**New True 100%** (updated as of 3/17/22)

Time Starts when you gain control of Kuros
Runner Must Complete All 9 Guilds
Runner Must Turn in All 6 Treasures
Runner Must Kill the Bouncer
Time Ends on Malkil's Death animation.

All Glitches are allowed

Here is a rough breakdown of how the route will look. (current inventory total in ( )'s )
*Edited to get the town treasures earlier in the run as it makes the pathing smoother

1. Bronze Thief Statue (1)
2. Bronze Thief Guild (0)
3. Silver Thief Statue (1)
4. Silver Thief Guild (0)
5. Gold Thief Statue (1)
6. Gold Thief Guild (0)
7. Treasure One (1) <treasure in window of "beehive skip building>
8. Treasure Two (2) <treasure in thief 3 locked door bottom right of town>
9. Bronze Wizard Statue (3)
10. Bronze Wizard Guild (2)
11. Gold Wizard Statue (3)
12. Silver Wizard Statue (4 max)
13. Silver Wizard Guild (3)
14. Treasure Three (4 max) <treasure in thief 3 locked door area to the right of wizard 3>
15. Gold Wizard Guild (3)
16. Treasure Four (4) <treasure in normal door above wizard 3>
17. Dungeon Wise Man (2) (Crown, Scepter)
18. Town Wise Man (0) (Coin, Necklace)
19. Bronze Knight Statue (1)
20. Bronze Knight Guild (0)
21. Treasure Five (1) <treasure in palace interior exactly opposite side of where wise man is>
22. Gold Knight Statue (2)
23. Silver Knight Statue (3)
24. Gold Knight Guild (2)
25. Treasure Six (3) <left door near top of center tower>
26. Palace Jewel (4 Max)
27. Palace Wise Man (2) (Orb, Chalice)
28. Silver Knight Guild (1)
29. Town Jewel (2)
30. Bouncer (2)
31. Dungeon Jewel (3)
32. Dragon (4 Max)
33. Malkil

*Updated Jackie Skip*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlqqlWXO5yY&t=81s

Beehive room movement strats

just jump left into the beehive then it's 2 straight up jumps

https://youtu.be/pMKGCO26rUA

Underground Guardian Skip RTA Viable

https://youtu.be/Al4ma4G3gfw
https://youtu.be/O62f3zuVhHo

Video Tutorial: Beehive Skip

A video tutorial that explains the positioning for the beehive skip.  You despawn the beehive by moving the camera to the right.  You prevent it from respawning by manipulating the camera's vertical position.

https://youtu.be/hrkANpfSVYo

Video Tutorial: Malkil Instant Death Glitch

The glitch is triggered by levitating in a specific location.  It requires specific values for the vertical position of one of three possible projectiles.  The code that causes the glitch runs every other frame.

https://youtu.be/oHIwYqUrzR8

Video Tutorial: Safe Strategy for Bronze Thief Guild Boss

As long as you get into position and start attacking before the boss spawns, this strategy eliminates the risk of damage during the boss fight of the bronze thief guild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gRjnN2H_AA

Video Tutorial: Silver/Gold Thief Guild Boss

This explains how to get the silver and gold thief guild bosses to lean back.  The key is to attack the dagger while the boss is in a resting state.  In order to make the information easier to understand, the first part of the video uses a Lua script to freeze the boss in several positions and draw hitboxes on screen.  The fight at the end was played in real-time without such assistance.

https://youtu.be/YkH5JebbJgw

Video Tutorial: Thief Statue Guardian Glitch

This glitch can save time on both thief statue guardians, but the crowbar's hitbox makes it more difficult with the gold statue guardian.

https://youtu.be/ng3NBrk22nU

Video Tutorial: Town Guardian Damage Skip

A video tutorial that explains the damage skip for the guardian that blocks access to the second and third thief guilds.  The key point is to press left and quickly reduce horizontal speed to zero after taking damage.  This limits how far Kuros moves backward.

https://youtu.be/l1ysnr9rtXA

Video Tutorial: Town Guardian Damageless Skip

A video tutorial that explains the damageless skip for the guardian that blocks access to the second and third thief guilds.  The key point is to spawn three other enemies before reaching the guardian so that it has no room in memory to spawn.  This saves around 30 frames compared to the damage skip when going to the second thief guild.  Since it does not work if you push any enemies off buildings to their death, it is unknown at this time if it saves time when going to the third thief guild.

https://youtu.be/8wdurR3EQC0

WIP New Guardian Treasure Run (meme-ish but still might be fun)

Goal of the Run: Return all 6 Wisemen treasures and then kill the Bouncer guarding the Dungeons

Requirements:
	1. Return all 6 treasures
	2. Kill all statue guardians (Both Flame looking enemies, Both Axe Knights, and All 3 Worms)
	3. Have all 3rd tier costumes (needed to kill bouncer anyways)
	4. Kill Bouncer (time ends)

*Things to note:  Any glitches are permitted in order to get to the 3rd Guild costumes faster than normal, but you must still kill the Silver statue guardians even though you don't need the statues to progress. (this includes the single worm fight, and the silver knight guardian)

*Another note: Since 3rd knight is required, that does mean as a result that Knight 1 must also be done somewhere during the run (as you can't access 3rd guild without being worthy)

Basic Route Draft*  (I will keep tally of how many items kuros is holding)
1. Bronze Thief Statue (1)
2. Bronze Thief Guild (0)
3. Silver Thief guardian and statue (1)
4. Silver Thief Guild (0)
5. Gold Thief guardian and statue (1)
6. Gold Thief Guild (0)
7. Bronze Wizard Statue (1)
8. Bronze Wizard Guild (0)
9. Silver Wizard guardian no statue (0)
10. Gold Wizard guardian and statue (1)
11. Treasure in lvl-3 locked door (2)
12. Gold Wizard Guild (1)
13. Treasure above Gold Wizard Guild (2)
14. Turn in both treasures (0)
15. Grab both Town treasures (2)
16. Turn in both treasures (0)
17. Bronze Knight Statue (1)
18. Bronze Knight Guild (0)
19. Indoor treasure opposite of wise man (1)
20. Gold Knight Guardian and Statue (2)
21. Silver Knight Guardian no statue (2)
22. Tower Treasure (3)
23. Gold Knights Guild (2)
24. Turn in Both Treasures (0)
25. Kill Bouncer.

Wizards & Warriors III Any% guide

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1206467248

Longform off-the-cuff any% guide where I talk about some of my strategies, visual cues, some oddities about the game, and how some of the enemies work.

My sum of best is almost sub 18, but I have at least 8 seconds to save from my current splits so sub 18 is definitely possible. There are also many movement timesaves left to discover by altering your momentum in the air that I didn't look for.

Wizards and Warriors 3 all guilds%

This route involves using all the same tricks and glitches in the any%, except you collect all 9 of the guilds.

this will just explain the order to get statues, jewels, and when to do the guilds themselves

1. bronze thief statue
2. bronze thief guild
3. silver thief statue
4. silver thief guild
5. gold thief statue
6. middle area jewel
7. gold thief guild
8. bronze knight statue
9. bronze knight guild
10. silver knight statue
11. bronze wizard statue
12. bronze wizard guild
13. gold wizard statue
14. silver wizard statue
15. silver wizard guild
16. gold wizard guild
17. silver knight guild
18. gold knight statue
19. gold knight guild
20. upper area jewel
21. lower area jewel
22. dragon jewel
23. malkil

i'm pretty sure doing these in this order is the most efficient, but i'm sure a few minor changes could possibly save time, this was just what I thought up in my head.

Wizards and warriors 3 Any%

Table of Contents:
A- the route in a nutshell
B- Q n A about tricks/glitches
C- thanks/shoutouts

¤NOTE!!  This guide only describes what I get and the glitches.  you can find complete in-depth walkthru's at this games gamefaqs page

A.  -------The Route in a Nutshell-------

	The route consists of completing 6 of the 9 guilds, the guilds I get in the order I get them are....
	1.Bronze thief
	2.Silver thief
	3.Gold thief
	4.Bronze knight
        5.Bronze wizard
	6.Gold wizard.

 	you also need to collect the 4 jewels in the game 3 of which are given by damsels and one from a dragon. 

	1. The first jewel is gotten between the Silver and Gold thief's guilds. in the building with the beehive
	2. The next jewel is gotten after the Bronze knight guild at the top of the eastern tower
	3. This one is gotten after the Gold wizard and is found by levitating to a high ledge in the east side of the dungeon area
	4. Last one is gotten from slaying the dragon, and happens immediately after getting the 3rd jewel.

	So everything including statues happens like this.
	
	1. Bronze Thief statue
	2. Bronze Thief Guild
	3. Silver Thief statue
	4. Silver Thief Guild
	5. Gold Thief statue
	6. Middle area Gem
	7. Gold Thief Guild
	8. Bronze Knight statue
	9. Bronze Knight Guild
	10. Upper area Gem
	11. Bronze Wizard statue	
	12. Bronze Wizard Guild
	13. Gold Wizard statue
	14. Gold Wizard Guild
	15. Bottom area Gem
	16. Dragon Gem

B. ------Q n A about Tricks/Glitches------

    I will go over these in the order they occur in the run.

 	1. What happened to the beehive that's supposed to block your path? 
		- the beehive gets de-spawned by camera placement when you traverse far enough to the right on the building to the 
	           southeast of the beehive


	2. How do you get past the 'flashing man' in front of the Gold thieves guild?
	       -short answer is damage boost.  long answer,  when you get hit by an enemy, normally kuros will get knocked backwards 
	        a good distance.  However, if you actually hold the direction that your getting knocked back, it slows down your momentum

		meaning when I get hit by the flashing man, I hold left to slow my momentum, and then can hold right to land on the 
		platform.


	3. Why did you get kicked out of the Gold wizards guild?
	      -The guild is behind a door that only the Gold thief can open, so there is no other way to get inside, and getting kicked
                out once is required, before you can re-enter as the Bronze wizard.


	4. Why did you attack the Bronze guild bosses slowly?
		-Unlike the Silver and Gold bosses, the Bronze bosses have a significant about of damage invincibility after each hit
                  so spamming attack won't speed those battles up any


	5.Uhm.. Malkil....explain please?
	       -I have no idea why this trick works, nor does the TAS  of the game, but basically when kuros stands on specific pixels in 
	        the game, whenever you shoot a projectile behind your head, and then switch to the Gold wizard and levitate, the screen
	       shakes causing some wierd results.  In this case it causes malkils death animation.    The comments on the TAS video can
	       better explain the required pixels to be standing on in order for the trick to work.


       6. other things to note in this section...
		A. I have to get the Bronze knight solely for killing the flashing monster in the dungeon area, for what ever reason this 
		    enemy doesn't give you temporary invincibility like the flashing man does, so you can't damage boost past him.

		B. The malkil glitch doesn't give the normal 5000 points you would normally get from killing him the "legit" way, but the 
                    end result is the same regardless (being his death animation, and the end game animations starting)



C. --------Shout outs/Thanks--------

              This site, and other speedrunning sites like SDA and SRL
	      
	      FerretWarlord and Dacicus  they are the TASers of the game, and my route comes from the TAS video

	     VGMAPS, I used their maps in order to figure out some of the platforming aspects
              
              The speedrunning facebook group

	      And most importantly YOU! 

I hope more people get into this game in the future, as i'm currently the only person that runs this game and would love some friendly
competition.

Name	Author
New True 100% (updated as of 3/17/22)	xJackieBx 3 years ago
Updated Jackie Skip	xJackieBx 3 years ago
Beehive room movement strats	xJackieBx 6 years ago
Underground Guardian Skip RTA Viable	xJackieBx 4 years ago
Video Tutorial: Beehive Skip	Dacicus 7 years ago
Video Tutorial: Malkil Instant Death Glitch	Dacicus 4 years ago
Video Tutorial: Safe Strategy for Bronze Thief Guild Boss	Dacicus 6 years ago
Video Tutorial: Silver/Gold Thief Guild Boss	Dacicus 4 years ago
Video Tutorial: Thief Statue Guardian Glitch	Dacicus 5 years ago
Video Tutorial: Town Guardian Damage Skip	Dacicus 7 years ago
Video Tutorial: Town Guardian Damageless Skip	Dacicus 7 years ago
WIP New Guardian Treasure Run (meme-ish but still might be fun)	xJackieBx 4 years ago
Wizards & Warriors III Any% guide	Overswarm 3 years ago
Wizards and Warriors 3 all guilds%	xJackieBx 10 years ago
Wizards and warriors 3 Any%	xJackieBx 10 years ago