Before I begin my explanation, I self title this the StratManJan (a very different title than the RatManJan Strat)

For the Bowser games in All Characters, it is ideal to get hit by the ball to get on base easily. However, you can only get hit by the ball when Bowser pitches extremely inside. With the StratManJan, however, you can change Bowser's pitching position, causing him to pitch more inside or outside. A video of the strat:

As you can see in the video, pausing the game after Bowser has taken position but before he winds up his pitch causes him to go to another position. This almost guarantees getting hit by the ball, as it causes a shift in his position. Additionally, this removes all randomness that may come with hitting the ball with any of the Kritters or Petey. You of course can pause multiple times to shift his position more if you need to. Be careful though, as when he begins winding up his pitch, you cannot pause, making his position final

Hey, since I'm fairly unfamiliar with the community I don't really know if this has been discovered yet, but when I was doing an Any% run (this was probably gonna be a 15:2x or smth but Bowser did not agree), I went up to pitch and this happened:

Usually, what happens here is that you pause to skip the animation Mario does before he pitches, but what happened in the video is that the pause menu seemingly didn't show up, yet the animation was skipped. I have no idea how I even did this, and more importantly, I have no idea if this saves time. I think it might be able to if fully optimized, but it purely comes down to if it can be replicated. If anyone has any possible explanation for what happened, could they possibly say not only what happened, but how it happened as well? Thanks.

also sorry about not muting the video now you all can hear me complain haha!