City Hall Skip

City Hall Skip is a strategy that can be used to reach the top of the New Donk City Hall in nighttime Metro Kingdom without entering its interior. The trick involves using Stingby storage to obtain enough height to trickjump onto the large wedding billboard facing the Heliport and then continuing to trickjump to the top. The trick is faster than traversing the interior of the building, making it optimal for categories such as Festival%, but since the trick bypasses the City Hall Lost & Found moon, it is not yet known whether it is optimal for categories such as Any% that require collecting enough moons to leave the kingdom as it would necessitate collecting a replacement moon.

Execution

Although as of yet the trick has only been executed using TAS, the method to execute the trick is listed below:

• After collecting the Girder Sandwich moon, climb onto the nearby building and then trickjump directly across to the large metal platform with the Urban Stingbies. (Note that this is the same route used by 13 Captures.) Roll past the Stingbies and use the metal wall at the north end to jump to the top, while panning the camera away from the three Stingbies next to the wall at the correct moment in order to store their attacks.
• Pan the camera down to load the Stingbies back in, then jump high (such as using a triple jump and dive) as the Stingbies fly up toward Mario.
• Bounce on the Stingbies for extra height, then use any remaining movement options to land on top of the large wedding billboard.
• From there, jump to the top of the billboard on the south face of the skyscraper, then trickjump back to the right and around the side of the building to reach the top without being blocked by the fence.