[Guide] Ecila Speedrun Tutorial
I feel like this could have been done a lot better but it is something to help get started with Ecila.
Some things I forgot or could have gone more in depth with:
- Clips need an sharp angle of about 45 deg or sharper to work.
- I use a mix of weapons and did not talk about when I swap them too much, but using a mix of the weapons is the key to fast combat.
- The reason we can't use the oob to skip 2 areas (weapon pickup areas) is because we need all energy pickups. And even if we pickup the speed boost trinket it still is slower then going back again, + swamp boss will be slow without weapons.
- Heat drops on bosses is set after a fixed amount of damage is dealt (Not by %of max health as they drop after same amount of hits on higher difficultys even tho they have more health)
- And timing the heat drops is key to fast bosses, sometimes having a "bad" start can be better because we gain more damage on next phase without boss disrupting.
- The final boss wave cutscene wave attack can't kill you, but still avoiding it is better.
To point out the key point that you should focus on for practice:
- First boss skip, if you want to go for it.
- Swamp skip, it is easy but also easy to make mistakes at
- Swamp boss, even if you just want to go for 3 cycle it is very easy to die at it.
- Icy skip, not hard but you don't want to make a mistake at it as it cost a lot of time.
But the most important key to go fast is to get good at the wave spawns and 2nd boss(mage)/last boss (2nd phase).