[TAS] Dustforce - Knight Hall SS in 0:28.649
20Another unexpected Dustkid level!
At least so far, my fastest attempt at a Dustkid route has turned out more than a second faster than the fastest I could come up with for Dustman. She has the air control necessary to carefully manage her height while attacking entirely airborne in a couple of key sections, allowing her to maintain constant dash speed (or better) rather than having to slow down due to friction.
For example, this level of control allows her to clean the floor as she carries enemies to the right and cleans them just before the first super, allowing her to get a groundboost, then super late enough to clean the ceiling up ahead while still catching all the floor dust she jumped over setting up for the boost. A similar section appears as she cleans the last two enemies before the final slopeboost.
However, the most interesting section to me is the section starting about 18 seconds in, ending with a chain of extremely rapid attacks and airdashes before dropping down to clean up that knight and treasure chest. The fact that Dustkid's downheavies could just barely reach the ceiling dust turned out to be very important, since it allows her to clean that dust without spreading dust from the enemies with upheavies, and her downheavies have sufficient horizontal reach that she can do so without slowing down or missing dust. This, combined with airdash boosts off of enemy hits, means she gradually accelerates over the course of the section from 157% to 175% of dash speed before finally dropping to the ground.
It also turned out that saving a super for the end, rather than supering a few enemies near the end and getting a better slopeboost then building up another super for the last few enemies, saves quite a bit of time for both Man and Kid... on the order of 0.3-0.4s for Man, and even more for Kid. Probably less if not done optimally, but it makes me wonder if someone will take the #1 spot with a two-super run.
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