Day 1:

• Start by whistling the pikmin fighting the bulborb and kill the bulborb
• Switch to Louie and run to red onion
• Pluck pikmin after the cutscene and one shot the posy closest to the bag
• Switch to Olimar immediately and throw one pikmin at the posy on the ledge
• Switch back to Louie and punch the remaining posy down and throw the pikmin at the pellet after the cutscene
• Pluck the two pikmin and lure the dwarf bulborb under the onion's beam, let it attack the pikmin carrying the one pellet to keep it under the beam it can't eat it yet
• One shot the bulborb and load your 3 pikmin onto the corpse
• Pluck the 2 pikmin and collect the bulborb
• Switch to Olimar and throw the 5 pikmin onto the paper bag
• Switch back to Louie and throw the 5 pikmin carrying the corpse onto the bag, pluck the closest five pikmin and throw them onto the bag
• Put 10 pikmin on the bulborb corpse and 5 on the 1 pellet
• Pluck the remaining pikmin and pluck the 8 new pikmin
• Go to the 20 pellet and throw all 24 pikmin on it, lure the bulborb away from its position (see tcbtrio's pb video for reference), go to Louie's landing site and break all eggs and knock down 5 pellet
• Climb back up the slope and knock down the 1 pellet
• Lure the bulborb towards the onion but not so close to the 20 pellet that it attacks the pikmin
• As the 20 pellet is being sucked up deload the bulborb and whistle the pikmin, kill the bulborb as close to the onion as you can
• Load the bulborb corpse and 1 of the 5 pellets then pluck some of the pikmin
• After the 2 items get sucked up, load the last 5 pellet and finish plucking NOTE you can lost up to 5 pikmin to the bulborb without real reason to worry
• Bring all pikmin to the nectar and flower them
• Collect 5 spicy berries and 5 bitter berries and collect the 5 pellet while the berries are being knocked down
• Whistle all remaining pikmin and go to the Courage Reactor collecting the 1 pellet at the top of the slope along the way
• On your way past the 5 pellet, c-stick pikmin onto it so that you have 41-43 remaining pikmin in your party
• Dig up the Courage Reactor and end the day

===25 pokos, 61-66 Reds===

Enter EC:

• Take both captains and withdraw all the reds
• Throw 1 red into the grass on the ledge behind the 1 pellet to distract the groink
• Take the rest of the pikmin to the berry plants, get them safely onto the slope and dismiss them
• Lure the bulborb away from the 20 pellet and the slope, deload him and stay zoomed in
• Take pikmin to berry plants: put ~40 on bitter plant ~ 25 on spicy plant and collect 5 berries of each variety
• On your way back to the onion, collect the 20 pellet with all remaining pikmin
• Whistle the pikmin back from the rocket and use them to collect the 5 pellet
• Throw the pikmin from the 20 and 5 pellet onto the bag and pluck the remaining pikmin, throwing them onto the bag when they are plucked
• Take pikmin to wall
• Enter EC after wall is down

===25 pokos, ~96 Reds===

EC 1:

• Whistle and dismiss entire army with the flowers leading the pack
• Whistle around 25 red flowers and head to the exit
• Break exit and exit the sublevel

EC 2:

• Whistle and dismiss entire army with the flowers leading the pack
• Whistle around 25 red flowers and head to the exit
• Break exit and exit the sublevel

EC 3:

• Whistle the army and simply walk past the bulborbs, throw 10 leaf reds into the purple candypop flower and put the remaining reds on the wall
• Pluck the purple pikmin and whistle the reds after the wall is down
• Throw ~18 reds and 2 purples and dismiss the rest
• Whistle each group with separate captains and take smaller group to the ledge opposite of the exit
• Kill both bulborbs and carry the top corpse off the ledge (you should not collect it)
• Throw all pikmin onto ledge and walk up ramp after luring bulborbs off the ramp
• Use purples to make the dweevil release the drought ender and collect it before it picks it up again
• Switch captains and break the exit and exit after collecting treasure

EC 4:

This is the first of two major reset points during the run, the ideal rng combination is the rocket pod spawning on the bottom of the slope with the thin layer of water running down it and the crawbuster spawning in the close circular room. It is recommended that you play with a memory card and reset until you get this combination of rng

• Walk up slope and use spicy spray before you reach the first bulblax, kill the bulblax and move on into the circular room and kill the bulbax right in front of the small tunnel
• Use a bitter spray to extend the timer of the spicy spray and run into the room to get the crawbuster to drop
• Get him to roll into a wall closer to your pikmin and kill him
• Collect the globe treasure, crawbuster corpse, and both bulblaxs
• Use the geyser to exit emergence cave

===1346 pokos, 66-76 Reds, 10 purples===

Enter HGG:

• Mash through the end of day cutscenes for day 2
• Go to area selection map and select Awakening Woods
• Mash through the beginning of day cutscenes and run between the red onion and rocket with Olimar to distract the bulbear
• Withdraw your purples and kill the bulbear (you do not necessarily have to collect the bulbear but you can if youre low on reds)
• Withdraw around 30 reds, use one to push down the scale in the water behind the rocket
• Ferry red pikmin across water by walking around the pushed down scale block with Louie and run to HGG
• Switch to captain by purples and bulbear corpse and use purples to collect a spicy spray from the giant beetle behind the flower pots
• Switch back and Enter HGG

===1346 pokos, ~75 reds, 10 purples===

HGG:

• Grow 20 white pikmin from the red pikmin
• Pluck all 20 whites
• Pause, Give Up and Escape

===1346 pokos, ~55 reds, 10 purples, 20 whites===

Day 3:

• Use a red pikmin to push down the scale like before and ferry your whites across the water
• Bring the whites to the poison gate near orange bulborb, use spicy spray before putting them on
• Switch to Louie and withdraw all reds and purples, make your way to the dwarf bulbears and kill them
• Activate Doodle Bug with reds and flip it three times with purples
• Bring army to safety and switch to Olimar
• After wall comes down, ignore the poison and swarm whites onto bridge
• Let whites finish and whistle them with Louie, use the nectar to flower entire army
• Collect the globe with entire army
• End the day and mash through cutscenes

===1356 pokos, ~55 reds, 10 purples, 20 whites===

Enter CI:

• Take one captain and run to red onion, withdraw reds
• Switch to other captain and withdraw purples and whites
• Switch back and whistle all reds, run back to rocket and whistle all the whites and purples
• Enter CI with entire army

CI 1:

• Take pikmin to break cap over exit
• Exit level immediately

CI 2:

• Whistle pikmin and exit right away

CI 3-12:

This is the beginning of multiple floors that can spawn the Tear Stone. The tear stone can spawn on floors 3-12 as well as 18 and 19. Use your judgement and collect it when it is most convenient to do so.

• If the tear stone is not close, just exit immediately
• No need to collect enemies on any of the floors, no caps exist on the exits

===1704 pokos===

CI 13:

• Find hole and exit immediately
• No need to use butterflies for spray grinding

CI 14:

• Dig up tape immediately
• Grow 20 white pikmin
• Do not nectar army yet

===1779 pokos===

CI 15:

• Charge right to hairy bulborb and defeat it
• Use the army to take out the enemies between marble and rocket
• Exit at the vanilla sh1 exit location

===1930 pokos===

CI 16:

• Use just one captain to run right to exit and exit, ignore empress

CI 17-19:

• Exit immediately

CI 20:

• Use whites to dig up the buried treasure in the main room and purples to get a spicy spray drop from giant beetle
• Dupe the spray to get 2 spicy sprays

===2930 pokos===

CI 21:

• Defeat snagret and collect the key
• Use eggs to nectar the army after it is defeated

===3430 pokos===

CI 22:

• Dismiss reds at the triple fire geysers in front of the spawn point
• Use whites to collect both the Luck Wafer and Strife Monolith
• Exit after collecting both

===3655 pokos===

CI 23:

• Defeat bulblax and collect just the corpse with purples and a few whites
• Use the rest to break open the exit

===3705 pokos===

CI 24:

This is the second of two major reset points in the run. You want a layout that has the exit spawning on ground as opposed to under water. A good thing to look for is how close the pink candy treasure is to the spawn; if it is right next to the spawn that is a bad sign, if it is not usually that means the exit is on land.

• Collect one or both treasures (depending on how well guarded they are)
• Break exit and exit level

===Minimum of 3750 pokos, can have as many as 3835 pokos===

CI 25:

• Use just whites and a spicy spray to defeat the crawbuster and collect the corpse with the whole army, exit upon collection

===For 4250 pokos, skip 1 empress (26 or 30). For 4300 or more pokos, skip both empresses (26 and 30)===

CI 26:

• Break exit and exit the sublevel

CI 27:

• Use an army of around 40 pikmin and a spicy and bitter spray to kill both close jellyfloats
• Defeat the Raging Long Legs using the rest of the bitter sprays

===5300 pokos===

CI 28:

• Put out the fire geysers
• Put some pikmin on the gate and use the rest to defeat the bulblax, collect the treasure and corpse
• Use whites to collect the Gyroid Bust behind gate
• After GB is moving, use pikmin to break open exit and exit the level

===5810 pokos===

CI 29:

• Collect both Invigorators and 2 of the 3 White Goodnesses

===6120 pokos===

CI 30:

• Break exit and exit immediately

CI 31:

• Use purple pikmin to defeat GBB by throwing them one at a time on top of the GBB after he steals a treasure
• Collect just the GBB corpse and exit the level

===6425 pokos===

CI 32:

• Use reds to collect the Cosmic Archive immediately, add whites at the end of its carry path after it crosses the fire geysers near spawn

===7175 pokos===

CI 33:

• Collect all 6 treasures on the floor and any enemies that you might need to hit at least 10586 pokos or 10600 pokos if you plan on skipping the bodies on the next sublevel

===10586 pokos===

CI 34:

• Defeat both bulborbs by feeding them whites before collecting the pure heart
• Once both treasures are visable, collect both and escape the cave