Thanks for Watching :) Upon finishing off this video, Lep has finally beaten his time with a 31:52! These two runs are close to identical so fortunately the video is still 99% accurate. Huge congrats to Lep for this achievement!
I mean NMG it IS required, since downpatching midrun is not allowed in any HK Speedrun. Edit: hilariously it is now possible to do full clawless on one patch thanks to a discovery that you can Pogo on your own shriek. We'll find out if this ends up being deemed a major glitch.
@@narwhal16384 I don't really think including major glitches or banned software quirks is worth a mention because then everything is almost required but sure.
@@fink7968 Either way it isn’t a significant detail being taught or shown to the average viewer, and is just a fun nod to the people who know. I don’t think “mention” is accurate, it’s more of a passive acknowledgment.
Any% at its base level isn’t all that complicated. It’s the optimizations and tricks that can be more difficult. But even a mid-level HK player can complete an any% run (myself included), although it isn’t fast. You collect geo with a simple route, so there’s no calculation going on. You just need 1800 for the lantern, and (I think) 400 for something else.
Path of pain, not a boss, but yesterday I reached the end and died so I am a bit… upset. Edit: The day after this comment I managed to complete it :) Right now I am stuck in the Sage pantheon. Believe it or not, the hardest boss for me is Uumuu.
I've only finished the game once and have very little knowledge about speedrunning, but your editing and narrating made it simple to understand and enjoyable to watch 10/10
It’s speedrunners that got me into the game in the first place. And here I am years later, learning their routes, and taking on the hardest challenges that the game has to offer.
I didn't know the watcher knights was a very difficult boss and now when I know I beat it without searching for guides it makes me feel happy cuz it's my first hardest boss I fought
When I came back to Hollow Knight and did a second full playthrough, I didn't use any skips and got a final time of 12hr02m and I thought that was fast. Dang
@@slanyus That's respectable for a first playthrough. Never speedrun the first playthrough. It's a game that truly cannot be experienced the same way twice.
@@saysikerightnow3914 I feel that, I was really hesitant to play at first because it looked tough but the story and the visuals (and Zote the Mighty) are all mesmerizing. Definitely worth the money.
I was gonna subscribe and then I saw you only had 7k subs. My first thought was how did you not already have 100k+ subs. Your content is very good ESPECIALLY for an individual with 7k subs. You've earned a pat on the back
Just wanted to say your videos are very clean and polished. Also the speed at which you get these out is amazing. Keep making non spelunky related video. Also side note where do you get music for your videos? Is it all just game soundtracks of the games your talking about?
Lep neither invented this route, nor is the only one who uses it search 'hollow knight any %" for hundreds of others who run the same route for a better and better time
13:42 - I just recently played Hollowknight for the first time. And I performed this skip on my very first attempt at it. I immediately knew that I was not supposed to be there yet. Funny thing is that I went back to try the skip again, and I could not do it with more than 25 attempts. lol.
I just have to say that the thumbnail is probably the most engaging and beautiful thumbnail I’ve ever seen. It is mind numbingly simplistic and yet it stands out from 100 thumbnails. I don’t know exactly what you did to get this perfect thumbnail but props to you.👏👏👏
Genuienly god bless whoever found out about the crystal dash to fog canyon without ismas tear so you can go to the teacher without ismas tear or shadow dash cuz it was literally the thing that saved me in beating yhe game in under 5 hours for the speedrun achievement
As a hollow knight player (NOT speedrunner, just fully complete godhome), this video is awesome and really well made! The only slight inaccuracy for me is: hyping up bosses like watcher knights and the hollow knight as much as you did is perfectly fine if mentioning that it actually goes only for the vanilla game (or normal ending), since most of the MUCH HARDER advanced endgame bosses are technically a part of a dlc, however the dlc is free and nowadays just a default part of buying the game (so basically a part of the game at this point). Except for that everything is really well explained as far as my knowledge goes..
this is a good video, but i think you couldve zoomed in a bit more on some specific tricks, like how 1 VS is used to hit an enemy multiple times, or the skip used when getting the mantis claw. once again, still a very well made video
Thanks for Watching :)
Upon finishing off this video, Lep has finally beaten his time with a 31:52! These two runs are close to identical so fortunately the video is still 99% accurate.
Huge congrats to Lep for this achievement!
Well that didn't last long at all
@Webula for an any% runner it definitely is lol
PLEASE do a video on player5’s botw any% runs, they’re amazing to watch
@@mayochupenjoyer maybe I've thought about it
skate beat it in 31:48 letsgooo
As a hollow knight player/speedrunner, I admire that you said “Mantis claw is ALMOST required”.
I hope you beat your PB on your next run
I mean NMG it IS required, since downpatching midrun is not allowed in any HK Speedrun.
Edit: hilariously it is now possible to do full clawless on one patch thanks to a discovery that you can Pogo on your own shriek. We'll find out if this ends up being deemed a major glitch.
@@fink7968 Thus the statement ALMOST required :)
@@narwhal16384 I don't really think including major glitches or banned software quirks is worth a mention because then everything is almost required but sure.
@@fink7968 Either way it isn’t a significant detail being taught or shown to the average viewer, and is just a fun nod to the people who know.
I don’t think “mention” is accurate, it’s more of a passive acknowledgment.
Love how precise this run is. Calculating everything down to the single geo really says a lot about the skill level required to even attempt any%
Any% at its base level isn’t all that complicated. It’s the optimizations and tricks that can be more difficult. But even a mid-level HK player can complete an any% run (myself included), although it isn’t fast. You collect geo with a simple route, so there’s no calculation going on. You just need 1800 for the lantern, and (I think) 400 for something else.
112% speedrunners: Let us introduce ourselves
@@blazethegame Well, you also need to be able to defeat Watcher Knights with basically zero equipment. So there's that.
@@JoannaFalkowska like I said, it’s not that bad. Once you learn some basic techniques for beating them, they become trivial.
"The hardest boss in the game: the Watcher Knights"
NKG, Pure Vessel, and Absolute Radiance: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*
Grey Prince Zote: *Don't forget me*
Radiant Markoth💀
@@HHcz I've beaten radiant absolute radiance and I still struggle on ascended markoth. It's insane
I know!!!
Path of pain, not a boss, but yesterday I reached the end and died so I am a bit… upset.
Edit: The day after this comment I managed to complete it :) Right now I am stuck in the Sage pantheon. Believe it or not, the hardest boss for me is Uumuu.
“And promptly kills it in 1 second”
Me who died to it twice: ☹️
The final boss is a spam for me
@@hannarussu121
he wasn't talking about the final boss but yeah, all you need is quick slash and he is easy to kill
I misread the title as "30 seconds" and almost shit myself from fear
The glitched world record is only 4 minutes off from that
I've only finished the game once and have very little knowledge about speedrunning, but your editing and narrating made it simple to understand and enjoyable to watch 10/10
Are we going to talk about the fact that the two runner-ups are Lepfan and Lepfoe?
It was a glorious tale
It’s speedrunners that got me into the game in the first place. And here I am years later, learning their routes, and taking on the hardest challenges that the game has to offer.
Great video! Well produced and very engaging. You've also got an excellent narrating voice, awesome video man. Content to be proud of
Thank you so much!
Amazing video, hollow knights speedrun is very complicated, and you showed it off perfectly. Keep up the good work
Glad you enjoyed!
Amazing narration I love this game and was hooked. I appreciate that it's not overly edited to keep your attention like so many videos nowadays
Sometimes someone explaining a longer speed run can be quite boring but you made it really fun and the time flew by
mmm, bug game
True
True
mmm, bug game 2 is still not out
@@Mr._EviI mmm, disappointment, war
u just turned 50 hours of my life into “bug game”
Wow this is so cool and inspiring for my own HK journey. Thank you for an amazing video! Really inspires me to try even harder on 2.0 😊
Good Luck!
yo 33rd
Your channel has so much potential, I can’t wait to see what’s next for this channel in the near future! Good luck :)
Thank you! more will be coming
@Pastryperson
Cant wait! Btw your spelunky videos have been so helpful
I’ve never been interested in speedrunning myself, but watching these speedrun breakdown videos are a different story
Your channel is amazing! Thank you for making videos
This channel is a hidden gem
I didn't know the watcher knights was a very difficult boss and now when I know I beat it without searching for guides it makes me feel happy cuz it's my first hardest boss I fought
Go to the junk pit and unlock absolute radiance
I love how the video is made, I'm pretty sure that someone who never played HK could still enjoy this video
This video is really well made, nice job!
Thank you!
wow, the quality of this video was amazing, you’ve definitely earned a subscribe!
Thanks :)
Prefect editing, as always :)
Mom: “It’s time to go to bed”
Me: “Just 32 more minutes?”
Mom: “Okay…”
Me: *beats Hollow Knight*
I didn’t realize that Canelo Alvarez s was legit at Hollow Knight
"No cost to great" ah people
Never been this anxious watching a video and it's not even my own speed run 😂
"you know that bug who entered dirtmouth like 31 miniutes ago, well he just defeated the hollow knight"
"fireball spell" the more i hear him say that, more anger i grow.
its so that people who dont play hollow knight understand but i get your point
When I came back to Hollow Knight and did a second full playthrough, I didn't use any skips and got a final time of 12hr02m and I thought that was fast. Dang
i have 14 hrs and i am at the crystal peak 🤡
@@slanyus That's respectable for a first playthrough. Never speedrun the first playthrough. It's a game that truly cannot be experienced the same way twice.
@@saysikerightnow3914 I feel that, I was really hesitant to play at first because it looked tough but the story and the visuals (and Zote the Mighty) are all mesmerizing. Definitely worth the money.
"this time has been brought down constantly" *shows a graph much closer to a logarithm*
I was gonna subscribe and then I saw you only had 7k subs. My first thought was how did you not already have 100k+ subs. Your content is very good ESPECIALLY for an individual with 7k subs. You've earned a pat on the back
Thank you!
Underrated, never thought I would say it, after all these years I finally said it, underrated
Hollow Knight become one of the most popluar indie games because Hollow Knight is such an masterpiece and awesome video man :]
Ikr, I have 350 hours in this game and I still adore it
14:22 just a small correction, this isn't a glitch, it's actually the Iframe you have after being hit. great video though!
0:32 Wait that's me 👀
Just wanted to say your videos are very clean and polished. Also the speed at which you get these out is amazing. Keep making non spelunky related video. Also side note where do you get music for your videos? Is it all just game soundtracks of the games your talking about?
Thank you! I usually get my music from whatever game I'm making a video on with a few exceptions
“he’s a cheater we all know this” wow chat is very very supportive
They were just joking around. The people in chat were friends and recognised people in the community
its tru i am a known cheater in the community, they simply hold me accountable
The fact you cant see that he cheated doesn't mean he didn't cheat. My eyes are simply better.
@@Lep_19 no way!!1
@isnialan6204 unfunny
Bruh called vengefly king a miniboss😂
1:02 PROGERESSION
Lep neither invented this route, nor is the only one who uses it
search 'hollow knight any %" for hundreds of others who run the same route for a better and better time
dont know whats your better time...but 31 minutes is the fastest so far with that path he's taken
why does this only have 164 views at this time, this feels like it should have at least 10K views
And here am I still stuck on Hornet after 3 hours of continuously fighting her... 💀
the skip to get dreamnail is probably the most fun skip ever with no worries
His input viewer is so cool
Branching out content again, well made video.
The speedrun "True Ending" is also really cool, a little less than 1:20 of true skill to watch.
Great video but I laughed out loud when you said "arguably the hardest boss in the game, the watcher nights" 😭😭😭
They not even close bro 😭
Watcher Knights: Exist
PastryPerson: "The hardest boss in the game"
*Normal playthrough, should have mentioned that
2:34 i'am not a biologist but i'am pretty sure that they are not birds
Is birds there on hollow knight 😂
It took me more time to beat the hollow knight with every charm and the pure nail than it did for him to beat the whole game. That’s insane
BRO PLEASE DO NOT STOP MAKING THESE VIDEOS HELL YEAH
It took me 39 hours to beat it the first time. These people here are doing it in like half an hour which is like 1/78th of what it took me
It took me 4 hours to beat radiance 1
@@jimapel9560 Just for the boss, or to go all the way through the game and get to Radiance.
@@DemandingPizza just the radiance
@@jimapel9560 It took me like 35-45 minutes ish I don't know exactly maybe an hour
I love your pfp, spelunky HD is my fav
"Can't wait to experience the bare minimum play time of hollow knight" -Magalor
The moment i broke a mouse on the white palace, was the moment i realized that this game is going to be extremely expensive for me
13:42 - I just recently played Hollowknight for the first time. And I performed this skip on my very first attempt at it. I immediately knew that I was not supposed to be there yet.
Funny thing is that I went back to try the skip again, and I could not do it with more than 25 attempts. lol.
as a person with more than 200hr in the game this is the best video of hollow night ever
Love how almost everyone here is a hollow knight speedrunner/is familiar with runs and routs, yet the we watched this video anyways
great video! (currently suffering in path of pain after taking a year and a half break)
I just have to say that the thumbnail is probably the most engaging and beautiful thumbnail I’ve ever seen. It is mind numbingly simplistic and yet it stands out from 100 thumbnails. I don’t know exactly what you did to get this perfect thumbnail but props to you.👏👏👏
Very good accessible video 👍
It’s videos like these that are easy to follow that help new people get into speedrunning
9:28 pretty sure he didn't take the elevators there lol
If he had thrown the chandelier on the guards, he would've saved even more time
If i remember right that trick is a time loss for the time that takes to break the wall, climb, throw the chandelier and come back down
@@code6652 you may be right
bro, i finished 3 endings within 38h and this man made it in just 30min
All Major Glitches: Are you kidding me? That's insultingly low.
a huge respect for this guy
The thing is, I discovered the crystal heart skip for FC half a year after the game came out, because I thought it was the intended route 😅
if you've played past early game, you wouldn't have said that. 9:31
you ever heard of **the fucking sun**
who still probably isn't hardest
I can't believe you talked about pogaxe without mentioning it was called pogaxe. The name is just so good.
6 MONTHSSSSSS AND THE SEQUEL IS HEREEEEEEE
They do it in 30mins and here I am running in circles in the same map for 30mins lol
Love your videos!
I got lost after beating the false knight and never finished the game. Great video
Lmfao
If you get lost for to long look up video like a very very long time
if anyone implied one of my records was certified by guinness i'd be more offended than anything
This dude deadass managed to make use of wcs
fk that beginning. Minus for that
No shot he said watcher knights was arguably the hardest boss in the game
It's been 6 years since HK released? Godt Damn.
Careful about that thumbnail, Guiness been claiming videos left right and centre.
Bro bullied hornet😭😭
Awesome video!
This guy made two amazing videos about the best HK and celeste speedruns and proceeded to disappear
Genuienly god bless whoever found out about the crystal dash to fog canyon without ismas tear so you can go to the teacher without ismas tear or shadow dash cuz it was literally the thing that saved me in beating yhe game in under 5 hours for the speedrun achievement
I miss your videos
I didn't know Canelo Alverez played Hollow knight !
NO! I’m not here within 1 minute. Anyway, I love hollow knight! Thanks for making a video on it. :)
me after taking 8 hours just to get to soul master: “wowwie im so good!”
hollow knight speedrunners:
Excellent video on Hollow Knight Any % speedrunning 😎
Speed runners: finish the game in less then 30 minutes
Me: happy because I finished hollow knight in 62 HOURS
What happend to him? why doesn't he upload anymore?
Idk man, but I miss him 🥲
As a hollow knight player (NOT speedrunner, just fully complete godhome), this video is awesome and really well made! The only slight inaccuracy for me is: hyping up bosses like watcher knights and the hollow knight as much as you did is perfectly fine if mentioning that it actually goes only for the vanilla game (or normal ending), since most of the MUCH HARDER advanced endgame bosses are technically a part of a dlc, however the dlc is free and nowadays just a default part of buying the game (so basically a part of the game at this point).
Except for that everything is really well explained as far as my knowledge goes..
team cherry, just give these speedrunners silksong already
Hollow knight is one of favorite games of all time
Hollow knight is so good, I didn’t even know it was an indie game.
this is a good video, but i think you couldve zoomed in a bit more on some specific tricks, like how 1 VS is used to hit an enemy multiple times, or the skip used when getting the mantis claw. once again, still a very well made video
Watcher knight as the hardest boss? Damn
I'm just sayin, this guy knows what he's doing.
You deserve more subs