Shantae Any% Route Notes

Any% Pirate Mode Route

Burning Scuttle Town -

First screen (lighthouse screen) - no gems

Second screen (Where you meet bolo and sky) - no gems

Third screen (mayor) - precise jumps can kill four enemies yielding up to 20 gems

Fourth screen (vertical section) - jump immediately, land on the platform then cannon three times to the stairs above the next platform, cannon up to the next platform then cannon to the exit.

Fifth screen (rooftops) dash, cannon three times and land on the collapsing platform. With a precision scimitar you can break the block without bouncing on it, but failing wastes time. hesitate a little bit before the next dash, jump at the end of the first long platform with the machine gunners, break the two pots, then use a Pikeball as you enter the next screen.

Sixth screen - (falling section) hold right and scimitar.

Seventh screen - (last screen) jump over bolo and sky, try and use the Pikeball to kill the blue dude on the platform, then kill the last two dudes to maximize gem gain.

Ideally want to have 20+ gems before entering ammo baron, but rng can screw you and getting gems here is precise.

Ammo baron

- Extremely simple fight, hit the red ball, then wail on him. Ideally he shoots the Red Cannonball three times in a row but he can troll with rng charges. You should be able to kill him in 3 cycles of red cannonballs, but if he charges excessively and your pikeball runs out before the first red cannonball, you might end up with a 4 cycle. You only need the pike ball damage for one cycle.

- His patterns are

	- Red Cannonball (ideal)
	- Grey Cannonball, Red Cannonball
	- Grey Cannonball x2, Red Cannonball
	- Charge

You can try and jump up to intercept the Red Cannonball, it saves a little bit of time but you have to position yourself and time yourself well. if you mess up he can do any other pattern. If you hit the red cannonball in midair and it goes past him, you were too early. You want to aim just below his cannon.

Scuttle Town Part 1

- Cacklebat Fight

(wip)
wing it probably


9 seconds charging through the snake room.
13 seconds to stop for the 20 gem pot.
one second lost to grab 5 gems or a food/flare from orcs on return.

remember you need at least 7 flesh pops from slugs in the sewers. duplicate drops by scimitaring under a low ceiling.

Shopping Trip 1

Buy 2 flares, 4 potions, one superpike
135 gems total.
15 gems more gets you 6 potions (set for the run)
20 gems more gets you an extra pirate flare (saves 6 or so seconds on saliva island)

Saliva Island - Skip ham stink, use a potion drop to get into spittle maze, skip bonus dungeon and use a food float/potion drop to skip getting an extra key. there is an autopotion drop to skip the wetman room.

Spiderweb island - Food float in cackle tower to skip getting a key.

Tan Line Island - Collect magic blade, then skip tan line temple with a potion drop
catacombs has a potion drop to skip block room.
Farm for your items here on scorpion girls. you want ~4 ea of super pikes and super milks but the amount needed can vary see below for the optimal items.

Shopping trip 2

Buy 3 flares. extra money use to cover drops you didn't get (bubble shield, spb,milks) otherwise buy up to two extra flares to save a tiny amount of time returning from frostbite island and not speaking to abner for his flare.

Mud Bog island - Done as normal route.

oubliette - Risky shuffle to skip the elevator puzzle

firing the cannon - Give death mask to abner for a pirate flare.

Shopping trip 3 (optional)

buy whatever you need to buy and didnt get as a drop. Farm for gems on the ghost room in city of the damned.

Frostbite Island - Done as normal, use a food float to skip a large chunk of propeller town.
Poion drop to access the dashing room then food float and potion drop to skip getting keys

Pirate Master - Food float in the tower.




Boss items (items in parenthesis are optional)

Ammo Baron - Pike Ball

	almost always a 3 cycle guaranteed

Cyclops Plant - ( Monster Milk)

	Use Airkix's strat to get a faster kill on him

Empress Spider - Super Pike Ball (Monster Milk)

	cancel knockback by mashing hair whip.

Squid Baron - Super Pike Ball, Monster Milk (Super Monster Milk)

	regular milk is a little bit slower on squid. but can sub in a pinch VERY fast kill with a super milk and Super pike

Dargon - Super Pike Ball, Super Monster Milk (Monster Milk)

	Can get a 3 cycle with Regular Milk and a superpike, 2 cycle with Super Milk and a super pike

Steel Maggot - Super Pike Ball, Monster Milk (Super Monster MIlk)

	Assuming i don’t choke, you can get 2 cycle here with regular milk and a super pike. 2 cycle with super milk alone

Pirate Master - Super Pike Ball, Super Monster Milk, Bubble Shield, Auto Potion

	If you still have your auto you can go for risky attacks during his second attack phase. Otherwise just mash and make sure you don’t die.




ITEM TOTALS that you can buy

7-9 food items
6 potions
Boss killing items
5-8 flares
bubble shield



FOOD FLOATS
2 in cackle (the second food float in cackle tower saves a few seconds)
1 in pirate master's castle
2 for propeller town (chain skip saves less than a second)
1 for factory skip

POTION DROPS

2 on saliva island
1 ap drop on saliva island
2 on tanline island
2 on frostbite island.