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This is the world's first Radiant Any Radiance clear without Carefree Melody. This isn't technically "hitless" due to Baldur Shell hits, but would more accurately be called "no unintentional hits" or something, but I wasn't sure how to fit that into the title. Either way, it's definitely a huge step up from the damageless Radiant clears done with Carefree Melody in the past! Huge shoutouts to Darkcaoslegends for completing this awesome challenge.
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[@fireb0rn]

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[@OmenKito]

ok

[@IAmMugel]

6:50 so I'm still very new to hollow knight, especially the hit boxes...but if this is legit hitless can you please explain this? It kind of looked to me like that beam hit him dead center right as he got to the platform he double jumped to to me

[@neutraldalek4222]

@@IAmMugel They used balder shell as basically a shield. Shell takes the hit but they still get full i-frames as if they were hit.

[@user-ns1ox4df6n]

fireb0rn, попробуй пройти все пантеоны без урона

[@coldcross5515]

Also for an actual unmodded hitless any radiance search meta abuser and here is the build he abuses,carefree melody, stalwart shell and baldur shell

[@simonegentili4571]

Hollow Knight fandom not long ago: "haha we made an impossible boss" Hollow Knight fandom now: "So I beat an impossible boss hitless"

[@snorseburger7381]

You say that like all the fandom can do that. I sure couldn’t do either.

[@funwithcoding2818]

@@snorseburger7381 pretty sure you're not a real fan. By being a part of the community, you inherently have the skill needed

[@mercuryswordblob]

cant wait for blindfolded hitless

[@rsho3472]

Ok.

[@Ani]

that dash cancel...holy shit, the awareness to know exactly where is safe relative to his position AND the skill to execute it, let alone knowing it exists?? INSANE

[@gogauze]

I didn't even know dash cancel was a thing until right now. I loved fire's initial reaction to it with the chuckle followed by the absurdity of the explanation. It's likely hard enough to execute vs it's utility that most folks don't even bother.

[@shadowfox2084]

And the fact that he realized all that in a fraction of a second

[@jblaine6104]

That’s hollow knight players for ya.

[@argonicapple]

least skilled hollow knight player 🤣

[@sheridathompson7091]

​@@argonicappleno because game journalists

[@aliasd5423]

I swear, if they don’t release silksong soon, someone is going to beat any radiance with all bindings hitless

[@sunnyesir6733]

Uh oh don’t give them ideas lol

[@memento_mori7108]

They are also gonna do two any rads at once radiant.

[@crowwithashortcake]

thats not even physically possible, is it? since you need baldur shell for the climb? and more soul?

[@muhammadafiq6084]

@@crowwithashortcake let's be onest here Before we thout this is impossible, but now a hittles run, what next then the binding

[@memento_mori7108]

@@crowwithashortcake I don’t think what I said would be possible but if they don’t release silksong, people are attempt to do it.

[@darkcaoslegends7641]

Hey fireb0rn! Thank you so much!!! Just to clarify about 1:27 , i never used the mod to make sure carefree would save me on first hit, but i also dont stack it, so i just went for radiant clears and if it saved, then it was a lucky run :D That is also why i decided to play without carefree, since it almost never was saving me when i really needed lol. Amazing video as always!! Keep up this good work

[@HelenSB]

Congrats on the feat!

[@darkcaoslegends7641]

@@HelenSB Ty!!!

[@fireb0rn]

Ahh thank you for the correction!

[@ryuudevie7]

Sir you are bonkers and I have nothing but respect for you. I'm still struggling to consistently do pantheon radiance lol.

[@iokhufu]

hey darkcaos, how many attempts was it? or how many days?

[@xPizzaBox]

You did a good job explaining the strat but one clarification I wanna make cuz I think it's really cool is the baldur flickering isn't spammed but it's timed with the laser repositioning (it repositions every 30 frames) since baldur isn't 100% safe when flickering you absolutely have to be on rhythm

[@fireb0rn]

Oh thank you for the explanation!

[@Jefstito]

Wow! That's insane you guys came up with this. And the clarification makes it even cooler

[@Starpikal]

Unfortunately, Darkcaoslegends is a little late. The first no-hit was completed by an expert player known as TAS. They're an incredible player

[@TheBrimmyRat]

They have the world record in every single videogame and the best combos in fighting games! How are they this good?!?one?111

[@Likestoriess]

@Le Nyan cat de la 666ème rue des illuminatis it’s too much for us to handle

[@Burst644]

It's me guys I'm TAS

[@Skitozzz]

@@Burst644 😱😱😱😱😱

[@thedischarger12]

Aren't they the same person to beat Touhou TriUltra and Minecraft in 20 seconds?

[@cysipy]

okay, ive heard of the "dash cancel" before in one of your old tutorials on speedrunning, ive never seen any practical use for it, but i find it hilarious that dark was able to apply it in such a high speed fight like this one, blows my mind

[@darkcaoslegends7641]

Ty Cysipy :D

[@cysipy]

@@darkcaoslegends7641 much love!

[@zora_t6819]

I think the orb disappearing at 8:00 was because even though the abyss wasn't loaded in yet, the box for it was still activated, since if you look at the placement of the abyss later, it's about the same place as where the orb disappeared. edit: darnit my grammar and spelling needs to git gud

[@brianli6562]

This makes more sense than my theory of visual bug where the orb is just invisible.

[@iankerr472]

aww tbh i think he's cheating...

[@zora_t6819]

​@@iankerr472 you do you m8

[@iankerr472]

@@zora_t6819 that was a joke

[@xPizzaBox]

Insane to see darkcaos finally do it huge props to him!

[@darkcaoslegends7641]

Tyy!! It was only possible due to your climb strat :D

[@jlgren5559]

In case no one else mentioned it yet, it's the normal despawn point for the orb. You just normally can't see because it's covered by void. Here the void hadn't risen far enough yet.

[@bigpapa5972]

Team cherry is just trying to see how far the hollow knight community will go before they release silksong. It’s been done for months but they enjoy our slow descent into insanity.

[@strikerguitarist5555]

Yeah they must be getting a kick out of seeing their game ripped to shreds and built back up again by these absolutely insane gamers.

[@minty839]

my first thought when I saw the title I only half read it and I thought "hitless any radiance... it must be by a tas... right? ...right?"

[@strikerguitarist5555]

It’s crazy that in just a year the “unbeatable boss” can now be beat without being hit at all. I don’t know what the rules are for Baldur shell. Wouldn’t that be similar to care free melody? Or is it getting a pass because it’s almost essential to use baldur shell to beat any rad without thousands more attempts just to get to the final phase? Also that dash cancel… How do people come up with that stuff? When I saw that my jaw dropped for a good 10 seconds

[@tremen151]

IMO the difference with baldur shell is that you intentionally decide when to use it as part of your strategy, where as carefree melody is a way to cover up a single mistake in the run.

[@emilwallraff]

Baldur Shell is more like using descending dark or shadow dash, since you decide to do an action that gives you temporary invincibility (but also locks you in place!), while carefree melody just randomly negates a mistake you made. And without using invincibility frames (from descending dark, shadow dash or baldur shell), some attacks of any rad are just physically impossible to avoid (like the walls coming in from both side in the first phase).

[@Spiney09]

I think people will give it a pass unless someone figures out a way to actually beat the beam phase reliably without it. Until then, getting hit in that phase is RNG, so most people seem to be willing to let it slide.

[@justdandy4967]

I think carefree melody is more controversial because it requires setup by getting stacks before the boss fight (which people use a mod to do so) while the baldur shell invincibility is an intended game mechanic.

[@IschmarVI]

the one problem with baldur shell is that it still triggers hitstun and damage invulnerability as if you had gotten hit so it's a debatable one. Other than that, it feels more like parrying to me which I would consider hitless as long as it negates all damage. Interesting one, indeed.

[@flukemunga2236]

I found a very clear cut in the footage It is clear that fire has spliced his reaction, I will not stand for this.

[@Reynnan123]

They got us in the first half not gonna lie

[@strikerguitarist5555]

Lol, the best possible ending after a statement like that, I love it

[@mariofanl1ve]

When you screw up so badly at making an impossible boss that someone beats it hitless

[@bevmobismol9865]

What's next? Hitless without Baldur Shell?

[@HelenSB]

Shoutouts to Caos for completeing such an insane challenge, and to Pizza and Benji (Spoon) for coming up with the strat!

[@ashtinpeaks9972]

8:34 if orbs go off screen they despawn so at that time the screen was shrunk when he got to the platform thus killing the orb. At least my assumption from orbs dying at top and left in phase 6. My thoughts on carefree real fast. it is just a time saver modding it in. Otherwise you would need to spend a shit ton of time after every fight to get it back or use save states to keep it. You could in theory get the perfect rng for carefree and then back up your save and relosd it manually but no one wants to do that every time they are hit to anyrad.

[@HerOwnKnife]

I just imagine a new player seeing any radiance for the first time and thinking its the actual final boss in the game instead of regular radiance

[@SuperFlashGrenade]

oh damn, i wonder who made that carefree melody mod

[@aceckerty_7571]

This is crazy, I have to agree, it's amazing how fast they went so fast from just being barely able to complete this fight, to doing it hitless.

[@Robbobobobobobo]

Opening the menu to cancel a dash while all of this shit is happening on screen is such a galaxy brain. I can't imagine how much practice it took to pull it off this fast and flawlessly

[@purevessel1071]

Me who confuses the pause button with the inventory one be like:

[@dumbdannia6326]

@@purevessel1071 lmao

[@charliedanub1756]

Yo no way! Always cool to see people beating insane bosses.

[@sociableskink4905]

I have an idea for why that one orb disappeared in the final phase. My idea is, normally I think the orbs will disappear once they are submerged in the Void stuff, so maybe there is a kill box down there that is normally hidden by the shadows.

[@hornetar]

great vid keep it up! But I just want to make a clarification at 5:06 when radiance teleports to the platform you are on in a radiant run the safest thing to do is to get as far away as possible as quickly as possible then react to which attack it is not reacting to orbs then running away.

[@hallow2983]

As the person who recommended them the challenge, I can approve there a god gamer

[@oygemprime3864]

The orb killbox is probably meant to be in the void pool, which hadn't yet visually risen to that level yet.

[@hallow2983]

No shit

[@TheFirstDeity]

I wouldn't have gotten that part about opening the select menu to cancel dash, or the baulder shell glitch, without your explanation. Stalwart Shell lets him reach two platforms. This is awesome!

[@MetaAbusser]

I'm glad Darkcaoslegends is finally getting some attention, he's an insane player!

[@Jake-nz9gj]

Didn't you do this like a year ago

[@MetaAbusser]

@@Jake-nz9gj ya

[@just_somebody0]

i'm surprised that when i've seen climb i was like "they definetely have stalwart shell" despite i've last used it like a 1,5 year ago

[@MasterIsabelle]

That person deserves more attention and respect, it’s awesome

[@Northirn]

the hollow knight community never fails to surprise me, gg!!

[@AwakeXFree]

Can only imagine how long it took to archieve this. Just incredible.

[@Dark_Peace]

Any Rafiance Hitless Blind Speedrun when ?

[@mercuryswordblob]

Cant wait for the blindfolded hitless run

[@haggis_insanis5713]

I literally joked to my friends that I had beaten radiant any radiance and here we are

[@persiancarpet5535]

If you told me this was a TAS I would instantly believe you.

[@jacknguyen5220]

"just don't get hit forehead" x.x

[@auroth6805]

I beat normal raidaince with a binding by using spell stalling to dodge a orb which I thought was cool but this is another lvl

[@mylesedgington4229]

The gamers have once again triumphed

[@memoowo]

Saw the title and literally went "holy-what the fuck?!" out loud

[@bloomenvogel]

I literally just thought "Oh its just Abs Rad hitless" then I fucking realized its actually ANY RADIANCE not ABS RAD-

[@ADNCoach]

There is indeed a killzone for orbs at the bottom of Phase 3. That's how I beat Radiant AbsRad, I redirected the orbs down instead of up, like most people do.

[@whisperingcrown591]

So watching this I was legitimately thinking "there's no way this isn't tas. He is too precise and rediculous for this to be a Tas" not really an accusatory thing and I wasn't going to bring it up. But during the beams phase the "oh my god he fucked up. This isn't a tas, what?!"

[@kelton_.]

I don’t understand how they Basically fly when hitting the radiance lol

[@opethmike]

Not using steadbody allows a certain amount of 'bounce' which you can use the momentum from to keep going.

[@IschmarVI]

also, down slashing is very much a thing in this fight :p

[@fianfallen58]

Also hitting an enemy reset your air movement, so you can technically double jump between each attack

[@kelton_.]

@@fianfallen58 I know that… I’ve beaten Inferno king Grimm. Was just saying it’s crazy that they can do it

[@Touffu1]

A year from now we beat any radiance without using nail

[@zex69]

This is some next level mind expansion thing

[@ronaldholst2896]

Ok God the amount of skill this one man has is god like holy crap

[@octopoos8443]

Like a year ago today this was considered impossible, how did we get here.

[@BbomHKT]

The fact I was friends with darkcaos before he achieved these feats is unreal, to this day, I still talk to him every now and then

[@AidanWR]

Normally that orb killbox is covered by the void clouds, the climb was just so fast that they didn't cover it up in time, so it just looks like it disappears

[@xril5721]

Bro i can't wait for someone to attempt double any radiance

[@rains550]

Looks like I have to re up my move set to keep up with the new god gamer

[@mailcs06]

•_•

[@NoNameAtAll2]

use buttons for frame-by-frame video control

[@FishyLookinLemon]

Damn that’s insane

[@QuestEeveeOfPokemon]

You would have to have a lot of spare time to even attempt to beat this.

[@kirby_tardigrade]

holy shit, this guy has like, perfect reaction time

[@collinbeal]

The brain has a delay. He's relying on pure instinct. He reacts before his brain comprehends what is happening. Absolutely crazy stuff

[@fiveknights9646]

I LIVED TO SEE IT WTF

[@inali_illustrates9142]

He had wayward compass on, that's obviously why he could do it

[@fishsticxz]

huh, i just watched the previous anyrad video earlier today...... what a timing

[@jomerade6667]

Man they beat this on my birthday

[@thegrimreaper2608]

Only true gamers go through any radiance with fragile flower

[@hollowknightfanatic7693]

At the end, he calculated the damage, the last hit he dropped below pogo range and hit sideways! Lmao. Chad move

[@cadaeib65]

the use of carefree melody mod would be the same as using a mod that refills your soul or gives you blue hearts, you can do it without mods, but it takes long.

[@Marion_MyAnh]

I was having a very 'meh' day until I heard "Hey everyone, how's it going? God Gamer here."

[@angeluriel2725]

We are one step closer to Silksong by now, Team Cherry has locked it behind an All Bindings run so good luck!

[@ng42.]

More of a damageless than a hitless but damn that's impressive

[@IschmarVI]

I'd say its up for debate on this one. Because using baldur shell sort of resembles the concept of parrying an attack which can be considered "not getting hit" in cases where the parry negated all damage. But then again, it still triggers hitstun and damage invulnerability, so probably still leaning towards "damageless"

[@ashtinpeaks9972]

I would consider it damageless as well. Hitless would be no hits (though this is a task itself only a TAS would accomplish) Amazing run none the less.

[@acone2017]

no hits would be impossible because the climb phase probably

[@ng42.]

@@acone2017 not really impossible just way too rng dependant

[@nessitro]

That's crazzzy!

[@legoanimationswitholdandne9261]

I saw a guy named "TAS" do this boss he was pretty good But fr Darkcaoslegends i bow down to you, your impressive skill level is impressive

[@jamie_fangsword]

holy shit. the hollow knight community is doing crazier and crazier challenges so fast, one of these days were gonna see a video titled "fireb0rn reacts to worlds first hitless true ending run but every enemy is any radiance"

[@plantbefore]

damageless (also dang man unbeatable boss no longer)

[@Netsuki]

People are crazy doing stuff like that...

[@distriyir]

If silksong doesn't release soon the community will probably beat 10 any radience radient hitless and bindings blindfolded

[@MegaDragon1983]

Imagine the mods for silksong bro.... this community will know no hell other than themselves.

[@Cheesieweesie]

I have this great idea to beat any radiance with a steering wheel

[@badbestgirl]

God gamers are just not human species

[@danvevoooo]

I'm in love with the shape of unn

[@Rere-nj1kg]

imagine beating an ''unbeatable'' boss but hitless, absolute monster

[@ludfde]

It's the turn-arounds tgat cancel the hit cooldown etc. Very hard though

[@thore2910]

legend

[@LennypedeV2]

Waiting for any radiance 3.0 hitless. I mean at this rate someone is going to do it

[@jambothejoyful2966]

AND THEY SAID IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE

[@jem5636]

Orb killbox could be tested just using noclip and invincibility pretty easily. And that's a super impressive clear even a year later.

[@Themostunknownguy]

yo at 5:49 theres a beam that you can see above the knight but then its just gone is it a glitch or was the footage cut

[@SoulSolo]

No hitbox on the beam at 6:04 tho?

[@fuyuk1r1ft8]

Huh, i didn't know baldur shell and stalwart shell worked together

[@Mockturtlesoup1]

Bruh...i had no idea carefree melody worked that way in God home. My biggest beef with the godhome bosses was always that the game doesn't let you bring soul in. This kind of balances that a bit(well, not really but it helps a little, especially on radiant fights.) I've always avoided using carefree melody in individual boss fights fights due to it costing three charm notches(though for the longest time I didn't even know it existed, and even when I learned what it was and how to get it, I assumed it would be two notches instead of three, like the other Grimm charms.)

[@the_legendary_vin]

Its finally fallen?

[@pacTV.Anthony]

Last time I was this early my dad still went to get the paper

[@Deftfuzzboi]

i just missed the stream man

[@nyokko36]

Gotta love the chinese homage in the geo count

[@isolu9386]

any radiance 2.0 hitless when?

[@miplol]

i remember when any radiance was a challenge to people

[@mailcs06]

I mean she still is, this is just a far greater one.

[@Leandro-vy7nj]

I think we need any P5

[@cannibalcanyon]

do you stream? i see on twitch your last stream was months* ago, and i dont know how to navigate YT in terms of live streams lol. would love to check out a stream if you do!

[@Spiney09]

Moral of the story? Team Cherry, we need Silksong. I can only rewatch mossbag and fireb0rn’s videos so much!

[@evilhumour_292]

NO COST TOO GREAT!

[@The_Probably_Person]

If TC dont release silksong soon, someone will beat any radiance with al blindings, blindfolded, with no sound and radiant

[@gagetaylor432]

Ya I saw this

[@Baark0]

Damageless would be a better word to describe this run

[@fireb0rn]

Yes, but then you're lumping it in with one or two hit Carefree Melody runs, so there's unfortunately not a good single word to describe it.

[@the33rdguy]

How do u feel about the fact any radiance 2.0 was (allegedly cause theirs no video sadly) beaten?

[@fireb0rn]

Oh, I don't believe it unless there's evidence lol

[@the33rdguy]

@@fireb0rn well hopefully I'll be able to give you some soon heheheheheheh ;)