Grondious | Cuphead DLC Any% Former World Record Speedrun in 10:45! @Grondious | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
This is possibly the best record I've set in this game so far outside of maybe my V1.1.5 Any% (All Bosses) run :D

Lobber/Spread started off as a massive underdog early in the DLC's life with most players opting for a much more consistent Charge/Spread route that still remains pretty strong to this day. But after a lot of development and work into the category it is now hands down the fastest way to get through the DLC as of now!

One of the biggest discoveries was by Fabix531 who found a spot in the Chef fight during phase 3 where you can deal triple damage with lobber EX's. With some help from TheMexicanRunner who had the idea to use the saw to time the lobber EX's and help from AssasinNarga to figure out how over-damaging with the shakers in phase 2 worked and me spending around 100 hours practicing the fight and working on inventing the strats to tie it all together, it made an advanced technique known as "Saltimate Jutsu" possible to skip the last phase of Chef and save a tremendous amount of time.

With hundreds of attempts in this category since the Saltimate Jutsu was found, I only got it in 3 runs ever, so to get it in a run with this great of a pace was a massive victory for me and spells the end of my DLC Any% journey (for now at least :P).

Funny enough, the first level, Forest Follies was the level I made the most mistakes in that cost me about a second over the time I usually get but outside of those small mistakes this run was near perfect by my standards with really only super lucky RNG allowing better boss times.

DLC had me return to Cuphead after a couple of years of not really playing any and I really wanted to bring everything I learned as a speedrunner over the past couple years into this so I feel I improved a lot of small optimizations and consistency that I used to not have to this level.

The Cuphead community has been super supportive of this journey, sticking around with the many resets that it took to grind this time down so I have massive appreciation for all of you!

This isn't the last Speedrun I'll do, as I absolutely love doing this stuff so whether it be Cuphead or many of the other games I enjoy running or even new ones, feel free to sub on YouTube or follow my Twitch for more content like this and maybe some other funny or educational stuff :D

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