Sonny 2 Any% (No Major Glitches) in 39:14 [Former WR] CreepyGar 2024-04-09 | IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE STRATEGIES IN AND MY THOUGHTS ON THE RUN TURN ON ENGLISH CAPTIONS!Very glad I was able to get a run this good on my first day of doing attempts (granted I did grind for like 6 hours in that 1 day), the earlygame was actually very bad, especially 2-7 and 2-8 were both awful (as well as the mouse disconnect incident...), with only 2nd try Unholy Runeblade. I almost messed up in 4-9 and honestly kind of deserved to just lose the run there for playing so risky but I got through and somehow managed to hit the 1/4 Emerald Death after an already insane Zone 4 and then proceed to get a very smooth Zone 5 afterwards. The run is definitely still improvable down to a low 38, maybe even a 37 but the problem is that I feel like the game is really just not fun to grind anymore at that point. Idk though maybe I'll end up doing it again within a week the next time my time gets beaten, who knows XDFull Session vod: youtube.com/watch?v=OUchjYsMWEA
Sonny 2 All Achievements (No Stage Skips) Speedrun WR in 2:48:17 CreepyGar 2023-10-24 | IF YOU WANT MORE EXPLANATIONS/INSIGHTS INTO THE RUN TURN ON THE CAPTIONS!this run was a lot better than the last one, worked with some other people on optimizing it and did some more research and Im very happy with the result. There are still a couple of big stinky timelosses but my goal time was under 3 hours so Im more than happy with this for now.---------------------------------------------FAQ: pastebin.com/f80mqkaf (youtube has a 5000 character limit D:)more detailed explanations of major events in the run---------------------------------------------Achievement list:(the achievements do not show up in game anymore since they were already completed once on a previous save file, the timestamp shows the start of the fight after which I wouldve gotten the achievement for the first time)-The Tape: Retrieve The Tape from Felicity (3:48)-Predator: Defeat Captain Hunt, without using any training fights, and without repeating any defeated bosses on Heroic Mode (10:01)-Legend: Defeat the Mayor, without using any training fights, and without repeating any defeated bosses on Heroic Mode (45:01)-Black Magic: Defeat Clemons for the first time, without using any teammates on Heroic or Challenging difficulty (1:07:51) (resetting does not void this achievement, also I did and should have just done it on the Psychological run later anyway)-Pacifist: Defeat The Hydra for the first time, without dealing more than 2000 damage throughout the whole fight on Challenging or Heroic difficulty. (2:06:48) (important to note for this fight is that Damage over Time such as Epiphany does not count towards this 2000 damage (if the wiki is correct at least), I also accidentally attacked the Hydra twice with Dark Infusion but tallying up all the direct damage I inflicted throughout the fight it counts up to between 1700 and 1800 so to all my understanding I should've still gotten the achievement).-All Star: Defeat the Mayor on Heroic difficulty with all three classes. (2:32:32)-Jail Break: Defeat the Metal Warden with exactly one team member. (2:35:19)-Doomsday: Defeat the Bomb in less than 40 turns. (2:36:34)-Old Ghosts: Defeat Nostalgia without using any teammates. (2:36:52)-Over The Ashes: Defeat Versu the Corruptor in Zone 7. (2:47:30)---------------------------------------------This run also achieved new WRs in:- Any% (Heroic, No Stage Skips) / Legend% (No Stage Skips): 45:46 (the Biological section of this run)- All Stages (No Stage Skips): 1:14:32 (the Psychological section of this run)
Sonny 2 Any% (Heroic, No Stage Skips) Speedrun in 47:31 CreepyGar 2023-10-23 | IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE GLITCH USED AT THE START CHECK OUT THE REPLY TO THE PINNED COMMENT OF THIS VIDEO: youtube.com/watch?v=Xex4GWL_qbUgood improvement, no new strategies just less time wasted menuing. Pretty bad drop RNG in zone 3 but the good RNG in zones 4 and 5 more than made up for that
Sonny 2 Any% Speedrun in 40:49 [Former WR] CreepyGar 2023-10-18 | IF YOU WANT DETAILED EXPLANATIONS OF EVERYTHING IN THE RUN MAKE SURE TO TURN ON CAPTIONS!pretty ok run, made some adjustments to certain levels and overall just a bit cleaner than my previous run, got screwed over by a lot of RNG in Zone 3 and 4 (The Real Hobo my nemesis), but the lucky Emerald Death drop really dragged this run across the finish line in zone 5Another thing that was interesting this run is that the "Early Heavy Gun" strategy still kind of works when Roald trolls you. He stunned the police colonel at pretty much the worst possible moment and I still got a comparable segment time to what I would normally get. That makes me wonder if there's a way to get really lucky with a stun, so it forces his heavy gun a bit later so you can theoretically hit him with Withdrawal in Shadow Blend while he has the Agile Exposure debuff. Not something worth looking into though, it might happen one day or maybe its just not possible, who knows.
osu! | My 10000th SS | Yamada Tamaru - Always in my heart [Endearment] CreepyGar 2023-03-17 | ~ I swear to go wherever will be'Cause there'll be something to see and to find ~
Sonny 100% No Stage Skips Speedrun in 12:12 CreepyGar 2023-03-03 | FAQ:Q: what is this weird menu that showed up at the start of the run?A: it was recently discovered that by pressing CTRL + Enter, which is the frame advance tool of flash player, this brings up a hidden debug menu. When the multiplayer battle is pressed, there are no enemies loaded in, and the battle ends after your first turn since the game sees there are no enemies anymore. The singleplayer battle always spawns in a single Level 5 Metabii, and we beat this stage because if we don't, upon pressing next stage the game for some reason loads in another multiplayer battle, which we don't want after 1 instanceQ: what benefits does this feature give / how come you have infinite money?A: because the debug fights were never actually meant to be finished by a player, they don't have a set exp and money range that should be rewarded after the end of the fight. Apparently this makes the value default back to NaN (Not a Number). Unfortunately exclusively in Sonny 1 you always stop gaining exp when leveling up, so we can't reach level 30 in a quick way in this manner (unlike in sonny 2). (I think) the reason why NaN counts as infinite money is because the game checks if the amount of money sonny has is greater than or equal to the amount of money the item costs, and the logic here is that both "NaN is greater than x" and "NaN is smaller than x" yield True for every conventional value of x, which causes it to basically be infiniteQ: why are you dropping items into the ability menu?A: it's been known for a very long time that exclusively in Sonny 1 dropping an item in certain menus will cause the item's stats to be added to your stats without actually equipping you with that item or checking if that slot is available, this causes Sonny to essentially "eat" the item and absorb its stats, which is why this glitch is often called the item-eating glitchQ: why is this category called no stage skips?A: when pressing CTRL + Enter while in a fight, this will cause the fight to immediately end in a win and thus advances the storyline by 1 stage. Since skipping every single stage and then buying some items to beat the last stage as intended is a very uninteresting way of playing the game (some might argue this run is also not very interesting but I digress) we decided to split both any% and 100% up into 4 categories to allow for as many different ways of playing the game as possible:- glitchless: bans all glitches that have a meaningful impact on the run-no debug: bans only the usage of CTRL + Enter in any circumstance, so the item-eating glitch and such are still allowed. If you want to see a 100% run where debug tools aren't abused you can find one here youtube.com/watch?v=1TI8VG0T5gs-no stage skips: as stated earlier only the usage of CTRL + Enter in battle is banned (or in other words every stage in the game has to be completed in order by defeating all enemies)-unrestricted: anything goes, the only requirement is that the final stage is completed by defeating all enemies. The leaderboards don't yet resemble this split but it has been agreed on by the community and should hopefully be implemented soon enoughQ: why do you switch to Flame Strike in Zone 4?A: I do this because the item with the blue background I buy in that shop gives +300 fire piercing, which is the highest amount any item in the game gives of a typing sonny can actually attack with (the paladin armor gives an insane amount of poison piercing but unfortunately sonny doesn't learn any poison abilities in this game). This is useful because piercing increases crit chance (which is pretty much 100% at that point) and crit damage, which is helpful since Omen and Sinjid have a lot of health. Q: why don't you buy more items so you can 1-shot Omen in zone 4? while you could buy enough of them to the point where you kill Omen the first time he uses his Enrage ability, but this ends up adding so much extra menuing that just stunning him with shatter bolt after the Flame Strike and going for a 2-cycle ends up being quite a lot faster. It's also nice that Sinjid is still a 1-hit KO at this point, although it's not absolutely required since you could use Subversion on yourself to survive his first Mana Bomb and then take him out afterwards. That doesn't really matter though since anything worse than a 2-cycle on Omen is not really viable since he deals far too much damage while enraged to Sonny, I haven't tested a lot with it so there might maybe be something but I think it's pretty unlikely
Sonny 2 All Achievements no Stage Skips Speedrun in 3:40:24 CreepyGar 2023-02-19 | If you want to know how to execute the level 30 glitch, make sure to check out the reply to the pinned comment!what a rideAchievement timestamps:- The Tape: 4:38 (Retrieve the tape from Felicity)- Predator: 13:51 (Defeat Captain Hunt on Heroic difficulty, without using any training fights, and without repeating any defeated bosses)- Pacifist: 29:52 (Defeat The Hydra for the first time on Challenging or Heroic difficulty, without dealing more than 2000 damage throughout the whole fight)- Legend: 58:22 (Defeat the Mayor on Heroic difficulty, without using any training fights, and without repeating any defeated bosses)- Jail Break: 1:00:56 and again at 3:22:18 (Defeat Metal Warden using only one team member)- Black Magic: 1:26:57 and again at 2:31:46 (Defeat Clemons for the first time on Challenging or Heroic difficulty, without using any team mates) (I didn't know if it would still count for the achievement if you tried to do it again after dying to the boss so I did it again on the psychological run just to be sure)- All Star: 3:20:13 (Defeat The Mayor on Heroic difficulty with all three classes)- Doomsday: 3:23:38 (Defeat the Time Bomb in less than 40 turns)- Old Ghosts: 3:24:29 (Defeat Nostalgia without any team members)- Over the Ashes: 3:39:53 (Defeat the Corruptor in Zone 7)shoutouts to that one youtube video from 2017 that showed me how to do North and South Guardian, idk how that fight is supposed to be possible on Psychological otherwise. All three any% runs are very much improvable, especially the psychological class I suck at (and I also got like literally no drops during that run and Im not gonna spend 5 mins fighting baron again until he gives me Unholy Runeblade like on Biological) so the time can probably go more than 20 minutes lower than this, very fun yet mentally taxing run though :)
Sonny 2 Any% Unrestricted in 3:52 CreepyGar 2023-02-17 | just remember kids, theft can get you anywhere in life
Sonny 2 Any% no Stage Skips Speedrun in 25:10 CreepyGar 2023-02-16 | legal version of last run, in the last run I unknowingly took advantage of a previously file that had the game completed, which gives roald max level before obtaining him, which is not possible from 1 new file which is required by src rules, so here is a run with updated strats that does follow src rules. The run itself is actually pretty good, since I got first try 1/6 Unholy Runeblade, and didn't really make too many huge mistakes anywhere else
Shantae and the Pirates Curse All Dark Magic Speedrun WR in 1:32:27 CreepyGar 2023-02-14 | xddddddddddd
Shantae and the Pirates Curse 100% Speedrun WR in 1:47:22 CreepyGar 2023-02-05 | would have been the run if I got pogo jump, but I tried it for way too long and still couldn't get it, so there's still over a minute to save there. Other than that I also didn't get a super monster milk in cackle tower and got very bad luck on the coinflips in Mud Bog Island (both for the second time in a row). Other than these things though pretty much the entire run is incredibly both in terms of RNG and execution, especially the first 40 and last 25 minutes of the run were amazing, so from another perspective I'm still very satisfied with this large improvement, it just shows that 1:45 and lower are definitely possible
Shantae and the Pirates Curse 100% Speedrun WR in 1:48:34 CreepyGar 2023-02-04 | good RNG bad gaming, 1:47 tomorrow Clueless
Shantae and the Pirates Curse 100% Speedrun WR in 1:49:02 CreepyGar 2023-02-03 | XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDin-depth explanation of the route:aggressive reroute skipping at least 2 super monster milks from the saliva island grind saving at least 45 seconds if you get good RNG elsewhere. Unfortunately though I didn't get good enough RNG despite not being very aggressive (only got 2 super monster milks out of like 15 scorpgal which is only 12.7% likely. Getting at least 4 from 13 scorpgals which means you have one for every fight and don't farm any extra is a 57.9% chance, and that's not even taking into account the fact that you could also get them from batgals in Cackle Tower and wolves in Frostbite Island (it's only a 1% drop from them but if you don't dodge them there are over 30 wolves in your way so it's not unrealistic to get one)) so I was short 2 super monster milks at the end. In theory this isn't a problem because it's possible to one-cycle phases 2 and 3 of pirate master with a regular monster milk which I did have but I haven't practiced it and I definitely didn't trust myself enough given how nervous I was, so I lost 20 seconds on Steel Maggot and the first phase of Pirate Master instead. It might also be worth to test how difficult it is to 2-cycle Dagron with Super Pike Ball and normal Monster Milk, which I think should also be possible but I haven't tried it.This run was actually just a test run to see how the route would play out and I think it has a lot of potential since the odds required for it to be executed relatively optimally aren't that crazy (over 50% I think). This route could also be pushed even further by not buying a Super Pike Ball before the first Spiderweb Island visit (I think it's like an 8/9 chance to get at least 1 Super Pike Ball from either the batgals or the skeletons there), or by skipping the last Super Monster Milk from the Saliva Island grind, but this would obviously require significantly more good RNG than this current routeGameplay-wise the run was pretty decent, I learned the pogo jump in Mud Bog Island before the run and although I lost a bit of time to it I still got it reasonably quickly. Other than that and losing 30 seconds to the pistol shots in Spiderweb Island there weren't really any major timelosses I haven't mentioned earlier, but 1:47 looks like a good target time for this category
Shantae and the Pirates Curse 100% Normal Mode, No OoB Speedrun in 1:51:51 CreepyGar 2023-02-02 | ayo
Shantae and the Pirates Curse Any% Speedrun WR in 1:17:32 CreepyGar 2023-01-29 | one of the most clutch runs I've ever performed, played insanely well after Dagron and got really great patterns from both Steel Maggot and Pirate Master. First half had very bad RNG though and I still lost a ton of time in Run Run Rottytops from massive skill issues. 1:16 soon?
Shantae and the Pirates Curse Any% (Normal Mode, No OoB) speedrun in 1:17:54 CreepyGar 2023-01-28 | soon
Shantae and the Pirates Curse Any% (Normal Mode, No OoB) speedrun in 1:19:14 CreepyGar 2023-01-21 | choked low 1:18 :(gonna practice last few bosses a lot and then push for wr
Shantae and the Pirates Curse 100% (Normal Mode, No OoB) Speedrun in 1:57:40 CreepyGar 2023-01-04 | I forgot to turn on discord audio so it sounds like Im talking to the voices in my head I swear thats the reason Copium
Sonny 2 Any% No Major Glitches Speedrun in 41:23 [Former WR] CreepyGar 2022-09-08 | IF YOURE INTERESTED IN AN EXPLANATION OF ALL THE DETAILS OF THIS RUN MAKE SURE TO KEEP/TURN ON CAPTIONS!after 3 more hours of grinding and a wr paced run in zone 5 where I forgot to start recording I got it! First try baron weapon (although I missclicked the first time I tried because I got distracted so I had to quickly reset) and the 1 in 3 Sun Struck Horrors from Clemons definitely helped to barely push this run over the line. I feel like I played really well for the most part, but the one timeloss that sticks out like a sore thumb is the real hobo, the pattern he gave me was so brutal and I don't know if there was really anything I could've done about it but I clearly wasn't able to respond to it in the most efficient way. Other than that another part that was scary is me almost messing up the quick kill on The Hydra by setting up my morphs a turn too early. Other than that zone 1 was also pretty bad (my best exits have been around the 5:00 mark) but there's not really that much I can do about any timeloss there since it's mostly just random misses or Veradux just refusing to ever click Electro Bolt. Sub 40 is definitely not out of the question with first try Unholy Runeblade!Regardless this record was insanely hard to beat and very impressive considering just how small the community is and how long ago the record was set!*retimed to 41:23.967
Sonny 2 Any% No Major Glitches Speedrun in 44:30 CreepyGar 2022-09-07 | literally everything past stage 9, zone 2 was absolutely awful, can't believe just how hardly I got shafted so often this run, actually crazy this still PBdthats not to say I didn't play poorly though, because I definitely did in certain places, like on captain hunt and the real hobo just making really stupid mistakes
Sonny 2 Any% No Major Glitches Speedrun in 44:51 CreepyGar 2022-09-05 | item RNG was so crazy this run: 1 in 4 Persecution in zone 1 into 1 in 4 frosted fate (this one isnt that helpful though) into 1 in 6 Runeblade into 1 in 6 first try Unholy Runeblade into 1 in 4 Emerald Death, so I am now doomed to not get first try Unholy Runeblade anymore for my next 40 runs.Pretty decent execution too, finally managed to manage my speed correctly in zone 2 to outspeed Roald early, and I actually didnt make any mistakes with picking my level-up abilities which is kind of a win for me lol. This run is actually pretty demotivating but at the same time I know I still have much more time to save if I just execute better, and Im just not gonna stick with the loser mentality where Im scared of my own PB lol, my zones 3, 4 and the first part of zone 5 were all still bad so just gotta look into where I can improve there.
Sonny 2 Any% No Major Glitches Speedrun in 47:43 CreepyGar 2022-09-03 | first run with new route, second try Baron weapon, got some really cringy RNG in stages 1-5, 1-6, 3-5 and 5-11 though, but managed to correctly execute a fast 5-4 and a fast 2-6 with the strat I theorized after my previous run (it helped that roald got the shell shocked Ill admit). Still spending a lot of time in menus and still losing a lot of time in zones 2, 3 and 4, gotta look into that further. (would really help if I could get either 1/4 chance to get Annihilation in zone 3 or Emerald Death within my first 5 runs at least once though?)
Sonny 2 Any% No Major Glitches Speedrun in 53:18 CreepyGar 2022-09-02 | got the weapon first try but forgot to equip my action bar afterwards reowhjoiwforewjiowrejofjwreiojiorewfjofjojfoiejoiferoifjerojforejferfoeroferjoif e lol. Getting better though, finally managed to hit PepeBusiness skip at the end of zone 1 so there's that
Sonny 2 Any% No Major Glitches Speedrun in 1:00:46 CreepyGar 2022-09-01 | went into a training fight in zone 3 on accident LOL!!!!!!!!!
Sonny 100% Speedrun in 21:56 (Current WR) CreepyGar 2022-08-30 | TURN ON SUBTITLES IF YOU WANT AN EXPLANATION OF THE RUNmet my goal I made up when returning to the game! very surprised I got there so quickly. This run was nothing special RNG-wise but the execution was very good so Im very happy with it! Will look into sonny 2 now I think :)14:45 any% also a nice small pb ig lol
Sonny Any% Speedrun in 14:47, 100% in 22:12 (former WR) CreepyGar 2022-08-30 | very good execution with pretty good RNG, still gonna push for a 21:XX but its gonna require at least considerably good RNG to improve this run from now on
Sonny Any% Speedrun in 15:09, 100% in 22:32 (former wr) CreepyGar 2022-08-29 | I died in stage 13 LMAO, also tied 2nd place any%, wouldve been untied if the shatter bolt on Paladin didnt miss....................
Sonny 100% Speedrun in 22:42 (former wr) CreepyGar 2022-08-28 | sorry for the splits file partially covering the game lol, hope its not too big of a deal if you even noticed it in the first place
Storm Silver Hardcore Nuzlocke Vs. Red CreepyGar 2022-08-13 | didn't play this fight well luckily this game is easyorealmost pp stalled the blastoise :skull:
How I Accidentally Beat My Pokemon White Nuzlocke CreepyGar 2022-07-25 | to clarify the rules: your pokemon get healed after the fight with N, however any pokemon that faints during that fight is considered permanently dead and is not allowed to be used for the Ghetsis fight. If my only pokemon alive at a certain point during the Ghetsis fight are pokemon that died on the N fight then that is considered as a loss. Other than that I can't use items in battle, can't overlevel the highest pokemon on Ghetsis' team and have to play on set mode.0:00 Storyline1:26 N13:47 Ghetsis
Renegade Platinum HC Nuzlocke Champion Fight CreepyGar 2022-06-25 | got one of the hardest possible teams of the 4 she could have :skull:
Renegade Platinum HC Nuzlocke Elite Four CreepyGar 2022-06-25 | I overleveled my torterra on accident before the start of the E4 while edging my pokemon but i PROMISE it actually didnt matter so not gonna chop my own arms off for that oneAaron: 0:16 - 11:01, team 3 (hardest team out of the 4 for me because of the beautifly and dustox imo, got really scary on the scizor there at the end but I had this fight pretty well planned out so it should've never been an issue)Bertha: 16:52 - 26:57, team 2 (2nd hardest team out of the 4. Teams 3 and 4 are literally just EQ on choice items into Azelf setup sweeps which Im very sad I didnt get, the only tough thing about this matchup is that the camerupt knows explosion which pretty much kills every one of my pokemon, the fact that I never swapped out pelipper might've made it seem easy but if that camerupt exploded turn 1 which is the only killing move it had it would've easily made Flint impossible so it was a tough call to make but I had no better options)Flint: 33:09 - 46:31, team 2 (easily the hardest team out of the four for me, the fact that he has 2 pokemon that know Sunny Day instead of just leading with one that has the Drought ability makes the beginning of the battle so much harder to navigate. Second of all the lopunny that is on this team is unironically terrifying, its part fighting in this rom so those 130 BP high jump kicks get STAB combined with Lopunny's enormous attack stat, I pretty much just got lucky that I was able to bait out a mega kick into my Magnezone to chip it with crash damage (which is necessary because ofc it has a focus sash). I originally didnt know what 6th pokemon I was gonna take with me and decided on Porygon-Z since it seemed like a really versatile pokemon to me that I could use for a lot of things I couldn't deal with, which really showed in the way it was able to pivot in on the drifblim and outclass it. Extremely happy with how I played this one.Lucian: 54:18-1:04:07, team 2 (definitely the second if not the easiest out of the 4, the strat is pretty much the same for every of the 4 teams since they all start with a male special attacking screen setter, the only difference is that the 4th team starts with an alakazam with a focus sash and counter which you have to work around and the hypno at the start of the third team knows hypnosis but deals a laughable amount of damage so those would've been fine too, team 1 is pretty much the same as team 2 with the exception that I would need 1 less rock polish than here, here I needed two because the medicham has a choice scarf and ice punch)
Sonny 100% in 22:54 [WR] CreepyGar 2022-04-18 | FAQ:- What are you doing in the options menu?Due to a mistake in the way the game was coded, when you drop any item that your class can wear in the options screen the game will try to equip that item. This works fine if you're not already wearing an item in that slot as it will simply equip the item. For some reason though, if you're already wearing something in that slot it will just add the stats of the item to your stats instead of putting the item back in your inventory. These added stats interestingly also reset if you reload the game or re-spec your character but do not reset if you die in a fight.- How are you able to wear Veradux' equipment then, aren't you an Assassin character?It is true that trying the exploit described above wouldn't work with Veradux' equipment, however a variation of the exploit that you can see me do does let you overwrite your item slot in a different way as seen in the run. I'm not entirely sure if the stats stack and if this can be done multiples times because of that but it's only really useful for Veradux' equipment anyway. I also don't equip myself with Veradux' weapon (even though it's possible to do so) because Veradux is very useful in zone 2 to heal and support Sonny. As I am running the assassin build my health is laughably low until I get to stack a lot of items in zone 3 and the weapon Veradux is holding mostly increases magic which is entirely useless for the main attacks I use and increases his healing capabilities by a lot. Both of these exploits were patched in the later games.- Why are you using the Assassin character?The other contender for best class is the Gunslinger which specializes in Magic and mostly uses Electro Bolt to attack. The biggest advantage Gunslinger has over Assassin is that Electro Bolt scales with both Magic and Strength, while Smash - our main attacking move - only scales with Strength. This means that there are a lot more items in Zone 3 that add to useful stats for a Gunslinger than for an Assassin, not to mention that some of the Tribe Blades that can drop in Zone 3 and the Paladin equipment we stock up on before Zone 4, greatly add to your electric piercing which further increases damage dealt by Electro Bolt. The main advantage Assassin has however is that Smash can be equipped up to 6 times while Electro Bolt can only be equipped twice. This means Assassin really outclasses Gunslinger in the battles against three opponents in Zone 2 and onwards, and to compensate there are also items in the shops in Zone 3 and 4 that boost our physical piercing to add greatly to the damage dealt by Smash (as well as the assassin having a slightly higher damage output in general).- Is this run improvable and where is there time to be saved?This run is definitely improvable. The most obvious mistake is the terrible Baron fight in zone 3 which I came very close to losing, I have a very aggressive strategy and the baron completely outplayed me in the beginning (which is luck dependent and very unlikely) which almost caused me to lose the battle. The main improvement in this game relies on item drop luck at this point though. The main items you want to drop are Moon-Struck Horrors in Zone 2, certain Tribal Blades in Zone 3 - specifically the purple ones, and as many Blade of Lights as possible from training before zone 4, all of which boost either Strength or physical piercing. The Moon-Struck Horrors are a 3% drop in stages 10, 11 and 15, and a 5% drop in stages 16 and 17.The purple Tribal Blades are 2 separate 8% drops from every Shaman of Blades you fight in training battles in Zone 3 (which we do to unlock Shatter Bolt) (8% for both the primary and secondary arms, both of which have the same stats). Aside from that it is also a 25% drop on Rockstar, the Council and Baron Brixius alongside the other 3 tribal blades. The red ones, which are also an 8% drop from Rock Golems in training fights are also mildly useful but the other 2 are essentially useless for an Assassin build (but really good for a Gunslinger) and are sold to buy other items with.Lastly the Blade of Light is a 15% drop each time you fight Paladin, which you do 21 or 22 times in total to train for Zone 4.I got no Moon-Struck Horrors, 1 purple and 1 red Tribal Blade and 7/21 Blades of Light. Moon-Struck Horrors tend to be the most important ones as they can really skyrocket your earlygame, if you want an example look at AzureStar's any% world record where he gets both of the first 2 3% drops (a 1 in 1111 chance) and proceeds to fly through zone 2 because of it. Getting none is pretty standard but bad, the amount of tribal blades I got is average but could definitely be more. The 7 blades of light were really lucky (~2.9% chance to get 7 or more) and is what saved the sub 23 for this run I think. With better luck, especially with 2 or more Moon-Struck Horrors a 20:XX is definitely not unrealistic but grinding it out will be a pain for anyone attempting to do so
Sonny Any% in 15:55, 100% in 23:37.833 CreepyGar 2022-04-17 | Stages 14, 19 and 23 went brutally wrong, pretty much completely out of my control each time. Other than that I'm very proud of my decision-making and speed in this run. (My desktop audio defaulted back to the wrong source before I started recording so sorry for no audio)
1/1944 Perfect Stage 7 RNG CreepyGar 2022-04-15 | the ZPCI Assault has 2 attacks (Strike and Swat Fire) and the ZPCI Captain has 3 (Strike, Swat Fire and Swat Ray), with Swat Fire by far being the fastest one to get coming at you (probably around a second faster than Strike)All enemies in this fight always have an equally likely chance of choosing any attack on any given turn so for the ZPCI Assault that's a 1 in 2 chance for choosing Swat Fire on any given turn and for the ZPCI Captain that's a 1 in 3 chance.On top of that in order to save a turn you have to crit the ZPCI Captain at least on one of the two times you attack him. From personal experience this, combined with not missing any attacks throughout the fight, has roughly a 1 in 3 chance of happening (the crit on the ZPCI + not missing, that is).Finally, after the fight there are 2 possible drops that can occur, each having a 50% chance. With the Assassin Build I'm using you need the ZPCI to realistically continue the run so getting that is also a 1 in 2 chance.In this run, I got all 6 possible swat fires (2 from the ZPCI Assault and 4 from the captain), a crit on the Captain, no misses and the correct item drop after the battle. Using my 1/3 estimate (which is probably overestimating the likelihood) this gives a total1/(2*2*3*3*3*3) * 1/3 * 1/2 = 1/1944 chance (0.051%) of this happening.Needless to say this Stage 7 segment I got in this run may be hard to beat :)
Sonny Any% in 16:33, 100% in 24:51 CreepyGar 2022-04-13 | good zone 1terrible zones 2 and 3really good zone 41 MSH, average zone 3 RNG(I was in call with two friends none of the voices during the run are me I just couldn't talk during the run and couldn't separate the discord audio from the game audio so yea..., more motivation to beat the run I guess :P)might try to go for a 22
