You can do it without the online battle and it takes 30-40 mins to hit the ceiling to then try and find your way round to skip Stow on Side so I don't think it's saving anything unless a faster route to the ceiling is found.

Thanks for the heads up did not realise this, had seen the raid one being used in a few runs on YouTube so assumed it was allowed.

Ye that's what I figured, it was only with the raid version of the glitch being allowed and also an online area thought there might have been a change.

For those of you unaware online battles can be used to trigger the date glitch much faster than the current raid method.

Would entering an online battle violate the communication rules? Or would this be seen as the same as enetering the online lobbies in raids?

Hi All

A long-time fan of Pokemon speedruns but really new to getting involved in the community

See yers on the leaderboards :)