Sonic 3 & Knuckles Speedrun Strats - Hydrocity: Drown during score tally to save IGT

[@thenyanrobot4565]

No way this guy still posts sonic 3 strats to this day. Fucking legend

[@ravemaster_073]

kickass

[@sumerhays]

Woah!

[@heyjoeway]

Wouldn't it be even faster if you stayed in the water instead of getting a quick kill with the bounces?

[@chrezm]

It would indeed probably be faster for real time attack speedruns. However, it would consume ingame time having to wait for the boss to come down to get hits, which is what this strategy is trying to minimize. In particular, by starting the drowning setup after the timer stops, I spend 0 seconds of ingame time rather than some number of seconds. You could in theory enroll Tails to assist you, but you either have to use 2P control (which limits the categories that the run would be valid in), or somehow manipulate his CPU controls to get some hits (which sounds hard)