Hollow Knight RMG Rules

Hollow Knight Restricted Major Glitches Rules

Allowed Glitches:
-Any glitch that is performed accidentally and provides no benefit to the runner.
-Inventory storage.
-Wallcling storage.
-Televator.
-Storing interaction prompts by attempting to interact at the same time you leave their range.
-Having control of an invisible character, unless this involves the use of a banned glitch.
-Going underneath the surface of water/acid by cancelling an inventory drop when landing in it.
-Stored jumps from going underwater.
-Gaining early control by pausing and unpausing e.g. leaving seer's room early after acquiring Dream Nail.
-Skipping pick-up animations by quitting to the main menu, as long as pausing during the pick-up does not involve the use of a glitch.
-Opening inventory in midair to drop faster and cancel the landing animation.
-Falling off a ledge shortly after landing on it in order to cancel the landing animation.
-Using Dream Nail to gain early control while collecting the Essence from Dream Warriors.
-Killing Elder Baldurs instantly by hitting them from offscreen.
-Causing tolls to activate early by manipulating the knight's FSM (e.g. looking down).
-Gaining early control by taking intentional damage e.g. the Hollow Knight scream skip.
-Hitting levers, grubs or other interactable objects through walls e.g. the lever skip in the Watcher's Spire.
-Storing Dash Slash casts with inventory.
-Maintaining Fury of the Fallen buff despite not being at 1HP.
-The Happening.

Banned Glitches:
-Any glitch which results in invulnerability.
-Any glitch which allows the player to get Out of Bounds.
-Any glitch using Main Menu Storage.
-Any glitch which gives control of the character during a load, except where no benefit is gained from having control (e.g. hazard early control to reach a transition faster).
-Any glitch which breaks Boss AI such that they are severely limited from moving or attacking.
-Pause storage.
-Any float glitch.
-Dying with inventory open to regain control.
-Quick Map storage.
-Focus storage.
-Superdash storage.
-Bench storage.
-Unovercharm glitch.
-Notch duping.
-Item duping.
-Room duping.
-Duping enemy kills with flukenest.
-Duping grimmkin by leaving the room or dying as the flame is absorbed.
-Superslides.
-Thorn warps.
-Load warps.
-Using airwalk to jump midair.