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No Major Glitches Detailed Rules

Oct 3rd, 2018 (edited)
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  1. Any Glitch that is not listed here should be considered banned until you've clarified its status with the mods. Any new glitch discovered should also be considered banned until its status is decided. Please direct any questions to us on the Hollow Knight Speedrun Community Discord: https://discord.gg/3JtHPsBjHD
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  3. Allowed Glitches:
  4. -Any glitch that is performed accidentally and provides no benefit to the runner.
  5. -Wallcling storage, so long as glitchless movement through the same space with current items and room state is available to the player.
  6. -Inventory storage, in cases where it is clearly accidental and no benefit is gained e.g. when falling into Deepnest near Spore Shroom.
  7. -Gaining early control by pausing and unpausing, as long as it doesn't result in a major glitch like text storage e.g. leaving seer's room early after acquiring Dream Nail.
  8. -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.
  9. -Opening inventory in midair to drop faster and cancel the landing animation.
  10. -Gaining early control by hitting a hazard with inventory open.
  11. -Falling off a ledge shortly after landing on it in order to cancel the landing animation.
  12. -Using Dream Nail to gain early control while collecting the Essence from Dream Warriors.
  13. -Killing Elder Baldurs instantly by hitting them from offscreen.
  14. -Abusing incorrect hazard respawn locations e.g. the hazard warp below the first arena in Queen's Gardens.
  15. -Causing tolls to activate early by looking down.
  16. -Gaining early control by taking intentional damage e.g. the Hollow Knight scream skip.
  17. -Hitting levers, grubs or other interactable objects through walls e.g. the lever skip in the Watcher's Spire.
  18. -Storing Dash Slash casts with inventory.
  19. -Maintaining Fury of the Fallen buff despite not being at 1HP by picking up a charm notch.
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  21. Banned Glitches:
  22. -Any glitch which results in invulnerability.
  23. -Any glitch which results in the character becoming invisible or will result in a invisible character with no additional player input.
  24. -Any glitch which allows the player to get Out of Bounds.
  25. -Any glitch using Main Menu Storage.
  26. -Any glitch which breaks Boss AI such that they are severely limited from moving or attacking.
  27. -Wallcling storage, if major benefit is gained from using it.
  28. -Wallcling slides (where the knight achieves superslide speed using nail recoil during wallcling storage).
  29. -Unclinged wallcling storage (where the knight collides with a curved surface during WCS, losing the wallcling animation while keeping the ability to continuously dash midair).
  30. -Chaining jumps from airwalk, if performed on purpose or if any benefit is gained from using it.
  31. -Inventory storage, if performed on purpose or if any benefit is gained from using it.
  32. -Float glitch, if performed on purpose or if any benefit is gained from using it.
  33. -Dying with inventory open to regain control.
  34. -Quick Map storage.
  35. -Focus storage.
  36. -Superdash storage.
  37. -Unovercharm glitch.
  38. -Notch duping.
  39. -Item duping.
  40. -Room duping.
  41. -Duping enemy kills with flukenest on older patches.
  42. -Superslides.
  43. -Thorn warps.
  44. -Hazard warps achieved by gaining early control on a room transition.
  45. -Televator.
  46. -Maintaining Fury of the Fallen buff despite not being at 1HP by leaving a dream at 1HP with Dreamgate.
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