Pantheon 5 Boss Order route

Pantheon 5 Boss Order route (for any 1.3+ patch, assumes 1.4+)

Note: If this is your first time running this category, I *highly* highly recommend running it blindly, without a route (other than the list of bosses in order) — that's the traditional way of running it and it's very fun (and chaotic) :D


[Geo]
{Essence}


Vengefly King
•Collect early geo for the Crossroads stag and open it [0]
•Skip False Knight
•Collect Vengeful Spirit
•Grab Soul Catcher (optionally bench and equip it)
•Head through Greenpath like normal [140]
•Fight the Vengefly King [~200]

Gruz Mother
•Get the Moss Knights and geo rocks [370]
•Open the Greenpath stag [230] and stag to Crossroads
•Bench and head to Gruz Mother
•Fight Gruz Mother and S&Q out of the arena (as soon as it splits, maybe grab the geo first) to the stag

False Knight
•Head to False Knight
•Fight False Knight (with Vengeful Spirit)
•Grab the geo chest [430] and S&Q to the stag

Massive Moss Charger
•Stag to Greenpath and head down and to the right
•Fireball skip to Massive Moss Charger (if necessary, you can shade skip as a backup, although it is very slow)
•Fight Massive Moss Charger and collect the geo [730]

Hornet Protector
•Head down through Fog Canyon to Queen's Station
•Open Queen's Station [610] and bench
•Stag to Greenpath and fight Hornet
•Collect Mothwing Cloak and S&Q to Queen's Station

Gorb
•Head into Fungal Wastes and up to the Shrumal Ogre arena
•Fight the arena [700] and grab the charm notch
•Head through Fungal Wastes like normal
•Grab Mantis Claw and head out of the room to the right
•Drop down and grab Dashmaster
•Rescue Bretta and S&Q to Queen's Station (equip Dashmaster — Soul Catcher + Dashmaster)
•Head up into Fog Canyon towards Overgrown Mound
•Grab the lifeblood/autopilot seal
•Fight the Squit arena and collect Howling Wraiths
•S&Q to Queen's Station
•Head through Fungal Wastes to the Deepnest entrance
•Grab Spore Shroom
•Drop into Deepnest and head to the hot spring
•Bench in the hot spring and head towards Failed Tramway
•Fight the Zote arena [~800] and rescue Zote
•Grab the Zote idol and head back up to Failed Tramway
•Grab Tram Pass and S&Q to the hot spring
•Take the tram to Basin (bench is optional) and head up the broken elevator shaft to City
•Head up through Spire (you can kill the Great Husk Sentry through the floor with 5 casts of wraiths)
•Head across to the Sanctum entrance
•Fight the Soul Twister arena and immediately exit Sanctum by Cornifer (leave the elevator up)
•Sit at the toll bench [650] and head to Storerooms
•Grab the Simple Key [~710]
•Hit down the platform and stag to Crossroads (don't bench) [510]
•Head to Salubra and buy Steady Body, Shaman Stone, and a charm notch [50]
•Rescue Sly and head to the upper tram
•Take the tram to Resting Grounds and collect Dream Nail
•Stag to Dirtmouth (don't bench) and head to Howling Cliffs (this may be faster from Greenpath?)
•Head through King's Pass to Howling Cliffs
•Learn Cyclone Slash
•Fight Gorb (remember, you have wraiths) and collect the essence {100}

Dung Defender
•Head down, grab the journal, and light the Nightmare Lantern
•Grab the Cliffs idol and S&Q to the Sanctum toll bench (swap Soul Catcher for Shaman Stone — Dashmaster + Shaman Stone)
•Head down (around through the Sanctum entrance) and sell to Lemm (lifeblood seal, Zote idol, Nightmare Lantern journal, & Cliffs idol) [2300]
•Enter Waterways and head to Dung Defender
•Fight Dung Defender (wraiths) and S&Q out of the arena (as soon as it splits) to the Sanctum toll bench

Soul Warrior
•Head part of the way through Sanctum and fight the Soul Warrior (wraiths?) [2500]
•Wait for the gate to open and then S&Q to the toll bench

Brooding Mawlek
•Head back to Storerooms and stag to Dirtmouth (bench)
•Buy Lumafly Lantern [700] and collect Grimmchild
•S&Q to the bench and drop down the well into Crossroads
•Head to and fight Brooding Mawlek (wraiths)
•S&Q out of the arena (as soon as it splits) to Dirtmouth

Xero
•Stag to Crossroads and bench
•Stag to Resting Grounds (don't bench) and head down to Xero
•Fight Xero (wraiths) and collect the essence {100}
•S&Q to Crossroads

Crystal Guardian
•Enter Crystal Peak through the Lantern entrance [650]
•Head up and fight Crystal Guardian (wraiths) [~1050]

Soul Master
•Bench and grab the Shopkeeper's Key (you might just want to kill the Shardmite so that you don't get hit)
•Head through the rest of Peak like normal and grab Crystal Heart
•S&Q to the bench (swap Dashmaster for Grimmchild — Shaman Stone + Grimmchild)
•Head left through the cdash rooms and kill the Grimmkin
•Open the Dirtmouth elevator and cdash across to Sly
•Buy Elegant Key [250]
•Stag to Storerooms and kill the Grimmkin
•Drop down (hit the lever connecting to the City Crest entrance) and head across to Sanctum (toll bench for safety is optional)
•Fight the Soul Warrior [450] and collect Shade Soul
•Head through Sanctum (do hit the levers for later, although they might not be necessary)
•Grab Spell Twister
•Fight Soul Master and collect Desolate Dive

Oblobbles
•Exit Sanctum (optimally do the weird fake dive thing) and head across to Spire
•Dive through the glass at the bottom! and head to King's Station
•Stag to Greenpath [150] and bench
•Stag to Crossroads and head through the Lantern entrance to Peak and past the room with the bench to Crystallized Mound
•Collect Descending Dark (this isn't necessary but it is comfy to have for the rest of the run)
•S&Q as soon as it splits (out of the pickup cutscene, for some reason) to Greenpath and call the stag
•Head down and kill the Grimmkin
•S&Q to the stag and stag to King's Station
•Bench and stag to Dirtmouth (this stagging and benching business is a bit of a mess)
•Upgrade Grimmchild and head to King's Pass
•Kill the Grimmkin and S&Q to King's Station
•Head to the broken elevator shaft
•Perform the Isma's skips and grab Isma's Tear (this is technically unoptimal but it's comfy + this route requires it)
•S&Q to King's Station and head through the tunnel to Kingdom's Edge
•Kill the Grimmkin and head up (through the acid) and around to the Tower of Love
•Hit the lever and head up to the Colosseum of Fools (open the breakable wall by the Colosseum)
•Bench in the Colosseum (swap Grimmchild for Spell Twister — Shaman Stone + Spell Twister)
•Open and complete Trial 1 [~1050]
•Fight Zote and collect the charm notch
•Open and complete Trial 2 [~2600]
•Fight the Oblobbles, collect the pale ore, and S&Q to the bench

Mantis Lords
•Swap Spell Twister for Grimmchild (Shaman Stone + Grimmchild) and head back out
•Open Trial 3 [1800] and head left to the elevator
•Take the elevator up to Resting Grounds and kill the Grimmkin
•Head up to the stag and stag to Crossroads
•Stag to Crossroads and head to the Fungal Wastes entrance
•Drop down into Fungal Wastes and buy Fragile Heart from Leg Eater [1400]
•Bench and swap Grimmchild for Spell Twister (Shaman Stone + Spell Twister)
•Head down through Fungal Wastes and open the Mantis Lords room (lever was not hit earlier)
•Head to and fight the Mantis Lords
•S&Q out of the arena (as soon as it splits) to Leg Eater

Marmu
•Overcharm either Dashmaster or Fragile Heart (for safety (especially during frogs), just... don't die — if you do, repair it and sell the Seer seal later)
•Head through the acid and whispering root room and grab the Fog Canyon charm notch (removes overcharm)
•Head down past Archives and through "QGA" into Queen's Gardens
•Fight the Petra arena and grab the Love Key
•Head back and fight the upper QG arena (no toll bench) [~1600 or so]
•Head through the frog rooms and fight Marmu (you can safety bench at the stag if necessary)

Flukemarm
•Collect the essence {350} and open the QG stag [1400] (hit the lever for later)
•Stag to King's Station and head across the fountain to Waterways
•Bench (it's really your choice on when to use Dashmaster/Spell Twister/Fragile Heart, as long as you don't break Heart) and head to Flukemarm
•Fight Flukemarm (using shade soul) and collect Flukenest

Broken Vessel
•S&Q to the bench and head to the Dung Defender arena
•Exit into the broken elevator shaft (it may be faster to open the White Defender dive floor now? for no soul collection later)
•Head down to Ancient Basin and bench in the tram
•Head through the Mawlurks (no toll bench) and open the shortcut by the Wings grub
•Fight Broken Vessel and collect Monarch Wings

Galien
•S&Q to the tram (swap to Shaman Stone + Flukenest) and take it to Deepnest
•Head to and fight Galien (just two flukes to the face)
•Collect the essence {550} and S&Q to the tram

Hive Knight
•Optionally (optimally?) keep Flukenest, or swap back to Shaman Stone + Spell Twister + Dashmaster
•Take the tram to Kingdom's Edge
•Head through the Hive (if you have Flukenest on, use wraiths to break the walls)
•Fight Hive Knight and S&Q out of the arena (as soon as it splits) to the tram (Shaman Stone + Spell Twister + Dashmaster)

Elder Hu
•Take the tram to Basin and head to Hidden Station
•Stag to Storerooms [1100] (apparently this is faster than Queen's Station?) and bench
•Head backwards across the City Crest entrance into Fungal Wastes, and up to Elder Hu
•Fight Elder Hu and collect the essence {650}
•S&Q to Storerooms and stag to Resting Grounds

The Collector
•Collect Dream Wielder (and the pale ore) from the Seer
•Stag to King's Station and bench
•Head across the fountain to the Nailsmith — if you have less than 1050 geo here, sell the Seer seal to Lemm
•Upgrade to Channelled Nail (Nail 2) [50]
•S&Q to King's Station (swap to Shaman Stone + Flukenest + Dream Wielder)
•Head to the Tower of Love and fight the Collector (with flukes, optimally scream skip with the Vengefly; you can't do the optimal kill but flukes are still pretty fast)

God Tamer
•Head up to the Colosseum and end up at the bench (it may be optimal to enter the arena room and then S&Q? that's cursed though)
•Swap to Shaman Stone + Spell Twister + either Fragile Heart for safety (it's meant for this, so you don't need to repair it if you break it anymore), or Dream Wielder for speed if you're super confident
•Open and complete Trial 3
•Fight God Tamer and exit the Colosseum by the elevator shaft [geo doesn't matter anymore]

Troupe Master Grimm
•Head down to King's Station and bench (equip Shaman Stone + Spell Twister + Grimmchild, maybe some cursed Flukenest overcharm? idk when flukes are worth when you don't have shriek)
•Stag to Dirtmouth and fight Grimm
•Collect the charm notch and S&Q to King's Station

Watcher Knights
•Swap to Shaman Stone + Flukenest + Dream Wielder (+ optimally overcharm Spell Twister)
•Head to and through Spire
•Fight the Watcher Knights (with flukes, optimally skip the chandelier)

Uumuu
•Head up (no rewards) and absorb Lurien
•Head back down through Spire back to King's Station
•Stag to Queen's Station
•Bench and unequip Dream Wielder/swap it for Spell Twister (Shaman Stone + Flukenest + Spell Twister)
•Head up to Archives
•Fight Uumuu (just four flukes to the, uh, core? Uumuu doesn't have a face)

Nosk
•Absorb Monomon and head back across Queen's Station to Fungal Wastes (probably faster than stagging to Hidden Station and taking the tram across?
•Drop into Deepnest and head to the hot spring
•Bench in the hot spring (same charms — Shaman Stone + Flukenest + Spell Twister)
•Head to and fight Nosk (with flukes)
•S&Q to the hot spring

Hornet Sentinel
•Swap to Shaman Stone + Dashmaster + Dream Wielder + Grimmchild (or something)
•Head to Distant Village and collect the Brumm flame
•Skip Beast's Den and absorb Herrah
•Exit Beast's Den (bench and swap Grimmchild for Spell Twister — Shaman Stone + Dashmaster + Dream Wielder + Spell Twister)
•Stag to King's Station (fun fact: you now have all of the stags)
•Head through Kingdom's Edge to Hornet 2
•Fight Hornet 2 and collect the King's Brand

Enraged Guardian
•Head back (through the acid) to King's Station
•Stag to Hidden Station and bench (possibly equip Flukenest? probably loses time though)
•Stag to Dirtmouth and take the elevator up to Peak (no elevator skip)
•Head to and fight Enraged Guardian
•S&Q out of the arena (as soon as it splits) to Hidden Station

Lost Kin
•Swap to Shaman Stone + Spell Twister + Dashmaster + Dream Wielder and head to Lost Kin (you can cdash from the right wall to hit the bell on the way out!)
•Fight Lost Kin and collect the essence {1050}
•S&Q to Hidden Station

No Eyes
•Stag to Resting Grounds and collect Dreamgate from the Seer
•Set a DG by the Seer and S&Q to Hidden Station
•Head to the Abyss
•Collect Abyss Shriek
•Head across Sibling climb and collect Shade Cloak
•S&Q and DG to Resting Grounds
•Stag to Queen's Gardens and bench
•Stag to Greenpath (most likely faster than Queen's Station?) and head to Stone Sanctuary
•Fight No Eyes (nail 2 makes this a bit harder) and collect the essence {1250}
•S&Q to Queen's Gardens

Traitor Lord
•Swap to Shaman Stone + Spell Twister + Flukenest and call the stag
•Head up to Traitor Lord (with flukes?)
•Fight Traitor Lord and collect the White Fragment
•S&Q to the stag

White Defender
•Stag to King's Station and bench
•Head to the broken elevator shaft and fight White Defender (with flukes)
•Collect the essence {1550} and S&Q to King's Station

Soul Tyrant
•Swap to Shaman Stone + Spell Twister + Dashmaster + Dream Wielder
•Stag to Storerooms (don't bench) and head to Sanctum
•Head through Sanctum (the levers were hit earlier, but there's also a funny skip through the ceiling of the Soul Warrior arena)
•Fight Soul Tyrant and collect the essence {1850}
•S&Q to King's Station

Markoth
•Head through the tunnel to Kingdom's Edge
•Head to Markoth through the lower route
•Fight Markoth (nail 2 makes this a bit harder) and DG to the Seer (skip the essence)

Grey Prince Zote
•Collect Awoken Dream Nail from the Seer
•Stag to Hidden Station (probably keep the same charms?) and set a DG
•Enter and complete White Palace
•Collect Kingsoul and head to the tram
•Bench in the tram (optimally to swap to Shaman Stone + Flukenest + Grimmchild)
•Fight the Grimmkin at the broken bridge (with flukes, apparently it's a lot easier)
•S&Q to the tram and take it to Kingdom's Edge
•Head through the Hive and fight the Grimmkin
•S&Q to the tram and swap to something involving Kingsoul (Dream Wielder + Dashmaster, maybe? idk what's worth the charm swapping)
•Take the tram back to Basin and head down to the Abyss
•Complete the Birthplace cutscene and collect Void Heart
•DG to Hidden Station and stag to Dirtmouth
•Bench (swap to Shaman Stone + Spell Twister + Flukenest)
•Fight Grey Prince Zote (with flukes) and S&Q out of the arena (as soon as it splits)

Failed Champion
•Swap Flukenest for Dream Wielder (+ Dashmaster) for safety, otherwise it doesn't really matter whether or not you leave it on
•Stag to Crossroads (don't bench) and head to Failed Champion
•Fight Failed Champion and S&Q to Dirtmouth (as soon as it splits)

Nightmare King Grimm
•Swap to Shaman Stone + Spell Twister + Dream Wielder + Grimmchild
•Fight Nightmare King Grimm

The Hollow Knight
•Head to the Black Egg (don't unequip Grimmchild, for the meme)
•Fight the Hollow Knight
•Dream nail the Hollow Knight

The Radiance
•Fight the Radiance
•Done