[TAS] Dancing without setting foot in the ballroom

[@Flowery0]

This is basically a spelless, healess and talkless run as well from what i understand

[@jarlyk]

Mostly, yeah; there are a few unavoidable conversations (like the Seer in dream plats), but definitely no spells, no healing and no shopping. This run ends up needing neither soul nor geo (well, technically it requires a little bit of soul for glowing womb to enable some shade skips.)

[@grieferjones2237]

why can't vs and wraiths be used midair? is collecting the spells themselves considered unnecessary groundtime?

[@Flowery0]

@@grieferjones2237 correct

[@aler3485]

"Dance with me my friend. The crowd awaits" now makes sense

[@Double-Negative]

Thanks for the help! I was stuck on watcher knights for a while but after watching this tutorial I was finally able to beat them!

[@kinggamereon653]

this is gonna be such a delight to watch whenever the full thing is ready

[@johnpetrila4823]

Great work as always! I enjoy seeing how graceful the movement still looks and how "natural" it feels despite being controlled on a frame-by-frame basis.

[@slaurent]

great work, this fight really swept me off my feet

[@jarlyk]

thanks; it took a lot of precision to stay on point while repeatedly getting rolled

[@dazcarrr]

i love the absolute seizure the knight's head is having during the start

[@AlexKnauth]

I love how the combination of Glowing Womb on top of the regular beat of nail-on-cooldown, sometimes makes "swung" rhythms

[@coralotl]

can’t wait to see the full tas! this is so cool!

[@oofihavenousernameideas2451]

0:42 that’s sick

[@QwixLF]

When that one fly won't stop buzzing;

[@ekkoet]

That was so satisfying

[@melonpop_5303]

this is more than insane. this is deranged. this is unhinged lunacy. /pos

[@coolkattcoder]

Super awesome!

[@whimsicalyt]

it took me a really long time to figure out what the title meant

[@geeshta]

Glowing womb OP

[@hakonhassel4928]

Great work! Any specific reason for doing it spell-less, or just for fun?

[@jarlyk]

Picking up spells requires a lot of time spent on the ground and I'm tracking the actual time, not just the number of touches. VS is particularly bad in this regard, as you spend a lot of time talking to the shaman, as well as waking up on the floor in mound.

[@Flowery0]

@@jarlyk i'm waking up Breathing in I'M ON THE FLOOR GOD DAMNI-IT

[@kiethme9799]

ddash is sick

[@DataLabsYes]

Those walldash nail animation cancels...

[@jarlyk]

Dashmaster is a wonderful charm (:

[@Flowery0]

Just ddance

[@colinjones5379]

Jfc

[@THE_RADIANCE]

1:19 fighting lines up with the song lol

[@sashabell9997]

cool run im just confused about why you cant use any spells?

[@jarlyk]

Spells require a lot of grounded time to pick up and trying to minimize total grounded time.

[@michalberanek2783]

No time to manip out rolls, busy showing off, I see Just a suggestion: have you considered making a supercut of just the frames when you are on the floor?

[@jarlyk]

It's actually quite difficult to manip when you can't touch the floor and insert hops or do things like downslashes into the ground to get sparks. Most of the manipulation in this fight is dashing back and forth above them, which delays their AI making a decision about what action to do next. Also, that supercut is a very cool idea; I'll have to look into what that would take to make.

[@Bigpoolofthor]

Why do you hate the floor?

[@jarlyk]

Because silksongn't

[@Bigpoolofthor]

Good enough of a reason I suppose

[@MikeCoopermythmon]

the floor is lava

[@hoangtrungquan6951]

Even for tas the WK rng is still awful to handle. Took you how long to do this fight i wonder?

[@jarlyk]

I worked on this for the last three days, so probably about 10 hours total.

[@Bigpoolofthor]

What's the hardest fight for this run so far

[@jarlyk]

Probably Hornet, since the knight had no movement abilities. The Watcher Knights fight is time-consuming, but not really hard, per se, since there are lots of movement options to work with. Uumuu will be the most challenging, though, as it's going to use the jelly core instakill, which is a pain to set up.

[@Bigpoolofthor]

Interesting how that works.

[@crisptain6356]

I couldn't help but notice you sacrificed a little ground time to hit that chandelier. As painful as it might be... wouldn't it technically be more optimal to not hit the chandelier, since you can probably beat the extra knight without touching the ground at all?

[@jarlyk]

It actually doesn't touch the ground there. On the way in, it has wcs from right wall wiggle, then does wall jump upslash into wings jump for the first hit, downslash, right wall wiggle to get wcs, forward slash, then dash, chain wcs, then wall jump just barely above the floor. It then gets wcs back by doing a left wall wiggle at the bottom before heading to Watchers.

[@jarlyk]

In general, you'll find that most of the time when it looks like TAS is doing a floor jump, it's actually just jumping off a virtual wall from wcs very near to the floor. It does this in a bunch of places. There are a few places prior to wings where the TAS does need to take some floor hops, usually in entryway hallways where there's no wall to get wcs from, but generally once it's inside the room, there's almost always a way to stay off the ground, thanks to having wcs and thus being able to bring a wall with you.

[@rowanmcloughlin]

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