Swords and Sandals 1: Gladiator speedrun guide any%
(re-read after 100 tries or when you learn most of the enemy animations, will make more sense and easier to remember)
3 attack, 9 strength (9 is enough to 1 shot first enemies)
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Spacing in first battles will be important, if you both go towards each other 3 times you are in range for charge attack. If that didn’t kill him use quick attacks.
All first points into strength
Wolfgang of shackleford
Same for first arena champion, you walk towards each other three times and you are in range to charge. If he jumps once instead of walking just walk twice and use taunt until he is in range to hit. If he jumps once, you are perfectly in range for him to hit you if you walked 3 times while you can’t even reach him with charge attack.
Either charge + quick attack or 2x quick attack will kill him
Put points into strength
Go into next fight, hope for easy kill with charge attack+quick attacks
Put points into strength
Depending on how much money you have, buy some armor
-2064+ money —> cutpurse breastplate (2nd)
-1834-2065 —> Noob breastplate (1st) + cutpurse helmet (2nd)
-less than 1834 —> Noob breastplate (1st) + cutpurse shield (2nd)
Bo’sun Smythe
Go 1 forward, then start taunting (after 1 step forward and him 1 step forward he is perfectly in range that when you taunt him, he charges forward, loses stamina and you can unload quick attacks). If he walks backwards first, then instead go forward first until you are in this range
He often walks back after taking some hits, recover stamina by sleeping here so you can spam quick attacks when he walks back in range.
Utilizing this can make the fight a lot easier, since you don’t want a ton of early resets.
You can instead try charging him if you don’t want to taunt but wouldn’t advise. First strat in my opinion the safest and fastest way of taking him out.
!!!If you go forward and he jumps, you are not in range to hit him while he can hit you. Don’t taunt here but just quick charge.
Put points into strength
Next arena fight,Use charge for high dmg potential and finish off with quick attacks.
Put points into strength.
Visit the armory (optional)
Next up will be the breaking point of a lot of runs,
The slave driver
Remember, if you die it’s best to die fast. Don’t be afraid and charge in, he will 1 shot you most of the anyways.
Start with going forward, ideally you both go forward 3 times, then he is in range to hit with a charge attack. Once you closed the distance finish up your stamina bar with quick attacks, if you didn’t hit any of them with your last stamina, use normal attack. Power attack will launch them too far, normal attack just creates some distance so you can rest and finish him off.
(most of the time) If he breaks this spacing by taunting or jumping twice I suggest taunting him until he’s in distance. Try to find openings where he is almost out of stamina to charge in + quick attack. Be wary of your own stamina as well, try to charge in when you can follow up with another attack.
(Most annoying thing about boss fights is they always have a little more range than you, with this being the most annoying boss of all. One where you can’t even hit him and he just one shots you)
If you knocked him back too far and he’s low on hp, taunt does 17 damage at this point. Can always hope for (even more) rng and finish it up fast instead of walking towards each other for 30 seconds.
Put points into strength
Enter arena, pray you make it out alive, be aggressive and use quick attack most of the time.
Put 3 points into strength (if you intend to yeet him) or 1 strength 2 attack (if you intend to charge in and use normal/power attacks to get his health down)
Visit armory (optional, but advised if you don’t try to yeet him)
Nine cat Jack
Step forward, then taunt until he is in distance. Use power attacks to hit him out of the arena.
If you hit him and he stays put can always try finishing off with quick attacks.
When you are just not close enough to hit power attacks, just take a step forward first! You get another turn right after, comes in clutch to close the distance a lot.
If you yeeted somebody not far enough the knockback from taunt can make somebody fall off the arena as well.
If he keeps on running away just preserve your stamina and keep taunting/sleeping, he has a lot more agility anyway to close the distance.
Put 2 points into attack, 1 into strength
Go in arena, finish fight fast
Put points into attack
Visit armor (optional, you try to yeet him anyways but if you have time enough and want to play it safe go for it)
Stylonius is annoying as hell as he will 1 shot you 95 percent of the time you get close to him.
You just need to find an opening by going close and taunting or by charging in. Use power attacks to yeet him out of the arena
Put points into attack
Enter arena, kill as fast as possible
Sometimes the enemies will be low on hp, so pray for some good rng again
Put points into attack
Lord Talah'udin
Go forward and use taunt to lure him in, yeet as fast as you can with power attacks
points into attack
Enter arena, kill as fast as possible
HeChaos the Scourge
Taunt and yeet off the map with power attack
gg
