Is there any Rygar Speedrun Discord? It's easier to post ideas that way and would be interesting to see other stuff that people have tried or suggested in the past.

Nice, interesting to see a RTA run with this route, even stopped the grinds at the same place. Just like the run above experienced, it seems difficult to get 5 mind without a big grind before Ligar.

Looking at Slackanater's run, using Attack & Assail for Mt. Primeval seems like it would be good when running RTA, then adjust the strat for Sagila depending on how many uses you spent in Mt. Primeval. Doing that, this actually looks like a pretty comfy route after getting past the big airwalk.

And for the sweet spot for the first grind, it was around 8 tone per second the way I did it. So I guess you'd have to time how much time you spend for each hit on Belzar, Sagila and Eruga, then look at when 8 tone/second wont get you to the next breakpoint fast enough to save time.

Hello,

I recently beat Rygar casually and then went on to watch the speedrun. Got interested in checking how the RTA route would look if you used the same route as the No WW TAS. Belzar -> Eruga -> Sagila -> Dorago -> Deathpigor -> Ligar

This route means a mandatory big airwalk in Lapis. I recorded a Tool Assisted RTA Route Test which clocked in at around 21:10.

Here is the video, I added the tone amount at the bottom left to hopefully make it easier to follow:

During this I also made a spreadsheet with the breakpoints for how much tone is needed to reach a certain number of hits for all the bosses, maybe someone finds it useful: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13ON8lapN-oCWV0EVGvz1ht1PAq0NLocLm_ReIQv7-LE (Note: Looking at the values in the game, you could say Eruga has 448 health. However bosses survive with 0 health left, so you effectively need to deal 449 dmg to kill Eruga, which is why the health is listed like that.)

One issue with this route is that it's likely even harder to reach 5 mind before Ligar, as there is only the Tower of Garba left after the deathwarp after Dorago.

There is also the question when to stop for the early grind in Lapis. It's less efficient than the grind in Dorago's Palace, so you'd want to grind enough to make Belzar, Eruga and Sagila quick, but save as much of the grind as possible for Dorago's Palace where it's more efficient. I think stopping a bit earlier that I did in the video might be better.

You'll likely have one Attack & Assail to use between the Lapis grind and the Dorago's palace grind. I choose to use it for Sagila, but not sure if that's be best place.

Anyway, this was just a route test, I had fun making it and found it interesting that it came close to the current route.

Maybe this route has been tested before, but either way I enjoyed testing this and thought I'd share it here as maybe someone else would enjoy watching it.