Any% A Ending Route

Prologue Shmup

 * Optional: get hit by lasers/attacks and heal
 * Wastes recoveries so we can Melee Atk Up (S) buff faster
 * Wave 1: Push your front-left teammate slightly to the left and use a heavy between the two middle enemies
 * Wave 2: Shoot from far left until you kill 3-4, then swing to the right to kill 4
 * Wave 3: don’t go too far off to the sides and kill enemies
 * Wave 4: dash to bottom right or left (whichever you are closer to) and heavy, then dash over and kill the other two

> Mobile Configuration


 * Wave 5: Spam melee attacks while aiming pod fire to take down circle of enemies
 * Wave 6: Pod fire to around 1 o clock to kill 4 enemies
 * Wave 7: Move your pod fire back and forth to kill enemies coming from 1 and 11 o clock
 * 6 enemies each side
 * Wave 8: Pod fire to 10 and 4 o clock, 3 enemies each

> Laser, your last teammate dies

> Sidescroller Shmup


 * Move to right center, use a Light attack to kill all 4 enemies when they are close
 * Move to right top or bottom and use heavies to kill 3 enemies on each side
 * Move to left top/center and heavies to kill 3 enemies flying in
 * Move to right bottom and heavy to kill 3 enemies
 * Move to right top and heavy to kill 3 enemies
 * Heavy to kill the pod of 4 flying in
 * Alternate heavy attacks moving up and down to kill 3 enemies each side

> Mobile Configuration


 * 2 enemies, at oblique angles (~11 and 1 o clock)
 * 4 enemies along bottom
 * 2 enemies at 11 and 1 o clock

> Camera begins to rotate


 * 3 enemies along top
 * Circle of 8 enemies
 * Fidget Spinner
 * Pray that it doesn’t use its spinning attack
 * Make sure to kill, or 2B will wait around for ~5 seconds before transitioning

Battle: Silo 1
> Cutscene Skip
 * Kill the stubbies in front of you
 * 5 stubbies with guns drop behind you
 * Medium biped jumps out toward the front of the room
 * Taunt + Damage glitch for easy one-cycle

Battle: Marx 1
> Cutscene Skip
 * Pray for it to use its push attack
 * Use Melee Attack Up (S) as its arm is going to become stationary
 * Damage Glitch until it cannot be hit anymore
 * Use Pod Laser as it becomes available
 * Continue to damage glitch like normal until death
 * Marx Dies

> Mashable Text
 * Crane Skip

Battle: Silo 2

 * 6 Stubbies
 * 6 Fliers
 * Lock on to the fliers, taunt and pod fire
 * Try to line up the fliers for a laser shot
 * 6 Stubbies with guns


 * Bridge Skip
 * Factory OoB

Battle: Silo 3

 * 5 Stubbies with Shields
 * 2 Medium Bipeds with Shields
 * Overhead camera - Try to use laser somewhere in this phase to get some quick kills
 * 5 Stubbies with guns to the north
 * 5 Stubbies with guns to the south
 * 3 stubbies with guns each to the north and south

Battle: Marx 2

 * Dodge the first hit and follow the arm to its stopping point
 * Use Melee Attack Up (S)
 * Damage Glitch
 * Pod Laser as it becomes unhittable
 * Pod Slow-Mo is not required to 1-cycle

Battle: Engels (Ground)

 * Pod fire and damage glitch Engels' arms
 * 9S will spawn once the music reaches a certain point - this section is essentially autoscroller
 * Do as much damage as possible until 9S spawns
 * Pod Slow-Mo does not affect music, so it is OKAY to use during this phase
 * Once Engels' HP bar disappears, he will no longer take damage until later in the fight

> Cutscene Skip


 * Engels performs one attack
 * Pray for one of his ranged attacks. Melee attacks take a long time.
 * Engels begins breaking the bridge, you can OoB to avoid getting hit
 * Engels deactivates

> Wait for 9S to stop the missiles

> Cutscene Skip

> Run up to Engels

> Cutscene Skip


 * Engels Stairs Skip

Battle: Engels (Flight Unit)

 * Strafe around to Engels' back left or back right (above the crane)
 * Engels has a slightly higher chance of using Missiles/AoE more often than swinging with his arms
 * After 2B says "I told you to shut up!", the first attack Engels starts will be a punch attack which allows progression into the final stage of the fight
 * Hijack Engels' Arms
 * Optional: Use Melee Atk Up (S) so you only need to swing twice
 * Note: Not timed to see if this is faster than just 3 swings
 * Heavy > R2 > Heavy > R2 > Heavy
 * Engels dies

> Cutscene Skip x3

> DO NOT CONNECT TO THE NETWORK

> Complete setup in the Bunker

> Mashable text

> Talk to the commander

> Go to the Hangar

> Cutscene Skip x2

> Enter Shmup Sequence
 * Note: You have no recoveries here, so try to avoid getting hit too much

Resistance Camp
> Land on top of the building

> Use a Lift to get on top of the adjacent rooftop and jump into the discovery cutscene

> Plunge from the building toward the Resistance Camp

> Dash toward the barricade behind the broken bridge > Dash to the Resistance Camp
 * City Barricade Shortcut 1

> Cutscene skip as you enter

> Optional: Pick up the Medium Recovery in chest left of the Supply Trader

> Talk to Anemone

> Talk to Weapons Trader; accept quest

> Talk to Supply Trader; exit shop; accept quest

> Optional: Activate the Terminal

> Leave Resistance Camp and head towards [The Weapon's Dealer's Request] > Collect Quest Items
 * City Barricade Shortcut 2

> Dash toward [The Supply Trader's Request]

> Jump onto the vine, up the building, on to the next vine > Kill quest enemies and collect the items
 * City Barricade Shortcut 3

> Dash back to the Resistance Camp

> Talk to the Masked Woman > Turn in the Supply Trader Quest
 * I'm good. (Mash B, or O, and you will automatically select this option)

> Turn in the Weapons Trader Quest

> Talk to him again to receive reward > Talk to Anemone > Open Supply Trader Shop > Leave Resistance Camp
 * You bet!
 * Upgrade
 * Virtuous Contract Lv.1 > Lv.2
 * Note: Now that Virtuous Contract is Level 2, you can perform Dash+Heavy for more speed
 * Help her.
 * Buy
 * Satchet (Press UP once at the top of the list)
 * 2-4x Animal Bait (Minimum 2, 3-4 for safety)
 * 11x Melee Attack Up (S) (21x for safety)
 * 11x Ranged Attack Up (S) (21x for safety)
 * Spend the rest on Medium Recovery (Press LEFT once when asked for quantity)

> Run to the Barricade next to the broken bridge > Place an Animal Bait near the animals
 * City Barricade Skip

> Ride a moose

> Run to the Desert Barricade