Jarlyk | [TAS] Dashmaster Dodgeball @jarlyk | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
This is a first draft snippet from a tool-assisted speedrun of the game Hollow Knight, in the category Ghostbusters. Dashmaster is probably my new favorite charm to TAS with, as you can do some crazy maneuvering with it. Which is a good thing, since we're not as ridiculously overpowered here as we were for Spelless TE. Galien puts up a good fight, but the knight dashes circles around his bouncing balls of doom.
This is a first draft snippet from a tool-assisted speedrun of the game Hollow Knight, in the category Ghostbusters. Dashmaster is probably my new favorite charm to TAS with, as you can do some crazy maneuvering with it. Which is a good thing, since we're not as ridiculously overpowered here as we were for Spelless TE. Galien puts up a good fight, but the knight dashes circles around his bouncing balls of doom.
![[TAS] Dashmaster Dodgeball](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QgoOA4O6rRo/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Dashmaster Dodgeball
This is a first draft snippet from a tool-assisted speedrun of the game Hollow Knight, in the category Ghostbusters. Dashmaster is probably my new favorite charm to TAS with, as you can do some crazy maneuvering with it. Which is a good thing, since were not as ridiculously overpowered here as we were for Spelless TE. Galien puts up a good fight, but the knight dashes circles around his bouncing balls of doom.")
![[TAS] When the floor is lava, bathe in acid instead](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qx6wNTsOT20/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] When the floor is lava, bathe in acid instead
Here is another clip from the upcoming floor-is-lava tool assisted speedrun. The Hwurmp early control here is not especially hard normally, but the combination of not touching the ground and needing to prevent the womblings from blowing it up made it a lot trickier than I expected. Theres also a very interesting shade skip weve set up here...which we in turn skip because wcs rules are dumb and we want to avoid the grounded time.")
![[TAS] The Path Not Taken](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R9pv47Ud5mE/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] The Path Not Taken
Sometimes when working on a gimmick tool assisted speedrun like this one (floor is lava / minimum grounded time), you discover a subtlety that requires you to roll back a routing decision and take a different path. Heres one such occasion where a typical route into Deepnest ends up requiring more grounded time than expected due to an unlucky arrangement of geometry in the room before the drop. As such, were going to go through Fungal Core instead. Still, might as well share the footage of the path that mightve been.")
![[TAS] Worlds Ugliest Piñata](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RGiicgzmYxA/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Worlds Ugliest Piñata
The Spelless TE category is rather geo-hungry, so we grab some quick loot from Vengefly King on the way through Greenpath.")
![[TAS] Rage Against the Mushroom: Evil Endomycorrhiza](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RdI87-DQ1wk/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Rage Against the Mushroom: Evil Endomycorrhiza
So turns out that longnail lets you slash the Shrumals pretty easily even while theyre head-banging. Seems strange to start with mushrooms for breakfast, but well have pancakes soon enough.")
![[TAS] Angry with Mom](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RncPcVtc9bU/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Angry with Mom
For my next TAS, Im working on the Spelless TE category, which involves beating the game to true ending as quickly as possible, but without using any spells. This is using a route developed by GlowingIcefire, which should be a lot of fun to TAS, but might be a bit, uh, spicy for human runners.")
![[TAS] Hall of the Aspid Queens (Bonus Geo Dodging)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ryk5l6hcz20/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Hall of the Aspid Queens (Bonus Geo Dodging)
We had many fun moments with the swarm in the full 0 geo TE TAS, but there was one particularly fun arena that didnt make sense with the route. Please enjoy this rendition of the battle for the glowing womb.")
![[TAS] Unsung Spider Secretion](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ShgYur6Chxg/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Unsung Spider Secretion
This is a first draft of the Hornet 2 fight for the Spelless TE TAS. I couldnt get perfect rng here, but its still a reasonably quick fight.")
![[TAS] 0 Geo: Eye of the Swarm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SuNQK-w2eBU/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] 0 Geo: Eye of the Swarm
This is a clip from the upcoming tool-assisted speedrun of 0 Geo TE with Gathering Swarm. For this section, we finally have dash, which is a good thing, as we need to both fight the squits efficiently and dodge the geo they keep dropping along the way. One fun bit here is at the end, where we lose control of the knight for the duration of the Wraiths pickup. It took a fair bit of careful positioning to manipulate an orbit that successfully transfers between both the upper and lower positions of the knight during the animation; the geo absolutely _can_ hit the knight during that animation.")
![[TAS] Sorry, sis, gotta run; ghosts to bust](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TSN0iBNK87w/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Sorry, sis, gotta run; ghosts to bust
This is a first draft of the Hornet fight for the upcoming Tool-assisted speedrun of Hollow Knight in the category Ghostbusters. This is similar to the fight from the Spelless TE TAS, but of course subtly different rng means it plays out a bit differently. Its okay, though, shell get to make a fierce comeback later in the run, as, unlike in SpTE, we wont have nail 2 and strength for the fight.")
![[TAS] Weirdest Archives Escape](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UNdYHlLefzs/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Weirdest Archives Escape
CONTENT WARNING: STROBING LIGHTS
Possibly the weirdest glitch Ive ever TASed. Its pretty slow and not sure if its useful, but this is escaping archives with only claw. Might be possible without claw if theres a way to get airwalk out of this setup. In case its not obvious, this is a TAS-only glitch, as it requires getting precise control over t-ft (needs to be essentially 0), running at exactly 50 fps and switching direction inputs every frame.")
