Sonic Adventure 2: Battle - Route 101 Speedrun Guide

Had a controller issue that haunted me for nearly 2 months that kept me from recording any speedrun footage for these tutorials and that really halted any progress for a while... THAT BEING SAID I HAVE FINISHED IT!!
Now that it's done I can say it's probably one of the videos that I have the most fun rewatching because I just decided to have fun with it, not that many people would expect a video titled "Sonic Adventure 2: Battle - Route 101 Speedrun Guide" to be much of a fun video to watch but I honestly had a blast once I got over all the major issues I had creating it!
If you want to see a different route to attempt IDGeek121 has an incredible video that goes into significantly more depth about the mechanics at play in this video:
Route 101 Ring Route Tutorial by IDGeek: • Route 101 Ring Route T...
Chapters:
0:00 - Route 101 tutorial (8x speed)
0:29 - Actual Intro
0:51 - Route 101 Route
3:16 - Starting Boost Explanation
3:33 - Drifting Explanation (Important)
4:02 - Ring Route
4:41 - Boost Route
5:27 - Times to Shoot for

[@DawnSRC]

Woah the tutorial is 30s long 🤯🤯🤯insane. Great tutorial as always Traitor 👍

[@Traitor1]

Exactlyyyy (I had way more fun doing that than I thought I would lol) Thank you Dawn Super Real :D

very good indeed

[@-PanPan-]

THANK YOU! A ranking this stage has been a nightmare

[@aminatabangoura6600]

For sure

[@matthieutrou7429]

Hi man, first of all, great videos and tutorials, i'm learning a lot of this :D ! Are you going to do some tips to know for knuckles stages ?

[@StasherDragon]

I LOLed!

[@unknownlox6971]

Sub earned, great video

[@Traitor1]

Thank you!

[@Viki-mo3cd]

:0 wow

[@jameskb1623]

you there?

[@ShibuyasBeat]

How much would this video translate to route 280? Just the same basics with different routing?

[@Traitor1]

Yup exactly, the same basics with different routing. So you want to drift at all times except for the beginning because you need to gain max speed, you want to snake side to side to keep drift, grab all the rings, boost basically everytime you have gone up a hill (there are some differences unique to Route 280 but I would say 95% is transferable given that I didn't know the stage and still got top level times by just winging it for a long while)

[@SirAethan]

Poggies

[@Traitor1]

Woggies

[@teamhersheychocolate]

Does hitting the walls slow you down or is it only the cars? I can't tell

[@Traitor1]

Hitting the walls reduces your speed based on the angle you hit it. If you graze off of it you’ll keep a majority of your speed. The more head on the collision the more speed you lose (or just spin out losing 6 seconds). Cars always lose you a lot of speed but the bigger issue is, depending on where you hit them, accelerating back to top speed might be very difficult (or even worse hitting a car at the bottom of a hill, sometimes you won’t have enough speed to climb) Sometimes you might want to hit a car for a better line. In those situations immediately after hitting the car we boost so we only lost speed for however many frames it took us to hit the boost.

[@KendallSwan]

I keep losing time trying to turn my car around. How do I resist the urge?

[@Traitor1]

You may feel pain not turning your car around but you'll feel more pain with the time you lose by doing so (Honestly I just mess up more often because of it so it's easy for me to resist lol)

[@shadow-light1999]

Hello again. I have finished Route 280 with A Rang. 3:25:85. The last mission was a second try then.

[@Traitor1]

Nice congrats!