Any% (Faron Escape)

This is the optimal Wii Any% route.

This route requires doing the displacement clip method for Faron Escape twice, a trick involving fast aiming and a frame perfect motion input, making this route not recommended for beginners. See Addenda for route alternatives.

Runs should start with a blank file in slots 1, 2, and 3 as multiple files are used during the run. The route below specifies which slot to use for each save, but other variations can be equally fast so long as (i) the post Faron Twilight save is still available after saving in Kakariko and (ii) all blank slots are used by the end of 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.

This route is intended for NA Wii 1.0, but is also possible on other versions; see Addenda for notes.

Ordon Province

Faron Twilight

  • S. Faron warp portal
  • Faron Vessel
  • Kill first two bugs (leave tears)
  • Bug outside Coro's house
  • Bugs inside Coro's house
  • Dig under gate, kill bugs, enter loading zone after bugs explode (leave tears)
  • Tunnel
  • Bugs on left wall (leave tears)
  • Bugs in tree trunk
  • Ignore bugs that dig
  • EMS
  • Enter Sacred Grove
  • Skull Kid chase 1
  • Skull Kid fight 1 (8R+)
    🠋 Master Sword puzzle (RD UUU LL DDD RU)
  • Warp S. Faron
  • Collect missed tears on the way to the tunnel
  • Collect missed tears in mist area
  • Cross purple mist with lantern
  • Transform and kill bugs before they dig
  • While waiting for tears, dig behind sign and jump attack to collect a yellow rupee (18R+)
  • N. Faron warp portal
  • Kill last two bugs
  • Turn senses off, transform, burn web, and collect tears
  • Vessel complete

Eldin Twilight 1

  • Backflip to skip text (1-frame window)
  • Save on File 2
  • Ordon Bridge + precautions, BiTE to King Bulblin 1
  • KB1 Field + KB1 Bridge
  • re-BiTE with precautions to set EBF (use File 3 for Kakariko save)
    • If you mess up the precautions for re-BiTE, do the death method
    • Note that EBF will remain set after Ook and will be reused on Deku Toad later. EBF will not remain set if the console is powered off or if Link voids in the outdoor room in Forest Temple where the monkey chain is.
  • Load File 3 (File # no longer matters)
  • Kill messengers as human
  • Collect Eldin Vessel as human
  • Roll out of the water before transforming wolf
  • Enter graveyard
  • Graveyard bug (transform human and collect tear)
  • Well Clip
  • 3 basement bugs
  • After collecting basement tears, warp N. Faron with Midna

Boomerang

  • Ending Blow
  • Enter Forest Temple
  • Kill one or both walltulas with deku baba nuts (19R+)
    • Alternatively, try to climb past one or both walltulas (requires good RNG)
  • Light torches
  • Cross over monkey chain to Ook (EBF active from re-BiTE)
  • Ook
  • Boomerang
  • Savewarp

Getting to Zora's Domain

  • Exit Forest Temple
    • [Boomerang (B) / Iron Boots / Lantern ]
  • Warp S. Faron with Midna
  • Faron Escape (24R+)
    • If you failed and didn't collect the rupee, enter and exit Coro's house to retry. If you failed and collected the rupee, savewarp to retry
  • Dash to Hyrule Field South (HFS)
  • Mailman skip (NA 1.0 Only)
  • Enter Kakariko Gorge
  • After Midna text, savewarp to unset rupee text flag
  • Gorge messenger fight
    • No Gorge Void
  • Warp S. Faron (forced warp to Faron)
    • All future warps should be done via map warping, as it's faster than calling Midna to warp
  • Faron Escape (29R+)
  • Dash to HFS and head northeast
  • Lanayru Gate Clip
  • Drop into Lake Hylia as wolf
  • Kargarok fight
  • Kargarok flight
  • Zora's Domain warp portal

Eldin Twilight 2

Lanayru Twilight

  • Warp Death Mountain
  • Transform in the corner
  • Warp rock to Zora's Domain as human
  • Sidehop left to skip text (1-frame window)
  • Rutela skip
  • Lanayru Vessel
  • Bug outside Lanayru spring
  • Lake Hylia warp portal
  • Stepping stones for bug
  • Warp Zora's Domain
  • Wall bug and Rutela skip
  • Waterfall Sidehop or drop down right wall to bug (39R+)
    • If you fail waterfall sidehop by not sidehopping at all, savewarp
    • If you fail waterfall sidehop by falling to the lower level, use Midna jumps to climb back up
  • 2nd floor bug, jump into water
  • 2 lilypad bugs (Try your best to keep them dry on NA 1.0)
  • Bug on cliff with RNG rupees in grass patches and boxes (40R+)
  • Swim to Upper Zora's River (UZR)
  • Listen to Iza for bug
  • Down the river
  • Dash to Castle Town
  • Castle Town warp portal
  • Dash cancel through Castle Town
  • Castle Town bug
  • Warp Lake Hylia
  • Bug behind Fyer's hut (Keep it dry on NA 1.0)
  • Howl at grass
  • 4 Kargarok bugs, bonk, and press B to say 'No' to Midna
  • Last small bug
  • Boss Bug
  • Vessel Complete

Getting to Lakebed Temple

  • Warp Zora's Domain
  • Take 2 hearts of damage jumping down in outer Zora's Domain (avoid yellow rupee)
  • Head to UZR on land
  • Transform human behind sign, then talk to Iza
  • Steal and Duplicate Lent Bomb Bag as wolf
    • If you accidentally trigger the fight as human and are trapped, savewarp to try again
    • Do not need to talk to Iza at the end to fill the duped bag
  • Warp Lake Hylia
  • Empty Lake Hylia
    • Skip Plumm cutscene and howl to start Plumm's minigame (watching the cutscene costs 6s)
    • Clip OoB and bonk to void out
    • If you entered with more than 1 heart and are still alive, JA to void until dead (backflip is 6f slower)
    • This death fixes the inventory and fills the duped bomb bag with 30 normal bombs
  • Dash east and enter Lakebed Temple
    • [Lantern / Iron Boots / Boomerang / Bombs (B)]
    • Begin wasting normal bombs as you go, leaving at least 2 for Deku Toad
    • If you fail the bomb boost into Lakebed, deathwarp using bombs and try again; do not savewarp, as savewarping will refill the lake

Lakebed Temple

  • Savewarp
  • Pull lever in first room
  • Drop stalactites with bomb + boomerang
  • Out of bounds swim to west 2F
  • Enter outer cog room 2F
  • Drop stalactite with bomb + boomerang
  • Climb vines and enter left door
  • Ledge hang + JA to reach Deku Toad early
  • Enter Deku Toad room from exit door, then look up to start the fight (EBF active)
  • 0-cycle Deku Toad
    • Leave 1 bomb in bag until fight is over in case you fail the sword combo; in this case, feed Deku Toad the bomb before it can spawn tadpoles
  • Clawshot
    • [Clawshot (B) / Boomerang / Iron Boots / Bombs]
  • Savewarp
  • Finish emptying bomb bag
  • Open chest for 10 WB
  • Backtrack to central staircase room
  • Bridge Clip (top of stairs south)
    • Alternatively, Vine Clip with clawshot or bombs (10-15s slower)
  • Morpheel with water bombs
    • [Clawshot (B) / Boomerang / Lantern / Water Bombs] for final regrab
    • Lantern to B on the way to the portal
    • Can get Heart Container if desired - does not matter for damage routing for Arbiter's Grounds deathwarp
    • See Addenda at the end of this page for bomb management notes
  • Exit Lakebed Temple

Midna's Desperate Hour

  • Transform wolf and dash to Castle Town
  • Dash cancel through Castle Town
  • Enter Telma's bar through the door and get kicked out
  • Louise Glitch (saves about 1.7s)
  • Push box once and dash jump to window
  • Ropes in bar or rope skip (risky, saves about 3s)
  • Poe
  • Enter sewers
  • Burn first web as wolf with the right stick
  • Transform at second web and use Lantern
    • [Clawshot (B) / Boomerang / Iron Boots / Water Bombs]
  • Dig into hole
  • Bulblin Archer
  • Exit tower
  • Early Wind Cycle
  • Zelda cutscene

Getting to Snowpeak Ruins

It's optimal to do Snowpeak Ruins before Arbiter's Grounds, but doing AG first replaces a hard trick in SPR with an easier one, and is only 9s slower; see Addenda for notes.

Snowpeak Ruins

  • Enter Snowpeak Ruins
  • Yeta
  • Yeto
  • Block Puzzle Room
  • Dig to Courtyard
  • Jump Attack Moon Boots Bomb Boost over the wall
    • [Water Bombs (B) / Boomerang / Lantern / Clawshot]
  • Freezard Skip
  • Darkhammer 1-Cycle with bomb
  • Ball & Chain
    • [Ball & Chain (B) / Boomerang / Lantern / Clawshot]
  • Enter back room
  • 100R from bubble (160R+)
  • Savewarp (3 hearts)
    • This is where damaging down for the deathwarp after Death Sword Skip can begin; see Addenda for notes
  • Load in Snowpeak first room
  • 100R from armor in the lobby (260R+)
    • If you got enough extra rupees from treetops during snowboarding, should be at 300R and can disregard rest of rupee route
  • Exit SPR through the door

Getting to Arbiter's Grounds

  • Warp Lake Hylia
  • Get Memo
  • Jump down without autoroll to take damage (2 hearts)
  • Dash down to Fyer
  • Boomerang red rupee from front of Fyer's cannon if <285R
    • [Ball & Chain / Auru's Memo (B) / Lantern / Clawshot]
  • Show Memo to Fyer
  • Ball & Chain to B while waiting for Fyer to move out of the way
  • Enter Desert Province
  • Transform wolf and dash northeast
  • Get hit by one moldorm in the desert (1.5 hearts)
  • Enter Bulblin Camp without a boar
  • Map Glitch to KB3
  • Defeat KB3
    • JA + autospin, JA x2, clockwise spin, JA, back away and wait until he swings, then JA + autospin
    • Dying with map glitch active is a softlock, so save in Bulblin Camp if worried about dying to King Bulblin
  • Boar through the fence
  • Enter Arbiter's Grounds as human
    • Clawshot to B before entering

Arbiter's Grounds

  • Human entrance
  • Pull chain
  • Small key
  • Torch room
    • [Clawshot / Ball & Chain / Iron Boots / Boomerang (B)] between lighting torch and door to automatically put lantern away
  • Poe door cutscene
  • Poe Gate Clip (285R+)
    • [Clawshot / Ball & Chain / Water Bombs / Boomerang (B)] for the Boots force unequip
  • Get blue rupee in the skull if <295R and >289R
  • Boss key early
    • If traversing next room as human, get boss key now; if using wolf, get boss key on the way to Stallord
  • Full human movement after boss key
    • or stay wolf (roughly 2s slower)
  • Triple Stalfos Skip with 3pcc or step clip (comparison)
  • 2R in pots in front of Death Sword's door if needed
  • Enter Death Sword
    🠋Skip or fight Death Sword (0.5 hearts)
    • Get hit by Death Sword as wolf during phase 1 to take 1 heart of damage (0.5 hearts)
    • Skipping Death Sword and deathwarping is 18s faster than killing Death Sword and exiting the room (comparison), not including time spent damaging down (~5s optimally)
    • If skipping Death Sword, put water bombs to B while waiting in the corner before transforming
  • Spinner
  • Deathwarp with water bomb and spinner
    • [Clawshot / Spinner (B) / Water Bombs / Boomerang]
    • Die to Death Sword if low on bombs or high on health
  • Spinner to door
  • Epic spinner room
  • Open boss key chest if you didn't already
  • Spinner to socket
    • Get blue rupee in the skull if <300R and >294R
  • Enter boss room
  • Stallord
  • One-Cycle in phase 2
    • Jump Attack into clockwise autospin
    • Left slash, right slash, forward stab
    • Repeat three times
  • Heart Container if desired
  • Spinner out to exit Arbiter's Grounds

Getting to City in the Sky

  • Mirror Chamber warp portal with a bomb
  • Warp Kakariko
    • Must zoom in to enable portals when warping from here on out
  • Early City in the Sky
  • Press Dpad Up to talk to Midna about cannon
    • Press B to say 'No' to Midna
    • Map warp to Lake Hylia
  • Boomerang red rupee from front of Fyer's cannon (300R) if needed
    • If you are short on rupees, Fyer has 60, and they come back every time you load the area
    • [Clawshot / Spinner / Iron Boots / Boomerang (B)]
  • Pay Fyer 300R to fix cannon, enter cannon
    • If you have fewer than 2 water bombs left, open southeast underwater water bomb chest after cutscene

City in the Sky

Palace of Twilight

Hyrule Castle

Addenda

Version Considerations

See this section for determining the version of TP Wii from a disc.

NA Wii 1.0 is the optimal version for this route, but the route can work on PAL Wii or JP Wii too, and can work on NA Wii 1.2 with a few small modifications mentioned shortly. Listed below are the relevant exclusivities that make NA 1.0 fastest:

  • Can reset before pressing A to save over new files (saves ~1s, only relevant for the first save)
  • Can jump attack over both sides of the mailman trigger in Hyrule Field South (saves ~21s)
  • Can skip the cutscene right before the Aeralfos fight, if you get the 1 frame drop from the switch (saves ~2s over the displacement clip)
  • Can skip the cutscene after entering the City in the Sky boss door, removing the need to clawshot the vines up to Argorok (saves ~13s)
  • Can jump attack over the mailman trigger outside of Castle Town (saves ~19s)

The route is practically identical on PAL Wii and JP Wii, except for the above listed not being possible, which makes these versions ~54s slower for this route. This doesn't consider text speed timings, which is comparably negligible.

The route is also possible on NA Wii 1.2 with the caveat being that map glitch isn't possible. The implications of this are:

  • Wolfos jump is required, which is a much more difficult method of accessing Snowpeak early. If you don't want to do wolfos jump, see this route which accommodates every Wii version
  • Map glitch isn't possible in Bulblin camp, which means you must either clear it normally (~8s slower) or get to King Bulblin with bomb boosts (roughly the same speed as map glitch)

Some additional notes:

  • English is the only available language for NA 1.0
  • With PAL Wii and NA 1.2, you can skip getting rupees altogether with the language set to French, which may save a few seconds
  • Back in Time Equipped on PAL/JP Wii might not function exactly the same as it does on NA 1.0, particularly concerning the precautions. The region of the Wii itself may also impact BiTE functionality (the existing documentation was made with an NTSC-U Wii)
  • The route is not possible on KOR Wii due to glitches such as Back in Time being patched. See this route, which accommodates every Wii version

  • The route works the same on the Wii U's vWii. Loading times are practically identical. The only difference is that since there's no console reset button, you must reset from pressing the home menu button on the Wiimote, which is slightly slower, and can make Back in Time more precise

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Bomb management

Ideally, bombs will be acquired and spent as follows in this route:

  • 30 normal bombs after emptying Lake Hylia
    • 1 entering Lakebed
    • 3 on stalactites
    • 1 for Deku Toad
    • 25 wasted
  • 10 water bombs after Clawshot
    • 1 Morpheel (required for route)
    • 1 Snowpeak Ruins bomb boost (required for route)
    • 1 Darkhammer (saves 2s over fight without bomb)
    • 1 deathwarp from spinner chest (saves 6.3s over deathwarping off of Death Sword's attack; only relevant if skipping poe gate)
    • 1 Mirror Chamber portal (saves 1.5s over fight without bomb)
    • 2 Zant (required for route)
    • 1 Hyrule barrier 1 (saves 5s over fight without bomb)
    • 1 Hyrule dynalfos (saves 4.5s over fight without bomb)
    • 1 extra bomb

The three relevant bomb backup chests post-Morpheel are:

  • AG epic spinner room: 10 bombs (+8.5s; only water bombs if you have at least 1 water bomb)
  • City entrance underwater: 15 bombs (+21s; always water bombs)

However, since most Morpheel fights use more than 1 bomb, and the Snowpeak Ruins bomb boost won't always be done first try, it's useful to plan bomb usage based on the number remaining after the Snowpeak Ruins bomb boost. Note that the timelosses estimated below do not include the time lost to Morpheel. This video compares bomb and bombless strats as well as getting bombs vs. not getting them for these scenarios.

Below describes the optimal bomb usage depending on the number of bombs remaining after the Snowpeak Ruins bomb boost:

  • 7+ bombs: all bomb strats, as listed above
  • 6 bombs: skip Mirror Chamber bomb strat (+1.5s)
  • 5 bombs: skip Mirror Chamber AND Darkhammer bomb strats (+3.5s)
  • 4 bombs: skip Mirror Chamber AND Darkhammer AND Hyrule dynalfos bomb strats (+8s total)
  • 3, 2, or 1 bomb: get AG 10 bomb chest (as wolf; get boss key after spinner) and do all bomb strats (+8.5s)

  • 0 bombs: skip Darkhammer bomb strat, get AG 10 bomb chest (normal bombs) and City underwater 15 bomb chest (water bombs) (+31.5s)

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Damage routing

In preparation for deathwarping after Death Sword Skip, the damage route specified is:

  • 3 hearts after SPR savewarp
  • 2 hearts after Auru's Memo
  • 1.5 hearts after desert moldorms
  • 0.5 hearts after Death Sword phase 1

An alternative damage route that is about 1.7s slower is:

  • 3 hearts after SPR savewarp
  • 4 hearts after getting heart from pot outside SPR
  • 3.5 hearts after desert moldorms

  • 0.5 hearts after KB3

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Arbiter's Grounds before Snowpeak

Going to Snowpeak Ruins after Arbiter's Grounds is about 9s slower, and allows for doing the easier spinner bomb boost in SPR instead of the moon boots bomb boost.

  • Same route up through Midna's Desperate Hour (4 hearts)
  • Warp Lake Hylia and get Auru's Memo
  • Don't damage down from the tower
  • Get hit by 1 moldorm in desert (3.5 hearts)
  • Use boar to get into bulblin camp
  • Map Glitch to KB3
  • Defeat KB3
    • JA + autospin, JA twice, clockwise spin, JA, get hit (0.5 hearts), then rollstab + clockwise spin
  • Same route through AG except don't take a hit from Death Sword
  • Mirror Chamber
  • Warp Zora's Domain
  • Same route getting to Snowpeak
  • Same route through SPR but with spinner bomb boost

  • Routes merge at warping to Kakariko after leaving SPR

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Boomerang before BiTE

It's possible to route getting the Boomerang before BiTE, and do Forest BiT instead of re-BiTE. It's about the same speed (comparison, note that you'd likely void as a precaution for Forest BiT, which costs 9 seconds)

  • Same route through Iron Boots
  • Save on File 1
  • Same route through burning the web during Faron Twilight
  • Don't collect last 2 tears yet; Enter FT
  • Forest BiT on Wii
  • Void on monkey chain
  • Boomerang, savewarp
  • Collect last 2 tears
  • Faron Escape (1 hit from baba as wolf and 1 as human)
  • Eldin Gorge (no savewarp)
  • 2 hits from messengers
  • Forced warp N. Faron
  • Ending Blow
  • Deathwarp using baba
  • BiTE
  • OOB past load zone, but just void out instead of doing re-BiTE
  • Eldin Twilight in 1 trip
  • Same route until entering Deku Toad
  • Clip through the gate with displacement clip
  • Routes merge

Route alternatives

If you don't want to do Faron Escape, here are some recommendations:

  • Any% (BiTE) (ELH) is ~3 minutes slower, but isn't an easier route due to the difficult beginning involving Epona Seam Clip and required 1-try Gorge Void
  • Any% (Forest) (ELH) is ~12 minutes slower, and completes Forest Temple. Notably it doesn't do BiTE, which is extra crash prone on Wii. This route is much more consistent than Any% (Faron Escape) and Any% (BiTE) (ELH), but still has some challenging sections such as Morpheel without Zora Armor
  • Any% (ZA) is like Forest ELH, except it gets the Zora Armor before entering Lakebed, and is about ~5 minutes slower than Forest ELH route
  • Any% (Beginner) is recommended for beginners, as it is the only route possible on all variants of the Wii version, and doesn't do Sword & Shield Skip
  • Routes marked "Midna Dive" do Midna Dive to enter Lakebed instead of Empty Lake Hylia, and are ~40 seconds slower than their "ELH" counterparts
Last updated 05/17/2026 – bdamja