Cuphead - Cagney Carnation in 33.97s - Version 1.1.5 - Lobber/Spread Route

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Grondious

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Published on April 13, 2023 7:45:34 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id-y30TqBx0

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Cuphead (2017)

Duration: 0:51

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I have been practicing Cuphead again for when I return to V1.1+ Any% and wanted to share this new best time I got with the first 33 second Cagney in this category!

Last time I ran this category I didn't even think a 34 was possible, but Clipboard proved that wrong by getting that time in a real full run. I studied his fight and took some inspiration from it and ended up with my own variation of it. (You can see that video here if you are interested in his strategy https://youtu.be/mr0CdVsS9PU )

Some of this is not new but I will detail some of the things I am going for during this fight. Also I want to say before that, that I am using a mod to see the hitboxes and bosses HP and an accurate In-game timer, this video is meant to show the strategy and what's possible as a human player (since I performed it with input display at the bottom), and not meant to be a serious IL submission to speedrun.com or anything of the sort.

One of the main things you'll see me doing is when Cagney is bobbing back and forth, I try my best to jump and get a little bit of spreadshot off on him when he bobs forward since most or all of the bullets can hit there and spread does more damage than lobber. I also set up some lobber traps (up and down bouncing lobbers) while waiting on him to lunge so he lunges into him and I miss no bullets that way.

My main goal is to not use any EX's early so I don't progress his subphases (he has different attack patterns depending on his HP) too quickly to increase my odds of a favorable pattern for consistency in real run purposes. Although once he starts up the "pods" attack where he can shoot the spinning thing or fire the acorns at you, then I use two lobber EX's to help me dodge things and get some more damage on him (using a technique called kaleva swaps where you weapon swap after pressing EX to allow yourself to shoot bullets even during an EX animation).

Then for the final phase, after sneaking some spread in during the hitbox changes, I also want to use one more lobber EX. I wait to see if there will be a vine under the right most platform that I am standing on, that way I can use my EX card to jump to the right and use the EX to hover in the air and damage the boss, but in this attempt he did the vines on the platforms I wasn't on which is great RNG so I just walked forward a bit and used the EX directly in his face to get some more spread bullets in during it using those Kaleva swaps I mentioned.

Now comes the interesting part, I jump in and damage boost into Cagney, aim at him the best I can and get as far to the right as possible, then from that position I use the lock button and get off a lobber EX facing down left, this can make the lobber EX blow up on the ground which in this patch does double damage, and because of some weird hitbox collision thing with Cagneys vine there is even a chance the lobber EX glitches further and will blow up for triple damage.

After doing that EX I shoot some spread straight up to hit Cagney until I get hit a 2nd time, then during the invincibility, I shoot 2 more down left lobber EX's (also letting out a regular lobber straight up in-between each EX to maximize damage), and all these double/triple damage lobber EX's and final bullets just blow him up!

I am not sure if I will go into these detailed explanations on all the fights I upload or how many bosses I will upload new vids for, but since this was the first sub 34 Cagney, I had to share it and the strat that made it happen in case some of you find it interesting or helpful.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy and consider subscribing if you want to see more Cuphead content coming in the future or other speedrunning content and such :D

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