SOTN/Experience Route

Experience Route

Experience Route is the act of killing certain enemies and employing certain tactics along a route with the intent of minimizing the number of level-up animations that occur during a run. Every time Alucard levels up, a short animation (TODO: Detail how long the animation is in frames or seconds) plays and Alucard is frozen in place until it is finished. Normally, Alucard will gain only one level per level-up animation. However, it is possible to combine multiple level increases into a single level-up animation by getting Alucard's XP very close to the threshold needed for a level up, then killing a high XP value enemy (typically a boss). The Experience Route takes advantage of this ability to skip level-up animations to minimize time loss during a run.

Alucard Any% NSC Experience route

TODO: Describe the Experience route for Any%

Experience Route

• 3 zombies
• all 3 skeletons in the first room of alchemy lab
• one green axe lord in the spittlebone room

Slogra and Gaibon Double Kill

• all 3 flea men
• everything in the long hallway
• one blue axe knight
• fast route with sub 8 clock rush
  • kill everything in the outer wall
  • kill sword lord once
  • everything in the long hallway
• playstation / emulator route
  • skip blue axe knight and spear guard
  • everything in the long hallway
  • kill first blade master
  • everything in the long hallway

No Double Kill

• all 3 flea men
• fast route with sub 8 clock rush
  • everything in the long hallway
  • kill both blue axe knights
  • kill everything in the outer wall
  • kill sword lord once
  • everything in the long hallway
• playstation / emulator route
  • skip dipplos before dopple
  • skip both blue axe knights
  • skip blue axe knight and spear guard
  • kill all 3 bone muskets
  • everything in the long hallway
  • kill first blade master
  • everything in the long hallway