Disclaimer:

Ballora in Flatmode is very different than VR, this is a guide for the flatmode version. Since I am a certified mad man I have compiled all of my obscure Ballora knowledge into this guide for you to suffer with. Ballora Gallery is very RNG based so I hope you are prepared for some fun resets. Also make sure you have "Animatronic Proximity" turned on in settings, this will be important later. I am not at all qualified to be making guides for anything, especially Ballora gallery, but I'm doing it anyways and no one can stop me. Some of the info may be wrong, but let's be honest who is going to fact check this.

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How The Minigame Works

You are tasked with crossing Ballora's room in 6 minutes without being killed by Ballora or her many adopted children. You must toss her kids away before they touch you and alert her to your location. When you hear her music, you stop and wait for it to go away, but we don't have time for that here.

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How To Shimmy

Shimmying is the act of retaining momentum while Ballora is near you and being able to move without her killing you. There are 2 different types of shimmys:

• The Momentum Shimmy

This is when you use WASD to spin in a circle when Ballora is close to you to keep momentum so you can travel at full speed when she leaves.

Click HERE for an example

• The Walking Shimmy

The walking shimmy is when you backtrack every second when Ballora is farther away from you so she is unable to see you. Use the clock above the door to help with timing. Every time you hear the clock tick press S, don't let go of W.

Click HERE for an example

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Ballora Spawns

You may have noticed I mentioned that Ballora can spawn both close and far. These are what I call Ballora spawn locations, very creative I know. If you want to get a good time, hope that she spawns far away as much as possible. This is because you can preform the "Walking Shimmy" and cover more ground. If she spawns far away twice you're set, although I have seen her do it 3 times which is very rare. To know if she is close or far quickly, look where she is in the animatronic proximity (the thing i said to turn on), if it looks like she is in the middle-ish then keep going, but if it looks like she is right beside you stop.

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Ballora Kill Box

When Ballora spawns close to you there is an invisible trigger just past where she spawns that will kill you if you pass through it. If you wait for her to cross enough so you can get by, the do the momentum shimmy forward until you reach it.

Photo bellow is an example of about where the kill zone is:

How to PROPERLY Deal With The Minirinas and How They Impact Ballora

The concept seems pretty simple at first, just toss them away and Ballora follows, nothing special right? This part of the guide is very important, but I understand if you don't want to dig this deep into time saves. When Ballora spawns close to you there is a chance for minirinas to spawn while you are stopped. You will want to run straight through them WITHOUT coming into contact with them. If you make it through there is a chance Ballora will not be alerted and you can continue, but if she is alerted you will toss them behind you on the side Ballora came from so she returns to her spawn point faster and leaves.

If ballora spawns down the hallway and there are minirinas in front of you I recommend quickly touching them (not picking them up) so ballora will walk down the hallway towards them. This gives you more time to walk forward. Take care to not go too close however, as this may result in an insta-kill. This strat works, it wouldn't be here if it didn't.

When Ballora is alerted by the minirinas she will be alerted in 2 different ways, close and far.

This part of the guide was empty for a while because Ballora changed during the new patch, however it still works.

If you want to understand how to walk when Ballora is alerted that watch this video.

VIDEO

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Side note: When you make it to the end of the hallway and Ballora spawns behind you, you can do the walking shimmy into the door. I believe the backtracking interval is still 1 second, however I will still need to double check.

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Some Random photos I sketched up to try and explain some of the more complicated things

Conclusion

Hope you enjoyed this brief guide on how to consistently get good times on Ballora Gallery flatmode. If there is anything that you didn't understand, feel free to DM me on Discord at "HelloThere2680". I will continue to play and if I find anymore strats I'll add them later on. Also if you see any mistakes let me know.

Started Sept 3 2024 4:37pm

Finished: Sept 13 2024 9:05pm

Last Updated: Oct 22, 2024