Melee Home-Run Contest. 25/25 WRs - 22 untied, 3 ties. 18 untied PAL records.
Total high score: 142088.6ft/43,306.9m (#1)
PAL total: 124086.5ft/37820.1m (#1)
Hi! 10 months after giving up earlier this year, I finally dialed in a great completion of the Kirby phantom strat!
Why this keeps happening on the first full day of runs, I have absolutely no idea.
3651.0/1112.8 [WR]
I genuinely wasn't sure if I'd ever be able to say this, but:
The era of intentional phantom hits in Melee Home Run Contest world records started today.
3568.7/1087.7 [WR]
If I had a dollar for every time a stadium world record with Yoshi was achieved while the player was recuperating from wisdom tooth surgery, I would have $2.00 for some reason
I now have the world record with every character in HRC!! I can't say I was expecting this at the beginning of the year, but I'm so happy to finally achieve it.๐
Still so much to optimize, throughout the cast. But I'll make a compilation video first!
Luigi 4155.0/1266.4 [WR]
Achieved 12/31/2022, this was my last record of the year. It's Sheik/Zelda's PAL record, IE best global score done on the PAL version. tbh this is a bit of a hacked together strat, I think 228 or 229% is probably possible despite PAL's huge backwall nerf.
3530.6/1076.1 [PALR]
Wow, the bomb finally happened - first RNG manipulation strat in HRC, for a massive 967.9 improvement. This time, it only took 258 completions before getting the bomb!
8641.7/2633.9 [WR]
I'm still in disbelief that I found this strat. I've spent way more time theorycrafting Young Link than any other character, and it finally paid off!
This makes Young Link the 4th character whose record has gone over 4k this year. 2022, the year of HRC!
4010.6/1222.5 [WR]
Another one for the history books: in 2007, Sin begrudgingly uploaded his new falco strat, unhappy that he only got a midhit despite getting WR.
Last night I finally found the speed and the skill to get that elusive tipper. Merry Christmas, indeed.
4723.9ft/1439.8m [WR]
Okay this is insane:
See that jab at the end? It should only do 6%, but did 7% due to an insanely rare floating point error that only happens when crossing over 2^n damage with a percent of x.9999%.
TL;DR: literally 1/1000th lower damage and I would have gotten a 260% tipper๐
HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING LOL
Honestly, this is nearly maxed. Only got one suboptimal dair hitbox and some pretty good bat drop maxing too. So far beyond my expectations.
I can't believe I thought this strat was basically unviable a month ago ๐
4763.9/1452.0 [WR]
With this, the ultimate meme HRC total has finally been achieved!
I'll keep pushing for better scores, probably till the end of the year. But one thing's for sure: this total is higher and nicer than anything to follow.
Total high score: 138029.7 feet, 42069.8 meters
Struggling to describe how crazy this run is. I just wanted a clean run of the new strat but it was at a higher percent than I had ever seen?! LOL
Bowser's the 11th character over 5k, and this is the 5th RTA score to beat a one-time TAS record. Wild!
5126.5/1562.5 [WR]
Guess I wasn't done with Falcon yet LOL
The new ending gets 5% more by bouncing the bat off the sloped edge of the platform. As you'd expect, it's also way more difficult.
And crucially puts my total high score just 21.2m away from 42069 ๐ฅ
7889.7/2404.7 [WR]