This stage is not very hard to do in a speedrun with Alucard as your partner, but it can be very stressful to try to get the second damage boost off of the Axe Armor's axe consistently, especially if you try to do it as fast as possible. Also, it's much easier to kill Death with Trevor but doing so with Alucard saves more time overall since you save about 9 4 seconds by not switching characters total. His fight is slower than Trevor's but you do 2 extra timesless character switches (which would cost you 4.6 seconds each time).