Yeah I wasn’t expecting it either. I was going for more of a 5:15-5:25 but Volg and Date just let me hit them

Excited to see it. Good luck :)

For sure. The TASer must have looked at decompiled code or something to figure all of this out... speedrunning is crazy. What was your volg strategy? Is it easy/consistent? I'm been trying some methods on Miyata but he's being a real nuisance lol

Oh so that's your run! I saw it on YouTube haha, i'm excited to see more people join in.

As far as accuracy, it should be mostly right. I cross referenced against the TAS, and also used his lua script to test myself. I looked at my Okita fight and I have one more liver blow than what you listed, which makes the damage 140.4 with a counter hook.

For those who like math and really want to dive into grinding this game hard... I present this 140 glitch cheat sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gHu2oSgKEayAMeMX82lXKKSVdZKOzORtYoAcaohgELY/edit?usp=sharing

It shows how much damage each character takes from each punch, including counters (sorry, story mode only). I made it in preparation for potentially running some IL times for the leaderboards. Some math seems to be slightly off, not sure why, but it should be close. You can use this tool to try and formulate a reliable 140 strategy for different fighters (I use the term "reliable" very loosely here. To attempt this in a full run would essentially be an attempt to match the tas, and would no doubt be extremely painful).

Be warned that having this knowledge may forever ruin this game casually.

I wasn't sure whether to put this in guides or forums, but I decided to put it here so people can reply with any updates/edits they find. If i'm wrong anywhere please let me know and i'll fix it.

I’m pulling that from the info in error1’s tas (link here http://tasvideos.org/3031S.html). They both take 120% damage, so I would assume the strategy I used on Okita in my latest run could be mirrored to Saeki (if only I realized this back when I got the record lol so close)

I’m not sure it if got saved anywhere. Maybe in a VOD but I can’t remember now, and it’s likely gone at this point. IIRC though I think I got it practicing each fight offline. I want to say I accidentally 140 glitched him like I did Okita (they take the same amount of damage), but I can’t remember 100%. Sorry if that’s a disappointing answer. Great times btw! How did you beat Date so fast? My times have come down some since this post but I’m still a minute slower than that. Very impressive

I thought the community might want to share our IGT IL records. I got some new ones practicing different strats today and wanted to share. I'm also curious what everyone else's best times are, so consider this thread a place to flex. I play on Japanese but I got the English translation to translate/cross-reference. 1R for all.

https://imgur.com/oyxIIue

Miyata: 1:30 Hayami: 0:56 Mashiba: 0:58 Sendo I: 0:53 Okita: 0:47 Saeki: 0:53 Volg: 1:32 Date: 2:04 Shigeta: 1:36 Sendo II: 1:51

Big agree with this