Any% (Gorge) (Pillar Clip)

Note that this alternative Any% route is roughly 18s slower than the optimal Any% route with Empty Lake Hylia.

If you are inconsistent at Morpheel/Zant without Zora Armor, then you might want to consider a Zora Armor route.

Runs should start with a blank file in slots 1, 2, and 3, as all 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 Bo house save is still available after saving in the entrance to Forest Temple 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.

Playing on German (PAL) is optimal for this route. English (NTSC or PAL) is only slightly slower than German, making both the NTSC and PAL versions of the game near-equally viable. French (PAL) is several seconds slower than German, but because no rupees are needed for Fyer on French, some runners may prefer it, and in practice the timings become closer if you accidentally get extra rupee text boxes while collecting rupees on non-French versions. See language rankings. If you are playing on French, ignore all rupees in the route except those used for tricks (gorge skip, poe gate clip).

Ordon

Faron Province

  • Skip Faron Vessel
  • EMS
  • Skull Kid chase
  • Skull Kid fight
» Master Sword puzzle (LD UUU RR DDD LU)
  • Warp South Faron
  • Cross purple mist with lantern
  • Enter Forest Temple
  • Early Monkeys
    • Save on File 3 (if using save prompt buffer BiT in the following step, this is built in)
    • BiT behind load zone (save prompt buffer method is fastest)
    • Perform BiTE and load File 2 (outside Bo's House) to spawn in the King Bulblin fight
    • Set Early Boss Fights (EBF)
    • 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 (Forest Temple)
  • Kill one or both walltulas with deku baba nuts
    • Alternatively, try to climb past one or both walltulas (requires good RNG)
  • Light torches
  • Cross over monkey chain to Ook
    • Voiding at the monkey chain un-sets the boss flag, but it is still needed for Deku Toad later. If you accidentally void here, after the savewarp from boomerang, clip to Deku Toad instead.
  • Ook
  • Boomerang
    • [Iron Boots / Boomerang]
  • Savewarp
  • Warp South Faron
  • Faron Escape
  • Dash to Eldin
  • Postman Skip
  • Enter Eldin Province

Getting to Eldin Vessel (Gorge Void)

Getting to Eldin Vessel (failed Gorge Void)

Routes merge here

Eldin Twilight

Lanayru Twilight

  • Warp Death Mountain
  • Transform in the corner
  • Warp rock to Zora's Domain as human
  • 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
  • 2 lilypad bugs
  • Bug on cliff (RNG rupees in grass)
  • Listen to Iza for bug
  • Down the river
  • Castle Town warp portal
  • Dash cancel through Castle Town
  • Castle Town bug
  • Warp Lake Hylia
  • Bug behind Fyer's house
  • Howl at grass
  • 4 Kargarok bugs, bonk, and press B to say 'No' to Midna
  • Last small bug
  • Boss Bug
  • Vessel complete

Going to Snowpeak Ruins

Snowpeak Ruins

Lakebed Temple

Midna's Desperate Hour

  • Transform wolf
  • Dash to Castle Town
  • Enter Telma's Bar through the door
  • Louise Glitch (saves about 1.7s)
  • Push box once and dash jump to window
  • Ropes in bar or rope skip
  • Poe
  • Enter sewers
  • Burn first web as wolf with stick
  • Transform at 2nd web and use lantern
  • Dig into hole
  • Bulblin archer
  • Exit tower
  • Early Wind Cycle
  • Zelda cutscene

Desert Province

  • Ending Blow from golden wolf to your right against the wall
  • Warp Lake Hylia
  • Get Memo
    • [Ball & Chain / Auru's Memo]
  • Dash down to Fyer
  • Show Memo to Fyer and go to Desert Province
  • Enter Bulblin Camp without a boar
    • [Clawshot / Boomerang]
  • Map Glitch to King Bulblin
    • Dying with map glitch active is a softlock, so save in Bulblin Camp if worried about dying to fire arrows or King Bulblin
  • Enter Arbiter's Grounds as human

Arbiter's Grounds

  • Human entrance
  • Pull chain
    • [Lantern / Boomerang] between clawshotting chain and pulling it to automatically put clawshot away
  • Small key
  • Torch room
    • [Boots / Boomerang] between lighting torch and door to automatically put lantern away
  • Poe door cutscene
  • Poe gate clip
    • [Clawshot / Water Bombs] between throwing the boomerang for the final time and the pot reaching Link
  • Boss key early (autoroll method)
    • Get blue rupee in the skull if needed - want 280R+ before warping the sky cannon
    • 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
    • [Clawshot / Water Bombs]
    • Get 2R in pots in front of Death Sword's door if needed
  • Enter Death Sword
»Skip or fight [Death Sword](https://zeldaspeedruns.com/tp/boss/death-sword)
  • Skipping Death Sword and deathwarping is 18s faster than killing Death Sword and exiting the room ([comparison](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AfNz1YnyfE&list=PLdhP204jznp4Bmbd5l9bYhkGRyCf6mwNg&index=32)), not including time spent damaging down
  • Spinner
  • Deathwarp with water bomb and spinner
    • [Clawshot / Spinner]
    • 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
  • Enter boss room
  • Skip or fight Stallord
  • Exit Arbiter's Grounds

Getting to City in the Sky

  • Mirror Chamber warp portal
    • If you didn't skip Stallord, you have to zoom in all the way on the map and press Z to enable portals from now on
  • Warp Kakariko
  • Early City in the Sky (need 300R)
  • Press Z to talk to Midna about cannon
    • Press B to say 'No' to Midna
    • Map warp to Lake Hylia
    • If you are short on rupees, Fyer has 60
    • [Clawshot / Boomerang]
  • Pay Fyer 300R to fix cannon, enter cannon
    • If you have fewer than 2 water bombs left, open underwater water bomb chest after cutscene

City in the Sky

Palace of Twilight

Hyrule Castle

» Torch puzzle (NE, NW, SW, SE)
» SW, NE, NW, SE (1s slower but safer)