I looked over this forum and really saw nothing regarding it. It seems like a no brainer though and I've been labbing it rather extensively. I'm interested in everyone's thoughts on this.

So far in my experience, Minimal Capture Runs provide more interesting routes and obviously more technical jumps. My viewers have also gone from being done with watching Odyssey streams to actively requesting labbing sessions of these runs.

I'm currently running with these in mind.

~ Minimal Captures ~ Only counts for Capturing NPCs. (scarcrows, switches, powerlines don't count) ~ Bosses only count as one capture. (see Madam Broodal)

Currently I've managed to complete a run with just five captures with a (unofficial time) of 1:33:35. This was during a labbing run so far from what is actually possible obviously.

Currently the following Kingdoms are completable without captures:

Cap Sand Lake Wooded Cloud Lost Snow Seaside Luncheon Ruined

Cascade requires the first moon Chain Chomp & Madam Broodal.

Metro Kingdom requires a Sherm capture for the Mecha Wriggler.

Bowser Kingom requires a Pokio for scaling the rotating wall.

Moon requires the Bowser capture.

Any idea in terms of routes? Obviously many of the typical Any% routes are good launching points, but each need some rerouting.