Black Widow Speedrun in

Taking my time playing the full release and finishing the story so thought I'd run this in the mean time. Quite frustrating with the ticks, widowlings and mosquitos joining in and ruining the fight so I'm just glad to get a run actually finished!
Lost time getting her up on that rock as that was the first time I'd tried that. Couple minor parkour fails too but I'm happy with this run overall.
I'm pretty certain medium and whoa! mode strats will look a lot different...

[@HolyCodzta]

Seethrew just smoked my time, go check it out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWnScnRofb2qm9E

[@seethrew]

Yooooo! I'm sure you'll smash it more when you get a chance!

[@HolyCodzta]

@@seethrew That's the plan! ;)

[@oblivious3161]

@@HolyCodzta how do you do perfect blocks so well?

[@RaShadow370]

@@oblivious3161 its because spiders are early game and they all have the same attack patterns and reaction time is also incorporated into that

[@Jbow-sw8me]

This man’s hit more perfect blocks in this fight then I have in my whole time of playing grounded😂

[@jorbog]

imagine being able to say one of the first things you scanned was black widow parts

[@HolyCodzta]

Haha hadn't thought of it like that!

[@Kelpjuice1]

You had to get a bratburst for the upper grasslands

[@HolyCodzta]

@@Kelpjuice1 Actually you can jump straight past that rock! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKOcoYGObqeorbM They patched it :(

[@nodiggitty]

@@Kelpjuice1 i just built up there LOL didnt even see the rock

[@GIGLR]

Ha

[@mikearge23]

Holy shit! The spider just gave up at the end there 🤣 he’s like, I can’t hit this guy… he wins. Amazing perfect parrying. God level!

[@saik1914]

I think it's a bug. This happened to me one night and I took advantage to get all the difficult bug parts I needed

[@jurassicgaming1512]

@@saik1914 no, you can see him timing these perfectly, he's just a god at parry's

[@Dawz3G]

@@jurassicgaming1512 they're talking about the last quarter or so of the fight... the spider just stopped attacking

[@FoamySlobbers]

@@Dawz3G that's called a bug.

[@Dawz3G]

@@FoamySlobbers oh, thanks sherlock, howd you figure that one out? edit: *rude comment* edit edit: remove rude comment

[@AARAII]

These speed runs just keep getting better and better

[@HolyCodzta]

That's what I like to hear!

[@TheR3DSniper]

This dude has mastered the art of perfect blocking! I've been playing this game since it first came out in game preview, and I still have trouble with it.

[@HolyCodzta]

I didn't even try for ages! Thinking back I can't even picture how I killed anything haha, just struggled my way through 10 minutes of trying to kill a bombardier, now I only need a pebblet axe

[@Rogue_Grank]

You never cease to impress me. High quality content

[@HolyCodzta]

I've spent so much time messing with recording/rendering settings, glad it's paying off!

[@confused6201]

@@HolyCodzta It definitely is, well done.

[@elevenchuck2446]

wow dude! Amazing. Just watched your other speedruns also. Very skilled.

[@kevinlr9644]

Dude made it look like a program was running to parry! He's insane

[@dylanhlee3333]

Not that hard to parry in this game

[@kevinlr9644]

@@dylanhlee3333 But it looks robotic tho, sometimes he defends exactly on time and it is not even necessary bc of the distance. Of course cause he couldn't risk it, so he defended. It's really good

[@michaelelder1098]

@@dylanhlee3333 your profile is distinctly devoid of any videos showing you god parry like this. post a run or protest less

[@dylanhlee3333]

@@kevinlr9644 Ik it’s impressive but it still just memorizing when the attacks would connect with you which is not that hard to do with spiders in grounded. Their attacks are very telegraphed

[@dylanhlee3333]

@@michaelelder1098 not saying it’s not impressive but spider attacks are very telegraphed and therefore not hard to perfect block.

[@Rattus.]

Honestly one of the most impressive grounded videos I've ever seen

[@HolyCodzta]

Hot damn, thanks

[@JATenn]

I thought the broodmother speedrun was crazy. This is insane.

[@element8569]

I wanted to run this but had no idea you could even crack sub 14 let alone sub 11, this run is so good even with the parkour chokes good job Holy!

[@HolyCodzta]

Thanks Element! Appreciate the kind words. Haha yeah I'm not used to being without aphid slippers!

[@Nightshooter4951]

I love how the black widow just gave up around the end of it, you blocked all of her attacks and beat the crap outta her to the point she just backed off and accepted her defeat 😂

[@Bavari90]

Great work man 👏👏👏👏,good God !,she is scary 😨...she was like, F it there is no point of attacking this legend 🤣

[@carcram]

I love how much confidence it gives me, like I'm on my mind "wow so it's that easy just parry bro like can't be that hard" when i do know for a fact it is that hard

[@HolyCodzta]

Nahhh it's not that hard, you'll be fine ;)

[@fuckCEDA_GAMIN]

Bro is literally the parry master

[@kokushibogoatx2]

The fact that toy just walked past the orb weaver is insane i cant even do that and i have a coltana anyways good speedrun and awesome quality

[@HolyCodzta]

Haha thanks Chungers

[@R3D4CTED]

Damn man you play Grounded with Devil May Cry skills

[@AJ._.]

Been waiting for this video😤

[@HolyCodzta]

The wait is over!

[@Willza.]

Back at it again

[@Star-wf1sr]

Would love to see this on Woah! Mode

[@DanTheMan162.]

Hi i love ur vids cant wait to watch u speed run the game

[@HolyCodzta]

Yes Dan! Appreciate that. I'm very keen to finish the story so I can start breaking it down and figuring out the best route

[@kendallguier1378]

I just watched a man run around for 5 minutes and then beat a spiders a** for 5 minutes I approve

[@longfish5174]

This shits impressive keep it up

[@HolyCodzta]

I'll do my best

[@scout1509]

@German soldier man ?

[@XRTxWolf]

GG, WP, PARRY MASTER :D

[@wolfey2120]

Nice parries dear God I wish I could do that

[@krishnaphan]

You made it look so easy, i wonder how many noobs tried this and died after seeing your video mate 😅. GG

[@zombislayerx8361]

At least 1.... Xdxdxd

[@carcram]

At least me 🥲

[@Ritt3086]

lets go hes finally back

[@yeah1770]

This man built different

[@AlphaSeagull]

Great run! I suppose it's time for me to step back into speedrunning as well. Do you think the fight would've been faster if you enabled Parry Master when you got it? I feel like you can't go wrong with free stamina

[@HolyCodzta]

Eyyy what's up Seagull. Yes get on it! Maybe but I tried it a bit and it honestly just messed with me more than it helped, although that might have just been tier 1. Stopped using it in regular play too though where I had it maxed so I think I just don't like it anymore

[@AlphaSeagull]

@@HolyCodzta to be fair, it would make it harder to abuse the empty stamina regen, so there's no guarantee it would help even if it didn't mess you up. Guess I'll have to give it a test

[@HolyCodzta]

@@AlphaSeagull Actually I think recovering from exhaustion ignores gaining stamina from parry master, could be wrong though

[@jortonanderson8520]

Great videos just got a new Subscriber good job

[@HolyCodzta]

Thanks, welcome aboard!

[@faked8586]

you make it look so easy!

[@kianslade1899]

bro has studied spider movements

[@MrJohn_]

a great way to farm the perfect parry mutation is by going on her as soon as you get a weapon to block! i've done this since i've discovered the mutation. (i used to do it with wolf spider when Black Widow wasn't in the game, that's how i killed a wolf spider with my bare hands and a shield! haha)

[@HolyCodzta]

I did that before but now when I start a new game it's always the first mutation to get to tier 3 anyway haha

[@MrJohn_]

@@HolyCodzta lmaoooo noice

[@boxeddoggogaming1014]

Have you thought of spam clicking to build the workbench? Who knows it could be faster. Great speedrun I’ve gotta try this

[@HolyCodzta]

Could be faster for sure but my left index finger isn't as fast as my right so it would actually be slower for me. Good call though, always looking to shave a couple seconds wherever I can. Yeah give it a go, it's good fun!

[@gritty_boi]

Great run :)

[@HolyCodzta]

Why thank you

[@perc120]

Not sure if it’s your style but would love to see a whoa play through from you!

[@HolyCodzta]

I've done the whoa wolf so whoa widow too only makes sense right? Pinch whacker would be the play for that, think I might do that after the Mant run.

[@Rin-lv3yh]

If you end up doing this again, try just making a bunch of pebblet spears and hucking them (save 1 to parry) even in whoa mode you can kill her pretty fast especially with eyepatch.

[@HolyCodzta]

Yeah will do. Hucking stuff was never really on my radar but thrown spears and clubs too actually do crazy damage. Wanna do woah too so this might be the strat. Make as many as I can grabbing ingredients on the way to the jump up and just pick them up again mid fight

[@Rin-lv3yh]

It can be a little janky (can’t spam huck or you’ll get stuck in an animation until you let it go naturally, spears can disappear / go inside her body), and the physics of a spear being on the ground can sometimes troll you depending what happens. Trying to kill her in Whoa! with a red ant club is doable but super slow, pinchwhacker doesn’t last the entire fight either unless you swap to a different weapon to parry / use a shield. You can also get her to jump up on the leaf on the initial jump and sometimes when she drops down she can take a massive amount of damage (lowest I’ve seen was 25%). Can’t wait to see your next run :D

[@natalie7290]

THIS WAS SO AWESOME!!! TEACH ME HOW

[@HolyCodzta]

SURE THING: Go to the Game Settings option in the pause menu Click switch to custom game Turn off player damage Find black widow Practice parrying until you get bored or master it Now you can speedrun it!

[@natalie7290]

@@HolyCodzta WILL DO!!! ILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN I BEAT UR SPEEDRUN LOL! THANK YOU

[@Bhagasatvika]

Wow you really know the attack pattern. Perfect timed block, 1 bos 1 mutation

[@HolyCodzta]

Yeah it's just a reskinned wolf spider with the orb weaver's 3 attack combo but sped up!

[@jar444]

would it be faster to use the huck and wide interaction method to kill this or is that too risky? if so maybe quickly making 2 spikey sprigs might be enough to huck and parry whenever needed

[@HolyCodzta]

Yeah someone beat my time hucking spears so I'm gonna test spears vs sprigs, wide interaction etc. 2 would be optimal but also risky but if wide interact is consistent enough that I always have one in hand then maybe I'll run that. It would only be a few extra seconds to grab the needles for a third or fourth sprig though so we'll see

[@alanrair15]

the spider lose its will to fight by the last quarter of health, that's crazy

[@invalid-lp5jn]

Let's go another speedrun

[@leinardesteves3987]

You have to do a tutorial on how to parry the bosses attacks man! You're way too good

[@HolyCodzta]

Have thought about maybe doing some tutorials in the future and parrying certain creatures would be one of them. Might do them sooner if there's demand!

[@ca11botsuna20]

Please do I’m a souls veteran who’s on struggle street, can’t seem to perfect the blocking, you get punished so hard for mistakes game is brutal fun

[@CurlyCross]

@@HolyCodzta there is demand. There is no content like that on YT.

[@occam12345]

I don't sure but i remember he says to he save the game one moment before and practice and practice with the bug he wants to kill

[@Skitzobunnie]

Very impressive. Kind of surprised you didn't weave in activating parry master for more stamina to beat her up with faster given it was level 2 by the time you were done with her.

[@HolyCodzta]

Thanks! I would but using the club like in this run, parry master messes with me more than it helps. Often when I was out of stamina and waiting for it to regen, I'd swing when I get that small bit back from parry master which would reset the wait for the whole bar to regen. Did it way faster already with Seethrew's spear strat anyway! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nV6ZeoOFps6ksK8

[@LittleGhost521]

Congrats, I've never played the game though and unfortunately it isn't available to me so I'm curious what was the eye patch for?

[@HolyCodzta]

Thanks. It's not available to you, is that a regional thing? The eyepatch increases the damage that I deal and that I take. I grabbed the two granola bars at the start for heals so basically I can get hit no more than twice or the run's over!

[@LittleGhost521]

@@HolyCodzta Thanks for the info and unfortunately the game isn't available on Playstation only Xbox and PC and the computer I do have is not good enough to run this

[@HolyCodzta]

@@LittleGhost521 Ahhh gutted! Hope you get to play it one day. Actually, if your internet is good enough maybe you could use Xbox cloud gaming?

[@lelolik676]

Wow you are very strong

[@pikapower5723]

Hes back at it again

[@HolyCodzta]

You knows it

[@BPkyle777]

I think it was recently discovered that the Black Widow was 50% resistant to Clubs despite the Peep.R not saying so. Do you think this may influence future runs or is the Ant Club still likely gonna be the best weapon to use?

[@HolyCodzta]

Yeah I saw all the numbers got datamined. Gonna look at that and test to see what's better when I come back to this run for sure. I'm not sure if its raw dps is better but the rotten larva blade might be better simply because I'll get less combos interrupted. I doubt either of them will have enough durability for whoa so that'll probably be pinch whacker.

[@chama-low]

in the end she gave up lol you are too strong bro

[@hidetakamiyasaki675]

Cant wait for the mantis speedrun

[@HolyCodzta]

Me neither, hopefully we find the kebab recipe and kill it tomorrow so I can start figuring the route out!

[@exo_8590]

GG 😳

[@sockomo7149]

I love how after 10:25 it’s just like “man I don wanna do this no more”

[@HolyCodzta]

Poor thing :( jk get rolled lmao

[@HatsOffYT]

Amazing absolutely destroyed

[@Tyr13Colt]

THE PARRY GOD!!!!

[@Pribe13]

Hey man , are you gonna do a glitchless speed run of the full game ?

[@HolyCodzta]

Yes! We're pretty far through now I think so shouldn't be too long before I can start figuring out the route

[@vscru]

is red ant club better than pinch whacker? feel like you could save much much more time if you went and did parkour to get it

[@HolyCodzta]

Haven't tested it but you need a bratburst to get pinch whacker so I'm not sure if it'd be faster on mild. Someone else commented about whoa difficulty where pinch whacker is basically required so the time getting fungal growth and ant egg would be worth it.

[@NEONBURGERS]

GG 👀👍

[@pattycakeyt]

Him: 10 minutes into the game killing the black widow Me: 10 minutes into the game still making a workbench

[@munky5102]

If you polish up your running and parkour skills you can do this under 10 minutes for sure, your parrying is on another level.

[@HolyCodzta]

I'd need to get the fight started sooner as well cause those two failed jumps didn't cost me 44 seconds. If I don't reaggro that orb near the beginning that'll save a few more seconds too. Should be doable but would be very tight

[@gundorethemighty]

i got a question. how did you stop the black widow poison . Black widow auto poison you on the 3rd of 4th hit she does no matter if you perfect block it . since the black widow does two types of poison

[@HolyCodzta]

If you perfect block it then it doesn't poison you, same with the wolf. If you block it with a shield it won't poison you either

[@nicholasallan8675]

I have been trying on Woah, sum of best is abt 16m. essentially the same run except you gotta start by makin a workbench and killing the 2 infected gnats left of the rake in the haze, grab an ant egg and go back to ur crafting table by the science station, scan the egg, make a bomb, go get the pinch wacker and rotten berry charm, get the rotten ant club and same thing, you pinch wacker durability wont last the whole fight, itll break at about half health on the boss, switch to the club and if u get a few rot procs from the charm itll go faster so its just rng for time saving. Big thing is making sure ur food and water is full before u start the fight and grab the 2 candybars in the first science station JUST IN CASE cause with those u can survive 1 hit haha its a long fight

[@HolyCodzta]

Damn, only 5 minutes slower for woah would be sick! Sounds like a good strat. I haven't done everything in the upper yard so I don't know what's easily available to use in a speedrun, sounds like yours has to be one of if not the best route for it. Got some ideas for the fight to max dps, let me know what you think: Grab rotten larva blade too and attack with that until berry charm procs. Attack with pinch whacker. Swap to pebblet axe/blade/club to parry to preserve durability on pinch whacker. Rinse and repeat.

[@nicholasallan8675]

@@HolyCodzta ooo, if u grab the egg before the gnats and cut out the ant club for the larva blade that might actually be faster. some testing would need to be done though because the pinch wacker can proc the electric attack on block aswell which does big stun so its tough. I tried to kill it with nothing but spears on a new game too but i just just die of thirst before i can kill it haha

[@HolyCodzta]

Hey, have tried the woah widow run anymore? Think I'm gonna try it soon so was wondering what you'd discovered. Speedrunning discord is live if that's your kind of thing too discord.gg/wK5U2QQN

[@bigbossman1997]

If you get the black widow on that rock like they do, then jump off. You can cheese it with a bow. It gets stuck up there

[@HolyCodzta]

Haha of course

[@Mchwair2K]

Verrynicebro

[@nihilosophy]

Me thinking : “ oh a 10 minute video, I wonder if he’s gonna cheese the widow to kill itself or something.” Him : *proceeds to perfect block every attack” Me: 😮😳😳😳

[@CurlyCross]

I saw this and thought it would be some kind if cheese. Did NOT expect to watch a legit fight with 100% perfect block. What are you?

[@gerardodriscoll3562]

those perfect parries easily make up for the time losses during the run itself

[@HolyCodzta]

For sure, those losses still hurt though

[@B.veyron2005]

Which spawn location did you go to?

[@andrewlee8204]

Dude has the party master to tier 3 before I would’ve even had a decent weapon

[@yawnsigh9741]

You should do a sweat play through off all the bosses and the game would be entertaining

[@HolyCodzta]

For sure wanna do that at some point!

[@Earth6094]

Me and my two other friends did this speedrun, glitchless then a glitch run. We got 24:48 on the glitchless and 9:08 glitch because we did a glitch that level up your weapons infinite amount and foes insane damage using the smithing stations

[@HolyCodzta]

Oh nice. Reckon you could show me that glitch? I won't use it in a run so the devs can't see if you don't want it getting patched, just curious on how you do it and wanna try it!

[@mrmurderous8390]

This is just down right impressive

[@HolyCodzta]

Why thank you Mr Murderous, how kind!

[@saltthewound3881]

"I fear no man, But this Tiny Man, it scares me"

[@HolyCodzta]

Be inconceivably afraid.

[@saltthewound3881]

@@HolyCodzta I already am

[@jackasskiller2]

Is this before the super chip change for mosquitos? cause I thought they shouldnt be there or by the tree until a chip was turned in

[@HolyCodzta]

Probably tiger mosquitoes you're seeing, no chips in this run

[@jackasskiller2]

@@HolyCodzta The ones by the sprinkler near the bushes arent tiger mosquitos. Those are the ones I was talking about. Unless the chip just doesnt spawn the ones by the tree/pond, I thought they didnt spawn the ones near the hedge sprinkler either.

[@HolyCodzta]

@@jackasskiller2 Ah okay. Yeah might just be the oak/pond ones that don't spawn. Oh yeah it attacks me after aphid island on my way to the club, I remember now

[@LumpySpacePrince]

Sick

[@osiris9410]

You might consider using the Black Onx Beatle to shave off some time. I use him all the time to beat this black widow. They're fairly easy to bait into fighting each other.

[@HolyCodzta]

Planning to try a woah widow run soon so this might come in very handy! Thanks

[@no_u_420]

Bro that black widow kill has to be illegal 💀 Edit: god run btw

[@HolyCodzta]

I know who reported me then when the police rock up ;)

[@Noob_at_gd]

Bro kills a black widow by the time I make a work bench that’s crazy

[@RngGamerService]

U have way better parry timings than me xd

[@HolyCodzta]

Doubt it, I haven't even finished the game yet ;)

[@jirachisune8493]

I’m gonna try beating this. I am REALLY consistent at parrying attacks from spiders. I’m on Xbox tho. So don’t know how I will record it. Any ideas on how to record my run to put it on KZbin?

[@HolyCodzta]

I've been on PC for over a year now but I think on Xbox you have a few recording options. The one you want should be something like "Start recording now". If you're on a One or One S you'll have to record in 720p (which you change in system settings I think) to record longer than 10 minutes, so unless you can get it under 10 minutes you'll have to do that. Then just upload to OneDrive, download from OneDrive on a PC or your phone and upload to KZbin from there. I used to use an app called YouCut on android to trim videos down and/or put a few clips together.

[@HolyCodzta]

I look forward to seeing what you can do!

[@PlantGoose]

It seems as if you're kissing the black widow in middle of the fights. It's hilarious!

[@bighmm6301]

Sca.B voice is creepier than the undershed.

[@HolyCodzta]

Haha I think it's great

[@braskraken9929]

W

[@webbymeppy3423]

I almost beat one on my second or third day but the widowlings made it impossible.

[@HolyCodzta]

The widowlings have screwed so many runs, I actually hate them haha

[@xero90NR]

parry Legend

[@Fordfocuslol]

im still trying to kill my second widow after the broodmother and you did it in like 10 mins lmao

[@HolyCodzta]

Haha gutted mate. You tried full life steal build with sleek ladybug armour? I've heard that's pretty good with sticky slop, meal and bandage

[@Fordfocuslol]

@@HolyCodzta Honestly nah im seeing this way after i killed it :p

[@dinen2394]

holy shit. now set the record for doing it on Woah ;)

[@HolyCodzta]

Yeahhhh dunno about that one just yet!

[@dinen2394]

@@HolyCodzta just gotta get the parry timing down and i think you got it easy

[@MyPokebros]

lesgoooo

[@seanpatterson8780]

Is this a TAS? Or is he just goated?

[@HolyCodzta]

🐐

[@parc3ll]

🥶🥶

[@Slimeblob.square]

Thanks for giving me a chalenge and good paries

[@HolyCodzta]

Most welcome, and thanks

[@UpscalejamO]

Let’s go 1.0

[@HolyCodzta]

You know it!

[@surryan]

Its like the thing gave up in the end. Well poop I can't hit you anyway.. Just gonna take it to the face for the last little bit LOL

[@HolyCodzta]

It was a bit disappointing but also relieving, trying to get this done was juuust starting to piss me off haha

[@kaedenlash3493]

I think towards the end of the fight the widow got brain damage and stopped attacking

[@V1ctoria00]

Wow. After getting owned long enough without landing anything the widow really seemed to get confused and give up. Like when people panic/choke in the final circle of a battle royale game.

[@Rhythums]

this is how i expect my parrying to be but just im just not it

[@HolyCodzta]

Have you practiced it much?

[@Rhythums]

@@HolyCodzta on grounded ive tried, the full release is my first time playing and ive got it down a bit but i just need to practice more on different bug types

[@jiffy9159]

so crazy, it's not posible for me, my adrenaline will be to high and in this situation i miss every perfect block

[@HolyCodzta]

Initially the adrenaline is fine, I have 15 attempts logged on this run so parrying the widow from the start to near the end of the fight isn't an issue. When you get close to killing her and you're on good pace though... that can definitely cause some misclicks!

[@XxEggman_Meme_GodxX]

Just a thought, use parry master next time. Using a club so benefits are minimal but more stamina = more hits = killed faster

[@XxEggman_Meme_GodxX]

And it’s good to see that someone else knows that it’s r e a l l y not that hard to perfect block if you just pay attention

[@HolyCodzta]

It cancels the full regen of my stamina after exhausting it though which throws me off so is actually slower for me. Just gotta practice the timing for the parries and it's not too bad yeah

[@briandelcid4715]

Did you try getting coup on the way over to see if it speeds up the run?

[@HolyCodzta]

I did not, no. getting it would add about a minute but with great rng it might save time overall. Something to try in future for sure if this run gets competitive!

[@StephenBain]

I was going to suggest grabbing coup (tricky with no torch), and also wondered if it would be possible to equip parry master during the fight or even parry something on the way to ensure you already have level 1. Either way a very impressive run. I just know I'd be stuck doing the jumping between blades of grass for longer than the length of the widow fight!

[@HolyCodzta]

@@StephenBain It's actually alright in the dark, well for me it is with my gamma at 47. The water is a touch lighter than the tunnel walls so just follow the light haha. Equipping parry master during the fight isn't an issue and would be faster as I'd have to go off route to find a wolf, or maybe the gang of larva in the flooded zone just near the jump up would be faster... Thanks though! Hahaha well to make climbing the first wall even faster you can jump straight from the last blade of grass to the top rock. I did the whole climb in one smooth, 3 second long motion yesterday and it looked sick but I wasn't recording :(

[@watermeloncattaxat]

I been so good at parrying, but I'm shitty when it comes to bees tho

[@HolyCodzta]

Yeah the bees are weird, they're either super slow or super fast. Annoying to fight when they keep just out of range too