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This was a runback of my Explorers of Darkness Recruit 'em All, done just three weeks after. I therefore had the entire route fresh in my head, and was able to execute it much better.

Moreover, this run had insanely good luck overall, for me. Most recruits came along smoothly, and most of the major RNG hurdles went along great:

• Spacial Rift took about 1 hour and 20 minutes, very good.
• Kecleon took only 30 minutes, my best ever.
• Final Maze was outstanding in that I recruited all three legendaries first try AGAIN, and recruited everything else I needed on the way.
• Pichu was recruited almost immediately in Amp Plains.
• Almost every Seven Treasure was first try, saving me over an hour at the end. Only Mew took two tries iirc, which is not even a significant timeloss.
• Secret Slab legendaries were average, with most taking 1-2 tries, and a couple taking 3.

This run only had three significant low points: Aegis, Lucario, and Ekans. I learned from this run that we should always evolve Riolu to get Lucario. As or Aegis, I'm just bad at it, and Ekans was just stupid. Still, for these to be the only low points I can recall in a 28-hour run, I will certainly take it.

In fact, I consider this to be one of the absolute best speedruns I have ever completed.

(Gameplay timer was started incorrectly, but was fixed within the first few minutes. Also, there was a 9h 10m 24s break between the first two days-- we are counting that as two breaks used for now.)