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I think some of the challenge would be dependent on the map the event chooses since it seems to be choosing between different track difficulties. Last time I had Present Delivery

That's interesting. The main reason I sell and rebuy is to get the ability back faster since the ability ends around halfway through its cooldown (with level 13 ability cooldown), and I'm primarily using the ability to deal the main damage. I also want the ability to be right on top of the ZOMGs, so if you can do it without selling I'd probably need to put somewhere near the top left corner (unless you're using the same area as me)

Now imagine if the actual Merga fight restarted the music every time you end a phase. Neera would be wondering where the music is

@@dominicruble2754 Haven't seen the video yet but thanks!

@@notreal9521 Selling and rebuying is MAD broken with the Chipper when used against moabs

i think theres a thing where the sell price is 99% of the original price, so pretty op

@@j_ustanoob That's when you have level 13 sell price, so yes

I chose not to use premium items just to make it more fun, otherwise I could have also injected some cash

I can see it's main downside being bloon rushes, but considering what I did on round 84, it somehow managed to get around one of its weaknesses lmao. #NerfBloonchipperBTD5

No, at 3:40, you can see me turn it off. I turned it off because I was getting very annoyed with having to double click so I could mash a 2-4. Instantly turned it back out when I realized the lack of damage from I'm assuming the lack of pierce

Thanks! Actually nice to see my BTD5 videos are reaching people

The stress from fighting Merga becomes too real you start to disassociate, just like her

No, I gave up on that after the help I was getting eventually went no where due to the person I was talking to not knowing how to solve my issues. I'm probably not going to focus on that again, but it's fine. I tried. (I just went to go find the thread in question, and damn it's really been 3 months since lol. I completely forgot about that until you brought it up)

@Supersonic6427 Gotchu man. I also had to try a few times as i was getting a backup.ab empty file. Eventually it worked and i was pretty happy about it because i had way too much progress to lose lol

It's really nice they did that since each phase is practically their own boss fight (and also because otherwise, you'd just have 2 full Merga levels to beat lol), but they need to fix Battlesphere Lilith because her fight does not behave correctly. I should also go grind the other phases so I can try and snatch the IL WR for the Merga fight

Y'know, I just realized that lmao. I wasn't thinking about Astral Gomech

See you in your dreams

Yo Geeky!

I'm debating between which of the 3 is the Battlesphere's most cancer member: Herald, Acrabelle, or Lemon Bread. Everybody has their own annoying quirk about them that I absolutely hate lol

Can't wait to see what Lilac can do when I try this level as Neera

You're right about that rubber band mechanic being a villain specific move because Serpentine can also do that crap in Nalao Lake. It's not funny but at the same time it is.

Everyone was sleeping on Kalaw, though all fall into despair to his true identity

If you look closely, Carol and Spade's mouths animate very well to the "Shimmy shimmy yay" lines the first time they say it. That made me laugh when I first saw it

@@likoq.deadcall5219 I actually need the vinyls, so I figured I'd grab them during my runs, and when I do I try hard to complete the run lol. I also like adding the text whenever I have something to say

I do that a lot, so I really benefit from it in the context of not getting hit

This' 7 months of pure but strange dedication. When I was streaming my Lilac rainbow S attempts on the GT discord, someone there referred to it as a games repainted, and that makes it even more funny. The speed from the drop kick is surprisingly powerful against the fists, and that was very convenient for me considering I randomly decided to speedrun. You just need space so you can get the speed from the drop kick

Speedrunning and rainbow S-ing the game made me learn a lot about Neera. Merga honestly wasn't that difficult to me. She took me around 2 hours, and I could have easily beat her in 1 but on 2 separate runs I died to the final phase to the usual kunai. I'm one to say the actual levels and certain battlesphere arenas are much harder. The longest levels for me was both Bakunawa Rush and Clockwork Arboretum, both taking 2 hours. The longest I've ever spent rainbow S-ing, exlcuding the boss divisions, was Mecha Madness which took me 4 straight hours. As for the kunai strat, I actually learned that out myself and applied it to my Neera guardless, boss division 2, and Potion Seller runs (all of which have videos and their own respective playlists - minus division 2 which is apart of the "True Damageless All Rainbow S" playlist for Neera. I also made a video several months ago showcasing the strat as every character. The strat I do here is practically my "beta" version of what I end up doing in my Neera guardless run. The idea was to just move in a circle pattern, only parrying if a kunai spawned either inside or close to Neera. I've gotten good at the guardless strat that I can comfortably stand in the center and apply that strat to dodge the kunai from all 3 directions.

@@Supersonic6427 Yeah, admittedly, Mecha Madness... not sure how you're supposed to do that without relying on shield damage-boosts. A patch added a shield near the beginning, and I had to resort to Shield Potions anyways; I didn't have to do so for most of my other Rainbow S runs (the Boss Divisions being exceptions). Cool idea in concept, execution-wise it falls flat due to the giant hitbox and tiny enemies making it hard to deal with.

@@noizihonni8191 Mecha Madness does have a consistent strategy for each round (very specifically rounds 5 and 6), it just requires (a lot of) trial and error. It is possible shieldless, you just need the sanity for it. To me, Mecha Madness is unironically harder than Merga.

Tiger Falls reminds me of the second stage in Rocket Knight mainly because of its waterfall gimmick and Rosebud. I had to use it lol, and I probably should have used the midboss theme again for Rosebud

Freedom Planet 2. It's on Steam, Switch, Xbox, and PS4/5

@@Howardpower679 Shinobi 3 in general's a good game. I need to actually go beat that game. It has to have been close to 10 years now lol

@@Supersonic6427 you can do it

I just realized this' the older version of this fight with modded sound effects. I'm probably going to nerf some of them when I get to doing Lilac rainbow Ss just because they either have bad mixing or don't mesh well when certain events happen like "Gnawsa's rocks, multiple explosions, etc."

Been a bit since I've seen this. Need to come back and grind 27 since that's the current WR

Yo, appreciate you watching the video! I think sub 4 should still be possible on 1.2.3 and below. Even though Carol helps and Merga to an extent (though she's kind of annoying), Lilac is still capable of draining a full bar with an uppercut cyclone into a dragon boost, so that should work out. That phase 2 strat can be annoying to pull off in a no hit run, but it's pretty consistent to pull off. This run into the boss was bad. My best pace ever had a 2:08, and I remember also getting a 0:58 3rd to last checkpoint. Idk if a time that low without at least potions is possible. The only way for it to work would be to get the fast phase 2 strat where you get Syntax to phase 2 before she starts flying. And yeah, I did get sleep that day lol. I immediately stopped playing after. With Lilac's speedrunning tech, you could also try looking into Bakunawa Rush since iirc, you didn't get the half par time there

I was waiting for this moment, and aside from the lag spikes, this lived up to what I wanted lol

thanks. it got beaten again, so I have to grind it back

Thanks! 👍

@@Howardpower679 It's more funny when I casually just play the game like this as if I didn't just modify the game to become a meme-fest. I spend way too much time doing this too lol

The power of the spear drive

It was satisfying to know she could do it. I was scared I would be able to get the card because I wasn't sure on where it was gonna spawn lol

Thanks! I need to play this game some more

Final phase in particular always gets me, and it's specifically because of the first 7 sets of 3 kunai. I also got really terrified at 5:05 because my original plan was to have Merga swing at the barrier which will despawn the vertical projectiles she fires, but I forgot the barriers don't despawn unless you restart at checkpoint, so i thought I was fucked. And then right after that mess I had to quickly prepare myself to dodge kunai. Oh, and the final hit was nerve-wracking because I didn't know you're invincible after killing Merga, so I was focused on getting out of the way.

He evaded the law

Freedom Planet content is good!

The weird thing about division 2 is despite being 20+ minutes long, the bosses are rather easy. There are a few choke points such as Kalaw, Gnawsa, Askal, Lemon Bread, and Astral Gomech, but for the most part everything is pretty chill but LONG. Merga honestly didn't scare me much aside from Blue moon, what would have been super moon if I didn't dodge the blades the way I do, Lilith because the battlesphere version oddly works differently, and final because nerves. At 23:28, I actually fucked up the movement for dodging the blades which seriously threw me off on top of my nerves. BF is pretty much an autoscroller to me, so it's just enduring everything for 3 minutes. I do plan at some point to actually try playing both division 1 and 2 back-to-back because this was a challenge someone post some months ago on the GalaxyTrail discord. I think I'm more than capable of doing it.

This' an older run. My best time is 4:41.03. I have a video of that on my channel and it's WR by a second, but it could be a lot faster if I got good Gnawsa rng

Yeah, I know Lemon Bread's bite attack cannot kill you, but I'm going for a true no hit run, and since Lemon Bread's bite attack drains your health or shield points, I consider it taking damage and will restart. I'm not even sure if that's intentional. Oddly enough, Merga's special attack during Eclipse where she jumps offscreen and tries to inflict a critical hit cannot kill you. Oh and a little fact: In the case of a speedrun, it's actually faster not to let Lemon Bread bite you because you waste around a second letting him do so.

I don't remember if it exists in 1.0.0, but it does exist as far back as 1.2.3. I have a rainbow S video and a speedrun where I do it on 1.2.3

I actually wasn't even bothered too much by them lol. I was more concerned about the shell growth dropping a missile on me