Any% Route (Outdated)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16RcNNqT-6yHQ-X23HlLKbjVnyIrSQD8RUPaOgI232f4/edit?usp=sharing

Any% Route (Updated)

*Based off of AlyssaMintChip's doc.*

**Rules:**
Time starts when selecting a new game.
Time stops on Quest Completed after exiting Drakoth’s Room.

**Quick note:**
If you're first learning or if you're not going for super competitive times, it's worth it to skip the zips and walk/roll/fly to the destinations instead.

# Fire Dragon
* Skip the introductory cutscene
* Follow intro quest prompts (ie: attack, roll, catnap, magic, fire dragon)
* After accepting the quest from the Catpital, head west to the Cave Grotto
* Clear the Cave Grotto and leave
* Follow Drakoth
* Catnap at in the Eastern Twin Town, from here you have two options: 
* **1)** head up to Hidden Cave, bait a melee attack by the leftmost Dragon and grab the brown chest, hope for good something from the Ninja set and quit/continue game 
* **2)** head down to Epsilon Cave just under the Fire Dragon, grab the brown chest at the bottom, hope for something with melee on it and run out
* Kill Fire Dragon

# Fire Dragon Fight
* Take out smaller Wyverns first
* Dragon attacks every 4-8 of your melee attacks
* Dragon’s flamepurr and normal attack will get desynchronised, so step out of first attack and briefly walk back into range to trigger other attack, then walk out of second attack, and roll back to continue attacking
* If you get any weapon or armour with increased health/armour, you can take two hits before dying from dragon instead of the usual one
* You may use this to speed up fight my taking intentional damage, although riskier

# Water Walking
* Equip the Flamefang (if you didn’t get the Ninja Sword)
* Follow Sister/Drakoth
* Enter the ***[Delta runs and perform this zip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yB314v_k28&list=PLGxq8HLMyF_QBD9tupcAMkFDA9n1Se1rp&index=2)***, follow the rest of the path to the Old Master’s Ruins, Clear (Level 9)
* 1st Dream (Level 11)
* Go East to Guard Tower
* Head over to the ***[Zeta Ruins, perform this zip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sTQEkMSfRo&list=PLGxq8HLMyF_QBD9tupcAMkFDA9n1Se1rp&index=1)*** and follow the rest of the path to Pawt City
* Start quest “Path to Water Walking”.
* Follow prompts to find Puss, quit/continue game.
* Start quest “The Fusion”
* Kill Bandits (Level 13)
* Enter Arcane Temple, Ignore Freezepaw, Upgrade Flamepurr to Level 3
* Walk back to Pawt City, complete quest (level 14)
* Start quest “Rogue Mages”, equip Ranger’s Axe (if you didn’t get the Ninja Sword)
* Rogue Mage Fight (level 15)
* Catch Rogue Mage, walk back to Pawt City. (level 16)
* Start quest “The Miracle”, Equip Squire Armor (if you didn’t get the Ninja Robe)
* Kill Sea Monsters (level 17)
* Finish quest (level 19)

# Gold Key
* Go Southeast to Arcane Temple, Buy/Equip Purrserk, upgrade Flamepurr to Level 5
* Continue Southeast to Gentletown, Start quest “The Golden Key”
* Clear Founder’s Cave
* ***Do not complete this quest!***

# Faith & Ice Dragon
* From the ***[Founders Cave, perform this zip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8VFthKFoWI&index=4&list=PLGxq8HLMyF_QBD9tupcAMkFDA9n1Se1rp)*** and catnap at the Fishercat's Friend
* Roll east (and very slightly north) to the Hidden Cave
* Get Faith from Golden Chest, quit/continue to return to the Fishercat's Friend
* **Abandon the gold key quest at the quest board otherwise the Ice Dragon won't spawn.**
* Head northwest towards the Ice Dragon
* Kill Ice Dragon (level 25)

# Ice Dragon Fight
* Use purrserk, hit the dragon with two flamepurrs and roll away immediately
* Finish off the rest of the wyverns

# Arcane Dragon
* Talk to Guardtower
* Go Northeast to Windmew City
* Start quest “The Flying Bush”
* Clear Spiral Cave
* Return to Bush (level 26)
* Start quest “The Magic Tree”
* 2nd Dream 
* Follow path to Rogue mages, Kill them. 
* Follow **west path**, complete quest, quit/continue game
* Start quest “The Cult”
* Go South to the ***[Tiny Hole and perform this zip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA8CTptwGCc&list=PLGxq8HLMyF_QBD9tupcAMkFDA9n1Se1rp&index=5)***
* Clear the Tiny Hole and leave
* Go Southeast to End of the Road, complete quest, quit/continue (level 27)
* Start quest “Dragonflight”
* Kill Dragon, Complete quest (level 30)
* Fly to Arcane Dragon, Kill it (level 34)

# Arcane Dragon Fight
* When landing in this area, try to land away from the other enemies so they don't interrupt the fight or make you have to kill them to leave
* Purrserk, flamepurr, flampurr and move away from the dragon
* Don't get hit by the diagonal attack
* When the dragon isn't directly on top of the spikes, use melee and flamepurrs to damage it

# Dragon Sword
* Go Southwest, fight Drakoth
* Go Northeast to Dragon’s Rest, Clear it (level 35)
* Go Northeast to Unknown (level 36)
* Go Southwest to Old Master’s Island, Clear it
* 3rd Dream
* Enter the ***[Old Masters Ruins, perform this zip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XRjLgsmXls&list=PLGxq8HLMyF_QBD9tupcAMkFDA9n1Se1rp&index=7)***, follow the rest of the path to the Old Master’s Ruins, Clear it (level 37)
* 4th Dream (level 38)
* Go East to Kit Kat

# Drakoth
* Go North to Frozen Paw, or ***[perform this zip from the Lakeside Hole just above Kit Kats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v590dLNv4YI&list=PLGxq8HLMyF_QBD9tupcAMkFDA9n1Se1rp&index=9)*** and fly the rest of the way to Frozen Paw
* Kill the Three Dragons (purrserk, flamepurr, flamepurr) (level 40)
* Enter Dragon Void
* Kill Drakoth

# Drakoth Fight
* Basically the same as the Arcane Dragon fight; don't get hit by attacks
* Hit Drakoth with whatever you can as he spawns and roll away (if you don't have enough mp for purrserk and flamepurr, just use flamepurr)
* As soon as Drakoth is done attacking, use everything you have

# End
* Head southeast to Drakoth’s Room, interact with objects
* Exit Drakoth’s Room
* Go through dialogue, time when Quest Completed pops up

Chest Dupe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5UUaIj23-Ahttps://youtu.be/T5UUaIj23-A



To dupe a chest's content, upon opening said chest, force quit your game when the chest is shown on screen, but before the animation of the chest opening plays. This glitch will primarily be useful in 100%, but could absolutely be useful elsewhere, more testing needed. The linked video shows exactly how its done.


How to downpatch your game

Head over to this forum post: https://www.speedrun.com/cat_quest/thread/f3vf6

Zipping

General zip information: https://www.speedrun.com/cat_quest/thread/9cszd/1#50sn9

Zipping on the Switch: https://www.speedrun.com/cat_quest/thread/jxle8

Zip playlist by FunksGrover: https://www.speedrun.com/cat_quest/thread/em0au

SNeaky

AlyssaMintChip

Joe_The_Zombie

Cat Quest

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Old Patch

Current Patch

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Turbo

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Use of Turbo is allowed in this category. You must make it clear if turbo is used in a run or not.

Name	Author
Any% Route (Outdated)	AlyssaMintChip 7 years ago
Any% Route (Updated)	SNeaky 7 years ago
Chest Dupe	Joe_The_Zombie 1 year ago
How to downpatch your game	SNeaky 7 years ago
Zipping	SNeaky 7 years ago