Manticore Skip

		Manticore Skip

	What is Manticore Skip?

We discovered a method to skip the Manticore in Lamakan desert. Essentially, using Reveal+Retreat we can get out of bounds in one of the Lamakan Desert Caves. Normally these caves do not have any encounters so we are permanently stuck in the Retreat glitch state, meaning any door we find out of bounds is a Retreat glitch door (and all of those doors are useless to us). I recently found that the tiledata for an Ant Lion encounter exists in the out of bounds landscape, hitting that tile triggers the Ant Lion fight within the cave and allows us to exit the Retreat glitch state. With the Retreat glitch off all of the doors in the room point to their correct locations and a few of those doors point to the Lamakan Desert exit, permitting skipping the Manticore.

	This is amazing, how does this change things?

At present Manticore skip can only be used in the regular Any% category. In this category it saves about 70s without any other considerations, but loses time later on due to missing experience. Not quite sure exactly what the net time save is but its clearly faster to skip the Manticore in this category.

For Any% No S&Q, the out of bounds landscape is cluttered with junk data and we have no means of clearing it. We have been unable to find the correct tile to trigger the Ant Lion fight with all this junk data lying about, so the skip cannot be realised ... yet.

For All Djinn, defeating the Manticore is the trigger for repairing the Kalay-Vault bridge. Since All Djinn requires you to return to Vale, Vault and Lunpa to collect a few djinn, we need this bridge to be repaired.

	How can I see this in action?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKd6oICNYHY

Will also be doing some runs of a new Any% route which makes use of the skip.