Hey everyone, my name’s tomatoanus, also
known as the soft stump, and this is an Any% speedrun to beat Dark Souls III without using
the TearDrop glitch. This run is performed by Moochyy, the current
world record holder for this category, who helped me write the script to make sure it’s
all as accurate as possible. If you’d prefer to watch this run without
commentary, it’s uploaded to Moochyy’s channel and linked in the description, and
so is the link to Moochyy’s record which is also commentary free and on his channel. Additionally, this run is done on Version
1.08 Regulation 1.22 of the game, which is a specific patch that’s used mainly for
the fact that it’s a patch from before FromSoftware nerfed Carthus Rouge, which is a consumable
that applies a bleed status effect to your weapon. Like I said in the intro line, this is an
Any% No TearDrop speedrun. The TearDrop glitch lets the player bypass
killboxes using the Tears of Denial spell, which adds a lot of out-of-bounds to the run. It’s allowed in the standard Any% category,
but this category specifically disallows it to provide a different kind of challenge for the run. It’s still an Any% run though, so other
glitches are allowed, so if that isn’t your cup of tea, I’ve also linked the Any% Glitchless
record by Forsa in the description. Also if you haven’t seen yet, we here at
tomatoanus have already covered speedruns of Dark Souls, Dark Souls II, and Bloodborne
which are all available for viewing on this channel. None of those videos are necessary to watch
before watching this one, but there is one concept that briefly makes an appearance in
each video that’ll be making a return in this video. So if you’ve never played Dark Souls III
before, it’s similar to the previous two in setup where it’s a punishing action role-playing
game with exploration being a core mechanic. Bonfires still serve as checkpoints, we still
earn souls as currency for killing things, and we still have a continuous game-world
to explore with caution. In order to beat the game, we have a list
of things we need to do during the run. Similar to what I talked about in the video
covering Bloodborne though, this list is by no means a comprehensive list of all the things
that need to be done. There’s a lot more that’s done in the
run that’s required to beat the game, but this list isn’t supposed to be all-encompassing,
just a guide for more casual viewers to have to help keep track of how far into the run and game we are. Alright, let’s get into the ru- Pick it up Gavin, he’s gaining on us! That’s right, I’m st- I’m still coming
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or click the link in the description. That’s K-E-E-P-S dot com slash tomato. You could do this that whole time?! A couple things are important when it comes to character creation. The gender we play as doesn’t really matter
too much, but Moochyy prefers to play as female. This is solely because the scream for the
female character is a lot louder and easier to hear than the male character, which can
make a glitch called “Spook Quitout” easier to perform. Moochyy chooses Assassin as the character’s
class since we then start with the Spook spell, which is what’s used in the Spook Quitout glitch. Spook is a spell that silences your footsteps
and rolls, and also negates fall damage up to a certain extent. If you fall from too high it’ll still kill you. A side effect of the spell is that should
you fall far enough to take fall damage, there’s a slight delay between when you land and when the fall damage is dealt. To perform a Spook Quitout, Moochyy is going
to cast Spook, then drop a large distance and pull up the menu to quit out as he falls. Then, the moment that he hits the ground,
Moochyy will quit out of the game and load back in. It’s difficult to see because of the menu
being in the way, but the moment that Moochyy lands, he still has health thanks to the fall
damage delay that’s incurred by Spook. The location where Moochyy lands is considered
to be “stable ground” which means that as soon as he touches it, his position in
the game’s memory is updated to where he’s standing. By then quitting out and loading back in,
he’ll load in at his most recent stable ground position, which is where he landed,
but he avoids the delayed fall damage thanks to the quit out. And that’s, uh, that’s Spook Quitouts. Lets you pretty much dodge fall damage. Back to character creation, Moochyy chooses
the Black Firebombs as his Burial Gift. The gifts aren’t really all that useful
for us in the run, but having some firebombs speeds up the fight at the start of the run against Gundyr. With that all set, Moochyy begins the run. Right away, we skip a cutscene and unequip
our head and chest pieces to get our equip load below a 30% weight ratio, that way we get max distance rolls. Up here Moochyy grabs the Ashen Estus Flask,
which when used, refills some Focus Points, or FP, which is the blue bar that drains when you use spells. We won’t be really using it for that purpose though. In this game you have a total amount of flasks,
and you get to choose how you want them allotted between regular Estus Flasks, which heal you,
and Ashen Estus Flasks. Later we’ll be allotting our flasks so that
they’re all regular, meaning grabbing the Ashen one here was to get an extra regular one later on. When running past the Grave Warden on the
left up here, Moochyy blocks which reduces his hitbox slightly so that he can continue
in a straight line without getting hit. We then initiate the fight against Iudex Gundyr
by pulling out the Coiled Sword and poking him to do something. To open the fight, Moochyy will do 13 “R1” attacks. During the first five attacks, Gundyr takes reduced damage. Moochyy then circles around and does two attacks
into Gundyr’s back once his health bar appears. The remaining six “R1” attacks are done
as we circle around Gundyr to strafe his attacks. The “R1” attacks are then followed by
two charged two-handed attacks as Gundyr changes phases, which are then followed up by three firebombs. The first firebomb staggers him, with the
second dealing extra damage due to him being staggered and taking extra fire damage in his second phase. Moochyy drops our Estoc since we only needed
the starting sword for this fight, and it frees up an inventory slot to save a menuing
input later in the run. After beginning to open the door to leave
the arena, we do a quit out to skip the animation since this run is timed with in-game time,
and doing a quit out skips the animation of the door opening so we don’t have to sit
here and lose time while we wait. An added benefit of quit outs in this game
is that they also deaggro all enemies and reset them to their spawn positions. Moochyy’s about to enter Firelink Shrine
where he’s going to do the first shopping segment of the run. On our shopping list are three Homeward Bones
and a Shortsword. The Shortsword is going to be our main weapon
for the first chunk of the run, and the Homeward Bones are consumables that can be used to
bring us back to Firelink Shrine or the last bonfire we rested at. There’s a neat little trick when menuing
that’s worth going over just to show the level of detail in speedruns when it comes to optimizations. In the shop menu, Homeward Bones are located
here, while the Shortsword is located here. In Dark Souls III, if you press either “R2”
or “L2” in a menu like this, then you move up or down three spaces. Additionally, if you’re hovering over an
item that’s on the edge of the shop, and then press the button to navigate towards
the edge, you wrap to the other side of the menu and either up or down one, depending
on which direction you moved. Just think of it as kinda like a book with
how you navigate, where if you’re moving to the right then you go down a line like
you’re continuing to read a sentence. We can take advantage of this as well as using
“R2” and “L2” to navigate slightly faster. So we need to get from the Homeward Bones to the Shortsword. If you move just straight there, it’s four
button presses, with you having to press the same button three times in a row. It’s slightly faster to be able to alternate
what buttons you’re pressing so you’re utilizing more fingers, so instead Moochyy
navigates the shop by going up one, then pressing “R2” to go down three, then pressing left
to wrap to the right side of the shop and up one line, then left once more to end up
at the Shortsword. It’s still technically four button presses,
but it’s easier to execute quickly compared to a method that requires you to press the
same button three times. Another thing worth mentioning real quick
is that Dark Souls III has a menu delay where after certain actions like purchasing something,
your next input will count to the previous purchase for a very short time, so that’s
something you have to account for as well. Okay, time for the quick shopping segment. Now you can see why that required pausing. After his shopping spree, Moochyy inserts
the Coiled Sword that he ripped outta Gundyr into the fire pit to ignite the Bonfire. During the insertion animation, we equip the
Homeward Bones we just bought, in addition to the Shortsword and headpiece that we unequipped earlier. The Shortsword is lighter than the Estoc so
we can have the headpiece equipped now and still be under 30% for our equip load. Moochyy also unequipped the firebombs, and
after interacting with the lit Bonfire, traveled to the High Wall of Lothric. High Wall is a deceptively hard segment; it’s
very easy to lose a lot of time. One of the recurring themes to this speedrun
though is that consistent pathing and Stamina management during running segments both trivializes
enemies and makes things more consistent, which helps out a lot in places like High Wall. Moochyy is about to perform something called
an “action ledge cancel.” There’s some Gold Pine Resin resting on
a ledge, and by interacting with it the moment before he’s about to fall off the ledge,
then Moochyy completes the action of picking up the resin, but the animation of picking
it up is interrupted and negated by him falling off the ledge. Gold Pine Resin adds 95 Lightning Damage to
your weapon for 60 seconds, which is really good for early bosses, especially ones that
are weak to Lightning. This part coming up with the three enemies
on top of the stairs is also pretty scary because you can easily get stunlocked, but
as long as you can keep your pathing and Stamina management consistent, then you pretty much
know what you’re dealing with for the most part. A lot of getting through this area cleanly
is also reading enemies that you run past as they might go for an attack that requires
you to roll to dodge since you won’t be able to strafe the attack in time. Coming up here is the first Spook Quitout of the run. Moochyy will cast Spook on himself, and then
as we discussed earlier, will leap off of the building and pull up the menu to quit out as he falls. By then quitting out the moment he hits the
ground and his position updates in the game, then when he loads back in, he’ll be standing
on the ground where he landed, completely circumventing the fall damage. When we load back in, right away we equip
the Gold Pine Resin that we just picked up, and begin making our way to Emma, High Priestess
of Lothric Castle, who’s sitting in a cathedral that doubles as the boss arena for the Dancer
of the Boreal Valley. By talking to Emma, we receive the Small Lothric
Banner, which is a key item that lets us progress to the Undead Settlement later on. Because where Emma is doubles as a boss arena,
that means it’s unstable ground so if we quit out, we’ll load back in at the entryway
to the room, which is exactly what Moochyy does after grabbing the banner from Emma and healing up. This saves the trek of running back across
the room to go outside and also skips most of the healing animation since we healed right before quitting out. When Moochyy loads back in, he’ll begin
running across from the cathedral towards the boss arena for Vordt of the Boreal Valley. While he does this, Moochyy swaps from his
staff in his left hand to his shield in preparation for something called a “resin cancel.” If you hold “L1” to have your shield up
while you apply resin to your weapon, it cancels the end of the animation, letting you get
moving at full capacity again slightly sooner. Moochyy will perform a resin cancel as soon
as he loads in after initiating the fight against Vordt. Vordt is weak to Lightning, and despite my
utmost temptation, I won’t be quoting sports legend Lightning McQueen in this video like I did in the last one. Vordt staggers after 15 “R1” attacks,
but doesn’t get staggered if the fifteenth hit is during his phase transition where he screeches at us. Because of this, Moochyy hits Vordt 14 times,
then stands around and recovers his Stamina while getting covered in spittle from Vordt’s
phase transition scream. As long as our positioning is correct after
hitting him for the fifteenth time to stagger him, Vordt responds by doing either a slow
charge or a slow slam. It’s pretty much a coin-flip for which he
does, but in this run Vordt did the slow slam which is easier to deal with and also faster. After performing a quitout to skip the door
opening animation and skipping a cutscene, we’re brought to the Undead Settlement, which again is
only accessible after you receive the banner from Emma. Our arrival to the Undead Settlement also marks the
arrival of some of the most notorious enemies in the run. They’re waiting for us on the other side
of the gate up ahead and are brimming with anticipation for their grand reveal. Dogs. To save on resources, enemies that are offscreen
in Dark Souls III kind of teleport to you and aren’t rendered every frame. Dogs, being the clever bastards that they
are, take full advantage of this computational decision by occasionally just appearing on
top of you thanks to the teleporting thing coupled with the fact that they’re so damn fast. A moment ago Moochyy picked up some Charcoal
Pine Bundles, which apply 110 Fire Damage to your weapon for around ten seconds, which
we’ll be using on a boss later on. Up ahead on the right, after running along
the cliffside, we’re going to get ambushed by a couple Thralls, but Moochyy will perform
what’s called the Thrall Jump where he’s able to leap across a gap to the back part of this section. The game is totally caught off guard by this
and spawns in an enemy as if it were a teenager hiding their porn from their parent that knocked
out of respect for the teen’s privacy but asserted their authority as the parent by coming in anyway. Moochyy then casted Spook on himself since
right here he drops off of a high up ledge, and Spook completely negates the fall damage. Moochyy then does a quit out when opening this door. On the other side of this door is a trick
elevator that goes both up and down. We need to go down but the elevator will be
going up when we load back in. All we need to do though is cast Spook on
ourselves again and drop down the shaft, letting us skip having to wait for the elevator to
go all the way up and back down again. Coming up we have one of the bigger skips
in the run, “Farron Keep Skip” or “FKS” for short. F.K.S. skips having to run through the entire Farron
Keep area, including lighting the three beacons and opening the main door, and overall saves around 130 seconds. If you’ve watched the previous Dark Souls
videos on this channel or the recent Bloodborne video, you’re likely about to experience a minor fit of déjà vu. So if you fall into a pit or something similar
that’s intended to kill you, you pass through two invisible planes. The first invisible plane is the deathcam
plane that when touched, switches your camera to the death camera that’s at a fixed height
and typically looks down on the player in a cinematic fashion. The second plane is the kill plane that actually kills you. These two planes are positioned with the deathcam
plane above the kill plane, and in certain places, it’s possible to touch just the
top plane, the deathcam one, without touching the one that actually kills us. Moochyy is currently enroute to a specific
spot in the Road of Sacrifices where the deathcam plane is placed a little too high. After dropping down and quitting out to reset
some dogs, Moochyy will position his feet in a specific way and use the health bar as
a visual cue for angling. He’ll then run off the ledge, and the instant
he drops down slightly, turn around and jump back up. This had him nick the deathcam plane, fixing
the camera’s height to look either down on us or up on us, depending on where we are
relative to the height the camera is fixed at. The big upside to being in the deathcam is
that the game stops loading in new assets. Any assets that are already loaded in will
stay in, but anything unloaded will not load in, no matter how close we get to it. This includes things like enemies, walls,
and doors; they just won’t load in if they weren’t loaded in when the deathcam was activated. This means that a shortcut door for Farron Keep isn’t
loaded in, however any events tied to the door are loaded in. Because of this, we can walk through where the
shortcut door would be, and open the door from the other side. After then quitting out to reset the game back
to normal, when we load back in, the door will still be open. Moochyy just grabbed the Grass Crest Shield and some
Green Blossoms and is now approaching the shortcut door. Green Blossoms are consumables that increase
your Stamina regeneration for 60 seconds, and the Grass Crest Shield increases Stamina
recovery while equipped and out, and the effects of the blossoms and the shield stack. Something worth mentioning real quick is that
fully depleting your Stamina locks you out of using it until it fully recovers (unless
you roll), and the Grass Crest Shield makes it so that we recover over the cap of our
max Stamina, which is a waste of Stamina recovery time, so the general Stamina management idea
throughout the run is to kind of bounce between Stamina being almost full and almost empty. Now that we’re loaded back in, we have to
backtrack real quick to grab the Sellsword Twinblades and a Farron Coal before progressing any further. The twinblades will be our main weapon for
the second half of the game and the coal lets us infuse the twinblades with a Sharp Gem
that we’ll get later in the run. Infusing a weapon with a Sharp Gem makes the weapon, well, sharp. This lowers the weapon’s base damage but
increases scaling with Dexterity, making the weapon way stronger in the long run if you have a lot of Dex. So we’re now on our way to the next boss
fight, which is against the Abyss Watchers. In categories that have you fight the Watchers
unimpeded, it’s considered to be a very hard fight, but luckily we have a way to make
them just a touch easier in this run. For some reason, there’s a spot in the Watchers’
boss arena that’s marked as stable ground. After doing a quit out to quickly open up
some doors outside of the arena, Moochyy is going to position himself using some visual
cues, then perform a charged attack. This will move him forward into the arena
and onto the exact position that’s stable ground, where after waiting for a moment to
make sure the game saves that as his most recent position, Moochyy will then run forward
to trigger the cutscene and fight. Normally boss arenas are all unstable ground,
so if you quit out, then you’re back outside and have to interact with a fog gate to re-enter the arena. Because we’ve touched stable ground in the
boss arena before the second quit out though, then when we load back in, we’ll spawn inside the boss arena. When you quit out, the boss’s AI is turned
off, only to then be reactivated by you interacting with the fog gate, but because we spawn inside
the boss arena, we don’t have to interact with the fog gate, meaning the boss’s AI
never gets activated and they just stand there, menacingly. Moochyy pops a Gold Pine Resin for this fight
and just starts wailing away on the Watcher. It doesn’t matter too much what direction
you hit the Watcher towards, just as long as you’re generally in the spot that Moochyy
pushes them to in front of the stairs, as that’s where the second Watcher spawns for
phase two of the fight. Between attacks, Moochyy lets his Stamina
regenerate until it’s just past the end of the FP bar, just before the Stamina bar is fully filled. This is because that’s right around the
amount of Stamina required to do six full attacks, which is the same amount of attacks
we get from a full Stamina bar right now, so it’s slightly more optimal to not let
the bar fully recharge if we can get the same amount of hits by attacking slightly sooner. After the fight, the door in the back of the
arena will open up when we approach it, but it’s pretty slow so ideally we’d like to quit out to skip it. The only issue with that is that most of the
arena is unstable ground, so if we quit out, then we’d spawn back on the other side of
the arena and have to run all the way across to the door. Luckily, there’s a small spot alongside
a wall in the back of the arena that is stable ground that Moochyy touches here after defeating the Watcher. This makes it so that when we load back in,
not only will we have skipped the door opening animation, but we’ll be near the door thanks
to the stable ground spot we just touched, skipping having to run all the way back across the arena. When we leave the boss arena, we’re going
to equip the Charcoal Pine Bundle we grabbed earlier and unequip the Ashen Estus Flask,
since we won’t be using the Ashen Estus for the rest of the run and we’ll be allocating
that flask to be a normal one in a bit. Now in the Catacombs of Carthus, Moochyy’s
going to leap down to the floor below, run past a skellington, and roll through an illusory
wall to lead himself to that Sharp Gem that I mentioned earlier. Like I mentioned before, when infused into our twinblades, the scaling of the weapon will increase. In this specific case, the Dexterity scaling
will increase from a C grade to an A. This means we benefit more from each level of Dexterity. So the next skip in the run is called “Fence
Skip” and it’s going to happen pretty quickly. After running down these stairs and past even
more skellingtons, AND dodging a skellington ball, Moochyy is going to position himself
next to a pot alongside a railing. There he’ll angle his camera using his health
bar as a visual cue, and then rhythmically alternate between pressing “W” and “D”
on his keyboard, which pops the character up and over the railing and down to below. This skips us having to go all the way around this area
the long way, saving around 14 seconds in this category. Moochyy will do a quit out at the top of the
stairs here to reset a skellington below us that might follow us up, and also to reset
a skellington at the top of the stairs that might start attacking. Once we load back in, we’ll grab the Grave
Warden’s Ashes that are in front of us, which makes Carthus Rouge and Titanite Shards
available for purchase back at Firelink Shrine. Carthus Rouge is the consumable I mentioned
at the start of the video that got nerfed in a later patch, which is why speedrunners play on this patch. The consumable applies a bleed status effect
to your weapon for 60 seconds. When bleed is applied, each attack builds
up an invisible meter on the enemy that when filled does a burst of damage based on a percentage
of the enemy’s max health. It’s especially powerful late game, especially on this patch. While running through this area, Moochyy re-equipped
our armor in preparation for the next boss fight. The boss arena is right behind these doors that we
do a quit out on, and the fight is against High Lord Wolnir. Wolnir has three bracelets that we need to destroy,
and you can essentially consider each bracelet as a phase. Wolnir will throw out attacks, and our response
to each attack is pretty scripted, like if he does a certain attack then we’ll respond
with four hits, stuff like that. The first bracelet takes nine hits to destroy,
and after it’s destroyed, the hitbox for the second bracelet isn’t immediately active,
so we fill the time by using a Charcoal Pine Bundle. The second bracelet then breaks after ten hits, but Moochyy
will let his Stamina regen slightly before doing the tenth hit. That way when he runs over to the third bracelet
right after, he has enough Stamina to get in four quick “R1” attacks. After the first four attacks, Moochyy will
reposition himself, then do a charged “R2” followed by two “R1” attacks to finish up the fight. While we wait for Wolnir to wither and wear
away, Moochyy uses the souls we got from killing Vordt and the Abyss Watchers to get a huge
chunk of souls, then quits out to quickly return to the entrance of Wolnir’s arena. So coming up in the run is a skip called “Doll
Skip” which is kinda the big skip of this category. Doll Skip lets us skip the Irithyll Seal,
meaning we can access the Irithyll of the Boreal Valley area without having the Small
Doll in our inventory. Moochyy is going to Temple of Doom this bridge
for later on, and then begin the setup for the skip by running up some collision to the
right of some stalagmites, hitching right, and then jumping left to skip past a stalagmite
and be sort of out-of-bounds. Here Moochyy will continue running and jumping
around the collision on all these jumbled rocks and stalagmite and will make it to a
spot where he’ll briefly stand still and line himself up using some visual cues with
his head and the textures of the rocks. After casting Spook, Moochy will roll forwards
through the rock he was aiming at and drop down to land on a ledge. There we’ll briefly walk on a narrow invisible
balance-beam-of-a-ledge that’s referred to as a seam, and prepare for a sort of fall
damage cancel. Our goal is to position ourselves so that
when we run forward, we’ll be able to run into and against a slope as we slide down
it, and also get a jump in as we’re sliding down. To position himself correctly, Moochyy typically
lines up his head with a light and dark triangle in the rock textures, and aims the middle
of his head for the middle of the two triangles. In this run, we’re a bit lower down than
usual so Moochyy had to align the middle of his head more towards the left side of the
light triangle that’s on the left. One he’s in position, Moochyy then runs
forward against the slope and jumps into it. In this game, if you run against a slope or
ledge, and jump as you’re sliding or falling off of it, you can briefly get a second roll in mid-air. A property of rolling in this game is that
you have a short window during it where you’re truly invincible. If you're under 70% equip load, as we are,
then that window is 13 frames long. So during our rolls, we have 13 frames where
we’re invincible, and those 13 frames are referred to as i-frames Moochyy is going to run against the slope
and jump as he’s sliding off of it to get the mid-air roll as I mentioned a moment ago,
and he’s going to time the roll so that he both passes through the death plane and
hits the ground during the 13 frame window where he’s invincible, effectively canceling any fall damage. The thing about doing this though is that
we still pass through the death camera plane normally, activating it like we did earlier with Farron Keep Skip. Activating the death camera is the whole point
of this escapade we just took out-of-bounds, as Doll Skip centers around having the death camera. Okay, lets see all these concepts combine
for a glorious couple of seconds to activate the death camera. Now that we have the death camera active,
we’re going to be making our way through Smouldering Lake back up to that bridge that
we destroyed earlier, which we’ll climb up like a ladder. In this area, Moochyy will be grabbing four
Large Titanite Shards, two of which are invisible, which we’ll use later to upgrade our weapon. This area is littered with invisible walls
and features that have collision that we have to work our way around, but nothing is impossible
when you’re able to turn Dark Souls into Diablo like Moochyy did. While Moochyy makes his way through this area
and eventually climbs up the ladder-bridge, I’d just like to take a moment to say that
I hope you’re all doing well. I know at times it can be hard to see the positives
in life, but please do remember that no feeling is final. How you feel now does not define you, nor
does it define the rest of your existence, so please, do not give up. Growth doesn’t come overnight, it’s a
long and difficult process, but I think we both know that. But something else I know is that you’re
more than capable of growth, and I’m sure that deep down somewhere you know that you’re capable of it too. Take it one day at a time, and focus on getting
to tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow, and you will be here for it. And not only that, but we’ll all be happy
that you're here with us. Celebrate mental health wins no matter how
small, and again, remember that there is a tomorrow. That’s what’s gotten me through some difficult
times and I hope that keeping that in mind will help you as well. Additionally, don’t be afraid to reach out
and talk to those close to you. Mental health is something that needs to be discussed. Back to the run, when Moochyy reaches the
top of the ladder-bridge, he’s going to run through a brief tunnel before entering
into an area that’s littered with rocks. We’re approaching the end of this death
camera stretch, which is going to wrap up with a Spook Quitout to enter Irithyll of the Boreal Valley. We’re going to perform the Spook Quitout
when we fall off a cliff up ahead, and we can’t normally perform the quit out where
we will because of a kill plane, but because of the death camera view, the kill plane is unloaded. The thing about this upcoming Spook Quitout
though is that we’re kinda going to be performing it blind. If you remember from earlier on in this video,
Spook Quitouts require you to quit out right when you land, but as you can imagine it’s kinda hard to
tell exactly when you hit the ground when playing like this. Because of this, getting the correct timing
on the quit out is imperative. Additionally, it’s imperative that when you land and quit out,
that you land in a location where the ground is stable. That way when you load back in, you’ll be
standing where you landed. The issue with this Spook Quitout is that
there’s a couple areas that you can land at that are unstable ground, so when you quit
out and load back in to reset the game back to normal, you’d be standing at the top
of the cliff and without the game being broken anymore, since the top of the cliff is the
most recent stable ground position you’ve been in if you land on unstable ground. There is a timing to positioning yourself correctly for it though. Moochyy does it by positioning himself at
the last rock, casting Spook on himself, running four steps forward, turning 90-degrees to
the right (relative to our camera), running nine steps in that direction, then turning
90-degrees back to the left and running off the cliff. Moochyy then has to quit out at the proper
time, letting him load back in at Irithyll of the Boreal Valley with the game all back to normal. Accounting for all of this (the timing, the
positioning, the execution), is pretty difficult, and there really aren’t many visual or audio
references to help perform it properly, it’s just kind of something you have to learn with practice. When all done properly, Doll Skip saves around four minutes. After loading back in, Moochyy does quick
parkour to get on top of some rocks and then leaps back in-bounds, passing over and through
a divet in an otherwise very tall invisible barrier. This puts us in Irithyll proper, where there’s a lot of water on
the ground, and the fastest way through it is by spamming roll. In general you move slower in the water though
so Moochyy tries to avoid being in it as much as possible, and also spends a lot of time
in it regenerating Stamina for when he’s out of the water, since it’s more efficient to use
Stamina to sprint out of the water than roll while in it. When he exits the water up ahead, Moochyy
will grab the Green Blossom on the ground but it’s more of an optional pick up that he’ll use to make
a fight against a future boss a little more comfortable. Moochyy is going to light a bonfire right
up here in a location known as the Distant Manor, then cast Spook on himself and run
down some stairs where he’ll drop a distance that would kill him otherwise. Unless he healed up or rested at the bonfire,
which is slower than just casting Spook. After dropping down we’ll grab a Large Titanite
Shard and roll out of the way of some enemies that can kill us in one shot with our current health situation. Same goes with a Fire Witch standing by the
exit who can easily kill us if they choose to perform an attack that has a fire trail chase after us. If they happen to do that attack, you can
just quit out to reset them, which Moochyy did here but he believes that he misread the
situation and attacks happening behind him and he thinks that he didn’t actually need to quit out. When we load back in, we head into the tunnel
carved into the cliff face and head down some stairs to enter the Irithyll Dungeon. We aren’t going to be spending a lot of
time there though since we’ll be performing a Spook Quitout in a moment to go straight to the Profaned Capital. While we’re here though, we will be picking up some items. The first item we’ll grab is another Large
Titanite Shard that’s in a jail cell, which is the last Large Titanite Shard we’ll be getting in this run. This won’t be happening for another 14 seconds
or so though since the jail cell is on the other side of this area and we have to run past some Jailers first. In the meantime, a fun fact about this area
is it’s actually the same prison that was used when filming Shawshank Redemption. We know this because Moochyy grabbing the
Large Titanite Shard is immediately followed by him running into the neighboring cell where
he’ll grab a Pale Pine Resin from the hole that Andy Dufresne chiseled out. Pale Pine Resin applies +90 magic damage to
our weapon for 60 seconds, and we’ll be using it on the boss Dragonslayer Armour since it’s immune to bleed. Moochyy just casted Spook on himself, and
after running down this long hallway, he’ll perform a Spook Quitout. This essentially skips the entire Irithyll Dungeon section. When we load back in, we’ll be near the
entrance of the Profaned Capital, which is an area with a lot of verticality. We begin at the top, and our goal is to get
to Yhorm the Giant near the bottom. Can you guess how we’ll get to Yhorm? If you guessed anything other than Spook Quitout,
then, uh, I don’t know, I really felt like I was teeing you up there to get that one right. Moochyy casted Spook before running on the
bridge because on the bridge we get ambushed by a Gargoyle that he strafes around before
leaping down to the level below and quitting out as he hits the ground. When we load back in, we’re going to cast
Spook another time, but this time the distance we’ll be dropping really isn’t all that
high so we don’t need to quit out. After dropping down, Moochyy is going to run
up the stairs you see just ahead and then enter the boss arena to fight Yhorm. The fight against Yhorm is kind of like the
gimmick fight of this game and is more of a lore fight than a tried-and-true boss fight. To defeat Yhorm, you need to use the Storm
Ruler weapon that you can grab in the back of the arena at Yhorm’s sick ass throne. To use the Storm Ruler, you need to charge
up an attack by holding “L2”, causing the sword to begin to glow white. At that point, you press “R2” and the sword
unleashes a giant wind attack that deals a ton of damage. So this fight is all about positioning. The main strategy is to position yourself
right in front of Yhorm by his legs, which limits the attacks that he’ll do, which is a reoccurring
theme in this game when it comes to bosses. When Yhorm attacks, he either stomps the ground,
which interrupts our charge and staggers us, or he slams the ground, which gives us a window
to hit his head, staggering him and bringing him to a knee, letting us get an extra attack in. After our second attack, Yhorm begins to transition
phases, giving us a window to charge up and unleash another attack. After using the Storm Ruler, you’re actually
brought down to negative Stamina, so you have to wait a bit before being able to use any
Stamina again, so between our attacks you’ll see Moochyy pause before beginning to charge
up another, just so he has a little bit of Stamina in case he has to roll out of the
way like he does with Yhorm’s next attack. Once we land the final attack, Moochyy will
then unequip the Storm Ruler and use a Homeward Bone, but will wait until the sort of gong
noise plays indicating the boss is beaten before choosing to warp back to Firelink Shrine
so that we receive our rewards during the Homeward Bone animation. This brings us to the main shopping segment of the game. To start, we’ll sell the souls of both Yhorm
and Wolnir to net a total of 30,000 souls, followed by giving the Shrine Handmaid the
Grave Warden’s Ashes, which again makes Carthus Rouge and Titanite Shards available for purchase. After then buying 12 Titanite Shards and enough
Carthus Rouge for the rest of the run, Moochyy then runs up to Andre to give him the Farron
Coal, upgrade our twinblades to +5, infuse the twinblades with the Sharp Gem to change
the scaling with Dex, and allot our Ashen Estus to be a regular Estus so we have an extra heal. We then run up to the Fire Keeper to level up, where we
dump our remaining souls into Dexterity, bringing it up to 41. 40 is the soft cap for Dex scaling, but the
extra one is just for good measure and it’s also faster than menuing to something else just to level it up once. Moochyy then interacts with the bonfire to
travel back to the Distant Manor bonfire that we lit earlier in Irithyll of the Boreal Valley. When we load in, Moochyy equips the Carthus
Rouge and re-equips the Target Shield that we started with as an Assassin. Back in Irithyll, we’re currently making
our way to Pontiff Sulyvahn, which is a boss that most people will actually take out before fighting Yhorm. Also, real quick arachnophobia warning, won’t
last long, I promise, just close your eyes and I’ll let you know when to open thm. After hanging a right in a second, Moochy
will run through a watery area full of Sewer Centipedes, where at the end he’ll make
his way up some stairs and inside of a building. The gangly fucks are why I told arachnophobes
to close their eyes, which speaking of, arachnophobes, open your eyes. This part is a running section and there are
four dogs that can be pretty irritating, or so Moochyy says. The dogs generally aren’t an issue, but
when they are, they’re a big issue, so Moochyy will re-equip his armor at times to prevent
getting stunlocked by the dogs if they choose to act up. Additionally, Moochyy angles his camera during
this section to have more of behind the character visible, making it so the dogs don’t really
teleport to right behind us when they’re on screen like we talked about earlier in the run. Again, running segments rely heavily on pathing and Stamina management,
which makes this segment otherwise fairly manageable. When the dogs go to attack you, you can make
super sharp movements left or right, which causes them to miss. Alternatively, you can grab some Alluring
Skulls earlier in the game which the dogs will aggro onto instead of you if you use them here. Moochyy just did a quit out to reset the dogs
so they don’t follow us as we proceed to the boss arena. Speaking of the upcoming boss, I’d just
like to say, Pontiff Sulyvahn is maybe the greatest name for a boss in any game ever. Any of those who disagree can meet me on the
playground after school to fight. So one of the benefits of playing as Assassin
is that we start with the Target Shield that we just equipped since the shield has a larger-than-normal
window for parrying, which is key for this fight. As soon as he enters the arena, Moochyy will
apply some Carthus Rouge and run towards Pontiff Sulyvahn. Pontiff Sulyvahn then charges at us and goes
to attack, and Moochyy uses the audio cue of where Pontiff Suylvahn’s third step would
be as the exact moment to parry and riposte. We follow this up by two-handing our twinblades
and doing two “L1” attacks, which is immediately followed by us swapping back to the shield,
rolling back, and parry-riposting again. Moochyy then swaps his shield to the Grass
Crest Shield for increased Stamina regen as he does four more “L1” attacks before
Pontiff Sulyvahn phase changes and does his AoE attack. Our next “L1” attack staggers Pontiff
Sulyvahn, and after a quick “L1” into “R1” combo, Pontiff Sulyvahn is dead. What a sad day for us Pontiff Sulyvahn stans,
losing the opportunity to say Pontiff Sulyvahn’s name. One more time for good measure. Pontiff Sulyvahn. When leaving the arena, Moochyy unequipped
his weapons, the target shield, and some armor to get back under a 30% equip load. Right now there isn’t much of note, just
again, Stamina management and pathing to avoid enemies as we make our way to Anor Londo. Wait, that can’t be right. *sound of pages turning* Huh, I guess it is. Anor Londo, we’re on our way to Anor Londo. Coming up, Moochyy is going to be running
through an area that requires us to go up some ramped roofs. To put it bluntly, this part looks terrifying. It always seems like you’re constantly about
to get blasted by some giant arrows. This is a pretty deceptive vibe that the stretch gives off though. As long as your pathing and Stamina management
are correct, then you should be fine while running up the roofs and past all the enemies. Even if it looks like the arrows are hitting you, it’s usually okay. Moochyy intentionally takes the time to regen
some Stamina as he runs past this Silver Knight, which makes the knight pull out its sword
so it doesn’t shoot us out of mid-air as we jump, which would kill us. At the end of an upcoming hallway, we’re
going to pull a lever to call an elevator, but the elevator takes forever so as soon
as we pull the lever, we do a quit out to skip the animation of the elevator coming down. We still have to ride the elevator back up though. After loading back in, Moochyy has to run
up some spiral stairs, and at the top there’s a bar-lever type thing that he has to push
to rotate and raise the platform. While he’s pushing the bar-lever thing,
he’s going to do some quick menuing to equip the Green Blossoms, and he’ll also pop a
heal as he waits for the platform to arrive at its destination. Just a quick reminder, Green Blossoms are
consumables that increase your Stamina regeneration for 60 seconds and the effects of the Green
Blossoms and the Grass Crest Shield stack. So while we have a moment, something that’s
worth noting about this category since we just healed is the fact that you go so long
in this run without being able to refresh your Estus Flasks. From the start of the game, you have to go
all the way until after Yhorm before you can recover any Estus flasks, and right now we’re
in a stretch where we can’t recover them that spans from before Pontiff until the Twin
Princes, which is right before the end of the game. It’s just an added layer of difficulty to
the run that comes from not hitting up many bonfires since they’re slow to deal with. So in a moment, Moochyy will be jumping onto
a railing and falling off a ledge that looks like it should kill him, but there’s some schmutz
on the ground where we land that prevents fall damage. There is a chest near where we land here,
and if you land either on or next to the chest, the fall will most likely kill you, but by
running on the railing for just a moment before dropping off, we got the clearance we needed from the chest. As we enter the next boss arena, we use a
Carthus Rouge in preparation for one of the more complicated fights in the run: Aldrich. There’s a lot of different attacks and attack
combinations that you need to know how to deal with, plus he takes different amounts
of damage based on where you hit him. Aldrich opened with a poke attack, which let
us get some head hits in. Once Alrich’s health gets low enough, it’ll
teleport somewhere in the arena, but it always goes to the opposite quadrant of the arena
than the one we’re standing in, so by standing on the border between quadrants, Moochyy can
quickly get to Aldrich and begin attacking once the teleport finishes. After teleporting, Aldrich did a horizontal
swipe attack in this run, which is the best one for us as it means that we can deal enough
damage to beat Aldrich in just two cycles, regardless of what opener we were given. Because this is the third Lord of Cinder we’ve
defeated (the other two being the Abyss Watchers and Yhorm), a cutscene plays right afterwards
and we get transported to the High Wall of Lothric. The location we get transported to is the
cathedral where Emma is located. Emma is who we got the Small Lothric Banner
from earlier to be able to progress to the Undead Settlement, and if you remember earlier,
I also mentioned that the cathedral doubles as the boss arena for the Dancer of the Boreal Valley. As soon as he loads in, Moochyy swipes at
Emma to kill her to skip having to talk to her, and then runs behind her to initiate
the fight against the Dancer, using a Carthus Rouge and Green Blossom in the process. The main strategy for the Dancer is you want
to stay behind her at all times, which limits what she can do. It takes seven “L1” attacks for the Dancer to begin
transitioning to phase two, but eight “L1” attacks to stagger her. Moochyy times hits seven and eight to be consecutive
so that he quickly staggers the Dancer, delaying the phase transition slightly. We then try to hit her at least six times
before she begins her big spin attack that marks her transition to phase two. Moochyy strafes her big spin and hits her
once during it, then hits her as soon as the spin ends, staggering her again, and giving
us a window to kill her before she really gets to do anything else in phase two. As soon as the Dancer is dead, Moochyy unequips
his weapon and some armor to get below 30% equip load, again, and equips the Pale Pine
Resin in place of the Carthus Rouge. We then interacted with a statue to place
a basin that we got when Emma died, leading to a cutscene that we skipped and a ladder we just climbed. This officially brings us to Lothric Castle. We’re currently on our way to fight Dragonslayer
Armour, which is one of the harder fights in the run, and is the boss I mentioned earlier
that’s immune to bleed, hence the reason why Moochyy equipped the Pale Pine Resin for
the magic damage it provides. Getting to Dragonslayer Armour is pretty straightforward
pathing and Stamina management, with there really not being a whole lot that can go wrong. You mostly just have to pay attention to certain
enemies and roll when they throw out an attack that you can’t strafe. Moochyy is now heading back outside where
he’s going to be running up a ton of stairs on the peripheries of the castle, and running
past a bunch of enemies that are good examples of what I just talked about with having to
pay attention to what attacks are thrown out. At the top of these stairs we’ll be approaching
a bridge and some more stairs that are guarded by the dragon from Shrek the Third. The moment we step onto the bridge, the dragon
from Shrek the Third begins the process of breathing fire along the path we run, and as soon as
we’re about to be hit by the fire, Moochyy quits out. This resets the dragon from Shrek the Third’s
attack so that when we load back in, we’ll be unharmed and able to run to enter the castle proper while
the dragon from Shrek the Third winds up to breathe more fire. When we load back in, we head in the entrance
on the right into a room with more fucking stairs. There’s a few Hollows in this room that
throw firebombs at us while we run up the stairs, so Moochyy angles his camera slightly
towards them to make sure he doesn’t get hit. At the top of the stairs, Moochyy runs past
some enemies that can easily stunlock us, then leaps and rolls as he falls off a ledge,
giving him a second roll to use in mid-air to i-frame the fall damage, similar to during Doll Skip. After running up these stairs, Moochyy will
re-equip his twinblades, armor, and pop a Green Blossom in preparation for the fight
against the Dragonslayer Armour, which again, is one of the hardest fights in the run. A lot of this fight revolves around carefully
positioning yourself behind the boss’s feet to bait two attacks: a shield backslam and a horizontal swing. You can bait these attacks one after another
in an alternating sequence based on where you’re standing, and this sequence is what
a lot of people consider to be the “bread and butter” of the fight. Dragonslayer Armour transitions to phase two after our
seventh hit, and doesn’t get staggered until we hit him 14 times. When Moochyy ends up staggering the Armour
in this fight, he does so at a sort of inopportune time since it ends up being right as the Armour
was starting its horizontal blade swing attack, meaning that the Armour would throw out a
different attack after recovering from being staggered. This means that Moochyy is sort of at the
whim of the Armour here until it throws out its next attack, which Moochyy had to identify
and dodge accordingly before slipping back into the sequence to finish out the fight. Once we defeat the Dragonslayer Armour, we’re
going to exit the arena, and while doing so we’ll swap out our Pale Pine Resin for our
Carthus Rouge since the upcoming bosses aren’t immune to bleed like the Dragonslayer Armour was. Up ahead is a body on the ground that we’re
going to loot, giving us the key to the Grand Archives. It takes a moment to get there though, so
in the meantime, if any of you watching are named Craig, sup? Just wanted to say hey to any Craigs who might be out there watching. Alright, that’s enough nonsense. The doors to the Grand Archives are clearly
huge and super heavy, so Moochyy does a quit out to skip the door opening animation and
save ourselves from exertion. The Grand Archives look scary and can be because
you can easily get stunlocked, but again, with consistent pathing and Stamina management, anything is possible. Alright you know what, I changed my mind,
the Grand Archives looks fucking terrifying. Moochyy does insist though that despite how
it looks, the stretch of running we just did is usually fine. An example of how this is routed for consistency
is up ahead Moochyy aggros a Scholar but stops sprinting to regen Stamina and let the Scholar
start attacking, only to sprint again, making the attack always miss. At the top of these stairs we’ll be going
back outside and we need to heal, so we’ll do a type of animation ledge cancel called an “Estus Ledge Cancel”
where we heal as we’re walking off a ledge. This truncated a recovery animation that plays after using an Estus Flask. Moochyy is making his way up and up in the
Grand Archives, and when he goes back inside soon, he’ll be on the top floor. Also right here, I’m not really sure what
this Gargoyle was going for. So we’re only going to be inside for a short
moment before hanging a right to head back outside. There, there’ll be three NPCs on a staircase:
Kamui, Kriemhild, and Albert. Albert can stagger us with one hit of his
axe so we have to roll out of the way of that attack, and in this run we also had to dodge
arrows from Kamui that can also stagger us. Kriemhild can shoot Soul Spear attacks at
us that stagger as well that we’d have to dodge, but in this run she didn’t throw
that attack out at us at all. In general, you just have to look at what
they’re doing and react to it. I know that the last five minutes or so have
been all about stairs, but up ahead is a giant staircase that’s staring us down that we’re
gonna have to Rocky Balboa to the top of. Similar to in Rocky II though, we’re going to have some
people coming after us as we try to get to the top. This area also looks a lot scarier than it
is, but certainly not as scary as what Rocky had to go through with all those kids chasing him. Ooh, that’s ghastly. Moochyy does a quit out when opening up the
door at the top of the stairs to skip the animation, and when we load back in he’ll
begin the fight against the Twin Princes: Lorian and Lothric. Similar to previous fights, this fight also
relies heavily on having correct positioning to limit what Lorian can do. The main strategy for this boss is to spin him. When you’re behind him, he’ll constantly
try and turn to face you, and if you maintain a good position, you can rotate him and fit attacks in in-between. Another thing to mention is that you don’t
want to fight this boss while locked on, because being locked onto him increases how fast he can spin. Plus, if you’re directly facing him, there’s
a significantly higher chance that he’ll teleport, slowing down the fight considerably
and introducing more RNG to the fight. Lorian staggers on the tenth hit, so Moochyy
locks on for that attack specifically and gets a combo in before the stagger ends. Bleed is triggered around now so Moochyy does
some faster attacks to get it to proc sooner, taking out a huge chunk of health when it does. After reacting to whatever opener we get,
phase two is largely the same strategy as phase one, with us just circling around the
princes and throwing out attacks when we can. The key to this phase is to make sure you’re
always hitting Lothric, the prince on Lorian’s back, because killing Lorian first doesn’t
end the fight, he gets infinitely revived until you kill Lothric. As soon as Moochyy finishes off both princes
(but not like that, get your mind out of the gutter), he uses the Dragonslayer’s soul
and the Dancer’s soul to get a ton of souls. Moochyy then uses a Homeward Bone to return
to the Firelink Shrine, where he’s going to spend all those souls on leveling up in
preparation for the final boss. First though, we have to place the Cinders
we got from each of the Lords of Cinders that we’ve slain onto their respective thrones. On two of them, Moochyy does another type of animation ledge cancel called a “Throne Animation Cancel” and I bet you can guess what it is. By placing a Cinder on a throne while you
walk off a ledge, the animation for it is canceled, as you can see clearly when Moochyy places the next one. It’s the one immediately following it though
that’s fast to the point where it looks like we don’t even do it. After placing the final Cinders, Moochyy will
run up to the Fire Keeper to dump all of our 317,700 souls into Vigor, bringing it to 32
and massively increasing our max health. Moochyy will then interact with the bonfire,
initiating a cutscene, but if you skip the cutscene, there’s a small window where you
can use items and by using our last Homeward Bone to warp back to our last bonfire, we’re brought to the first bonfire
in the Kiln of the First Flame, skipping a short bit of running. When we get moving in the Kiln, Moochyy will
unequip the now empty Homeward Bone stack, and then re-equip his twinblades and armor. So this upcoming fight is a bit complicated, mainly because
the Soul of Cinder staggers differently than every other fight. During certain attack animations, Cind will
take increased Poise damage by about 50%. This means that depending on when we get our
hits in, Cind can be staggered in anywhere from 5.5-8 hits. Cind enters phase two at 22 hits and does a combo after transitioning. Our goal is to interrupt him out of that combo
by staggering him, because otherwise we have to back off until the combo ends. To do this, we want him to be as close to
staggering as possible when he phase transitions, so after Moochyy staggers Cind the first time,
he only attacks as many times as necessary to bring the total hit count up to nine. Same goes for when Cind is staggered the second
time, except instead of nine hits, Moochyy only does eight, bringing the total hits to
17 at the end of the second stagger. Remember, Cind enters phase two at 22 hits,
so having him at 17 with the second stagger makes it so that after five more attacks,
we’ll not only be at 22 hits total to bring on phase two, but Cind will also be ready
to stagger in as few as 0.5-3 more attacks that affect Poise. The thing is though, the first two attacks
we do after phase transitioning don’t deal Poise damage to him, plus he gets a little
Poise bonus after transitioning. This all means that Cind usually staggers
on either hit 26 or 27, and our goal is to have the 26th or 27th hit land when he begins
the long combo, staggering him out of it. Now that we’ve staggered the second time,
the rest of the fight is just Moochyy generally outplaying Cind. Because of the fact that we leveled up our
health so much, we can use health as a resource and trade on a lot of attacks throughout the whole fight. Some attacks you shouldn’t trade on though
because you’ll take quite a lot of damage or you’ll get staggered so you just have
to know which ones are ideal to trade on. Once Moochyy does end up defeating Cind though,
then all he has to do is link the First Flame, officially ending the run. If you’ve made it to the end of the video,
thank you so much on behalf of both myself and Moochyy. Additionally, I’d like to give a big thank
you to Moochyy, who was an absolute treat to work with and helped so much with writing this video. He sat down with me to go over the run and
explained not only everything you saw, but even more that had to be left on the cutting
room floor for time. Seriously, Moochyy’s knowledge and skill
at this game are one-of-a-kind, and his runs are just honestly so sick. If you want to check out more of his runs, then please
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