Uploaded January 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
If you try to use the Shockwave while you're still blinking from taking damage, for some reason, it doesn't cost you any health to use. And then using the Shockwave itself sets you blinking from supposedly taking damage, so you can just use it again... and again and again. The easiest way to have full health so that you can actually use the Shockwave after taking damage is to use a blue cookie first, but it can also be done with health refill powerups, if there are any handy (the animation from using a white cookie is too slow to work). Since you are always in invincibility frames, you can't be hurt at all while doing this trick. The Shockwave is the strongest weapon in the game, so this trick decimates any enemy you use it on. Due to the walk through walls glitch making us unable to be damaged, unfortunately I couldn't work out a way to be able to use it on any of the other bosses in the run.
It saves maybe about 25s. Besides speeding up this fight, it helps mitigate the RNG of him jumping all over the place since the Shockwave always hits everything currently on screen. It also frees up a blue cookie to be used on the previous fight, and though optimally it would be faster to not use the extra cookie at all, on average it figures to saves a second or two, since the cookieless strat for that fight is so inconsistent. So between the two fights, this trick really helps mitigate some of the run's scarier RNG moments.
If you try to use the Shockwave while you're still blinking from taking damage, for some reason, it doesn't cost you any health to use. And then using the Shockwave itself sets you blinking from supposedly taking damage, so you can just use it again... and again and again. The easiest way to have full health so that you can actually use the Shockwave after taking damage is to use a blue cookie first, but it can also be done with health refill powerups, if there are any handy (the animation from using a white cookie is too slow to work). Since you are always in invincibility frames, you can't be hurt at all while doing this trick. The Shockwave is the strongest weapon in the game, so this trick decimates any enemy you use it on. Due to the walk through walls glitch making us unable to be damaged, unfortunately I couldn't work out a way to be able to use it on any of the other bosses in the run.
It saves maybe about 25s. Besides speeding up this fight, it helps mitigate the RNG of him jumping all over the place since the Shockwave always hits everything currently on screen. It also frees up a blue cookie to be used on the previous fight, and though optimally it would be faster to not use the extra cookie at all, on average it figures to saves a second or two, since the cookieless strat for that fight is so inconsistent. So between the two fights, this trick really helps mitigate some of the run's scarier RNG moments.
