44 Insane Tricks in Spelunky 2 (Speedruns, Scoreruns, Skips, and more)

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44 Tricks in Spelunky 2, everything from speedrun strats to casual tips for general play! I made this video out of love for the community and I hope it helps you pull off some really cool runs.
Leave a comment below if there are any tricks you use in your runs that I didn't include!
Resources
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My Discord: / discord
Bubble skip Tutorials:
• How To Low% Qilin Skip...
• Fast Bubble Skip Tutor...
Abzu Death Skip reference images (by Jeremy Hay): imgur.com/a/Sr21Fdi
Spelunky community DIscord: / discord
Mods, tools, and much more: spelunky.fyi
Modlunky 2: github.com/spelunky-fyi/modlu...
Speed and Score leaderboard: Mossranking.com
Special Thanks
HectiqueX
Cloiss
d_tea
ChaosComposer
JeremyHay
Spencer
Ivyoary
Gary
TvRobot10
Groomp
and EVERYONE IN THIS INCREDIBLE COMMUNITY!
Timestamps
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0:00 Intro
1:08 Rope Rob
1:24 Finding the Black Market without the Udjat
1:51 Skipping Olmec
2:22 Low% Temple Olmec (Easy)
3:24 Tiamat Telefrag
3:40 Hundun Exit Skip
4:07 Sleep and hold items (hired hands)
4:26 That one Temple chunk
4:38 Leprechaun Sacrifice
5:02 Breaking the mattock in the moon challenge
5:28 Killing salad sisters
5:54 Robbing the Black Market
6:22 Paste Abzu death skip
6:46 Cutscene bubbles
7:07 Eggplant teleport
7:29 Quick mattock
7:46 Mattock steal (No teleporter)
8:10 Mattock steal (Teleporter)
8:32 Low% Temple Olmec (Hard)
9:22 Telepack Abzu death skip
9:53 No paste Abzu death skip
10:16 Backwhipping arrows
10:33 Qilin skip (Middle ropes)
11:03 Tube bombs
11:17 Teleporting through Vlad's castle
11:41 Bombing Vlad
12:04 Anubis telefrag
12:20 Bopping Osiris and Anubis 2
12:39 Tiamat low% bomb whip
12:55 Tiamat Pacifist landmine
13:10 Tiamat Shrek bomb strat
13:31 Robbing with just a whip
13:45 Killing Tusk
14:00 Egg strat
15:44 Hundun telefrag
16:34 Hundun floor strats
17:23 Low% Abzu death skip
17:51 Qilin skip (Side strat)
18:08 Qilin skip (Vlad's cape)
18:41 Qilin skip (Bubbles+ropes)
19:08 Tiamat quad cook
19:30 Killing the sad ghost
19:59 Killing the big happy ghost
20:59 Telescanning in Cosmic Ocean
21:32 Outro
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[@Hectique]

really sick video!! well worth the effort put into it all. if people are struggling with any of these tricks, here's a few extra pointers for ones i could find: 1:24 - this strat is especially easy to pull off when a salad sister or other subroom occupies the bottom layer of the level. you can always safely teleport from the bottom layer directly into the bm! 3:24 - never jump before telefragging tiamat. it's the usual muscle memory when speedrunning, but jumping actually puts you in a much worse position for this kill. 4:26 - be careful of any extra crush traps in the subroom. why is this in the game 4:38 - to add to xana's stars challenge arrow idea, you can also get an arrow by sacrificing a rock on the city of gold altar if you have 16 or more favor. chuck it at a body and it'll be a blunt arrow you can use to self-sac at 1hp. 5:28 - you'll only have to aggro a sister to prevent them from spawning for the rest of the run. 6:22 - be careful of gold and gems (unlike xana here smh) as they can unintentionally trigger extra powder kegs and ruin the strategy. make sure to not mimic xana and place outside, then inside (ty cloiss). 7:07 - make sure to teleport as low as you can to avoid overshooting and dying in the ceiling. bombing the vault is important so you won't potentially die on the way back! 7:29 - if you're struggling with dropmattocking, i've found that walking makes this trick much easier than doing it while sprinting. 9:22 - this is the worst trick ever. you can use 2 bombs under the idol to create a higher gap to place a rope in and wait for some extra time. 12:39 - if you're struggling to get this kill, be sure to *not* place the bombs at the left edge of the pillar. placing in the center makes the bomb cascade connect more consistently, as the final bomb will explode closer to tiamat. 12:55 - if the landmine kills anything other than tiamat, you will lose pacifist. be quick! 14:00 - this strat is also an excellent means of doing hundun for low% no gold, since normal floorstrats constantly rain gold upon the player. if you get unlucky like xana did in his clip, and gold is right under the tube, you can rope to ride the leftmost tube onto the spikes, which i'm fairly certain can never have gold on them. 17:23 - do not jump before placing this rope, as it will cause you to bonk your head when placing your next rope to escape. if you're lucky, a tiki trap can spawn 2 tiles away from the pole you climb (in this clip, the tiki trap on the right would work) which will prevent the pole from being destroyed, allowing you to save your first rope. 19:30 - keep in mind that the abyss on certain levels will not be the same! for example, on the black market, the main level is doubled in size to accommodate the back layer, so you'll have to either kill sad in the black market itself, or the terrain outside it. 20:59 - telescanning is wild, but also situational. don't telescan on every level, since some levels are better to just explore. the best levels to telescan are large levels with colors that contrast bubbles (like temple, dwelling, and sunken city). be careful of anything in the horizontal loop -- telescanning is safest in the vertical loop, as shown in xana's clip!

[@Cloiss_]

actually xana does the 2 bomb paste strat the wrong way around, but it doesn't matter because he's near the center. It should always be outside to inside.

[@SquidwardTentacles-jl6me]

OH SHUT UP

[@TheGugubo]

The Kapala difficulty meter is great

[@miwfjuggs]

for real! Even if someone hasn't played The Super Spelunky 68 HD Remastered; Ultimate Deluxe Developer's Collector Hard Case Digital Edition, im pretty sure they could still grasp it unlike most contextual difficulty meters other youtubers use for their videos or different games, shit you could use this meter for other games to be fuckin honest LOL

[@corethephoenix_yt8491]

69 likes

[@MicioglioCasual]

Bro I know you

[@SquidwardTentacles-jl6me]

hi derek yu

[@SquidwardTentacles-jl6me]

@@jganimations4608 thanks i know my channel is great.

[@Radiator_07]

It’s insane how far this game has come, there’s probably still thousands of tricks undiscovered

[@Zsy6]

When killing the sad ghost it's important to note the "splat" sound effect which indicates that the ghost was successfully killed.

[@BlueEverAfter]

Most of these I didn’t know about (I’m a noob, I know) so it was super interesting to watch through this and learn more about the game. You can definitely see how much love and effort you put in to this video. Thank you ❤️

[@csdgay]

6:30 worth noting that if there's gold in the exterior 2 sections it fling into the TNT, causing it to go off too early and kill you

[@squared_circles]

Yo perfect timing my friend just got the game ima send this to him

[@XanaGear]

Awesome, that means a lot! Thank you!

[@squared_circles]

@@XanaGear i love your videos man :>

[@The_Progamer456]

I'm doing the same

[@omniusmaximusgluteuslxix4857]

God bless you my dude, just saw the first 17 min. of it and this labor of love fucking kicks ass! So far I've really loved that ledged-hired-hand-sleep-hold trick and Vlad bombing ones most of all! I gotta go work now, you keep at it and live long, hard, thick, prosperous, and spread the love:)

[@songofthieves]

A labour of love. Thanks for all you do to keep this community going. It wouldn't be the same without you

[@jeremiahmcghee9634]

Awesome video, super cool to see all these strategies explained clearly in one place. Well done!

[@Yourstepfathersdog]

Great vid man after watching this a few days ago I only was at ice caves but now I have a few wins and I’m going for other endings thanks for the help keep being awesome!

[@toadboydude5015]

It's been a trip learning all this stuff in this incredible game, can't wait to see where this community goes.

[@Ormu]

It's super useful to have all this in one video tbh, thank you!

[@Papai_Duda]

Awesome content as always bro, keep it up!

[@rmartinlopez98]

Enjoyed the video a lot and Im sure to enjoy it in future times since Im 100% sure that I'll revisit this to try all the hard skips Im not implementing yet. Rn I have only gotten Qilin's skip with vlad cape kinda consistent (althought using some more ropes to get myself over the wall directly instead of walking over the first spark traps which I'll try next time), and obviously the classic death skip with paste on the 2 ropes. Thanks for this amazing video, and thanks to all the Spelunky 2 community for being so amazing, I hope we all keep enjoying this game as much as it deserves it ^^

[@snippygiant]

Thank you so much I have been taking a break as I have just beaten hundun and done a couple attempts at getting to cosmic ocean but after seeing this I can muster up some motivation to try the impossible.

[@SanMaster17]

Amazing video. I'll definetively be coming back to this one

[@Camer0nHart]

Amazing vid. nice work!

[@robotfood83]

Thanks for the video xana!

[@makxs4818]

Hello xana, i love your videos, i absolutely love this tricks!

[@mr-n00b]

Good stuff as always Xana!

[@DarkLeviathan8]

bro im new to spelunky 2 and the intro to this video is getting me so hype, going to be such a great watch

[@sethc9781]

13:43 you forgot the climbing gloves. This is an AWESOME you tube video, as always. I loved learning new things about the game. You rock xanagear. And you NAILED that bubble skip!

[@enavoid6285]

Probably intentional, as Climbing Gloves can be annoying to use and even make you die

[@arsenalfanatic0971]

You sort of have to force yourself to get used to them, they're actually useable unlike the first game where it autograbs if you're close to the wall and I always avoided them. You just have to get used to being careful about pressing into walls. I struggle more with the telepack because I press jump unnecessarily too much while in the air to be able to climb ledges quicker.

[@ralfonzo83]

Amazing work! Thanks for the video!!

[@rasulaghazada4737]

New to spelunky series but I love ur yt vids they helped me alot.

[@5izzy557]

Thank you, this is awesome. I'll be sending every Spleunker I know to this video.

[@heavendoor2199]

Really good tricks subscribed 😊

[@gKontent]

Thank you for the help. Fantastic watch.

[@Blakeisthegoat64]

S tier video bro! 😎 Im only 12 and i have pulled off 5 SC runs and trying to get to CO, this video is definitely going to help because i forgot some of these tricks! Btw i subbed! ❤👍

[@MightyReeN]

Thanks Xana, you make a spelunky 2 tips vid right after I took a break from spelunky 2 so I could play Neo The World Ends With You.

[@VadaZoraRevaNova]

thanks for the tips bro

[@yunigacha5006]

Thank you for putting this! Now I can go to eggplant world and get new characters thank you!

[@guillaumelessard4047]

This is really cool! I'm going to have a lot of things to try out! Can't wait for 2.6 update on console haha ;)

[@chocolatecake50000]

Great video, gonna try out that temple low% olmec strat

[@Cloiss_]

It can be about 10s faster than what Xana showed - Here's an example from a real run kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWa5m6Guh9B2a6M

[@finnconnelly9983]

This’ll come in handy. Thanks

[@sasquatch884]

Awesome video thank you very much

[@streetchick3n]

glad to see all of your recent effort pay off, awesome video

[@zainy_inc154]

Great video man

[@DM-zi2up]

Alternate video description: Xana boasting his very impressive telepack skills. Great video!

[@2ts706]

Great video, keep in mund thay for low% temple hard you can save an extra stomp but with require another rope or rock

[@xpicanha7148]

You help the comiunity so well! Thanks (i speak spanish)

[@Swaggymaster]

YO THIS IS AWESOME!

[@jaka.kragelj]

great video! now we also need a tutorial of how to play the game in the way it was "intended" because I am forgetting how to get to CO without a skip.

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

I'm sure there are plenty of video tutorials on this, but I enjoy explaining puzzle solutions and whatnot, so I'm going to describe it anyway for anyone who reads this and wants to know. Major spoilers ahead! Dwelling: Use the golden key to unlock the Udjat Eye in the back layer room on either 1-2 or 1-3. (Key and chest are always on the same level, and Yang/turkeys are always on the other level.) If you go to Volcana: Use the Eye on the drill level to trigger the drill and get into Vlad's Castle in the back layer. Take his Crown (and optionally kill him for his cape). If you go to Jungle: Use the Eye blinking (and/or other cues) to determine where the Black Market entrance is when it appears in one of the levels. (I'm not sure if it can appear in 2-1 or not.) Go in and buy (or rob) the Hedjet. Either way in world 2: Don't forget to keep an eye out for the Moon Challenge and get the Bow from it! (NOT skippable EVER for CO) Olmec: Get the Ankh. Deposit the Bow with Waddler. If you go to Tide Pool: Pull Excalibur in 4-2. Leave it at the top of 4-3 (along with your worn item), find the back layer path to the idol trap at the bottom, disturb the idol and get killed, then take the revealed exit to Abzu. Use Excalibur to kill Kingu for the Tablet of Destiny. If you go to Temple of Anubis: Kill Anubis in 4-1 and take his scepter. Find the City of Gold entrance in 4-2 and use the scepter to enter. Sacrifice yourself on the altar in City of Gold to enter Duat, then climb to the top and kill Osiris for the Tablet of Destiny. Optionally kill Anubis again for a jetpack. Ice Cave: Nothing (unless you're going for Eggplant Crown). Neo Babylon: Enter the back layer Ushabti room in 6-2 and find the Ushabti described by the Tablet of Destiny entry in your journal. Carry it with you into 6-3 to unlock the Qilin, and then ride it carefully to the top of 6-4 to enter Sunken City. Sunken City: Retrieve the Bow from Waddler in 7-1, and complete the Sun Challenge when it appears to obtain the Light Arrow. After defeating Hundun in 7-4, shoot the Light Arrow directly into his eye from the Bow and jump into the vortex to enter Cosmic Ocean! Certain steps of this are skippable if you're taking Tide Pool but not Temple, and if you're skipping Qilin then you don't have to do anything except the Moon Challenge before that. Basically you need one of the two crown items to a) pull the sword, or b) enter City of Gold, non-negotiably, and you need the Ankh to enter Duat, non-negotiably, but you can skip the sword by cracking Kingu's shell with bombs, and/or perform a death skip in Tide Pool 4-3. Also, either crown can be obtained without the Udjat Eye if you have the right equipment and/or knowledge.

[@tuckerrouse4850]

I'm not sure that anything can convince me to feel safe using the teleporter but you made a noble effort

[@corethephoenix_yt8491]

Finally someone who knows about the mattock steal that i always use to go to vlad cuz im bad

[@Kittycat7070-]

Nice video! Just wish there was quillback backlayer skip, it's my favorite skip

[@panosiliopoulos9417]

great video!

[@rbredross1587]

These tips are great, maybe finally I can escape the dwelling!

[@Turnups27]

lol do you want to play some time?

[@rbredross1587]

@@Turnups27 Yes please!

[@cosmologicl]

Hey XanaGear! This is an insane video that showed me things I didn't even know about especially that full ghost kill on ice caves, but I was wondering how you had a game overlay for your controller. I am planning on being able to stream this game eventually and I would want to know how you get it on OBS and such. Keep up the great content Xana, and thank you.

[@XanaGear]

There’s websites and applications for OBS for it! Make sure you hit me up in my discord when you start streaming, I love watching new streamers.

[@RAF_Ai]

XanaGear ? More like XanaGoat

[@trceb]

Wow. Amazing videos. It’s awesome watching speedrunners getting better and better. Also does nobody know about the vlad telefrag kill that’s 100% consistent. I don’t think I’ve seen it done by anyone but myself.

[@grubguy4130]

Tell me

[@blutkrank]

I love those" now you can see how I line up my hands here" then proceed to do it so fuckin fast I have to rewind it 20 time and frame by frame to see it.....still a great video😅

[@itsmeyourluck7302]

kapala being a measurement is great

[@meloncat1997]

heck yeah good stuff

[@inspectorbuttons]

Thank you :)

[@Doge_Brick_Animations]

I've found that you could steal the shop keeper's shotgun with the rope rob by quickly picking it up, as long as there's not a locked room in the shop, because you would pick up the key dropped by the shopkeeper, and not the shotgun

[@zachwild6765]

very cool

[@Ax0lotl12]

The outro was just inspiring

[@PogShootMan]

One thing i have found helps me is setting off the dart trap on the top right of vlads castle and then baiting vlad over before jumping into the crevice in the very top right and whiping him when he comes to me, it has never once failed me and its what i always use when fighting vlad and it takes no resources

[@dummy6934]

This video will be the magnum opus of spelunky 2 content.

[@TMan2008M]

I know that this video is older,but for newer players 4 bomb skip has a much easier line up now. If u jump towards the idol and go into the gap above it will always line you up as long as you don’t move once lined up. If you are struggling to understand then there’s a video by pastryperson that shows it off well.

[@playtoearn_live]

Очень круто! Надо будет пробовать всё это повторить, спасибо 👍

[@franklup1183]

Great video, but what about the frame perfect Jelly skip?

[@izdziabol]

Good video :)

[@haliweaving1306]

9:24 - You can also just teleport up without using a rope if you have climbing gloves, but if you don't, just pray you don't get squashed.

[@Mangoles]

ty !

[@JamesWalker-lk7rd]

The first tech, rope rob, you can steal the shopkeepers shotgun quickly too

[@SnufflySpy]

Great video. It covers every one I can remember And 6:12 is really sick

[@Douchini]

If you can't do olmec skip (or want to get anch normally) the easiest way I found to beat him is when he is in his hover phase. Place a rope in the middle and all the way to the left of the arena and bait him into throwing bombs 3 times then hit his hover pads. (Keep doing this until he is in a pit he can't get out of)

[@hiigherthanhell6712]

Commenting because it was actually a good video

[@Tony-tl9fs]

13:32 An easier way I've been doing it, is to stand on the fourth item in the shop, backwhip + jump at the same time, then stomp on the shopkeepers head.

[@Lumelore]

At 5:28 you don't actually have to kill them. You only have to anger them.

[@creepynickel084]

Any tips for doing the last checkpoint for the ice level? Im a casual and im having a hard time doing it

[@darthangel310]

Gimme tips on getting thru Volcana. So many times I get killed by bs I can’t control.

[@dx9xd]

Great video, though I was kind of hoping to see the low% quillback back layer skip where he digs down after rolling. I cant find how to do it anywhere else :(

[@XanaGear]

I literally have that clip for this video and misplaced it before editing and you just made me realized it!!! NOOOO!!!

[@dx9xd]

@@XanaGear Haha, I guess it was bound to happen with a video of this magnitude XD

[@user-qd9ot1vb9x]

Great master, please tell me. how many hours of training and games do you need to pass the game ? I have played for about 500 hours while my record is 7-30. How long did it take you to pass 7-99?

[@solisrandom8149]

6:25 Hey Zanagear I know this is a small thing but can u clarfy that u need to look up when u paste the bomb on the wall? Because i have done it where i didnt look up and lost a jetpack and an ankh

[@XanaGear]

Don't need to hold up, just need to make sure you're at the top of the rope.

[@Blakeisthegoat64]

Great job! Im 12 and this will help me pull of my second SC run ❤ droped a sub! 😃

[@shinydiamond1126]

Huzzah! Finally got time to finish this vid. Indeed! Got nothing more to say though :P

[@turtley8581]

liz :flushed:

[@cursorthesecond]

I'm suprized no one noticed the falling penguin at 20:35

[@XanaGear]

I lost it during editing.

[@Fibbetgamer]

In no paste death skip, search it up, theres a way to aline the bombs easily

[@haliweaving1306]

9:24 - Can also be done with a teleporter

[@despacitothree5601]

The whip rob...why can't you just back whip jump while walking away? Style points I guess, maybe faster too but I'm unsure.

[@frogobot1513]

Bro you forgot my favorite strat of giving the caveman a shotgun

[@gremlinfiend8334]

I am literally just trying to get passed level 4. This is the only game that actually pissed me off.

[@kennywhite9437]

Liked and subscibbed.

[@kikosilva96]

is this the spelunky bible now?

[@djflaffwaffe2462]

20:34 WITNESS MEEEEE!!!

[@jultima2003]

I've only gotten to the sea area what the heck is going on in this game I knew there was gonna be some nutso stuff like spelunky 1 but nothing to this extent now I gotta play the game more

[@ODISeth]

Jesus Christ it almost has been a full year huh…

[@kolyuq2888]

I found a way to slow down the falling ball in ice caves lol

[@DogeTheBigTanDog]

i wonder when spelunky 3 will release

[@chocolatecake50000]

0:35 hey there I am

[@zainy_inc154]

W

[@Nakilon]

Hey Xana! Didn't see you since I left titch. I know a trick you don't know. If you activate a hover pack in right moment you can land on spikes! Other than that I would say your video lacks that Ice caves skip where you fall from the ledge instead of going through yetis.

[@Cryptic_Diamond]

They should have called the telascan the telescope because you scope things out

[@internetuser8922]

i was expecting bubble skip to be web gun difficulty

[@imsebas___]

Now I can't see the kapala anyway HAHA

[@EtherealThing]

19:59 2tryhard4me 🤣🤣

[@Fibbetgamer]

Your telling me, I can get the mattock every run but noe I cant get the clone gun/elixir?