Huntress is the most viable character for any% speedrunning, especially for beginners. Huntress is easier to learn and play, especially compared to Loader. So personally, I recommend huntress to any runners looking to get good times faster.
Looked up your run because I thought the leaderboard was all Loader. Apparently I was wrong.
See? The fact that the leaderboard is mostly loaders is bothering me, variety would be nice to see...
I think loader is just easier to run from a consistency standpoint, you need certain items for a huntress run to become viable for a run, loader can run through stage 4 itemless
Huntress and Loader are both decently consistant. Neither require many or hard to aquire items in order to get consistant 8 minute times. Various strategies and Equipment items help sqeeze out more time for top level runs, but other than that, it mostly comes down to movement. If anything, Huntress' easier movement makes decent times slighly more consistant with her.
Seeing as most everyone was for this change, the Gauntlet category will now accept runs performed on an unmodded version of the game. Using the mods is still allowed, with the Fogbound Lagoon stage now being optional - allowed, but not required.
Vanilla runs still submit their IGT from the results
