

[@pedrovictorsilvaladeira7877]

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!

[@Actual-Knight]

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.

[@Pikachu_Gamer123]

you can do it with only reds too

[@krealyesitisbeta5642]

Sega reference was actually classic

[@gglanouille3060]

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

[@b_sway]

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

[@velvetbutterfly]

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

[@iankeith]

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

[@olimar12345]

Fascinating!

[@DarthAnimal]

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

[@TBV-M]

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

[@jonlevidalkvistagustsson6134]

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.

[@BDCheese3506]

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

[@imboredthatyimhere]

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

[@gulfgiggleanimations4472]

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

[@Blazecaster]

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

[@DaftBanana]

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

[@RadTroppy]

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.

[@andrewtalken5167]

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.

[@col.choros3966]

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.

[@Sleepdeprivedkitty]

And so, the S.S Drake's crew starved to death on the trip back to Koppai.

[@Brenothegamer1847]

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😁

[@Mi123mima]

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

[@cototototorra7106]

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

[@That_one_dude21]

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

[@tonberryking42]

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

[@lukeblack8146]

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

[@mattman3122]

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

[@zswords]

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.

[@agentclank8183]

I like to think a whole fruit is only cataloged when there is enough to satisfy the kopites for reproduction of the fruit back home.

[@Slicerness]

I am deeply impressive, really well done!

[@Zorgdub]

I like the difference between "mike drop" and "drops mic".

[@tippytherainbowcat2058]

The game shows a cutsene when you collect your first fruit but it bugged out.

[@NatShulamoo]

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.

[@velvetbutterfly]

You open this video insulting Lemon's Pikmin gameplay: so let's see your DarkSouls gameplay

[@TheOutcast17]

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

[@lithoplanemasters6522]

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.

[@velvetbutterfly]

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

[@dominicabram8843]

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

[@profwoland8942]

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

[@Poiman64]

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

[@MrVelyx]

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

[@pressaTD]

There’s nothing I want more lol

[@CansteamHeadcannon]

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 !

[@thephantom7121]

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

[@titouanv4532]

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

[@Subfuture]

Lemon seems like he is worth competing with.

[@pressaTD]

Wow that is incredibly generous, thank you so much. And yes Lemon is a great rival, just don’t tell him I said that.

[@michalsniadala1667]

OH THE RIVALRY CONTINUES

[@leebrennen8973]

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.

[@SuperfieldCrUn]

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.