^^doesnt lower entry barrier because getting normal nova isn’t hard and newer players are much less likely to even care about speedrunning as this is more of an endgame thing. So if the argument is that nova is “unfair” to newer players, she’s really not. And the whole point of the speedrun is to get the fastest time possible, which is again achievable only with nova.

I’m against as nova in my opinion takes the most skill to speedrun with a fast time. By separating her all it does is create a speedrun tier of a lower skill set with slower more varied times. If your want to make a parkour tier then that’s different, that would be fine where no abilities are used in the run. But speedrunning is speedrunning and it’s getting the fastest time, no exceptions should be made. Also people complain if they don’t have nova, she isn’t hard to get and her unvault just made it even easier.