I was thinking, the lowest possible amount of captures is 13 with the wet nut glitch in Bowser's Kingdom. And most of the captures are in Bowser's Kingdom, including the Pylons. I just remembered that you can get from the painting in Bowser's to the island with the ogre, with a roll cancel vector. Now I know you can't skip to Bowser's at the beggining of the game, but what if you visit Bowser's when its available, then go to Cascade, go through the to Bowser painting, do the RCV, then skip 2 pylon captures and do the rest of the kingdom? This could mean the new minimum is 11 captures? Can somebody look into this?

You can't leave Bowser's before completing it

What about wait that would do nothing

I was saying I think we could use the snow warp to warp to cascade to warp back to bowser

Maybe it's possible? I'll try to send a clip of actually doing it. I don't know for sure tho.