Hollow Knight speedruns are much harder than you think

Hollow Knight is a hard game, and speedrunning makes it even harder
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My channel generally focuses on a more casual side of speedruns. With these videos I want to show off cool speedruns, explain how they work, and entertain. Hopefully you enjoy the content and maybe even take up speedrunning yourself, because it is truly a lot of fun!
#EazySpeezy #HollowKnight #Speedrun

[@Heckpup]

I regret to inform you this is exactly as hard as I’d expect it to be

[@alpal4245]

Just a casual fireborn viewer who knows exactly what all the tricks are

[@Turtle69517]

@@alpal4245 true lol 😂

[@Shroomster]

As someone who's played this game more times than I'd like to admit, yes, you are correct

[@buzzsawwyrm1595]

Yes yes indeed

[@kevinbutillos5430]

Same

[@UziDoesIt0]

I'll be honest I've never ever thought a Hollow Knight speedrun would be easy

[@AlexTheBackyardMissionary]

They usually are pretty hard,l tbh. He just took a beginner route. The current any% nmg route uses shade skips and pretty precise and stupidly hard to learn platforming glitches. The 112% nmg route is nothing but pain, and the any% with glitches is just visual aids istg

[@AlexTheBackyardMissionary]

Yea even the route that ignores skips like shade skip and fireball skips as to teach beginners is really hard. Maybe it’s not as hard on the version he is playing on, but I did my runs on a Nintendo switch originally, and CurrentPatch bosses are generally harder and so is explosion-pogo and some other stuff

[@astrosphinx1]

Exactly

[@reeonboi937]

any% all glitches is quite simple in my opinion

[@evanrobert175]

To be fair, he did the easiest one. Low% is incredibly long.

[@BlueSR]

Hollow Knight speedrunner here- really cool to see how you took the time and effort to learn strategies and inform yourself about the games you run! It becomes particularly noticable when watching you do a run of a game i’m familiar with. Also 112% APB speedrun when 👀say the word and i will teach you lol

[@nicolaikleven9867]

BlueSR POG

[@mynaemwilliam]

Hi blue!

[@ashtinpeaks9972]

Ey it's blue pog, was looking for someone from hkspeedrunners lol

[@demolisherinfinite8606]

Hey Blue!

[@JosepiThe13th]

Blue watches Speezy?!!!

[@ToadVIP]

Didn’t talk to elderbug, run invalid

[@Lyxxyrzz]

Real

[@moonlighttheone]

Fr fr

[@NOS20201]

This fills me with dissappointment

[@rangerlauren6351]

It's strange watching an Eazy video and actually knowing the strats before he does them lmfao

[@bellacat5908]

Ikr

[@Crazy_Dave_-lv2pu]

Same

[@Hyblup]

Yeah it’s nice to know exactly what he’s doing and gonna do next

[@arcadeii]

same

[@Dr.Death8520]

"ah yes, not going for the pogaxe. A time loss for sure, but more consistent"

[@wheeeezard5843]

I remember when this channel was relatively small and people still were always asking to speedrun this game. So glad he finally did it!

[@lunacanyonrose8436]

I didn’t even realize he was over million subs already, let alone 2.3M, until I read this. Huh.

[@johnnodwarf1201]

We were there

[@klimentmilanov]

Bro me too now that he did it I can finally unsubscribe cuz this was all I was waiting for lmao

[@BAVy11037]

It probably took a long time to practice for it

[@Austin-rm9ip]

It took him that long to get to this point, the games hard😂😂😂

[@mushroomman7337]

As an og hollow knight player having played for like 3-4 years, you did suprisingly well on this like really good job. Hollow knight is a metroidvania and really hard to speedrun because of how large it is so just awesome job all around (plus you are goated)

[@noodlesyes5663]

Hey! Awesome to see someone running my favorite game! You mentioned not knowing how the Uumuu AI works, so I thought I'd give you a short summary: For the first cycle (when Uumuu initially spawns), it's going to give you 3 attacks. After the third attack, it'll check how much distance it's traveled, and if it's more than a certain amount (which I believe is RNG), it'll move slowly and Quirrel will slash it to expose its core. If it's traveled less than the required distance, it'll queue up another attack (we just call them "extras"). After an extra, Quirrel is guaranteed to slash Uumuu to expose its core. Note that Quirrel slashing Uumuu doesn't actually damage it. Any subsequent cycles work the same way, except that Uumuu will make the check for an extra attack after 2 attacks instead of 3. Fun fact: with optimal any% equipment, a 2 cycle is the minimum number of cycles required for a kill. It's super cool to see top-level runners fight Uumuu. They have setups and planned reactions for every single attack pattern, so I would highly recommend checking them out if you haven't already!

[@shmellon2776]

Omg your fingers must be broken😅

[@armageddon2253]

“To witness a WR, one must endure the harshest punishment.”

[@Gabriel-nw6fc]

Ah yes, the watcher knights

[@bruz_]

Path of Pain

[@Floof2]

Explody bois

[@llllavemder]

primal aspids

[@Firebolt7317]

Path of pain was hell.

[@Gamer-sm5el]

This is a legendary game The speedrun strats are insane!

[@Indiegamelover1]

Indeed they are

[@bitsuper2884]

He didn't even use the craziest ones.

[@redrix1787]

Y'all ever just killed hundreds of birds and bees just to do a 45 hour speedrun

[@eternalchaos6223]

@@bitsuper2884 Ur talking about menu storage right?

[@bitsuper2884]

@@eternalchaos6223 No, that would be for an AMG run, and since he was doing an NMG run I was mainly talking about QGA, 2 cycle Uumuu and pogaxe.

[@NanoSwarm]

Eazy, it is genuinely inspiring to watch your videos. I have only ever completed one speedrun in my life (pokemon emerald, it took me 6:39 minutes), but watching you go from speedrunning flash games to legitimately putting fantastic runs for competitive games up on leaderboards with nothing but your grit, deterministic attitude and relentless optimism makes me want to sink some hours into my favorite games and get a run or two approved on the leaderboards. Keep it up dude, thanks for the great (and consistent!) content.

[@jasonfranco7168]

I'm really impressed by the tricks you learned for this game since I struggled so much to do even the easiest ones and never got to speedrun the whole game before! Mad respect!

[@jeffreydonald9591]

Woah this game looks really awesome! They should make a sequel and not release it until 4 years after announcing it

[@buzzsawwyrm1595]

Agreed

[@mikevos4460]

quality > quantity

[@Deathranger999]

Would rather they wait until they’re finished with it, though I agree some updates would be nice.

[@Thebooooy]

It has been confirmed that silksong is coming out sometime around or before June 2023, so that's a good sign Edit: OK I FUCKING GET IT I WAS WRONG ABOUT THE SILKSONG RELEASE DATE

[@jeffreydonald9591]

@@mikevos4460 agreed

[@Pandrrr]

What a pleasant surprise! Hollow Knight speedrunner and longtime fan here, really happy to see you enjoying the speedrun! Love the explanations of the run and entertaining commentary! If you ever are looking for more HK speedrun content, Steel Soul runs (my personal favorite) are really high stakes and fun, and Path of Pain is a really challenging, more platforming oriented category!

[@Karlach_]

it's great

[@6zslim627]

Big time hollow knight fan here, seeing you do such skillful and difficult speedruns every once a while makes me respect you a lot. You're amazing and keep up the good work!

[@LeoGameMusic]

I always watch these videos wondering how close to the top speedruns you put the effort to get, and as a HK enjoyer, that's actually pretty good for a beginner, congrats man

[@paytonleet6411]

It's a bit longer, but it would be so awesome to see you do a 112% run. Great video, easy! Also, for anyone wondering, HK is such an awesome game, and you should definitely play it.

[@wildblack1]

A bit? It's like 5 times as long.

[@hairyspider151]

It's a bit longer, but I would like to see him do a low% true ending run

[@terrabeastyt3629]

@@hairyspider151 40 something hour run because of stall ball lol rip bees.

[@arcadeii]

“a bit”

[@stunamogus1684]

@@hairyspider151 I see you're a man of culture as well

[@eridan11]

Hollow Knight Speedrunner here: quick tip, switch to Chinese in the game menu, it makes mashing a lot faster. There’s of course a lot of other stuff you should do, like double dash mantis pogo, blue lake wcs, pogo cycle wk, optimal cdash cycle, Uumuu extra attack recovery and optimal Uumuu damage cycles, QGA and QG route, proper stalking devout strats, faster THK, etc., but that’s the main starter tip :) Second most important suggestion is to learn QGA and QG route, then practice the bosses (especially WK and Uumuu).

[@nightly2005]

And most important fact - he will probably not ran this game again)

[@eridan11]

​@@nightly2005 True, but just in case he does try to get a pb

[@cyberneticsquid]

None of these words are in the Bible

[@usernametaken017]

@@cyberneticsquid A bit unrelated but a while ago the actual bible was recommended to me on steam because "it's similar to one of the games you've played: Hollow Knight"

[@cyberneticsquid]

@@usernametaken017 That's brilliant

[@gaganzanwar]

I do wanna say that the version that Eazy is using actually a previous patch. Patch 1221. It allows a few glitches and is the most optimal for speedrunning. The current patch has a separate category on the leaderboard.

[@kiiturii]

any% any patch is way more active and popular than 1.4.3+

[@jem5636]

I think this is the first time you've covered a game that I already knew the speedruns for. Kind of crazy how much work and tim goes into one of these.

[@poggorseel]

IM SO GLAD YOU FINALLY PLAYED THIS edit: i believe the one fireball baldur at greenpath is because when you go offscreen the vengeful spirit hitbox gets stuck in the baldur hitbox edit 2: in the watcher knights fight, you can fireball them as they roll to the other side of the arena, getting triple hits

[@tremen151]

actually, the vengeful spirit hitbox gets stuck at the edge of the screen, which is directly on top of the baldur's hitbox, causing the baldur to get hit multiple times. if youre too close or too far away, the spot where it gets stuck wont be on top of the baldur.

[@poggorseel]

@@tremen151 ah, honest mistake

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

@@tremen151 did it get patched in the Godhome update? Or is it still doable.

[@tremen151]

@@TheBluePhoenix008 it got patched

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

@@tremen151 i see

[@OrangeSearch]

I was waiting for him to speedrun Hollow Knight. It’s such a good game and I’m excited other people are still coming to the game

[@Stellar824]

As a hollow knight player I can say that he made the watcher knights look way easier than they are in game Fun fact: The false knight is a maggot who stole one of the five great knight’s armor

[@evernevers5390]

I never found them too bad for me personally it did them on my 2nd try

[@zippylettuce2902]

I'm so happy to see you do a speedrun of Hollow Knight. I've been watching your videos for a while now and this is one of my favorite games! Love your videos and love the game, Keep up the great work!

[@spooderman6312]

this could not have come at a better time for me because I've just really gotten into hollow knight, almost finished it and I've been watching a lot of speedruns. I know it wasn't on purpose but thanks, eazy

[@dumpsterduck2120]

If you enjoyed hollow knight then you Can join the rest of us and wait for silksong

[@spooderman6312]

@@dumpsterduck2120 I already am, hoping the game awards show a new trailer

[@J.knichols]

@@spooderman6312 we won’t get any news, don’t get your hopes up

[@keyyfull]

One of us one of us 😂 welcome in the waiting area

[@todthesushimonster1256]

Literally yesterday I completed all the achievements

[@human3225]

I once spent an entire month learning the route and practicing this speedrun, and the amount of time and effort that goes into being able to do this run is insane. Congrats on the good time, it’s better then the ones I got! Also, if you want to speedrun something even harder then Hollow Knight, speedrun Celeste.

[@K-7Maylis]

A Celeste speedrun is going to kill him lol or at least give him carpal tunnel syndrome

[@YanSay]

Celeste is a perfect choice.

[@hobodios8510]

ive been waiting for this FOR YEARS this is ur best video. i love how i know the strats you r gonna do in the speedrun lol

[@emmanuelhumber7820]

We need a series of you playing this whole game out and getting 112%

[@alexandergiovinazzo9468]

Im so glad you are speedrunning this. My favorite game EVER!

[@trevorpgamer1936]

same!!!

[@chicken4976]

Same

[@thecompypack6124]

Rain world wins on this one

[@bluepelt2748]

This is awesome that Speezy did a Hollow Knight Speedrun. Oh also a really good tip! Wayward Compass is one of the best charms in the game extremely op

[@vividly_imfromspace1081]

Wayward compass needs more notches xD

[@Lemon95-]

Gathering swarm is better

[@peaceatrest]

I love the run for this game. I'm happy you ran it and uploaded it!

[@RR-od8hu]

Playing this normally was so difficult but amazing to experience, mad respect for speedrunners.

[@bentrolove5413]

I love how he didn't visit more than half the areas in the game. Please do a true ending speedrun

[@Adli0804]

100% speedrun would be nice too

[@3itz]

@@Adli0804 112% Embrace the Void ending

[@MG7I]

@@3itzdo u want him to go insane lmao

[@EvilEri11]

This was a great watch. I really hope Eazy does a true ending speed run

[@ashtinpeaks9972]

Glad to see this game getting some love, I speedrun the pantheons (boss rushes) and it's great seeing people speedrun the game!

[@domomcbeasty743]

This is the one speed run where I already know all the tricks…I finally feel like a speedrunner now!

[@zenonempire3562]

I'm so frickin' happy- This is one of my favorite games and I am absolutely taking this as a sign to play Hollow Knight on my tv tonight. Also, based on the video time (barely a minute in), you did *really* good with the time! E - 19:20 - "Where we can now buy the Lumafly Lantern, which is incredibly important for a later part of the game." - Me out here thinking Eazy was gonna do Dark Deepnest

[@bridgeseller7004]

You need Lantern to enter Peak anyway, so you could say that's the one.

[@zenonempire3562]

@@bridgeseller7004 Depends. 'Cause if you get dive first, you don't need to go to that entrance.

[@bridgeseller7004]

@@zenonempire3562 Yeah, but not in a speedrun, takes too much time for that.

[@purplehoodie1216]

I swear to GOD hollow knight is my all-time favorite game and i just cannot believe youre finnaly speedrunning it! This is one of my favorite speedrun channels and ive always wanted to see him do this game

[@jaydenscholten6164]

Seeing you speedrun my all-time favorite game was amazing!!

[@lethe.archive]

i love this speedrun. the hollow knight speedruning community is very fun to follow and it’s cool to see you do it. i also regret to inform you that the watcher knights can be cheesed with pogo. idk if it’s at all faster though lol

[@theducknight1244]

Absolutely love this game, glad to see you speed running Hollow Knight. The skill ceiling for speed running this game is insane.

[@fischwell]

its a little bit weird seeing hk speedrun in english

[@pattattauwu2703]

im kinda surprised you got so many cuts right in this run so proud of ya man, i have seen pro spreedrunners of this game mess up some of the poggos so many times so watching you do them so easily is kinda funny to me great video as always lol

[@z8infinity501]

A week ago, I was hoping one you'd do a speed run of Hollow Knight and god am I happy you did. Fantastic video as always!

[@Hwy027]

Wow this is great! I tried speed running this, but after three hours and getting all the upgrades I never got to beat the hollow knight.

[@FACELESS_VA]

Little did you know, I already knew. Alas, I was convinced this masterpiece was, indeed, very hard to speedrun. Harder than expected, even

[@jade-chan9122]

I love this game so much i'm happy you finally speedrunned it

[@scullduggerouscellaphod2355]

man, knowing the exact name of every strat as they’re done,and when names are said weird is so funky

[@AlexTheBackyardMissionary]

OMG YES THANK YOU I HAVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS VIDEO Seriously tho HK is the best metroidvania I have ever played it’s mapped out so well, and ofc the speedruns (and boss rushes too) are insane fun as well

[@thatrandonamedrandy]

Great job, man. The strats for this game are pretty crazy, and there are some incredibly difficult maneuvers that can shave time off quickly. Best of luck, my dude. :D

[@fully4569]

why that pfp??

[@thatrandonamedrandy]

@@fully4569 sorry for the late reply, but to answer your question, I had this pfp for some time and had no motivation to change it so as to make everything else consistent to my actual character. besides, it leads to sometimes funny reactions lmao.

[@Divinegoldenlight]

This is the most speedrun like speedrun I've seen on this channel, and it actually felt like one

[@Frankco26]

so gald you did this speed run so cool to see you play this!

[@abdurx3343]

I’ve been playing this game and I can’t believe this man has finished this game in under an hour

[@erled-ez5jp]

idk why i did this but i tried to do it on steel soul and died. yep i aint doing that mistake again

[@monke4044]

Hollow knight speedrun is really really hard, it took a lot of precisions and a lot of time to memorize and master its pathings in order to get a flawless run. You did a terrific job at this one, considering you're speedrunning every other game now and then, this is an insanely good run..

[@silje93]

Also practicing Watchers Knights a ton in Godhome before meeting them with minimal upgrades and gear. 😢 I couldn't do the speedrun 😂

[@elapidpython4378]

I love how during your runs you also give little summaries of the games plot

[@glasses6524]

ive consumed so much hollow knight speedrun content that i noticed all the little optimizations that speezy didnt go for lmaoo im still very glad that he speedran it, very awesome game both to play and run! props to team cherry and the speedrunning community!

[@TmanTheFirst]

He has to do the hardest things! We all love you spezzy!!

[@GamingRaven11]

I just wanted to thank you even though I know no one will see this comment thank you easyspeezy you show me my new favorite game I have played for about 220-230 hours and am currently working on my second 112% playthourgh on controller this time

[@invaderzim9497]

I loved this game. I love seeing Fireb0rn speedrun it too. Glad to see you play it as well. Not sure how long you practiced but you nailed alot of hard skips. Good on you Speezy! Also, love the videos dude

[@hagridisbeautiful1781]

Finally, I’ve been waiting for this video for way too long to come out. I need to speedrun it myself 💀

[@zuggo]

This video really make me appreciate how much effort you put into your videos. Hollow Knight speed runs aren’t an easy thing and despite a pretty unlucky Uumuu fight and no QGA, you completed a run which is super impressive! Also I’m now wondering if you do live commentary or not? I can’t tell because I can’t imagine being able to do all the things you do while talking over the top. Either way gg on the victory and I hope you have a great day!

[@bapob]

I don't think it's live although it does sound like it at times

[@kiiturii]

what's QGA? I've seen it mentioned multiple times but I still haven't been able to figure it out from context clues

[@zuggo]

@@kiiturii it’s called Queens Gardens Acid Skip its a skip to go straight to Queens Gardens from Fog Canyon

[@kiiturii]

@@zuggo ahh I see, thanks

[@littlewolfyzapling8810]

@oliveoile4784 It is live IIRC

[@lookitsdapotato5445]

Haven't watched the video yet but I am excited! I absolutely love hollow knight. Prolly top 10 in my list right now

[@qilinit]

Eazy speedrunning Hollow Knight is a dream come true :) A true ending speedrun or a current patch one would be interesting to see! (Or even better, low% true ending)

[@elliottwood5423]

This is a really nice video to use as a guide

[@gamermanx1354]

This is actually one of the few games that I watch speedruns of. Nice to finally see you try it. And I hope that the god gamer himself, Fireborn, does a reaction to this. Would love to see his opinion.

[@Midknightowl42]

This was unexpected, but such a pleasant surprise! This game is incredibly made and I'm excited to see what you think of it!

[@Dr.Death8520]

15:30 Yes. Yes we do. Also well done on getting most of the skips first try!

[@ToastLord2611]

Yooooooo I’ve been waiting for a hollow knight speedrun from you forever!

[@bruh-tm6sh]

Bro please spedrun dead cells

[@Yashuop]

Don’t we all love a daily dose of watching EazySpeezy?❤️

[@cayde2204]

Ya

[@i_am_now_]

Yeah

[@xenons6021]

YES IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!

[@kangkang4129]

Thank you for speedrunning one of my favorite games

[@lukezaph70]

This game is so nostalgic for me, I almost started crying in the city if tears

[@matuas20]

i was anxious to see this speedrun just because of the difficulty

[@stealthdegu7231]

Hollowknight is one of my favriote games glad to see you speedrun it

[@kvstudios7993]

Yes finally I have been waiting for this

[@cyborgplayz6492]

I’ve been waiting for this for so long!

[@Rafix]

i love hollow knight and see you speedrunning its so cool!

[@SneakyTogedemaru]

Pretty good explanation. Would be a nice place to start if I ever decide to get into HK speedrunning

[@kierantitus2670]

I have been waiting for this speedrun by my favorite speedrunner

[@SeanieDew]

great run Speezy!

[@Ceece20]

Can’t wait to see EZ do the Any Radiance 3.0 speedrun

[@Senorgato029]

I’ve wanted him to give this a go for a long time, very respectable performance, that e pogo was probably the cleanest thing in the run but for someone who starts a game maybe beat it on there own time learn the run and just give it there best go this was a solid run

[@noahwilmott1902]

As a hollow knight speedrunner, this is a video i have been looking forward to for a long time.

[@thegodseeker6035]

Finally, a Hollow Knight speed run. THANK YOU FOR THIS

[@contone]

Well I didn’t expect eazy to do this run, mainly because of a few really really difficult strata like QGA so I want really surprised when eazy skipped out on doing them.

[@ModestToast3073]

learned this route a couple months ago and finally got my first sub 40 minute time after trying casually for a while. Love this run! Shade skips are really hard T-T

[@HoneyPopSs]

its fun because i started playing this game and the day after you posted a speedrun on it

[@Idk-kd3ns]

I’ve been waiting for this sense 2021 summer my guy

[@michaeldownie2724]

"Usually it does not go this well" understatement of the decade

[@Riggerous69]

Finally beat Hollow Knight yesterday for the first time so this video popping up today is perfect timing

[@Simon-xo9ct]

been waiting for this

[@Kinsaurus]

Finally a speezy video where I know everything and more about the speedrun than speezy

[@mrbeetlethespy]

FINALLY YOU ARE SPEEDRUNNING THE BEST INDIE GAME

[@theoh3750]

yo this is awesome really happy to see a hollow knight run on here, I have a 35:15 rn but aiming for 33

[@Smiththebat]

The vengeful spirit skip to Hornet is nice to know. Ever since my first play through I used the Squit just below to pogo up to here ledge because I didn’t know you were supposed to go down and around.

[@bendokongg5807]

NO WAAAY!!! man I'm so happy you're speedrunning this

[@Grand_Admiral_Tree]

Neat fact with the watcherknights, if you vengeful spirit one whille its doing the basic roll attck it will take multiple times the amount of vengeful spirites

[@sydbrown310]

When I first started watching these I thought they were like voice overs the original gameplay. But then when you realize he's talking while actually doing it,, it's really quite impressive

[@lukeboy5583]

the best video u made so far hollowknight is my favorite game and ur my favorite youtuber