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Techniques

Bike

Wall Ride

Simply put when Carol's bike comes in contact with a wall it will cling to it like glue. This can be accomplished by hitting it in midair, or driving up a slope onto the wall. You can then drive up the wall but not down. To get quickly down from the wall simply pushing away will drop you from the wall. Pushing towards the wall will drive up the wall. While on the wall carol can preform any actions that do not require her to be in the air, or turn around. This means things such boosting and attacking work. This will be the basis for many different tricks, and will be used extensively in the speedrun. The only way to wall ride downwards is when a slope causes it.

It is also important to always be ready to avoid wall rides. There are times where Carol comes into a section and wishes to go downwards. However she may get stuck to a wall, she will only do this if you hold towards the wall. Simply by not holding a direction any issues can be avoided, but still be ready in these sections to press away to get off that wall if you do get stuck and resume falling to eliminate the loss of time. The wall doesn't have to be flat for Carol to be stuck to it either. She can easily get stuck to sections, and due to being at a high speed, get launched in the opposite direction than the goal you were heading to. Watch where the bike is going, it is said to be made of glue for a reason.

Boost Claw

While preforming a boost, inputting an attack will execute a Wild Claw. it is not possible to preform a Wild Claw on the bike without first boosting.

Double Jump Claw / Jump claw

Simply by jumping during the boost animation, Carol can use her wild claw in midair. This can be combined with a double jump to place the claw very high. Generally not too useful however as most fights are done off the bike, or the movement needed to boost gets in the way. Does not work when boost jumping off an upwards slope

Double Jump Cancel

By attacking while in the double jump animation, the double jump is immediately cancelled. However because the double jump gives most of it's momentum right at the start this does not make a difference in the long run. However by doing this you remove the cost of the double jump which drains your special bar as long as you are flipping. In situations where kicks on the bike will be needed shortly this can be vital to do. Also the double jump deals less damage than other forms of attack, so doing so in the few situations the bike is used for combot will increase the speed of those fights. In most situations though, there is little reason to cancel a double jump other than habit, and in fact sometimes you may want your special bar to be drained. Other than in a fight, or in particular situations, this technique tends to be inconsequential.

Boost-Turnaround

A simple trick. While driving in one direction pressing backwards simply slows down the bike. However by pressing boost while holding backwards will instantly turn around and be heading in full speed in this direction. In almost every situation that turns the bike around, a boost-turnaround is the most efficient and fastest way to do it.

Bike Dismount

By coming to a full stop on the bike either by holding down, or slowing down slowly, Carol can leave the bike behind. She does this by holding down and pressing jump while at a complete stop. This leaves the bike directly into a pounce. Most bosses are substantially easier, safer, and faster on foot so getting used to leaving the bike is needed. There are very few situations where you will wish to use the bike in combat, only when the enemy is high with no nearby walls, or fast enough to kill on the bike that it's irrelevant.

Wall Launching

While preforming a wall ride there is a few ways to dismount it. You can press away to fall off, reach an edge at the top, or jump to boost away from the wall. Wall Launching makes use of the latter. In most cases Wall Launching is used to instantly transition into moving away from the wall that was being ridden. To do this hold towards the wall, jump, and then quickly switch to holding away from the wall. A proper launch with change all the momentum from the jump directly into heading in the desired direction. The only time that launching vertically is really used is in the few cases of roof riding.

Roof riding

A situational technique. There are at least three times in dragon valley that this is used alone in the current route however. All three do is in separate ways. In all cases this is done on a roof that rounds up sort of like the bottom of a bowl. Landing on this roof will cause carol to stick to it in very peculiar ways depending on how she grabs. It will be useful to experiment will all cases on your own and see what parts of the roof seem to stick the best. Certain parts will cause Carol to simply get stuck, while others will allow her to boost and ride the entire curve which is the preferable option. Getting onto the round section on the same point a struggle on it's own in many situations. However with a bit of time spent practicing it is very possible.

The steps to doing a roof ride are simply to grab the rounded section of the roof, then boost. If Carol gets stuck she will have to jump off and double jump back onto the curve. The approach to each roof ride is unique due to the terrain, and it is best to treat each approach as part of the trick, learning them together.

Boost Jumping

Done on a slope yields amazing vertical height.

Edge Boost

Propeller kicks

Foot

Slope Pounce

Slope Roll

Pounce claw

Roll Claw

Rapid Clawing

Reverse Claw

Spring Pounce

Pounce Turnaround

Wall Jump

Roll Blocking

Pounce While Zipping

Major Skips

Relic Maze Zip

Thermal Base Box Zip

Final Dreadnought 2 Zip

Final Dreadnought 4 Zip