Just curious if anyone has done a best to worst character list for speedrunning in this game for normal mode any% Mine is

1. Sailor Jupiter
2. Sailor Venus
3. Sailor Moon
4. Sailor Mars
5. Sailor Mercury However personally I think Sailor Jupiter and Venus are the only ones who can really get good runs IMO.

That list sounds about right. I'd love to one day see a co-op run with both Sailor Jupiter and Venus and see just how much a run with those two can lower the time on the current record, seeing as the only run (currently only run) of Normal Co-op has both Venus and Mercury.

I would like to do a co-op run but I just don't have anyone to play with. I'm also surprised Sailor Venus is the one used for Normal Any% because (while I technically don't have footage, sorry I didn't have a way to record for the time and still can't I will try to change when I can) the fastest time I could get with Sailor Jupiter was 20 miniutes and 13 seconds but it was done with SNES9xGX for the WII so it could technically not count as well. I honestly believe if I could improve my time on stage 3 I could get it under 20 minutes.

Jupiter got a fast ultimate atk with good damages, short range but ok defensive special, high Damages but rely on short range combos + grabs that can get extremely risky specially towards the end of a run with all the AI being aggro insta grabbing you. She's also a very slow character.

I rather like to play Venus that got better mobility, better range, great defensive special and the stunlock that can really work perfectly against all the enemies including Bosses.

I guess without talking seriously on very specific strategies, AI manipulation and perfect routing Jupiter win easily cause even if something go wrong she's delivering tons of damage where Venus need the best set ups to shine, if you don't get the group of mobs stunlock to death you lose a huge amount of time cause you only have the double jump hit, 3hit + special and that drains her HP quiet a lot.

I think Jupiter is around 19 and Venus can be a 18 at best with good routing.

I've been routing the game with venus a little bit, some areas need to be worked better and i still have to figure out the best possible ways to manipulate some enemies ad a strat for the last Boss

My Best time with Venus on normal is 20:14 did lots of mistakes, got grabbed and some stuff didn't went according to the plans. Also there's a little bit of RNG that might save a full screen on stage 3-2 sometimes item giving you an extra ultimate instead of food.

The problems I have when it comes to me speedrunning with Jupiter is that I'm always really bad at Stage 3 and Stage 4. Like IDK how the heck your suppose to beat demande quickly tbh, I just spam health draining moves and hope to god I can kill him quickly. Also I must just be bad with Venus because for some reason I can't get her times to be lower then Jupiter's no matter how much I practiced.

My best times for stages with Jupiter (Starting with the eyecatcher screen everytime, should of probably made the save states for practicing not at the eyecatchers though but I don't use logic well) are 3m 13s for Stage 1, 4m 30s for Stage 2, 6m 29s for Stage 3, and 4m 01s for the last Stage. I don't even know how I got that time for stage 4 tbh, I could never beat it for some reason. I probably will stick with Jupiter because I feel like I can't improve with Venus, and wow I just realized I lost my thing for what the time I had for Venus for a full run...oops. Well it was around like 23-24 minutes.

Still it's been a while since I really been doing full runs, took a break from it after doing other things in life but hopefully someday I can actually record a run and see what I can improve more of. Also I did not know you could stunlock bosses as Sailor Venus, I'm assuming you mean the move you use in the air that just stuns but I could of swore you could only do that to enemies. I'll have to try that whenever I play Venus again. Also another thing I need to learn is how the game determines what items come out of item containers (Like the table things in stage 1 and the crystal in stage 3) because I think it's determined by your health but I could be wrong.

Anyway hoping sometime to record a run this year and definitely need to go back to practicing and taking more notes on my runs.

Boss 1 I loop her with the jump atk Boss 2 I knock him down with a def special then on wake up i planeshift, combo 3 hit def special and then i release double ultimate to clear. Boss 3 Loop with jump atk (problem being the Goo bitches that can grab you.) Boss 4 Loop never catches him cause his main movement is that front flip jump so he'll always break out of it. I usually get on the corner where he jumps first and use the def special as a loop till he drop enough health to use 1 ultimate to finish him.

Those god damn Goo Bitches. Die!!!

You might be right for the items @Angel_Arle it was locked on save states so it wasn't a roll RNG system like in final fight 3.