nice% cp

Nice% route (for any patch, assumes 1.4+), credits to glowingicefire for routing it with me

[Geo]
(% completion)


Vengeful Spirit
•Grab Fury of the Fallen (1%)
•S&Q out of King's Pass
•Get early geo for the Crossroads stag (rock before Fury, rock and husk underneath well, Aspid arena) [50]
•Open the Crossroads stag [0] (optionally bench and equip Fury)
•Kill False Knight (2%)
•Collect the City Crest and geo chest [200]
•Collect Vengeful Spirit (3%)
•Grab Soul Catcher (4%) and equip it at the bench (swapping Fury if you equipped it/overcharming if you want to)

Mothwing Cloak
•Head through Greenpath like normal [340]
•Fight Hornet for Mothwing Cloak (7%)
•S&Q to Ancestral Mound

Mantis Claw
•Head down into Fungal Wastes
•Kill the Shrumal Ogres [430] and pick up the charm notch
•Instead of doing epogo, go around and sit at the Bretta bench
•Pick up Dashmaster (8%)
•S&Q back and equip Dashmaster (swapping Fury if you have it on)
•Pick up Mantis Claw (10%)
•Continue to City of Tears

City of Tears
•Pick up the rafters seal and sell it to Lemm [880] (make sure to hit the lever next him)
•Head to Sanctum
•Kill the Soul Warrior [1080]
•Pick up Spell Twister (11%)
•Fight Soul Master and collect Desolate Dive (13%)
•Collect the geo chest [1460] and Hallownest seal
•Exit Sanctum and head to Storerooms
•Grab the Simple Key
•Bench (swap Soul Catcher for Spell Twister) and stag to Crossroads [1260]

Crystal Peak
•Head to the Peak dive entrance
•Head through Peak normally
•Grab the Cornifer idol and the Shopkeeper's Key
•Collect Crystal Heart (15%)
•Head to Crystallized Mound
•Rescue the All Skills grub
•Collect Descending Dark (16%)

Shaman Stone & Elegant Key
•Drop down into Resting Grounds
•Collect Dream Nail (17%)
•Grab Dreamshield (18%)
•Open the Resting Grounds stag and bench
•Dive into crypts
•Head past the elevator
•Hit the lever underneath Xero, kill him, and collect the essence (19%)
•Head across Blue Lake to Salubra
•Buy Shaman Stone (20%) and a charm notch [920]
•Rescue Sly
•Kill Gruz Mother (21%) [970] (S&Q out of the arena after collecting the geo to avoid waiting for her children to spawn)
•Swap Dashmaster for Shaman Stone and stag to Dirtmouth
•Buy Elegant Key [170] and S&Q to Resting Grounds

Lurien & Shade Soul
•Head back into crypts
•Collect the geo chest [~350] and Soul Eater (22%)
•Head down the elevator to King's Station
•Open King's Station [50] (bench is optional)
•Head to Spire
•Kill the Great Husk Sentry [100] and head to Watcher Knights
•Kill the Watcher Knights (23%)
•Absorb Lurien (24%)
•Get the geo chest [~750] and Hallownest seal
•Head to Sanctum
•Kill the Soul Warrior [950] and collect Shade Soul (25%)

Isma's Tear
•Head down to and sell to Lemm (Sanctum seal, Peak idol, & WK seal) [2650]
•Enter Waterways through the manhole
•Head to Dung Defender
•Kill him and pick up Defender's Crest (27%)
•Grab the DD idol (try to save a cast of soul after the fight)
•Exit into the broken elevator shaft
•Do Isma's skips (or go around) and pick up Isma's Tear (29%)

Monarch Wings
•Head down to Basin
•Sit at the toll bench [2500]
•Head through the Mawlurks
•Kill Broken Vessel and collect Monarch Wings (32%)
•S&Q to the toll bench
•Head to Hidden Station
•Stag to Dirtmouth [2200] and bench

Howling Cliffs
•Stag to Dirtmouth and bench (I guess swap Spell Twister for Dashmaster?)
•Head through King's Pass to Cliffs
•Learn Cyclone Slash (33%)
•Kill Gorb (34%)
•Head to lower Cliffs
•Light the Nightmare Lantern
•Grab the Cliffs idol
•Head down to the Baldur Shell arena
•Kill the right Baldur (you can dream nail the left one for soul if necessary) [2250]
•Collect Baldur Shell (35%)
•S&Q to Dirtmouth

Monomon
•Swap Dashmaster for Spell Twister
•Collect Grimmchild (36%) and S&Q to the bench
•Head down the well and grab the well seal
•Head down into Fungal Wastes
•Buy all of Leg Eater's charms & bench [~1000] (39%)
•Head to and kill Elder Hu (40%)
•S&Q
•Head into Fog Canyon to Archives through acid entrance
•Kill Uumuu and absorb Monomon (42%)
•Bench in Archives as you exit (possibly swap Spell Twister for Dashmaster?)

Great Slash & Howling Wraiths
•Head up to Greenpath
•Head left through the Moss Charger rooms
•Pick up Thorns of Agony (43%)
•Grab the acid bridge seal
•Learn Great Slash (44%)
•S&Q to Archives
•Head through "QGA" into Queen's Gardens
•Hit the lever and head up to Overgrown Mound through the gate
•Fight the Squit arena and collect Howling Wraiths (45%)

Herrah
•Head back down to Queen's Gardens
•Fight Petra arena and head through the rooms
•Drop down into Deepnest
•Head through dark Deepnest to weaversong (save the grub for mathulu) (46%)
•head to beasts den
•Skip Beast's Den, kill the Devout [~1050], and absorb Herrah (47%)


King's Brand & The Abyss
•Exit Beast's Den and stag to King's Station [800] (bench and swap Dashmaster for Spell Twister if you swapped it earlier)
•Head through the tunnel to Kingdom's Edge
•Head through the acid to Hornet 2
•Fight her and collect the King's Brand (50%)
•Head back to King's Station
•Stag to Hidden Station
•Head into the Abyss (right-side drop)
•Collect Shade Cloak (52%) and S&Q
•Grab the arcane egg
•Head back left and collect Abyss Shriek (53%)
•Head back to Hidden Station

Kingdom's Edge
•Stag back to King's Station and bench
•Head back to Kingdom's Edge
•Take the lower route this time; kill some Hoppers if you don't have 800 geo [800]
•Head up to Markoth and kill him (54%)
•Head back down to Dash Slash
•Buy Dash Slash [0] (55%) and S&Q to King's Station

Seer & Nail Upgrades
•Stag to Resting Grounds
•Collect all of the Seer's rewards up to Dream Wielder (56%)
•S&Q to King's Station
•Head to Lemm
•Sell all relics (Dung Defender idol, Cliffs idol, well seal, acid bridge seal, Shade Cloak egg, & Seer seal) [4150]
•Head to the Nailsmith
•Buy the first two nail upgrades (with the Seer pale ore) [3100] (58%)
•S&Q to King's Station

Shop Charms
•Stag to Crossroads and bench
•Head to and fight the Glowing Womb arena
•Collect Glowing Womb (59%) and S&Q to the stag
•Head to Salubra
•Buy the rest of her charms (Lifeblood Heart, Longnail, Steady Body, & Quick Focus) [1630] (63%)
•S&Q to the stag
•Stag to Dirtmouth
•Collect Nailmaster's Glory from Sly (64%)
•Exit and re-enter the shop to buy all of Sly's charms (Gathering Swarm, Stalwart Shell, Heavy Blow, & Sprintmaster) [380] (68%)
•Buy Wayward Compass from Iselda (69%) [160]

The Hollow Knight
•Head to the Temple of the Black Egg
•Kill the Hollow Knight
•GG

Note: I'm not sure exactly where in the run it's worth it to swap Spell Twister for Dashmaster, so you can just leave Twister on for the entire run if you want to

If you don't want to do dark weaversong, switch it out for mawleck on your way down to leg eater.