Death's Door - Any% (NMG, Current Patch)

Death's Door - Any% NMG, Current Patch
Notes by Vorime (expanded by TheDancingGrad)
Route crafting by shreshthanigans, kipoints, uppercasserole, its_TFT
https://pastebin.com/Cn9xMWNq
Last update: 6/10/22
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After the final split, there are notes and videos (when available) on strategies or tricks labeled with *** in the notes. Many of these are optional, but as you become more comfortable with the route, feel free to incorporate them for free time save!
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CEMETERY
First Door
	S&Q after Chandler

Demonic Forest Spirit
	Enter Grove
	Shoot button through wall
	*** DFS

Guardian of the Door
	Grab Lost Cemetery Door
	SOUL: spider room (doorway down left from Cemetery Door)
	SOUL: to the right up ladder after first arenas
	*** Pre-Steadhone Arena
	Charged then roll attack on Steadhone (skip regular swipe)
	Go down left and around
	Lever, then left
	*** Guardian of the Door

Cemetery
	Go left after elevator and pull lever
	Enter ground pound sewer
	SOUL: through sewer
	Grey Crow cutscene
	SOUL: inside crypt

FIREBALL
Estate
	SOUL: left after first fire puzzles
	Grab Estate Door
	*** Pothead skip to right side (don't fall into bushes) OR meet Pothead
	*if you don't do Pothead skip, you can S&Q as soon as you grab right side lever if you need health
	after lever, down and left to big fire puzzle
	SOUL: through hedges
	Seed to left if desired
	SOUL: after bench, below/behind archers to left
	Soul check: 1k

Crow 1
	Grab Manor Door
	Upgrade Str2
	S&Q -> Manor
	Head to right-side room
	Key, seed if desired
	Right-side birb (S&Q)

Crow 2
	S&Q -> Manor
	Left-side key door
	*** Viennese waltz mini-boss (big spinny pot)
	Imp loft
	Non-combat birb (no S&Q)

Crow 3
	SOUL: chandelier
	back through hallway then up right door
	grunt arena birb (S&Q)

Crow 4
	S&Q -> Manor
	Top-side key door
	SOUL: on shelf
	Key
	wizard arena birb (S&Q)

Avarice 1 Start

Avarice

BOMB
Gondola
	SOUL x2: post-Avarice
	Take Cemetery door
	go through Guardian arena
	SOUL: near hookshot anchors (fall from bridge after first fire brazier gate)
	Gondola

Horn
	Grab Ruins door (open bomb shortcut from other side)
	SOUL: left after key
	Roll skip before Mother's camp (or go around)
	SOUL: three plant area
	SOUL: turncam (hidden ladder) after fire plant and grunt arena
	Grab Horn

Crow 1
	Head down left
	SOUL: on stump
	Head through double bomb wall to Mother's camp
	after returning horn, S&Q -> Ruins
	Upgrade Str3, then S&Q -> Ruins
	Grab Mushroom Dungeon Door as safety if desired
	Seed on bridge if desired
	Corner roll near fire plant
	SOUL: behind cobweb
	spider arena (no S&Q)

Crow 2
	Roll on breakable walls to down left (or bomb them)
	Use key on bottom right door (no S&Q)

Crow 3
	Walk to outside arena (no S&Q)

Crow 4
	Fire puzzle for key
	die multiple times to hammer bro water arena mathulS (NO S&Q)

Avarice 2 Start
	Exit water arena through top right grate
	SOUL: through entryway to right, roll over vine
	go back the way you came, climb ladder
	Use bomb plant top left to clear block
	Walk through next rooms to get to Ava 2 door

*** Avarice 2

HOOKSHOT
Stranded Sailor
	SOUL: orb to right above first bomb wall
	SOUL: orb gated by 2 fire braziers below second bomb wall
	Soul check: 1k
	Upgrade Str4
	Ladder up near spiders, seed if desired
	Head to Stranded Sailor
	Bomb wall before Barb sees you (saves one text box)

Crow 1
	Grab Castle door
	Close left path to arena (S&Q if health needed)

Crow 2
	Left exit (open air), up ladder
	Left to light torch 1
	*** Arena top right (no S&Q)

Crow 3
	Seed in boxes if desired
	Top path to grab lever, then S&Q
	Through newly opened gate (right)
	Theodoor arena (no S&Q)

Crow 4
	Left ladder to key
	S&Q when key icon appears top left
	far left path, key for arena (S&Q)

Avarice 3 Start
	S&Q -> Castle

Avarice

BETTY
Elevator
	after acquiring Hookshot, die by falling off platform 4 times (Yeet%)
	fast door back into Castle Lockstone
	close left exit from main room to block elevators
	light torch 2 (S&Q on hit)
	far left path from main room, hookshot to key then top right
	*** key path first, torch 3 (no S&Q)
	other path, torch 4 (S&Q on hit)
	SOUL: behind ice after elevator

Camp
	seed in camp key room if desired

Watchtowers
	Grab Watchtowers door
	safety lever if needed
	*** rampart hookshot skip after Bard
	safety lever by runners and hammer bro (before ice arena)
	die multiple times to ice arena

Betty
	Grab Betty door
	*** Betty (S&Q)

FROG KING
Enter Fortress
	after LoD, ruins door to Dungeon bomb entrance (down right)
	SOUL: before bomb entrance (bomb both)
	SOUL: after plant and inner bomb entrance

Fortress
	seed near mace button if needed
	*** optional final gate kronk skip (before Fortress door)
	safety door at Fortress
	after runners and fire plant, shoot arrow up/left to aggro boomerang
	*** hookshot to boomer, bomb wall
	*** elite archer hookshot if you're lucky
	either:
		- *** magehookn't
		- magehook (after seed pot, wait in window for mage to appear, cry)
		watch current top runs to see how either strat works or see below for magehookn't (which is far more consistent than magehook), hard to describe via text

Frog King
	Grab Frog King door
	*** Frog King (S&Q)

GRANDMA
Observation
	Upgrade Str5 and Dex1
	Head to Manor door
	first room after elevator, roll skip to left on railing
	fire furnace before Grandma sees you (stand far right in the middle on the stairs before Grandma, aim fire to just left of her)

Furnace
	Grab Furnace door
	optional hookshot skips in square platforms with pits to skip geometry

Grandma
	Grab Grandma door
	Grandma (S&Q)

BOSS RUSH
Grey Crow
	Cemetery to Summit via first arena and sewer ladder
	Die multiple times

Gauntlet
	after Death cutscene, S&Q
	Upgrade Dex2, then S&Q
	*** Parkour

The Last Lord

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QUICK KILLS, SPEED STRATS, AND SKIPS

General tips:
- A light attack (tap regular attack button) deals 1x damage; a heavy attack (tap charge attack button) deals 2x damage; a fully charged heavy attack (hold charge attack button until you hear a ding and then release) deals 3x damage.
- A roll-slash (roll and buffer the heavy attack button) deals 2x damage.
- Deflected projectiles deal 2x the damage of the attack that deflected them.
- There is a cooldown after three successive light attacks during which you cannot attack. So, the preferable regular damage rotations (when you have time to use them between enemy attacks) are heavy-light-light (HLL) or light-light-heavy-light-light.
- A grunt at any stage of this run will die in one heavy attack and one light attack; this is preferable to three light attacks since the heavy will stun the grunt and prevent them from damaging you.

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DFS quick(est) kill
- Stand at the bottom left of DFS and repeat HLL (heavy-light-light -- see General Tips above) damage rotation. You may need to adjust your position slightly to avoid vines as the fight goes on, but just keep up the HLL pattern and fight is basically over.
- Check out TFT's Community Sum of Best [comsob] fight as of 6/7/22: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eptoZ0FGW-0

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Pre-Steadhone Arena
- Check out TFT's tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqFgD3Hxx9g&list=PLpdEuGiXxfjJqCS8K62M2LNmv8Edpda83&index=2

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Guardian of the Door
- Check out Vorime's tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5j7zMffciQ

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Pothead skip:
- Check out Vorime's tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwnoSCEsX48

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Big Pot:
- Check out Uppercasserole's safe big pot strats, described with images here: https://discord.com/channels/867378517519106080/868072051984977931/984597153735389214
- To access the previous link, you will need to join the Death's Door Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/b27AgZ4fJf

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Avarice 2

- Check out TFT's tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzZsRAGEY00&list=PLpdEuGiXxfjJqCS8K62M2LNmv8Edpda83&index=2

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Castle Lockstone Crow 2 Arena:
- Check out Vorime's comsob fight (as of 6/7/22) for the order of spells and attacks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QodO6Ay-Qk&t=2493s
- Note that the hitbox for the last mage of the first wave hangs out even as the mage seems to be disappearing; that's how the second bomb works.

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Castle Lockstone Torch 3 Puzzle Skip:
- When on the rightmost pillar, shoot an arrow to the center box to elevate the block you're standing on.
- Then roll towards the stone pillar right of the gate -- you will land on top (if aimed correctly) and you can walk across the gate.
- Check out Vorime's comsob split (as of 6/7/22), timestamped to the proper point: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1449616321?t=0h50m7s

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Watchtowers Hookshot Skip:
- After the elevator with Barb, roll onto the rampart directly to the left of the elevator and get to the top edge.
- Use hookshot on your right mouse button (hold to aim, release to fire) to aim the spell at the anchor across the gate.
- Hookshot to it to skip the entire left side of the Watchtowers.
- Check out Vorime's comsob split (as of 6/7/22), timestamped to the proper point: https://youtu.be/_yLZsEeJqf0?t=3254

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Betty Fight:

general principles:
- remember that iframes (invincibility frames) on your roll are early in the animation, not late
- roll-slash = roll + heavy input (not roll + light input)
- roll-slash = 2x damage from a light slash
- fully charged heavy = 3x damage from a light slash

on fight open (with cutscene):
- hookshot in
- two (or three?) light slashes
- roll-slash
- roll-slash
- begin charging heavy to full while betty jumps

when betty lands (she will keep you within her hitbox on landing ideally):
- release fully charged heavy
- one light slash
- three roll-slashes (time your rolls to iframe her ground slams)

once snowballs begin:
- regular HLL damage rotations till dead

Check out TheDancingGrad's sample Betty fight (ignoring the hookslash at the beginning unless you've acquired the hookshot upgrade for comfort): https://clips.twitch.tv/FreezingAliveFerretDeIlluminati-sddPEtvla5QENMDk

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Optional Final Gate Kronk Skip (before Fortress door):
- Check out Vorime's right-side gate kronk skip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDAhZRqTdHc

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Boomer hookshot:
- After killing the first grunts and the fire plant past the first main gate, shoot an arrow left at the boomer.
- Then switch to hookshot and hookshot to the boomer once he lands at the rightmost corner of his platform.
- Check out Vorime's comsob split (as of 6/7/22) for an example, timestamped to the proper point: https://youtu.be/1QodO6Ay-Qk?t=3834

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Elite Archer hookshot:
- After the boomer hookshot skip and the first bombed wall, you may be able to hookshot across to the elite archer if he's positioned correctly (or pushed into the correct position by the archer or grunts). This is a matter of pure RNG and luck, so uh, yeah, good luck.
- Check out Vorime's comsob split (as of 6/7/22) for an example, timestamped to the proper point: https://youtu.be/1QodO6Ay-Qk?t=3843

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Magehookn't:
- Proceed through Flooded Fortress as you would through a regular playthrough, past the bomb wall with the hammer bro, grunts, and archers leading to platforms with pink switches.
- Once you reach the island with the pot in the middle of it, stand at the leftmost pillar (directly right of it, up against the edge of the platform).
- Use your mouse (hold right click to aim, release to fire) and aim up at the left pink lobe of the pink switch to proc it.
- Profit.
- Check out Vorime's comsob split (as of 6/7/22) for an example, timestamped to the proper point: https://youtu.be/1QodO6Ay-Qk?t=3858

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Frog King fight
- As soon as the Frog King text intro ends, roll behind Frog King and smack his butt.
- Wait at the edge of a square until it shakes, then move just across the seam to the next square.
- Light attack (L) as soon as Frog King flips his mace, then advance and hit again (to get all 3 hits for first phase in quickly).
- Wait on second-from-the-bottom-square and charge a full heavy attack while Frog King gears up.
- As soon as Frog King lands, release and do your regular HLL combos.
- When Frog King is in the water bottom right, use bombs or fire to get damage (the latter can double hit).
- Charge full heavy and release when Frog King turns around; use that to begin a HLL-HLLL combo.
- Roll away and bomb Frog King's mouth when he opens it.
- Keep up HLL damage throughout transition to Frog King in water up left.
- When he's in water up left, use bombs or fire again.
- When he turns around, keep up HLL damage while balancing on the top left ledge, shifting back and forth between Frog King's hands.
- Ideally, he will die during this last phase.
- Check out Vorime's world record run (as of 6/7/22) for an example, timestamped here to the proper point: https://youtu.be/HSDeSuFmRX8?t=3828

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Gauntlet:
- After each of the arenas, there is a place to stand after dealing the requisite amount of damage to transition to the next phase of the gauntlet instantly as soon as Lord of Doors snaps their hand.
- Check out Vorime's sample video and the imgur album linked in the description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mULataeL7ac