Earth boss quick kill [Video Tutorial]

On easy mode, boss has 250 HP and does one of two attacks: one-hand attack or two-hand attack. The one you need to watch out for the most is one-hand attack as it has longer reach and is slightly faster. Because of that, when dashing backwards you need to hold left for a moment longer if the boss is using one-hand attack so you don't get hit..

Air combos simply don't work on the boss. Doing backflip attack deals double damage (20 damage), as opposed to only 10 damage on Fire boss. However, the good combos that make use of backflip are risky and are only included in the harder strat.

Top-left part of the video are easy strats. They are only half a second slower than TAS strats! You can do them every time, RNG doesn't matter. What you gotta do is simple:
1) Charge, shoot fireball after connecting with charge, 3-hit combo, dash backwards without getting hit (dash slightly more if boss is doing one-hand attack) (184 HP)
2) Repeat step 1 (118 HP)
3) Repeat step 1 (53 HP)
4) Charge, do 3-hit combo (0 HP)
5) Quickly dash to the exit and turn around before reaching the closed doors, then dash backwards.

Top-right part are hard strats. They are over half a second faster than TAS strats. They require the first boss' attack to be two-hand attack. Otherwise, you won't have enough time to do the backflip combo. If boss does one-hand attack after you finish your first backflip combo, there's a high chance you'll get hit unless your execution was good. What you gotta do to kill the boss faster than TAS is:
1) Charge, shoot fireball after connecting with charge, 3-hit combo, dash backwards but not too far away (184 HP)
2) Immediately charge forwards, shoot fireball after connecting with charge, 3-hit combo, backflip (A+B+left), immediately after tail spin and hold left longer if boss is doing one-hand attack so you don't get hit (88 HP)
3) Charge, shoot fireball after connecting with charge, 3-hit combo, backflip and immediately tail spin (0 HP)
4) Quickly dash near the exit. You won't reach it before the cutscene, but you're still saving time overall thanks to faster boss kill.

Bottom video is what TAS does. My hard strat is faster than TAS by over half a second, plus it doesn't require you to waste over 30 seconds getting combo upgrade at the training dummy!

You can watch comparison of all 3 videos here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMKyNQICUnk

You can also slightly modify the easy strats to include 3 more fireballs (one fireball each after 3-hit combos, before dashing backwards), which would mean you save about half a second at the end because you kill the boss with 2-hit combo instead of 3-hit combo. But adding a fireball between 3-hit combo and dashing backwards is risky, you need really good execution to dash before boss hits you. I didn't include this strat in the comparison. It would be about as fast as the hard strats.

Fire Boss quick kill [Video Tutorial]

For now, a video for killing the Fire boss faster than what TAS does (and a much easier way too). We can kill the boss faster than TAS even though we don't pick up combo upgrades like TAS does! Picking up those combo upgrades wastes at least 36 seconds, probably more for human players. It's honestly not worth it, there's no way you'll ever save 36 seconds during the run by having those combo upgrades. On some bosses having ground combo upgrades only loses time!

Boss has 220 HP, you can kill him easily with following inputs:
- jump and tail spin in the air for 10 damage (210 HP)
- do a 3-hit ground combo to push the boss to the right and deal 42 damage (168 HP)
- jump over the lava pool and tail spin in the air for 10 damage (158 HP)
- land between the lava pool and the boss
- do a 4-hit air combo, followed by air dive (down+right+B) and air tail spin for a total of 82 damage (76 HP)
- repeat the combo above for a total of 82 damage (0 HP)

It's worth mentioning that we're abusing a glitch here. If you do the 4-hit air combo followed by air dive and air tail spin, the tail spin will do 16 damage instead of the usual 10 damage. This glitch only works if you do that specific combo. Thanks to that, we're able to kill the boss faster than what TAS does.

Here's a video comparison between my strats and TAS strats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anRBxRQDtn8

Language comparison

Here is a spreadsheet with text box comparison between 6 languages in PAL version:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gSQa7dOjqj0T78VVmEvOIvcImpyYXVo55xXaWcw4Bn0/edit?usp=sharing


PAL version with Dutch language is the fastest (about 1.2~1.5 seconds faster than the 2nd fastest language, English).
NTSC version only has English and French.

You can still play on NTSC version, you only lose about 1.5 seconds compared to PAL with Dutch language.

I haven't played through NTSC version yet so I cannot tell you if there are any other differences between NTSC and PAL.

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Earth boss quick kill [Video Tutorial]	Deleted 6 years ago
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