Broode Skip
Madame Broode Skip, often shortened to Broode Skip or called by its nickname Broodon't, is a two-player trick used in various minimum captures runs that allows three captures to be saved in the Cascade Kingdom by skipping the Madame Broode boss fight. Normally, the only way to gather the five moons required to leave the kingdom is by collecting the Multi Moon from the boss, but by using a difficult two-player jump to reach the Power Moon on the floating island, it is possible to collect five moons without any captures.
Since this trick eliminates the Broode's Chain Chomp capture entirely, it is also useful in minimum capture types runs.
History
The idea of Madame Broode Skip was first theorized back in December 2017 by Adaly Debest [1], who explained that it was possible to collect four moons without defeating the boss, but collecting a fifth would require the floating island to be reached somehow. 04dude3 later theorized a way to reach the island by activating the checkpoint with Cappy, and finally proved the skip possible on May 10, 2019 [2]. The first 10 captures run was completed the following day by streamer Smallant1 [3].
Performance
Broodon't is notoriously hard so performing it is easier with a second player present. If you have no other person to play with, control cappy with your feet. To perform:
- Go to the triceratops skull at the plateau at the top of the Cascade Kingdom
- Triple jump off the triceratops' rightmost horn
- At the peak of the jump, perform a cap bounce
- Upthrow and navigate cappy on top of the island to roughly where the checkpoint is
- Press Y
- Dive so that you land on the platform with the checkpoint 'On Top of the Big Stump'
- Move Mario to the lower platform beside this platform that has purple coins
- Ledge grab on the side furthest from the water
- Pull Mario back up on to the platform
- Move to the corner that is diagonal to the bowsers kingdom warp painting
- Change to 1 Player mode
- Go into first person mode and look up
- If you did everything right, cappy should have activated the checkpoint
- Warp to the checkpoint and collect the moon
Here is a clip of broodon't being executed https://www.twitch.tv/smallant1/clip/FragileInnocentWallabyDerp?filter=clips&range=30d&sort=time