Also I think manipulating enemies into fusing stuff for you is fine, it's way more difficult than using the fuse ability yourself and has a ton of limitations.
@@sinteleon oh I thought that was only regular constructs, captain constructs seem to have the swords as part of their arms so I didn’t think it was possible with them. It never happened for me at least but idk maybe it’s possible, even so it would still take quite a bit of effort to get them a different weapon
I think it's fine, and I think it's especially fine for the no runes challenge. A no runes challenge is almost what would happen if Link never had his arm destroyed, so how would link, without the special arm, manage? Personally, I would love a challenge where Link is still using the Shika slate. Boo to lack of continuity!
I think the idea is that most of the pre-fused items you find in the world were put together with mundane crafting techniques like glue or twine, with the obvious exception of certain zonai enemies.
@@TsarBomba69420 This is annoying when I want to steal parts to make a hoverbike. Luckily, sometimes the parts are attached to wooden objects and you can just burn them.
I was here at 1.7k subs. I feel my sub was a butterfly effect to something fantastic. Best of luck sir. You have my support. You deserve hundreds of thousands of subs and you will get there.
I prefer using opal for the muktorok boss because the explosion is so big it clears almost all of the sludge, just don’t stay close because it does a ton of damage to you
@@NoahHalfSquid the explosion only occur when throwing it or fusing the opal to an arrow, thats kind of its downsides because you don’t throw that far so you have to run away from the explosion most of the time
Now don’t use ascend or recall. 1:23 An interesting idea I had is to use the captain constructs to see if they can fuse objects to your shield for you, although I haven’t tested it.
Yeah, "No Runes" is going to be super hard. No idea whether the constructs can fuse to shields. I considered testing it more thoroughly, but once I decided not to use the mechanic it would have just been a waste of time.
@@Drengodr I’m going to start testing soon and I’ve just beat ultrahand without speed up food or bomb arrows. Instead of the chest you can use the hook thing, and using a spear moves it much faster.
@@sinteleon You can’t. The shield spring comes from a chest which won’t respawn the shield unfortunately. Besides, that doesn’t help tackle the main problem which is getting of the GSI, which is very difficult and perhaps even impossible in some versions of the game.
@@Aperson-kq7pt You can. Just.. not in that way. You can duplicate the shield via Save Load Duping. If you’re going to say glitches are barred… then don’t. It is impossible without glitches + glitchless runs are not entertaining to watch.
I like how you still went to get the armor and for the Goron fight I actually decided to beat the entire fight by just spamming heals during my NORMAL save, because I missed the armor
watched your vid, and was really shocked to see you only have 3000 subscribers. production quality is IMHO en par with the ones 100x your subcribers. great delivery/script, im normally a person that skips a lot in videos, was never once tempted in this one. keep going dude, you deserve way more attention.
8:23 this is actually genius and you should be proud of coming up with it and I don't think it breaks the rules. Super smart to have them fuse it for you
The portable updrafts are now wood, set wood on fire, toss in hylian pinecone/oil jar. They make massive updrafts that are while annoying because of the cost, rather good.
fun fact; creating a campfire by throwing a fire fruit at a bundle of wood, can give you height. all you need to do is throw a hylian pinecone into it.
If you allow glitches for your no rune run, you can use the jump-attack shield-switch bullet-time glitch to get infinite height. I feel like it would be required just to do some of the first shrines but I'm not sure
The infinite height glitch you mean. While possible, it is extremely time consuming and difficult to pull off, especially in the ascend shrine. Also, it requires pressing the L button, which I would take as an L in a no-abilities run.
9:42 they remove the updraft from spicy pepers but put it on hylian cones and hylian cones gives much more updraft than peperrs it's like a mini revalis gale
I actually found a moblin horn hammer in the loot from taking out an enemy camp once. One of them must’ve been using it, which I didn’t realize was possible, and haven’t seen anything like that since since
Runeless is impossible in BotW. In TotK.. it is also impossible. The camera rune is required for 2 main quests. Camerawork in the Depths, and Secret of the Ring Ruins.
@@catalyst539 Runeless is not possible in botw. I beat the plateau runeless in 2020, and Limcube published a youtube video on beating all shrines runeless around a year ago. In totk it is possible, if you aren’t on the current patch. The camera isn’t necessary to beat the game.
Great run! I am currently in the middle of a pausless run (no + - d-pad, and rune selection. Basically I get to use the rune once on the GSI and am stuck on recall for the whole game. After 1 mandatory pause, the game is entirely doable. Hope you try it out!
The D-Pad is allowed. The pause functions are not. Tell me, does whistling pause the game? Edit: Is the 1 mandatory pause actually 1? I believe it is 2. There are 2 I know of: Selecting the Camera to take a picture of that statue in the Depths (unless it is autoselected but i don’t think so) Selecting the Camera to take a picture of the stone tablet at the beginning of the Secret of the Ring Ruins quest.
@@catalyst539 The camera isn’t necessary to beat the game. Secondly, the majority of the d-pad pauses the game; whistling is the only exception, and is useless anyway, so the d-pad doesn’t need to be used.
Thanks! Although it doesn't work for me with the pinecone in shrines (here's a demo): ruclips.net/video/79Qo8y4WlB4/видео.html. Am I doing something wrong?
@@Drengodr I remember in BOTW creating wind with fire was disabled in shrines. I'm pretty sure it's the same in TOTK, which is pretty funny considering the twenty other methods the game has for cheesing shrines.
Tips on optimizing your run. Natak shrine, Rotate the sphere so that the hole is right in front of you, change the angle of the spring and shoot it forward onto the island. Then jump out the hole and back in, under the floor to enjoy a sages will. For the armies, use puffshroons and sneak strike them for 8x damage and save you a bunch of durability. Hindi Queen, use dazzle fruits, they hurt her and Gibson like… ALOT lol Demon king, when he throws those balls at you, hit them back at him, if they surround you, do a spin attack to launch them all back at him
Thanks, those are some good ideas! Although rotating the ball that much more in Natak shrine would have destroyed the rest of my bows, and I didn't want to do that
Just a note: you can still do a pseudo bomb-shield jump if you place a bomb on the ground, then shield jump onto it. The height might differ, but I'm not sure
Love your challenge vid. I am challenging myself to beat every shrine without paragliders. I am sure it is not possible. Knowing some of the Shrines. I would love to see you try
A challenge I'm doing right now that I'd love to see someone else attempt is beating the game without ever touching the ground (meaning without ever unlocking the surface level map). It's fun trying to navigate the sky islands and depths without a paraglider, and you can't fast travel between them until you unlock the surface layer which creates some interesting challenges
It would be insanely easy if item duping was allowed so I'm doing it glitchless, which I think will probably be the norm for challenge runs considering how trivial they would be otherwise
I feel like getting the master sword would make a lot of sense for this. Would make the final boss rush way easier. You would need to get 20 shrines for the stamina requirement, but you already do that and more for this one. Once you’ve got the sword just switch the stamina back to hearts. But the upgraded master sword is a decent weapon in the boss rush. Idk just makes sense to me.
I think the reason u couldn’t make the updrafts is that they changed it so that the fire has to be there first, either in a campfire or just burning grass, and then throwing on the pepper, pine cone or oil
This is the closest I could find to a question I was pondering: Whether it is possible to complete ToTK without building nor joining anything. That is to say I'd personally allow Ultra-Hand for picking things up to move them (like Magnesis in BotW) but NOT for sticking them together. I WOULD allow Amiibos and glitches, as long as they don't involve sticking anything together. I would NOT allow pre-fused items... or at least not without breaking them apart first. It completely defeats the purpose otherwise. ... But I couldn't find anything about that. This was the closest, and since it uses fused items while also banning moving things with ultrahand AND bans glitches, it is pretty far off what I was hunting for...
I think that you can make a captain construct make the fused weapon you want by giving it the weapon you want as a base after removing its original weapon, removing everything around it except for the item you want to fuse to the base, let the construct use fuse, then defeat it. Boom. Fused item acquired.
No runes, no paraglider no Sonia devices and no dungeons and you also have to complete as many shrines as possible before doing the final fight😈? (U can use glitches)
I got one for ya' Legend of Zelda, But you can only use "Magic" Aka, you can only use the special effects that come from infusions to deal damage. Ruleset: - You can only do damage with the effects from infusions, not any weapons - You can use infusions on weapons, but only for the differing effects from the materials fused on them, not the weapon's actual stats - You are only required to beat the final boss and the final attack does not count against the run - Additional Optional Goal: Find the most wizard looking drip for Link that you can.
mas·och·ism noun the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from one's own pain or humiliation. "with things such as bondage and masochism, it's all right if you both go for it" (in general use) the enjoyment of what appears to be painful or tiresome. "isn't there some masochism involved in taking on this kind of project?"
Can you beat Tears of the Kingdom WITHOUT Runes? ruclips.net/video/fKjXUqgawi4/видео.html
Also I think manipulating enemies into fusing stuff for you is fine, it's way more difficult than using the fuse ability yourself and has a ton of limitations.
It’s also just an incredibly creative solution to the problem and also has some limitations, like you can only fuse zonaite swords through that method
@@JacobPDeIiNoNi Not quite true I think?. If you disarm constructs, they'll pick up other available weapons.
@@sinteleon oh I thought that was only regular constructs, captain constructs seem to have the swords as part of their arms so I didn’t think it was possible with them. It never happened for me at least but idk maybe it’s possible, even so it would still take quite a bit of effort to get them a different weapon
I think it's fine, and I think it's especially fine for the no runes challenge. A no runes challenge is almost what would happen if Link never had his arm destroyed, so how would link, without the special arm, manage? Personally, I would love a challenge where Link is still using the Shika slate. Boo to lack of continuity!
I think the idea is that most of the pre-fused items you find in the world were put together with mundane crafting techniques like glue or twine, with the obvious exception of certain zonai enemies.
Hmm that could be true
The Yiga builds can't be broken with ultrahand because they are nailed together
@@TsarBomba69420 This is annoying when I want to steal parts to make a hoverbike. Luckily, sometimes the parts are attached to wooden objects and you can just burn them.
@@Aperson-kq7ptyou can just get the schematic and autobuild what the Yiga have
@@chadsworthgigafuck7076 I want to build a hoverbike. Not a random floating box.
AKA just playing breath of the wild in tears of the kingdom
Something like that
@@atothebtothezakadonutlord2951 short answer:no
Tears of the Wild
@@lucasboi7623 long answer: it is impossible.
@@slumptydumpty3058 breath of the kingdom
Props to Yunobo for enduring your shenanigans for the last bit of the run.
I fully support having constructs fuse weapons for you, that's so cool!
I was here at 1.7k subs. I feel my sub was a butterfly effect to something fantastic.
Best of luck sir. You have my support. You deserve hundreds of thousands of subs and you will get there.
I prefer using opal for the muktorok boss because the explosion is so big it clears almost all of the sludge, just don’t stay close because it does a ton of damage to you
He can't fuse the opal to a weapon though????
@@NoahHalfSquid the explosion only occur when throwing it or fusing the opal to an arrow, thats kind of its downsides because you don’t throw that far so you have to run away from the explosion most of the time
@@NoahHalfSquid
A construct can do it for you.
I respect the confidence you have for saying dislike the video of you don't enjoy it, no one says that. You just got a subscriber
“dislike the video if you hate it” Finally, a youtuber who knows what like and dislike mean
Yeah, I do appreciate the feedback! It's so dumb that YT hid dislikes :(
“Yunobo was an invaluable asset to the run, I couldn’t have asked for a better meat shield.”
Now don’t use ascend or recall.
1:23 An interesting idea I had is to use the captain constructs to see if they can fuse objects to your shield for you, although I haven’t tested it.
Yeah, "No Runes" is going to be super hard. No idea whether the constructs can fuse to shields. I considered testing it more thoroughly, but once I decided not to use the mechanic it would have just been a waste of time.
@@Drengodr I’m going to start testing soon and I’ve just beat ultrahand without speed up food or bomb arrows. Instead of the chest you can use the hook thing, and using a spear moves it much faster.
For shields, because objects in shrines respawn, you can just use that to stock up on spring shields I believe.
@@sinteleon You can’t. The shield spring comes from a chest which won’t respawn the shield unfortunately. Besides, that doesn’t help tackle the main problem which is getting of the GSI, which is very difficult and perhaps even impossible in some versions of the game.
@@Aperson-kq7pt
You can. Just.. not in that way.
You can duplicate the shield via Save Load Duping.
If you’re going to say glitches are barred… then don’t. It is impossible without glitches + glitchless runs are not entertaining to watch.
I literally hadn't liked or subscribed before you said to do so, but I appreciate your work and I did as you said.
18:52 "Don't spend it all in one place" ... 1 rupee, which is inherently non-divisible. Well played.
Well Done! Amazing! You're fantastic. Keep up the good work!
I like how you still went to get the armor and for the Goron fight I actually decided to beat the entire fight by just spamming heals during my NORMAL save, because I missed the armor
This guy's beaten the game at least twice, with challenges, meanwhile I haven't visited the castle yet
You should beat the game without a bow. 10/10 experience.
watched your vid, and was really shocked to see you only have 3000 subscribers. production quality is IMHO en par with the ones 100x your subcribers. great delivery/script, im normally a person that skips a lot in videos, was never once tempted in this one. keep going dude, you deserve way more attention.
He's up to 35k now!
8:23 this is actually genius and you should be proud of coming up with it and I don't think it breaks the rules. Super smart to have them fuse it for you
Thanks!
dude how do you not have like half a mil subs. great vid, such high quality.
Still figuring out the algorithm, but I do try to maintain quality! Thanks for the kind words.
The editing quality is insane! Keep up the good work 👍👍👍
Thanks man!
You're a genius for manipulating a construct into making you a weapon! It makes sense not to do it more than that one time, but it was really cool!
Thanks!
The portable updrafts are now wood, set wood on fire, toss in hylian pinecone/oil jar. They make massive updrafts that are while annoying because of the cost, rather good.
I love how i liked and subcribed two seconds before it was mentioned.
I love how you did that, too
TOTK without its most interesting mechanics? nice.
You should try beating Zelda Tears of the kingdom without ultra hand, fuse, rewind, ascend and without the paraglider
Keep it up this is solid content and I’m sure you’ll get a larger audience soon❤️
Thank you! I hope so
fun fact; creating a campfire by throwing a fire fruit at a bundle of wood, can give you height. all you need to do is throw a hylian pinecone into it.
Not in shrines however.
If you allow glitches for your no rune run, you can use the jump-attack shield-switch bullet-time glitch to get infinite height. I feel like it would be required just to do some of the first shrines but I'm not sure
The infinite height glitch you mean. While possible, it is extremely time consuming and difficult to pull off, especially in the ascend shrine. Also, it requires pressing the L button, which I would take as an L in a no-abilities run.
9:42 they remove the updraft from spicy pepers but put it on hylian cones and hylian cones gives much more updraft than peperrs it's like a mini revalis gale
Great video dude
It is really awesome that is it possible to beat the game when you are missing almost half the runes!
I actually found a moblin horn hammer in the loot from taking out an enemy camp once. One of them must’ve been using it, which I didn’t realize was possible, and haven’t seen anything like that since since
What if you you try to beat ToTk without, Fuse, Ultrahand, Ascend, or Recall. It'll be fun to see how you'll do it!
Runeless is impossible in BotW. In TotK.. it is also impossible.
The camera rune is required for 2 main quests. Camerawork in the Depths, and Secret of the Ring Ruins.
@@catalyst539 Runeless is not possible in botw. I beat the plateau runeless in 2020, and Limcube published a youtube video on beating all shrines runeless around a year ago. In totk it is possible, if you aren’t on the current patch. The camera isn’t necessary to beat the game.
Why didn't you get any pristine weapons from the ghosts in the Deapts? Or more powerful weapons and the H.Shield from the castle?
Great video I subscribed
9:40 You can create an updraft using fire and Hylian Pinecones! When they hit a flame they make it flare up, creating a huge updraft.
Not in shrines.
Ok, that's impressive. Congratulations!
Wait, do you want yo finish the game witout runes?! That's crazy! Is it even possible?
Great run! I am currently in the middle of a pausless run (no + - d-pad, and rune selection. Basically I get to use the rune once on the GSI and am stuck on recall for the whole game. After 1 mandatory pause, the game is entirely doable. Hope you try it out!
Cool, I saw Gamechamp's video about that for BOTW and it sounds difficult but possible for TOTK. Good luck! Maybe I'll try it eventually
The D-Pad is allowed. The pause functions are not. Tell me, does whistling pause the game?
Edit: Is the 1 mandatory pause actually 1? I believe it is 2. There are 2 I know of:
Selecting the Camera to take a picture of that statue in the Depths (unless it is autoselected but i don’t think so)
Selecting the Camera to take a picture of the stone tablet at the beginning of the Secret of the Ring Ruins quest.
@@catalyst539 The camera isn’t necessary to beat the game. Secondly, the majority of the d-pad pauses the game; whistling is the only exception, and is useless anyway, so the d-pad doesn’t need to be used.
About the upstream of wind, you now need to throw a hylian pinecone (the ones in the orni region) to a fire, hope it helps
Thanks! Although it doesn't work for me with the pinecone in shrines (here's a demo): ruclips.net/video/79Qo8y4WlB4/видео.html. Am I doing something wrong?
@@Drengodr I remember in BOTW creating wind with fire was disabled in shrines. I'm pretty sure it's the same in TOTK, which is pretty funny considering the twenty other methods the game has for cheesing shrines.
Now do it without ultra hand, fuse or zonai devices
You don't need arrows for colgera
Tips on optimizing your run.
Natak shrine,
Rotate the sphere so that the hole is right in front of you, change the angle of the spring and shoot it forward onto the island.
Then jump out the hole and back in, under the floor to enjoy a sages will.
For the armies, use puffshroons and sneak strike them for 8x damage and save you a bunch of durability. Hindi Queen, use dazzle fruits, they hurt her and Gibson like… ALOT lol
Demon king, when he throws those balls at you, hit them back at him, if they surround you, do a spin attack to launch them all back at him
Thanks, those are some good ideas! Although rotating the ball that much more in Natak shrine would have destroyed the rest of my bows, and I didn't want to do that
fusing items to arrows is fuse ability
Just a note: you can still do a pseudo bomb-shield jump if you place a bomb on the ground, then shield jump onto it. The height might differ, but I'm not sure
Wait, really? If so, the ascend shrine should be easy runeless.
No, that doesn't work unfortunately
@@Drengodr crap, you're right; I was mis-remembering
Beat the game without stamina and no fuse or ultrhand new video idea:o
Great job!
Now do it without any fused weapons at all or ultrahand
you should do a video about no fuse no ultra hand and no recall
Love your challenge vid.
I am challenging myself to beat every shrine without paragliders. I am sure it is not possible. Knowing some of the Shrines. I would love to see you try
Thanks! That does sound like a cool challenge, I'll check it out
A challenge I'm doing right now that I'd love to see someone else attempt is beating the game without ever touching the ground (meaning without ever unlocking the surface level map). It's fun trying to navigate the sky islands and depths without a paraglider, and you can't fast travel between them until you unlock the surface layer which creates some interesting challenges
It would be insanely easy if item duping was allowed so I'm doing it glitchless, which I think will probably be the norm for challenge runs considering how trivial they would be otherwise
You should do it but use no ability’s (ultra hand, fuse, ascend, recall, and the rebuild rune)
if you drop (not throw) a bomb flower on the floor, and shield-surf directly on it i believe you still get the jump effect.
how about making a boulder breaker?
I feel like getting the master sword would make a lot of sense for this. Would make the final boss rush way easier. You would need to get 20 shrines for the stamina requirement, but you already do that and more for this one. Once you’ve got the sword just switch the stamina back to hearts. But the upgraded master sword is a decent weapon in the boss rush. Idk just makes sense to me.
Yeah, that's a good idea. I'll probably try to get it next time
Amazing video!!
Thanks!
two options, go the hard route and do no powers, or... the insane route with no powers and no glider :)
I think the reason u couldn’t make the updrafts is that they changed it so that the fire has to be there first, either in a campfire or just burning grass, and then throwing on the pepper, pine cone or oil
No, the reason why you can’t start an updraft is that you can’t start an updraft in shrines. This was the same in Botw.
I hate and love how cursed your pfp is. 😂
Tears of the kingdom but with ONLY ultrahand
This is the closest I could find to a question I was pondering: Whether it is possible to complete ToTK without building nor joining anything.
That is to say I'd personally allow Ultra-Hand for picking things up to move them (like Magnesis in BotW) but NOT for sticking them together.
I WOULD allow Amiibos and glitches, as long as they don't involve sticking anything together.
I would NOT allow pre-fused items... or at least not without breaking them apart first. It completely defeats the purpose otherwise.
... But I couldn't find anything about that. This was the closest, and since it uses fused items while also banning moving things with ultrahand AND bans glitches, it is pretty far off what I was hunting for...
Sorry this wasn't quite what you were looking for, but I think my next video will encompass that challenge so stay tuned
I have an idea! Tears of the kingdom without using ANY ability!
Beat tears of the kingdom without bows swords and shelds with only the zoni arm.
And items are fine
Glitches are also fine
Good idea! But a few other people have already done this, and I'd like to stick to original challenges to keep myself distinct
Insane vid and i still did not beat the main game😂
You know there's extra gliders that are face-up just down the stairs from the Moragia fight
I do now
No runes, no paraglider no Sonia devices and no dungeons and you also have to complete as many shrines as possible before doing the final fight😈?
I think that you can make a captain construct make the fused weapon you want by giving it the weapon you want as a base after removing its original weapon, removing everything around it except for the item you want to fuse to the base, let the construct use fuse, then defeat it. Boom. Fused item acquired.
This might be, but I haven't been able to make the constructs drop the weapons
Try using shock fruit or slapping them enough. Usually enemies drop weapons when shock fruit happens, so try that. Or, you can just defeat them
In the last obstacle in ultra hand shrine you can get on the rail and shield surf
you can give a soldier construct a strong fuse powered item and he will fuse it to its weapon, so then you can kill it and get better weapons
No runes, no paraglider no Sonia devices and no dungeons and you also have to complete as many shrines as possible before doing the final fight😈? (U can use glitches)
This Video Is Top Tier 👍
I got one for ya'
Legend of Zelda, But you can only use "Magic"
Aka, you can only use the special effects that come from infusions to deal damage.
Ruleset:
- You can only do damage with the effects from infusions, not any weapons
- You can use infusions on weapons, but only for the differing effects from the materials fused on them, not the weapon's actual stats
- You are only required to beat the final boss and the final attack does not count against the run
- Additional Optional Goal: Find the most wizard looking drip for Link that you can.
No runes, no paraglider no Sonia devices and no dungeons ?
I’m sorry? What in the Korok Seed is a Sonia Device? Are you saying that Rauru’s wife is a machine?
@@catalyst539 I was meant to say zonia
just so you know you can assend to the place were you grind the rail in the ultrahand shrine
6:49 this joke is so hidden that i don't think anyone else noticed
Next without any abilities no ascend no recall no fuse no ultra hand
just wanna comment for the algorithm :)
No runes + no bomb flowers = impossible
Now try beating totk without Fuse, ultrahand AND bomb flowers
If you went and got some pinecones from the hebra region you could light them on fire for a big updraft.
People keep saying this, but it's not working for me: ruclips.net/video/79Qo8y4WlB4/видео.html
The first method in the fuse shrine was so cool that was sick even though you didbt make it
I hope you realize that you’re kinda forcing yourself to take out ascend next 😂
Playing tears of the kingdom. But with no abilities.
if you do another challenge run soon, know that queen gibdo can be stunned with dazzle fruit.
Atleast you can technically get stuff like fierce deity sword.
Now do it without fuse, ultrahand, and you can only use the paraglider 4 times
Yunobo's reward: green rupee?
You should try doing this without fuse or ascend!
No abilities except for in the tutorial shrines😂
Thing is that I believe the ruto one is possible just needing glitches which fair enough is alright if not wanting to use
mas·och·ism
noun
the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from one's own pain or humiliation.
"with things such as bondage and masochism, it's all right if you both go for it"
(in general use) the enjoyment of what appears to be painful or tiresome.
"isn't there some masochism involved in taking on this kind of project?"
...hmmm
@@Drengodr lol
lovve your icon! :)
Beating Totk without my left arm!
Now just play totk without abilities
Beat tears of the kingdom without all abilities(recall,fuse,ultra hand,Ascend)
you can shield surf on a bomb to get the same effect
Okay, now do it without using recall, fuse or ultrahand
now do it with no ultrahand, fuse, or ascend. good luck
Refreshingly difficult 😂
How about a no right hand run where you use no bows, shields, two handed weapons, or runes
I just learned that one handed swords are in links right hand but shields aren’t so shields are fine but any weapons are not.
That’s not possible. You can’t even get out of the starting sequence, as you need to kill the keese to proceed.
If your on 1.1.1 you can glitch in a shield to the start
Or just the challenge start when you break the vines at the start