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GCN Low%
Information:
On top of Any%, Low% currently skips the following:
- Faron Small Key
- North Faron Portal
- Death Mountain Portal
- Castle Town Portal
- Bomb Bag
- 3 Arbiter's Grounds Poes
- 1 Arbiter's Grounds Small Key
Runs should start with a blank file in slots 1, 2, and 3 as all files are used during the run.
It is helpful to watch a top run on the leaderboard for reference when learning, as this route document can only go into so much detail.
Ordon
Master Sword
Forest Temple
- Master Sword Cutscene
- Warp South Faron
- Purple mist
- Early Master Sword again to skip portal
- Enter Forest temple
- Early Monkeys (This will also activate Early Boss Fights for later on)
- Save on File 3
- BiT behind load zone
- BiTE
- Perform BiTE and load File 2 (outside Bo's House)
- Soft reset as soon as the cutscene starts playing (Start+X+B), then mash start as soon as the screen starts to fade out to skip the cutscene (timing isn't precise)
- Load File 3 (Forest Temple)
- Break cage and kill spiders with nuts
- Light torches
- Cross monkey chain to Ook
- Boomerang
- Savewarp
Getting to Eldin Twilight (Gorge Void)
Getting to Eldin Twilight (No Gorge Void)
Eldin Vessel (BiTE Route)
Eldin Twilight
- Note: During Eldin and Lanayru Twilight, collect as many misc rupees as possible (without losing time).
- Enter graveyard
- Kill graveyard bug
- Well Clip once you hear bug explode
- Basement bugs
- Collect graveyard bug tear
- Malo Mart bug
- Hotel bug
- 20R in chest under staircase (36R+)
- 10R behind cabinet (46R+)
- Dash Cancel across roofs
- Abandoned House bug
- Check boxes for rupees (47R+)
- Barnes Shop bug
- Bomb House Skip
- Watchtower bug
- DMT bugs
- Skip Death Mountain portal with clawshot
- Quick steam cycle
- Final bug
Lanayru Twilight
- Backtrack up Death Mountain
- Warp meteor to Zora's Domain as human
- Rutela skip
- Lanayru Vessel
- First bug after bridge
- Lake Hylia Portal
- Stepping stones for bug
- Bug behind Fyer's cannon
- Warp Kakariko
- Call and ride Epona out north
- Map Glitch
- Put Epona OoB by Kakariko entrance (fall down a bit using the void floor)
- Savewarp
- Epona OoB to Castle Town (east bridge entrance)
- Get Castle Town bug
- Warp Zora's Domain
- Kill bug on the wall
- Skip Rutela cutscene again
- Transform Human behind pillar
- Collect tear - use boots to go under arch again
- Waterfall sidehop
- OR
- Use L+Right to move sideways, put on boots just after arch
- Climb up out to the right
- Transform wolf
- To bug by right side of map
- Lily pad bugs
- Bug on cliff
- Listen to Iza for bug
- Howl at grass for Kargarok
- Kargarok bugs backwards
- Crash into wall and say no
- Last small bug
- Boss bug
- Finish Twilight
Lakebed Temple
- Warp Zora's Domain
- Head to Upper Zora River on land
- Howl at UZR stone
- Upper Zora River warp portal
- Steal the Lent Bomb Bag with Ooccoo
- Empty Bomb Bag
- 10 WB in chest (10 WB)
- Boss Key Skip
- Morpheel without Zora Armor
- Don't collect Heart Container
- Enter Portal
Midna's Desperate Hour
- Transform wolf
- Dash to Castle Town (Zoom out to reduce lag)
- Enter Telma's Bar through the door
- Push Box once and dash jump to window
- Poe
- Enter sewers
- Burn first web as wolf with stick
- Transform at 2nd web and use lantern
- Dig into hole
- Bulblin Archer
- Exit tower
- Early wind cycle
- Zelda cutscene
Snowpeak Ruins
- If not doing BiTE Route:
- Dash to Golden Wolf
- Ending Blow
- Warp to Zora's Domain
- Enter Peak province
- Map Glitch
- Howling stone (UMDMDUMD)
- If doing BiTE route, howl twice to spawn wolf in Graveyard
- Snowpeak Messenger Skip
- Blind Snowboarding
- Enter Snowpeak Ruins
- Enter door on the left
- Early Heart Piece 2 (Don't get the Heart Piece)
- Clawshot through the ceiling
- Jump down or clawshot to door below
- Ice Clip
- Enter the main room
- Freezard Skip
- Darkhammer 1-Cycle with Master Sword
- Ball & Chain
- Enter back room
- Sidehop twice to the right
- Swing Ball & Chain around your head and look down
- Savewarp
- Load in Snowpeak first room
- 100R from armor in the lobby (252R+)
- Leave Snowpeak
Arbiter's Grounds
- Note: Stallord Skip is not required, but is faster. See addenda for non-Stallord Skip routing.
- Item wheel buffer before warping
- Warp Upper Zora's River
- Enter Iza's Hut
- Steal the Lent Bomb Bag without Ooccoo
- Press B to exit automatic Iza text, then press A and open the map on the same frame to warp away after saying 'Yes'
- (If the minimap is open, use d-pad right to open the map for warping; if the minimap is closed, use d-pad left)
- Warp Late Hylia
- Get Auru's Memo
- Dash down to cannon
- Show Memo and go to Desert province
- Enter Bulblin Camp without a boar
- Map Glitch to King Bulblin
- Enter Arbiter's Grounds as Human
- Human entrance
- Pull chain
- Small key
- Watch the Poe cutscene and safety save
- Note: resetting the game to retry the Poe Slide will cause the Lent Bomb Bag to disappear.
- Rupee Slide through Poe Gate (257R+)
- Boss Key Early (Ignore Boss key for now)
- Fastest Stalfos with Bombs
- Death Sword 1 cycle
- Spinner
- Backtrack through spinner room
- Boss Key
- Stallord Skip or fight
- Don't collect Heart Container
City in the Sky
Palace of Twilight
- Enter cannon
- Land in water (landing on bridge deals 2 hearts of damage)
- If doing BiTE Route:
- Warp Kakariko
- Ending Blow from wolf in the Graveyard
- Warp Upper Zora's River
- Enter Iza's Hut
- It might be useful to safety save here.
- Steal the Lent Bomb Bag without Ooccoo
- Press B to exit automatic Iza text, then press A and open the map on the same frame to warp away after saying 'Yes'
- (If the minimap is open, use d-pad right to open the map for warping; if the minimap is closed, use d-pad left)
- Warp Lake Hylia
- Empty Bomb Bag
- Re-enter City in the Sky
- Get 15 WB from chest
- Leave City in the Sky
- Land in water (landing on bridge deals 2 hearts of damage)
- Warp Mirror chamber
- Note: The water bombs will be lost upon saving, dying, or finishing a dungeon. Don't save or die until Palace of Twilight is complete.
- Transform wolf
- Enter Palace of Twilight
- West wing
- Phantom Zant 1
- Skip Midna sol text
- Staircase timesaver 1
- Exit west wing
- Place sol 1
- LJA to east wing
- LJA after small key
- Phantom Zant 2
- Staircase timesaver 2
- Place sol 2
- Master Sword Upgrade
- Enter north wing
- Place sols
- Out of bounds LJA
- Small key with faster platform spawn
- Out of bounds LJA to door
- Boss key shortcut
- Platform to Zant head
- Void out
- Zant heads
- Small key
- Early Platform
- LJA after early platform
- Enter Zant
- Zant without Zora Armor
- Portal
Hyrule Castle
Addenda
Non-Stallord Skip Route
Stallord Skip is not required for low%, but it does save about 1 minute. The following routing can be used instead of Stallord Skip.
NG+ Route
Though significantly slower, there is an old low% route that obtains the same number of items. It can be found here
Last updated 07/21/2023
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