This is a beginner Fin% guide that covers class choice and some specific details in the run.

Class Choice Witchdoctor. The reason why is that Witchdoctor has general range of attack and Ghostwail is OP. You also get a fairly powerful companion to boot. Update 06/29/2022: You can also pick Buccaneer, which is what a lot of the top players do now. Its advantages are ease of movement (Mighty Charge) and high damage. It's also the only class that can do Flooded Shrine in 2 turns, which saves a lot of time.

General Strats I would recommend changing your realm to Commodore on the way to Rigby to avoid encounters with other players.

You will never have to fight any more than two enemies in any single roaming mob battle. Only in the Flooded Shrine and Fin will you have to deal with more. And those have specific win conditions that don't require you to defeat all enemies. Use this to your advantage and use Ghostwail on one, and use Kan Po for the other one.

Outside of battles, I would recommend using 2 marks in total in the run: Right at the last slingshot you have to blow up at the Slingshots quest, and right next to Shepherd when you're going to get the key to Flooded Shrine and do that.

Use Fast Combat. This is a no-brainer, but it's in Advanced Gameplay Options. Switch to it on the way to the first Troggy fight.

Always have Kan Po as firstmate and level him up to level 3 when you're going up the ramp to fight the Cutthroats.

Specific Battle Strats Update 12/30/2019: Go to the right instead of the left on the first Troggy fight. This allows you to kill them in one turn easily if you get lucky enough.

For the second Troggy fight and Cutthroats 1 & 2, there are some spawning patterns you can get that allow you to easily kill them in one turn.

For Flooded Shrine, try to attack all the keystones in one round. I would suggest putting your pirate to the far right one, but it's your preference.

For Fin, direct all your most powerful attacks at him first, then start regularly hitting. Hope that Sergeant Shepherd decides to attack Fin.

End of Run MAKE SURE TO COLLECT THE JADE AMULET. I have forgotten this sometimes in my runs. The position you spawn near the Life Fountain when you port to Avery's Court is random. Try to adapt quickly to the one you get.

The whole run (especially Fin) is mostly RNG. Don't give up hope. You will have some unlucky sessions. Just because you are new to the category doesn't mean you can't WR; ImPoop was only running for about a month when he got a long-standing WR of 11:26 (Update 06/29/2022: since January 2, 2021, this is no longer the record).

This is the end of the guide. I wish you good luck in your runs! -ItzGray, former WR holder