Now if you have your primary weapon, your Assault Shield, AND your TWO Heavy Turrets the run can finally begin in earnest. In my experience so far I get by with 18k ish which is on the high side (but lets be real, RNG can screw things up). Otherwise you can do Gold Clusters, Items on ground, Wall Secrets. Opening a chest to sell the contents may be a bit slow, but the item is usually worth more. If you have to reroll more than once then you will likely not have enough gold to make the purchase you are looking for.Īs a precautionary method it may be good to make some gold on the way to the shop. This part is really important because the entire run depends on whether or not you can obtain TWO of these turrets (one just doesn't cut it). With Merchandise Category and only Heavy Turrets unlocked, you basically have a 1 in 3 chance x3 for Heavy Turret to show up in the shop, and if not you will need to reroll once. Worse still, even when you find this skill shop you will need to obtain TWO Heavy Turrets from this shop. The run however is still going to die in Prison Cells however, because you need to find a skill shop somewhere in the biome. So we now rerolled a bunch of times and finally got RNGesus to throw us a bone and give us our preferred starter weapons. This one is kind of a swag strat as you will be required to go below half hp on two occasions (one being during the fight with the last boss) which can be intimidating.

This weapon is pretty strong, and as we will go into later, also may melt the final boss very quickly at the end stages of your run. One is Pyrotechnics (Fire brands is an OK Substitute). Personally I recommend one of two weapons.

Get used to it quickly as this is what will make your runs fast. When done correctly one will do a very fast dash. The ASRC Works simply by using the Assault Shield and then doing a roll right away, almost at the same time. The reason for this is the Assault Shield Roll Cancel (ASRC) Which some of us in the Dead Cells Speedrun Discord call Ass Boosting (Because, lets face it, we are totally funny and mature guys) Most of the speedrun is just restarting (rerolling) for the 3 starter items.įor a run to begin obviously you need an Assault Shield. Is pretty simple, the run starts here and often ends right here.

The route for Any % currently looks like this: Here is the run down for the Any % category and also explanations for how some of the skips and bugs.

Dead cells key in prison rooftops