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 Hollow Knight All Skills Current Patch
 
 Derived From emray's route: https://www.speedrun.com/hollowknight/guide/axywk
 
 See also ins0mnia's Lemmn't variation: https://pastebin.com/D5w5jypy
 
 === VENGEFUL SPIRIT ===
 King's Pass
 Dirtmouth
 Forgotten Crossroads
 Skip False Knight
 Vengeful Spirit
 
 === GREENPATH ===
 Ancestral Mound
 Elder Baldur (+50)
 Bench not required; game sets bench here
 Elder Baldur (+50)
 
 === MOTHWING CLOAK ===
 Fireball Skips
     - Runs and resources in the HK Discord can help learn these
-FC Stag (-50)
+
 * Potential Geo: Vengeful King (+65)
     - Geo route is a bit up-in-the-air at the moment
 2x Moss Knight and Geo nodes (+170)
 Greenpath Stag (-140)
     - DO NOT BENCH
 Hornet
-CoT elevator room (+80)
+
-*** HALLOWNEST SEAL ***
+
-Benching is ok
+
 Geo Rocks + Two Amblooms (+43)
 Optional: Explosion pogo
     - saves...20-30 seconds?
     - emray's tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uztaN_toC_U
 Mantis Claw
 Save & Quit -> Ancestral Mound
 
 === SHAMAN STONE ===
 Forgotten Crossroads Stag (-50)
 Gruz Mother (+50)
 Shaman Stone (-220)
 
 === GORGEOUS HUSK ===
-Sanctum Escape: get Hallownest Seal
+
 Save Sly
-Rest (DO NOT BENCH AGAIN)
+
-Go to Lemm and sell (+900)
+City of Tears elevator room (+80)
     - Note: all 80 might not be needed here? Could probably skip the row of enemies next to the journal
 Detour to King's Station for the Hallownest Seal
     - Good safety bench
-Stag to Crossroads
+    - ** Alternate Geo can be the chest after
-CPeaks Dive Entrance
+      Soul Master if you want to skip this detour
 Gorgeous Husk (+460)
 
 === DESOLATE DIVE ===
 Open fountain lever
 Spire pogo
 Spire bench is ok for safety
 Great Husk Sentry (+50)
 Open top lever
 Soul Twister (+25)
 Soul Warrior (+200)
-Stag to Dirtmouth
+
-Purchase Elegant Key (-800)
+
-Learn the Cyclone Slash
+
 === KING'S STATION ===
 Sanctum Escape
     - ** If skipped King's Station Seal earlier, get 380 Geo from chest
     - Hallownest Seal
 Sanctum Toll Bench (-150)
 Bench
-Go to Spire, fight WK
+    - DO NOT BENCH AGAIN FOR A WHILE
 Go to Lemm and sell (+900; or +450 if got chest instead)
-= MONARCH WINGS AND ISMA'S TEAR =
+
-Can be done in either order.
+    - DO NOT BENCH
-Optimally, get Isma's Tear on the way to Basin for Wings,
+
-rather than detouring before Dash Slash.
+
 Stag -> Crossroads
     - DO NOT BENCH
 Crystal Peaks Dive Entrance
 Shopkeeper's Key
 Consume the Crystal Heart
 
 === DESCENDING DARK ===
 Dark room
     - There are consistent setups with Crystal Dash
 Crystallized Mound
 Crystal Hunters are rude
 
 === DREAM NAIL ===
 Don't fall!
-Detour to Isma's
+
 === CYCLONE SLASH ===
 Open Resting Grounds Stag
     - DO NOT BENCH
 Stag -> Dirtmouth
     - DO NOT BENCH
 Elegant Key (-800)
 King's Pass -> Howling Cliffs
-Safety bench ok
+Cyclone Slash
 Save & Quit -> Sanctum Toll Bench
 
 === SHADE SOUL ===
 Soul Warrior (+200)
 
 === LURIEN ===
 Go to Spire via upper path
 Chandelier
 fight Watcher Knights
 
 ====*** MONARCH WINGS AND ISMA'S TEAR ***====
 - Can be done in either order.
 - Isma's skips can be made easier with Wings.
-Safety bench ok
+- Optimally, get Isma's Tear on the way to Basin for Monarch Wings,
 rather than detouring from King's Station before Dash Slash.
 - Pinned in HK Discord #all-skills is a comprehensive Isma's skip guide.
 
 === MONARCH WINGS ===
-QGA Entrance -> Lever
+
 WK Geo Chest (+655) (need 1500)
 Spiky Basin Shaft
 Basin Bench (-150)
-Back to QG
+
 Monarch Wings
 Save & Quit -> Basin Bench
 
-Stalking Devouts have 43 Geo if needed
+
 *** Wings before Tear route ***
 Hidden Station (-300)
 Stag -> King's Station
 Bench
 Detour to Spiky Basin Shaft
 Isma's skips
-Safety Bench ok
+
-Right side drop
+
-Shade Cloak (S/Q to skip animation)
+
 Kingdom's Edge
 Dash Slash (-800)
-Yelling
+
 === KING'S BRAND ===
 Camp bench is ok for safety
-Left side climb
+
-Stag -> Dirthmouth
+
 
-Bench ok for healing, not needed for safety
+
-(game hard saves the bench there at start of THK fight)
+
 Stag -> Greenpath
 Bench
 Great Slash
 Save & Quit -> Greenpath Stag
 
 === MONOMON ===
 Stag -> Dirtmouth
 Forgotten Crossroads
 Fog Canyon Acid Entrance
 Teacher's Archives Bench is ok for safety
 Fight Uumuu
 Monomon
 
 === HOWLING WRAITHS ===
 Queen's Gardens Acid Entrance
 Open lever to Overground Mound
 Howling Wraiths
 
 === HERRAH ===
 Back down to Queen's Gardens
 Head to Deepnest entrance
 Dark rooms
 Beast's Den skip
 Stalking Devouts have +43 Geo if needed
 Herrah
 
 === SHADE CLOAK ===
 Hi Hornet, bye Hornet
 Distant Village Stag (-250)
 Stag -> Hidden Station
 Hidden Station bench is ok for safety
 Right side Abyss drop
 Sibling Climb
 Shade Cloak (Save & Quit after split to skip animation)
 
 === ABYSS SHRIEK ===
 Yell
 
 === THK SCREAM ===
 Left side Abyss climb
 Stag -> Dirtmouth
 Black Egg Temple
 Bench is ok for healing, not needed for safety
     - game hard saves the bench there at start of THK fight
 
 === THE HOLLOW KNIGHT ===
 Don't die