Ancient Oak in 40 Seconds

This area is hard. It has a handful of really important rocket ladders and a lot of enemies that can send you flying. This video uses my old ladder strats, which I've timed to be faster than the current mega-ladder dive in the top few times. You'll also notice that I don't dash very much. Since this stage is entirely vertical, you really want the higher acceleration and air control that your normal walking has. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_68-UIAJNU&feature=youtu.be

Dead Jungle Strats

Health conservation is really important in the early game, because there's a lot of damage boosts and not a lot of health. This video has a close to perfect dead jungle (before dash) and includes some ladder boosts that I think more people should make use of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trQSFmxds0I&feature=youtu.be

Frog Boss Quick Kill #1 (~6sec)

Here's my tech to beat Frog Boss faster then normally. You need least 2 health to do this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA2BevygjI4?t=6s

Frog Boss Quick Kill #2 (~6-7sec, less risky)

Here's another quick kill strat. Compare to [previous strat](https://www.speedrun.com/Super_Skelemania/guide/lu2ta), it's less risky because you don't need to take damage.

Strat and video by HobbyG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHJUsUGfiFI

Pickup Animation Cancel / Skin Stealing Glitch

**A.k.a. Item dialog skip**

If you open the menu just before receiving a pickup while directly over it, you get the pickup and the spin animation does not play. You still have to advance the info screen, but it’s obviously quite a lot quicker.

Given that the animation takes roughly 4 seconds to play, and that in a normal Any% run there are 7 pickups (one health and six power-ups), this skip saves about 30 seconds in a normal run.

You can also "steal" the skin easter egg with this glitch, so it counts as collected item in 100% runs, meaning you must collect it.

Shoutouts to Benal, who made the game and consequently discovered this.

## Examples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tX6RWIC6xw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_2RjqA9GiU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rym0U9vChiA?t=11s

Rocket Ladder Jumps

When you're on a ladder, if you hold the direction away from the wall the ladder is on then spam the backflip button, you will be rocketed upwards with the momentum you had gained on the ladder. there are several places in the run this can be used, many of them taking place inside of the ghostly forest area, a few more in the dead forest area, and a few more in the overworld area.

Spider-hallway damage boost [pre dive-get]

This is a deceptively hard trick. Performing the d-boost so you get max speed is actually not what you want to do. Doing that will always land you right into the spikes. What you need to do is purposefully lose some speed in air so you land right before the pit, and then jump again immediately to make it all the way across. You also need to perform the fall in the room before optimally or you'll miss the spider cycle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgombQ6TsRc&feature=youtu.be

Name	Author
Ancient Oak in 40 Seconds	benal 6 years ago
Dead Jungle Strats	benal 6 years ago
Frog Boss Quick Kill #1 (~6sec)	krisu 6 years ago
Frog Boss Quick Kill #2 (~6-7sec, less risky)	krisu 6 years ago
Pickup Animation Cancel / Skin Stealing Glitch	glugglejug 7 years ago
Rocket Ladder Jumps	Abyss 7 years ago
Spider-hallway damage boost [pre dive-get]	benal 7 years ago