The idea is basically putting as many restrictions on the player as possible. Small only with Yoshi could work, but I'm not sure how different it would be to just a no-cape version of the same category

Exactly. It would just be 11 exit no cape but taking the small only route. You'd even have to have a cloud and no cloud filter.

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Well if you allow Yoshi and cloud, you can take the 11 exit route as small mario. I believe Volpey did that run a while back

Sounds like a pretty good idea to me. As with most categories, no orb/cloud. Then it would play very similar to low% but with a much lower barrier to entry with the harder strats removed. Could help bridge the gap. I'd throw some runs down for sure.

If this does turn into a category, is small only "Small Only Yoshiless"? Or the new category Small Only no restrictions?