Beat Culex

beat culex RTA
time starts at power on, ends at the jingle that plays when you receive the Quartz Charm

THIS IS NOT A POSTGAME ROUTE! the run is over when you defeat culex as quickly as possible. the 4 crystals die when he does.

you have a bunch of options for this route

1) ROUTE FOR PPL WHO ARE VERY VERY CONFIDENT IN SUPER JUMPS

    [LEVELUPS]
        - SP only on Mario
        - HP only on Bowser
        - Geno and Mallow and Peach unchanged from any%

    EVERYTHING BEFORE SEASIDE MENU:
        exactly the same as any% except:

            - buy 6 honey syrups in mushroom kingdom
            - ignore all frog coins after Midas River - NO WIGGLER JUMPS
            - frog coin shop: 1 sleepy bomb, buy 2 energizers (Bowyer, Croco)
            - 10 bombs
            - sell flower box and get shiny stone as soon as moleville snifit cutscene ends
            - skip booster pass
            - in phase 2 of kalimari, use jump instead of mario physical
            - in final phase of kalimari, timed attack with geno instead of defending

    SEASIDE MENU

        do not get EXP booster
        sell: everything you normally would, EXCEPT keep at least 1 energizer if you have one and 1 honey syrup (youre also missing a flower box and kerokerocola)
        buy: 4 ice bombs (ants), 7 fire bombs (kali+reds+yaridovich), 3 fright bombs(yarid x2 + belome), 1 bad mushroom

        optimal menu [WIP]:
            equip:
                unequip mario weapon
                unequip bowser accessory
                unequip geno weapon
                unequip geno accessory
                unequip peach weapon
                polka dress on mallow to get work pants on peach
                unequip mallow weapon
            sell:
                all small items except energizers and 1 honey syrup
                3 kerokerocolas
            buy:
                1 bad mushroom
                3 ice bombs
                1 fright bomb
            sell:
                wallet
                goodie bag
                1 froggiedrink if you have 2
            buy:
                1 ice bomb
                2 fire bombs
            sell:
                2 flower jars
                2 flower tabs
            buy:
                4 fire bombs
            sell:
                all equips
            buy:
                1 fire bomb
                2 fright bombs



    SEA & SUNKEN SHIP

        don't do post-star equip swap menu
        you can get the stairway chest and buy 3 maple syrups for culex backup, but idk how much this will really help you
            (can also buy one if you are short a syrup and didn't get [12 dogs + 8 rats]/[10 dogs + 8 rats + boo] + 10 bombs)

        if you do NOT have an energizer, do safety ring menu:
            -swap bowser with peach
            -equip safety ring on peach

        geno will bomb the bandana reds

        do not do equip swap menu after bandana reds

        JOHNNY
            IF MARIO IS LEVEL 8:
                if you have an energizer:
                    fire bomb / energizer mario / 100 super jumps (763)
                otherwise:
                    boost mario / fire bomb / 100 super jumps
            IF MARIO IS LEVEL 7:
                if you have an energizer:
                    rock candy / energizer mario / 100 super jumps (654)
                otherwise:
                    boost mario / rock candy / 100 super jumps

        post-johnny menu:
            if bowser is in party right now:
                swap bowser -> peach
                amulet -> peach
                safety ring -> geno
            otherwise:
                amulet -> geno
                amulet -> peach


    DO NOT MISTIME SHOCKER! save before yarid if not confident

    YARIDOVICH
        have rock candy:
            boost peach / defend / shocker (210)
            boost mario / kerokerocola / shocker
            heal or defend / rock candy / shocker
            heal or defend / fright bomb / shocker
            defend / fright bomb / bad mushroom
        don't have rock candy:
            boost peach / defend / shocker (210)
            boost mario / kerokerocola / shocker
            heal hp if needed, syrup otherwise / fire bomb / shocker
            heal hp if needed, syrup otherwise / fright bomb / shocker
            syrup if alive and not used yet / fright bomb if geno used syrup, syrup otherwise / shocker
            [fright bomb if yarid still alive]



    AFTER YARIDOVICH

        sell flower box (may be able to skip this?)
        swap mario/peach accessory
        swap peach/geno accessory (amulet on mario, safety ring on peach)



    LAND'S END

        get red essence
        don't really need to do new movement for land's end star, there are no pauses, 19 geckos is free
        do not buy trampoline



    BELOME 2

        geno: fright bomb
        peach: ice bomb if you freebied it on yaridovich, shocker otherwise
        mario: 61 super jumps if peach used ice bomb, 62 otherwise



    MONSTRO TOWN

        get ss/as



    CULEX: - need 25 flowers

        9 super jumps (207) / untimed boost mario / red essence mario
        100 super jump (1948) (defend/defend)
        100 super jump (1948)
        defend until crystals explode

*****you can't afford to drop super jumps on johnny in this route.







2) ROUTE FOR PPL WHO CAN SUPER JUMP BUT THINK THEY HAVE A HIGH CHANCE OF DROPPING

    if you're not confident nailing 100 on johnny on your first try, either save before fish hallway and try again or just do the regular any% route up until monstro town and backtrack for the shiny stone. you can get some coin chests in sunken ship and/or belome temple and buy some maple syrups from sea shaman. attempt super jumps on culex until one of you dies, go for as many SJs in mario's first turn (before crystals appear) as you can. make sure to pick up the red essence in land's end







3) ROUTE FOR PPL WHO CANNOT SUPER JUMP AT ALL

    you do no super suit route up to monstro town (https://sites.google.com/site/supermariorpgspeedruns/beginners-guide#TOC-No-Super-Suit-No-Lazy-Shell-a.k.a-Intermediate-Route-)
    you can also take some liberty with DAing (https://sites.google.com/site/supermariorpgspeedruns/techniques/misc-info#TOC-Death-Abuse)
        [6:05 PM] Beetlemania champion: if you can't do sj for culex race, you can do death abuse as many times as you want
        [6:05 PM] Beetlemania champion: +can farm RCs in seaside town too
        [6:07 PM] Beetlemania champion: and I'd recommend to put safety ring on peach and amulet on geno. So that peach can revive geno and he can boost her right after shredder
        [6:09 PM] Beetlemania champion: culex's attack is still dick move though. try to defend if you can. (he? always moves after yellow crystal)
        [6:20 PM] Beetlemania champion: oh death abuse will be much meaningless once character becomes 20. status boost will be narfed by much in 21-30

    you also have the option, if you just want to finish, to keep going with the NSS route up until end of nimbus land, but get the lazy shell (normally you do not get this in NSS).

    to farm rock candies: after yaridovich, go to leftmost door of rightmost building in seaside town and buy a lot of mushrooms, then go to middle door and mash A on mushroom boy to give him the mushrooms, some of the mushrooms will give you rock candy