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I developed a good way for a beginner to handle the first anvil in the castle: you can damage boost off the Knight using i-frames to get through without being frozen in place. NOTE: you can see my button inputs top-left, you have to register two jumps because the game swallows the first input every time.

not much advantage to do this scheme of the block is not faster and only use the barrel until you take the block and get off and lose time is not worth it

It's funny, I thought I came up with it on my own then I saw your 3rd place run uses the same block in the castle. Is the tree boss purely rng or is it manipulable by the way? Any setup I try seems to give inconsistent results.

and even pure rng