Any% - Guide & Strats

# Astral Coconut Any%

# The City

Run to the end, this level is super straight forward just go fast, a couple notes I've found helpful:

- When you reach the section where you must jump-kick to go up the level you can skip the first guy in the sequence which is a little faster.
- On the second rail it's more consistant if you release 'W' before leaving the rail so you can more easily hit the lever & go on.
- At the end, you can cut the corner on the big ramp & jump off the second ramp early, but if you jump off too early it will kill you.


# **World 1**

This is the only world where hollows are required. But only two of them (Thank you emtea64 for figuring this out).

It is unclear which order of hollows is faster, I typically do Mushrooms (Speed Skating) followed by Time-Travel.

### Speed Skating:

Just... go fast, you can skip some of the enemies instead of killing them all.

### Time Travel:

- There is weird a weird glitch in this level that sometimes removes your second jump/dash. I think it happens if you time travel too close to a block your landing on, you some how skip the landing state that resets your jump.
- At the second set of rails you encounter, you can jump off into a crack in the tower which lets you dodge the killboxes and skip a large section.

### Venusaur:

This is just my name for the boss, it has 3 phases:


- Phase 1: It shoots 5 balls of light at you. This phase takes 2 hits to defeat.
- Phase 2: It switches between balls of light and little mech balls that will also attack you. This phase takes 2 hits to defeat.
- Phase 3: Phase 2 but also add in an attack where it shoots a whole bunch of the light. This phase only takes 1 hit to defeat.

For reasons unknown to me, the time this fight takes even when done seemingly optimally can vary by 30 seconds or more. Further investigation is required.

# World 2

This whole world is skipped. Glitch out of bounds by one of at least 2 methods, then jump over the back wall that blocks in the level exit trigger.

# World 3

Run straight to the boss fight as fast as possible, then kill it. Using the grapple a little in-front of the start can help you get there faster.

# World 4

Run to the end, lots of little tricks along the way to help. Main one is talk to barf to upgrade your attack before the boss fight (try to have 600 coins). It is unclear how much faster this makes the fight but ???

## Boss World

Run to the end & kill the boss. The final boss has 3 attacks: (TODO: come up with better names)

1. Summon: The boss summons a whole bunch of meteors to hit the stage causing damage. In this attack just keep hitting him.
2. Cones: The boss teleports around shooting cones at you, this is the attack that will kill you if any, dodge as best you can. He shoots 4?5? cones at you.
3. Swords: The boss teleports to you and starts swinging his sword rapidly, however this does no damage for reasons. So during this attack just hit him.
