Tenzan Pass

"So anyway... should we go to sleep soon?" Option 2
Set text speed to Fast

4 Highland Soldier
Unite then auto

After first battle

"Hero, there is no other way." Option 2
"Promise me, Hero" Option 1

Mercenary Fort

Blacksmith Option 3 then Flint acquired text + 1 textbox
Barbara Option 3 then Boots acquired text + 1 textbox
Shopkeeper Just 1 Textbox careful mashing here

World Map

Appear above fort

Ryube

Go to shop

Mercenary Fort

Talk to Oil spills from top right except Flik's room bottom right

After Jowy rescue
Flik > "That's far enough", Jowy > "We... we're outnumbered." Option 2
Flik > Viktor > Jowy "Well that's..." > Viktor "What the hell happened?" Option 2

World Map

Start below Mercenary Fort

Ryube

Eilie > "Here we go!" Knife-Throwing Option 2 or 3

Formation

1. Hero > Rina
2. Bolgan > Jowy

North Sparrow Pass

Pickup Fire Wall
Heal and equip for Mist Monster

Equipment

Rina
Best Equip
Angry Blow > Jowy's Boots
Medicine > Hero's Boots

Bolgan
Jizo > Medicine

Eilie
Medicine > Firewall
Gloves > Jowy's Medicine

Hero
Medicine Slot 1 > Flaming Arrows

The slot might matter for Best Equip in Ryube Forest, not confirmed.

Mist Monster (800HP)

Kyaro

Soldier Fight
Hero: Flaming Arrow

Viktor: "Damn, he ran away!", Jowy: "Wait, wait a minute." Option 2x3

Mercenary Fort

Exit right away

World Map

Appear below Mercenary Fort, hold down then left

Toto

Talk to the innkeeper 17 times and exit Toto talk to left side of book
After leaving Pilika's house can hold left, won't run into girl.

Muse

Shop

Jowy:"What should we do?" Option 2

Buy

Escape Talisman

Toto > World Map > Mercenary Fort

Blacksmith

Sharpen Hero's Weapon to 3
Flik gives you 2k, Apple, Jowy: "Let's go, Hero." > Walk around Flik

Ryube Forest

Need to kill either a 5x Spider battle or 3x Slug battle

3 Slug: Jowy Flaming Arrow
5 Spider: Buddy Attack twice

After the battle try to check Hero & Jowy's speed. Want Jowy to be faster.

Pick up 2 Chests in top left corner

Equipment

Hero
Best Equip x2

If Tsai in Party can remove his Leather Hat & Coat and Best Equip Hero

After Ryube is burned down Tsai, Jowy, Tsai Option 2

Mercenary Fort

Heal Hero if he's not full HP

Meeting room After Jowy and Pilika come inside you Option 2

Flik Duel

Header is your action

Jowy: "What should we do?" Name Army
Viktor: "Are you two ready?" Option 2

War Battle #1

Turn 1

1 Textbox then Select > End Turn

Turn 2

Menu > End Turn

War Battle #2

Viktor, Flik, Viktor Option 2 to start

Move Riou 2 down if Flik doesn't block, will spawn unit & end war battle instantly.
Riou has 1 Fire Spear, can maybe use to injure Flik?

Mercenary Fort

If Jowy SPD == Hero SPD formation swap Hero & Jowy

2x 4 Soldier Battle
Flaming Arrow if you have it otherwise Buddy Attack
If using Flaming Arrow and Jowy is faster Hero attack otherwise Hero Defend

World Map Toto

Mash through cutscene

Muse

If you swapped Jowy & Hero at fort don't change formation. Otherwise,

Formation

Hero > Jowy
Hero > Gengen

White Deer Inn

Alex "...Hmmm", Alex checks you out, "Okay. I'll make you an offer." Option 2

Sindar Ruins

Don't need Fire Lizard, plate is screen before Fire Lizard

Level up battles are 5 MegaWatt or 4 Salamander
Both Shining Light 1st turn

Equipment

Nanami
Feathered Cap > Inventory

Hero
Remove everything but Medicine

Gengen
Leather Hat > Inventory (Unless you removed Tsai's earlier)
Leather Coat > Inventory
Wooden Shield > Inventory

Jowy
Best Equip

TODO: Battle explanation / tutorial here.

Pick up Chainmail

Equipment

Jowy
Best Equip

Double Head (2500HP)

Turn 1-3
Jowy Best Magic

Muse

Viktor joins before Annabelle don't change formation
Jess, Jowy walks forward "What do you think?" Option 2

Party

Gengen
Tsai

This Formation change helps with EQP menu. Want order to be Jowy, Nanami,
Hero. There's a delay of about 2.5s before you can close the formation menu
after party menu. As long the swap is done quick, there's no time cost in doing this.

Formation

Hero > Nanami

Muse-Highland Border

Talk to right guard, then talk to him again.

Can do Equipment menu anytime between picking party & entering Highland Camp

Equipment

Jowy
Feathered Cap > Inventory
Chainmail > Inventory

Nanami
Best Equip
Weakest Accessory that's not Medicine > Tsai's Clay Guardian

Hero
Best Equip
Equip Sacrificial Jizo

Soldier Battles
First battle Jowy LVL2 Spell Twinkling Blade
Second battle Hero Shining Light

Muse

Go to Town Hall, then Inn, then Town Hall, then Inn
Exit Muse Nanami 2 textboxes Option 2

Go to Jowston Hill
At Inn Jowy, Annabelle, Jowy Option 2
Talk to Viktor Option 1

War Battle #3

End Turn every turn
Battle ends when you end your turn after Knights retreat

Muse

Talk to Nanami 1 textbox "Hey Hero..." Option 2
Go to Town Hall then Inn
Inn 2nd Floor talk to Nanami 1 textbox "Hey Hero..." Option 2

Go to Town Hall then Exit Muse

Coronet

Go to southwest dock then Inn 2nd floor then Tai Ho
Go to inn & get Circus crew

Watch Rina MGC, want Rina + Hero MGC >= 146 so Firewall + Shining Light kills Phantoms

Formation

Nanami > Rina

After getting Circus head towards Muse-Matilda border & Matilda Glitch

Note: Keep track of Eilie's deaths. After Abomination she should be at 3.

Muse-Matilda Border > World Map

Any battle except 6 Phantoms works
For groups of 2-3 need to kill off everyone except Hero.
With groups of 4 either Bolgan or Rina can survive.

Run to Rockaxe, grind for battle before entering Rockaxe if you haven't gotten one already.

VS Pink Birds

Pink Bird AI makes them attack each available target once. They will not repeat targets. Use this to predict when party will die.

When party is about to die, use Shining Light.

VS 2-3 Phantoms

When party is about to die, use Shining Light.

Like birds, Phantoms won't repeat targets with their 1 target attack.
They also have a row attack, which has a 50% chance of hitting each row.
Harder to predict when they will kill your party.

VS 4 Phantoms

Same strats as before, except this is where Clay Guardian is useful.

Rockaxe

Pick up Violence Rune

Greenhill-Matilda Forest

If no battle yet, can try to use DoReMi elves as backup.
Elves die to either 3 Shining Light or Rina's Dancing Flames.

World Map > Two River > Lakewest

Pick up Kindness Rune

World Map

Trigger Coronet Skip by entering directly to the left of the dock.

Kuskus

Blacksmith

Embed

Kindness > Nanami

To Sharpen Weapon to 4/5/6 after Embed you need 14100/16800/20300 potch

South Window

On entrance Viktor, Eilie Option 3 Viktor, Pilika Option 2

If Jizo wasn't popped, do this menu when Flik & Viktor join you
Then for SDS Shift instead of Defend. Without Leather Cape, without Defend you risk dieing to 2 near max roll column attacks.

Equipment

Nanami Clay Guardian > Flik Leather Cape
Nanami Medicine > Hero Jizo

Rune Shop

Buy

2 Lightning
Note: if only enough money for 1 Lightning don't attach it to Hero

Attach

Violence > Nanami
Lightning > Hero Head Slot (Slot is important!)

Go to inn, Pick up Friendship Rune, go to Town Hall
When leaving Nanami > Viktor > Cutscene. After textboxes have 38 second break
Back to inn

North Window

Nanami runs behind you, Neclord 2 textboxes. Option 2

Cave of the Wind

Pick up Blue Gate & 3000 potch Top two chests

Kahn, Viktor sweat animation, Kahn "So may I..." Option 2

Heal Nanami (ONLY NANAMI)

Star Dragon Sword (2500HP)

Turn 1
Nanami Shift if we equipped Leather Cape, else Defend.
Freed Shift, Rest Defend

Turn 2
Nanami Attack

WM > North Window

Heal Nanami

If Nanami doesn't have Jizo formation swap Viktor & Nanami
If you forgot to remove Gengen's Wooden Shield can take Freed's

Abomination (4500HP)

Turn 1

• Freed Shift
• If Nanami has Jizo Nanami Attack
• Else Nanami Defend

Turn 2 & on

• If Nanami is Violenced & Berserk Nanami attack
• If Nanami is Violenced but not Berserk Hero Bolt Nanami Attack or Family Attack
• Else, refer to turn 1 & heal Nanami if damaged.

Castle

Viktor: "But...", Flik, Tsai, Rina: "..." Option 2
Go to Radat

Radat

Tavern after Shu leaves Apple Option 2
Richmond Option 2 then Option 1

Sluice Gate Option 2 x3

Amada Duel #1

Castle

Option 2 to lead battle
Option 2 to start battle

War Battle #4

Turn 1
State Soldier Wait
Hero Repair Self / Bright Shield
You get ~1:40 break here unless a unit with with death dialogue dies

This is a new strat. Turns out using Repair Self / Bright Shield triggers the Solon Jhee event

Turn 2 & on
Move State Soldier out of Solon Jhee's range

Castle

Go to Bed, Nanami, Option 2
Go to Great Hall
Name Castle after Eilie talks

Go to Castle entrance Fitcher Option 2

Great Hall Flik, Fitcher, Flik Option 2
Go to Radat

Radat

Talk to Amada Option 1 x2

Amada Duel #2

Castle

Go to Great Hall

Party

Rina (1D)
Bolgan (1D)
Luc (1U)

Formation

Nanami > Rina

Lakewest

IMPORTANT, go to shop!

Shop

Sell

Rina Boots
If Jizo was popped & under 16500 potch
Hero Chain Mail
Luc Circlet

Buy

3 Escape Talisman
2-3 Jizo, 3 if yours was popped.
One on Hero, one in bag or on Nanami, one on Nanami

Two River

After Chaco steals wallet go to winger section. Don't need to go to City Hall.

First Chaco chase, chase him x2 go around Chase him x3 go around and finish Chase. Saves ~2s.
Ridley and Makai fighting Option 2
Makai asks for help Option 2

Sewer

Pick up Fire Emblem (Top chest)

Pest Rat (5200HP)

Turn 1

Nanami Attack rest Defend

Turn 2

• If Violence & Berserk : Nanami Attack
• If Violence & No Berserk : Family Attack (or Shredding + Hero Bolt, slower. Or BC if high level Rina)
• If Jizo popped & no Violence : Luc Mega Medicine Nanami, Nanami Defend
• If Nanami Damaged & no Violence : Luc Mega Medicine Nanami, Nanami Defend
• If Nanami not hit : Nanami Attack

Two River

Reinforcements Option 2
After Battle Option 2 then Option 1, Option 2

Lakewest > Castle

Party

Eilie (X)
Luc (2U)

Formation

Nanami > Luc OR Hero > Nanami if Jizo was popped

The Formation swap doesn't cost any time & speeds up the equipment menu a bit

Equipment

Hero
Best Equip

Flik
Equip Feathered Hat
Mega Medicine > Jizo from bag
Optional Can swap another accessory for Nanami's Jizo

Lakewest > World Map > Greenhill

Pick names after Fitcher leaves & Flik talks
Bedtime Option 2
Bedtime Option 2
Bedtime Option 2

First 2 Battles
Shining Light

Rune Shop

Buy

Kite

Attach

Lightning > Luc over Wind
Wind > Hero Left Hand
Blue Gate > Luc
Kite > Eilie
Spark > Nanami over Violence
Violence > Eilie

Blacksmith

Embed

Poison > Nanami
Friendship > Hero Unless Kyaro soldiers dropped a Hazy Crystal
Kindness > Eilie

Sharpen

Hero > lvl 8

Next 6 Battles
Eilie Kite Rune
Watch Flik MGC, needs to be 100 at 33

Castle

Go back to bed

Party

Rina (1U)
Bolgan (1U)
OPTIONAL: Flik (X) (extra Luca safety if 1 Jizo and/or extra levels if < 100 MGC)
Nanami (3/2 D)

Lakewest > Two River > Greenhill-Matilda Border

Viki Option 1 then Option 2

Rockaxe

Camus refugee battle Option 3

Muse-Matilda Border

Miklotov Option 2, to Convoy

Muse

Miklotov 2 textboxes then ~50 second cutscene break.

Soldier fight

Rina Take from Bag Mega Medicine
Hero Shining Light / Shredding
Hero needs 122MGC for Shining Light to kill. ~LVL49

Castle

Great Hall > Go to bed > Great Hall
Teleport to Radat (2D)

Radat

Option 1
Re-enter Radat, Option 2

Head to South Window to Recruit Adlai!!!

South Window

If only you only bought 1 Lightning before, go to Rune shop & buy and attach to
Hero's Head

Recruit Adlai

Castle

Option 2 to start battle

War Battle

Try to keep an eye on where Adlai, Chaco, and Camus are.

Turn 1

Hero 1U
Viktor (R1) 2L
Kobold (R2) 1U
Kobold (R2) 1U
Gilbert (R2) 1L
Ridley (R2) Wait
Luc (R2) 1L
Teresa (R2) 1L
Flik (R2) 2L

Turn 2

Hero 1U
Viktor (R1) 2L
Flik (R1) 2U
Teresa (R1) 2/1U
Luc (R1) 1L

Turn 3

End Turn

Turn 4

If in Enemy Attack Range
Gilbert (R2) 1L
Teresa (Manual or 2R2) 1U

Castle

After War Battle Talk to Apple (can move between Viktor and Flik)

Army Formation (Depends on strat)

Standard Kiba Strat

Alternate Kiba Strat

Go to bed
Option 2 to start battle

Kiba War Battle

Standard Strat

Turns 1-5

Move 3R1U

Turn 6

Luc Wind Magic
Flik Fire Spear (If Luc failed)
Gilbert DR

Turn 7

Hero
Gilbert 2R
Luc Wind Magic (If Kiba < 2 damage)
Flik Fire Spear (If Kiba < 2 damage)

Turn 8 & on

Use Judgement

Alternate Strat

Can use this video as a reference.

So this strat revolves around pulling Kiba's army away from your main army's position. With Chaco & Camus, we have enough defense that Rowd's army will never attack Hero & Kiba's army will tend to not attack you in melee range.
First 3 turns are always the same, afterwards you might have to adjust Hero's movement based on enemy unit positions.
Turn 4 you probably want to move as far right as possible without getting in range of an enemy unit.
Turn 5 you'll probably need to move left & down to pull the soldiers furthest to the top left towards you instead of Viktor.
Turn 6 you want to move Viktor, Flik, Teresa away & move Hero towards the top right side. Make sure that the soldier's to the left are closer to Hero than they are to Viktor.
Turn 7 move Hero towards the top right, preferably into a chokepoint that minimizes attacks. Move Viktor, Flik, Teresa away a bit more.
Turn 8 & on just move Kobolds away and minimize attacks on Hero.

This strat by my estimate is approximately 1 minute slower than killing Kiba. There is variance, it depends on how many attacks there are during the battle. If you're going for WR standard Kiba makes more sense. If you're trying to improve, PB, or just practice I think this strat is better because of how much more consistent it is.

Turn 1

Hero 2R1D

Turn 2&3

Hero 2R

Turn 4&on

Use Hero to pull Kiba's army to the right, move rest of army away from Kiba's army.

Kiba Option 1 then Option 2

Castle

Trigger Sheena, then go to Tavern

Using Viki to teleport to Castle saves .2s but can fail teleport.

Party

Eilie 1U
Viki 2D
Luc 1L1D

Sheena form an alliance Option 2
Teleport to Radat (5D)

Radat > Banner Village > Banner Pass

Worm (4200HP)

Turn 1

• Eilie Attack / Shift
• Freed Shift / Defend (We need Freed to die here)

Turn 2

• If Lightning and Eilie Violenced Auto
• If Lightning and Eilie not Violenced All Defend
• If Slam attack Eilie Shift/Attack rest Defend

Turn 3

• Auto

On final screen (screen after screen after Worm) Escape Talisman

Gregminster

When Sheena asks which girl Option 2 to get Kasumi

You can setup Rune Unite SPD Glitch anytime between now & the Luca Fight.
Toss Bandana & Robe to trigger RU Speed Glitch
If you got a Hazy Crystal from Kyaro Soldiers & equipped Friendship toss all Gloves in inventory as well.

With Circuret, Ninja Suit, Winged Boots, Speed Ring, and average stats, Eilie survives a max roll Bite attack from Bone Dragon with 4HP remaining. You can give her an extra accessory or a Head Gear if Greenhill Soldiers dropped one to make it safer. If you don't want to risk going for the Bite attack, there's no reason to equip the Circuret.

Castle

Don't exit & Blinking Mirror. This will make your castle upgrade early.

Meeting Room > Talk to Nanami
Option 2 to start battle

Ridley Capture War Battle

Turn 1
Ridley 1R Attack unit above him (automatically selected)

Turn 2 & on
Flik Fire Spear Hero Flik is to the right of Hero
Viktor / Gilbert Adlai Hero Viktor is below Hero, Gilbert is bottom right of Hero
To select Ridley R2 from Gilbert(Kiba if no Gilbert) / R1 from Luc
Ridley Attack strongest unit

Army Formation

Go to bed Tsai Option 2
Option 2 to start battle

Luca War Battle

Turn 1
Flik (2 * R1) Fire Spear Luca
Kasumi Invention

Turn 2
Flik (2 * R1) Fire Spear Luca

Castle

!!!!! IMPORTANT !!!!!
Toss Bandana & Robe to trigger RU Speed Glitch
!!!!! IMPORTANT !!!!!

Rune Unite Speed Glitch Explanation on Suikosource.

The Rune Unite Speed Glitch gives a 1.3 speed multiplier to certain Rune Unites.
It's the same modifer that healing spells, healing items, and Empty World get.

If you want to get a better idea of how it works I recommend reading the link above. For the speedrun, we take advantage of the fact that Flaming Arrows Scroll, Bandanna, and Robe take up 3 adjacent early slots in the inventory heap. When we use the Flaming Arrow scroll on Kyaro Soldiers, we open up that slot and it gets filled by Jowy's Tunic when he rejoins your party. Then, when we get Bright Shield, he leaves your party again & removes Tunic from the heap. And it's slot is replaced by the Bright Shield we get at that point. That's why a Hazy Crystal drop affects the setup, if we get that it fills the Tunic's slot instead of Bright Shield.

We purposely keep Bandanna & Robe in our inventory to keep those slots occupied, essentially using them as placeholders. Before we start the Luca sequence, we toss all our Bandanna's & Robe's to open up those slots.

The Luca sequence has a unique property where Hero & his equipment and runes are removed from the heap. Unless we got Hazy drop, we now have 3 open slots near the start of the item heap. When Hero rejoins & his items are readded, the first things loaded into the heap are his runes. It goes Weapon, Head, Right, Left, then armor. The goal is to have Bright Shield loaded in the slot after Lightning, this sets up the glitch. Since we have 3 slots available, the list will go: Friendship, Lightning, Bright Shield, which sets up the glitch. This is also why we skip equipping Friendship if we got the Hazy Crystal drop: we can't guarantee that we have the first of 3 slots open anymore. So we leave 2 open & have Lightning & Bright Shield loaded into them.

1st Floor to trigger scene (Run close to Luc before going down to save ~1s)
Option 2 to kick Luca's ass

After party selection Shu talks Option 2

Luca Flik Party

Luca Viktor

Auto

Luca Hero

• If Eilie missed / Defended Thor Shot
• If Eilie attack hit Auto

2 Whitewolves Battles
Hero Shredding

Luca has 164SPD, heal if low & he's faster.

Luca Duel (135HP)

Castle

Go to 1st floor, run close to Luc before going down to save 1s
Teleport to Kuskus (3D)

Kuskus

After Culgan leave by boat and Blinking Mirror

Castle

Teresa talks Option 2

Party

Rina (2U)
Eilie (3D)
Luc (1R1U)

Muse

After archers Jowy Option 2

Party

Viktor > Party

6 Soldiers
Eilie Kite Rune

After Battle run to right wall, walk 1 step down, then run down. If done properly should skip battle at stairs. Walking exactly 1 step is necessary.

Castle

Leave Castle then Blinking Mirror
Trigger Shu cutscene
Teleport to Castle (1R1U)

Run left to wall then up to trigger Koyu, Option 2
Viktor Option 2

Koyu to convoy
Nanami Option 2

Teleport to Two River (3U)

Two River > Drakemouth

Gijimu Cutscene then run to Tigermouth

Tigermouth > Tinto

Pick up Power Ring
All dialogue options Option 1

After the second time going to bed go to Nanami's room instead of your room.

Neclord Fight

Turns 1-3
Defend

After Cutscene Escape Talisman

Crom

Party

Sheena 1D
Eilie 2D
Luc 1R1U

Formation

Hero > Eilie

Kahn scene put Kahn in convoy
Teleport to Tigermouth 1R2U

Tigermouth

Sierra Skip

Line up with bottom of wall to the left of Sierra.
Run right until you bounce up off corner on top of right wall.
Run up and talk to Sierra.

Sierra (2800HP)

Turn 1

• Eilie Attack
• Hero Attack
• Luc Empty World

Teleport to Crom 1R3D

Crom

Party

Nanami > Convoy
Kahn > Party
Sierra > Convoy

Leave Crom through top left path

Tinto Mines

Pick up Master Garb

Double-Strike is no longer needed, skip it

Before Golem Heal Eilie & party using Rune or items if you haven't already

Golem "7500HP"

Turn 1

• Hero Attack / Thor Shot
• Eilie Attack

Hero Attack lets you skip Thor Shot T2 if Eilie Crits.
Hero Thor Shot let's you Auto T2.
The decision is mostly preference.

Turn 2

• If Violenced Eilie Attack, Hero Thor Shot / Auto
• Else All Defend

Item Menu

Use Kindness Drops scroll to heal Eilie, Sheena, Hero, and whoever else needs a heal.
Escape Talisman & run to Tinto

Tinto

Zombie skip

TODO: Zombie Skip instructions

2/3 Zombie Fights

Eilie Kite Rune

Elevator Path has 2 fights, normal path has 3. With Kite Rune, normal path is about 3s slower.
3 Fights gets Eilie to L45 for Neclord, which helps with accuracy & let's you survive a high roll Dark & Lightning attack combo.

Heal if you haven't already.

Neclord (4500HP)

Turn 1

• Eilie Attack
• Rest Defend

Turn 2

Auto

Blacksmith

Sharpen

Hero > L13

Embed

Friendship > Hero, if you haven't already.

Jess Option 1 then Option 2 (I won't fight together.)
Teleport to Castle.

Castle

Go to Great Hall.
Go to bed (3rd floor).
Take the elevator to the 2nd floor & go to stairs to trigger the cutscene with Chaco.
Go back to bed.

Lucia (1500HP)

Battle automatically ends after 5 turns. Faster to win with Lightning though.
Even if you counter T1, an attack won't do enough damage to kill T2.

Thor Shot + Bolt of Wrath

Option 1 then Option 2

Option 1 here is incredibly important. It decides which battle you do.
Greenhill battle is practically undoable.
Waiting in Castle is slower than battle at border.

Meeting Room Option 2 then Option 1

Greenhill Liberation War Battle

Turn 1

Hero 1D
Hauser (R1) 2L
Teresa (R1) 1U
Viktor (R1) 2L
Gilbert (R1) 1D

Turn 2

Hero 1D
Hauser (R1) 1L1D
Teresa (R1) 1U
Viktor (R1) 2L
Gilbert (R1) 1D
Flik (R1) 2L

Turn 3

Flik (R2) 2L

Turn 4 & on

If an enemy unit will get in attacking range move away. Shouldn't happen though
End Turn

Greenhill

When Shin asks to come along. Option 2
When Teresa joins don't change formation.

Take a look at Lo Wen's MGC during menu, to see if we want to take her to Muse

Party

• Flik X
• Eilie 1U
• Rina 1U
• Bolgan 1U
• Check Lo Wen MGC 1L2D then 2U for Gijimu
• Gijimu 1L

This table shows the probability of Lo Wen having 100MGC based off her starting MGC and what level you get her to. To get her to 59 you replace Gijimu with Lo Wen for the Golden Wolf fight.

Formation

Hero > Rina

5 Soldier Fights

Eilie Kite Rune

Skip 6th Soldier battle by running right and down, around the loading zone.

Lucia 2 (4700HP)

• Rina Explosion
• Eilie Attack Lucia
• Hero Thor Shot Lucia
• Flik Thor Shot Lucia

If Rina and/or Bolgan are low HP heal with NPC

Bone Dragon (8900HP)

Turn 1

Eilie Shift / Attack
Rest Defend

Turn 2 & on

• If Violenced Rina Circus Attack
• Else Eilie Attack, if needed heal with Gijimu.

Castle

Option 2 is faster than Option 3.

Shu: "......" > Apple: "Hero, Jowy, ..." "Most of the..." Option 2

Greenhill

Rune Shop

Take note of how much money you have here.

Remove

Gijimu > Double-Beat

Attach

Double-Beat > Eilie over Violence

On first forest screen, where Lucia is running up, don't load the next screen before her. You can skip loading the Jowy cutscene by going too fast.

Muse Liberation War Battle

Flik R1x1 from Hauser (1 above Flik starting position)

Turn 1

Kiba 2R
Flik 3R

Turn 2

Kiba 2L
Flik 3R

Turn 3 & 4

Flik runs to Muse

Muse

Viktor to convoy say no to change formation.

Party

If Lo Wen MGC is bad, swap her and Gijimu (1L1D)

Formation

Eilie > Hero

Golden Wolf (3500HP)

Turn 1

Eilie Attack

Turn 2

Auto

Castle

Go to 3rd floor to watch Kiba Shu cutscene
Talk to Shu Option 1

Great Hall just mash > After Kiba cutscenes leave and Blinking Mirror
Go to Great Hall Shu 1 textbox Option 2 to start battle

Rockaxe War Battle

Turn 1

Gilbert (R2) 1D
Luc (R2) 1L
Teresa (R2) 1L
Kasumi (Manual) 1D
Ridley (R2) 1D

Turns 2 & 3

End Turn

Rockaxe

Fork (LEFT right)
Fork (LADDER up)
Fork (RIGHT down)
Fork (UP ladder)
Fork (LADDER right)
Fork (RIGHT down)
Fork (LEFT up)
Fork (RIGHT down)

Can save 0.5 seconds by not picking an option to protect Nanami

Gorudo (4500HP)

Turn 1

Hero Thor Shot
Jowy Hungry Friend

Turn 2

Hero Defend
Jowy Hungry Friend

Turn 3

Hero Attack
Jowy Piercing Blade (lvl 3 spell)

Castle

You have ~1 minute to do whatever here. We're going to setup Hero equipment & setup inventory so 4x Shredding is at the top of Take From Bag menu.

Move up 3 steps then 1 down (optimal position for cutscene), lines up with Rina

Equipment

Hero

• Best Equip
• Equip Fire Emblem

Master Garb, Fire Emblem, and Power Ring should be equipped. The rest doesn't matter.

Items

Discard all consumables before Shredding x4 in the menu.

When you wake up, after fade in you can move instantly so hold left to leave bed

Great Hall talk to Shu after delay between textboxes,
"Lord Hero, Give us the order to invade Highland." Option 3

After waking up leave room and go left to trigger Apple and Shu cutscene.
Go back to bed, then Great Hall.

Shu 1 textbox then Option 2

~30 second break between Hero "We're off!!! To L'Renouille!!!" and next input

Shu War Battle

No control, make sure Viktor has no activatable abilities like Fire Spear
~1 minute break after Leon "He's not man enough to risk his own life."

Muse-Highland Border

Viktor "Are ya ready yet?" Talk to Apple then Option 2

L'Renouille War Battle

Flik Starting position is 1 up 2 right from Hero
R1 from Hauser to select Flik (Hauser above Hero)
R1 from Hero to select Viktor

Turns 1-2

Move Flik & Viktor towards entrance

Turns 3-4

Flik 1 tile away from soldier & Fire Spear x2
Keep moving Viktor towards entrance

Turn 5 & on

5th turn, if soldier still not dead Viktor attack & Flik attack until dead
Move into L'Renouille as soon as he dies

L'Renouille

Party

Flik X
Rina 1U
Eilie 2U
Lo Wen 1L2D
Luc 1L3D

Formation

Hero > Rina

Lucia (6600HP)

Turn 1

• Rina Explosion
• Flik Thor Shot
• Hero Thor Shot
• Eilie Attack
• Luc Thor Shot

8 Soldier Battles
Eilie Kite Rune
Luc Take from Bag Shredding Scroll in one of these battles.

Hero & Flik attack probably won't do enough damage to cover a Kite miss.

Han Duel (500HP)

Heal via Save Crystal before Seed and Culgan

Seed & Culgan (4200HP & 3800HP)

Turn 1

• Rina Explosion
• Flik Thor Shot > Culgan
• Hero Thor Shot > Seed
• Eilie Attack > Seed
• Luc Empty World

Heal via Save Crystal before Beast Rune

Beast Rune

Turn 3 and on
Eilie Attack Left Head, rest Defend

Castle

Go to Great Hall
Just mash text, after selecting Option 1 2 more textboxes then split!

Fin