MaGMML3 - Tier W - The Level with a Met Pun Normal Run in

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Okay. I've bashed my head against this stage for many hours, originally settling with a 2:27, which was beaten out by a 2:23 by Juaroomblah with some new strats. I think as far as these strats are concerned the run is virtually optimal.

The first difficult segment is after the first checkpoint. I make sure not to bonk into the Heli Metall on the first screen right there on bike, because I want to bonk into the one on the next screen for IFrames. Then I dismount bike, summon Coil and jump up to the higher level, taking 7 damage on the spikes.

The room right after is also very tight to get the first cycle in, you have to be very fast and Reflect Block collision is finicky. You can get crushed or you can Magnet Beam bugged on the slide gap.

Likewise, the perfect cycle on the room after is very tight. You want to leave some time between the slides on the top layer so you actually reach the ladder.

Then, on the next room, there's a new difficult bike strat. Use bike and bonk the Heli Metall for IFrames, dismount and Cable your way over. I chain this into another cable to a wall and take 7 more damage from the spikes. At this point I'm pretty low already.

The Giant Metall fight here is thankfully optional. The best strat I've found was bonk it on bike, switch to Coil and Coil Tornado up. If you're really fast it won't hit you again as you climb, but even if it does, Skull Amulet should proc and you can still regrab the ladder.

Then there's a 1 minute autoscroller. Lovely. At this point I saw my pace was the best I've had yet.

And then there's Metilda. Few bosses have potential for absolutely detrimental RNG, but Metilda does. She has an attack where she flies way off screen and summons Metall Daddy, which is basically a runkiller because she spends more than 5 seconds unhittable.
There's another myriad of attacks you can get that are slightly more suboptimal. She can fly to the top of the screen so you have to Wheel to Vortex quickly, or she can jump around or summon Mets.
The best attacks to get are the ones I got here, the Metall Cannon one and the Met storm one. During both of them she is completely stationary and open for attack with Laser Trident. I think ideally she would open with Metall Cannon, but this pattern was very good too.

I hope I never have to do this IL again.

This run beats the previous record of 2:23.219 by Juaroomblah by ~2s.

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