Metalhead - strange enemy interaction - updated
Channel: XandoToaster
Date: 2021-12-10

I'm calling this glitch the zacharylawrence, after the person who first found it (or at least showed it to me). I call the big kicking guy zachary, and the banana boy lawrence. :^)

I showed this interaction a while ago in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRxs3R_BaWg

I could only get it to launch me out of bounds, and once out of bounds it would send me all the way to the edge of the map, so I had written it off in terms of being useful for anything. However, it happened again yesterday to LepiJopi, except Lepi stayed in bounds, so I gave it another look. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1227829545

I haven't timed it, but I don't believe this is faster than the new strat that was found yesterday, the waffle squop https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/329058097739857921/918296519784927312/Desktop_2021.12.09_-_13.01.56.03.DVR_3.mp4

I don't think this is even faster than bowling as it currently is. However, I've only been looking at this for about an hour tonight, and I fully believe we will find more from this. Maybe even getting kicked directly into the vortex room.

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Unrelated to this trick, but these last two days have been really insane in the vortex community. In addition to the waffle squop being found yesterday, ChloeHartmann also found what is, at least to my knowledge, completely new tech, or at the very least brought new understanding to rarely used tech. When Spyro is perched over a ledge, rolling against a slope will throw him up into the air. I've seen rolling into slopes used like that before, but the fact that it consistently works when Spyro is perched is new (again, at least to me). Chloe discovered this yesterday, and quickly used that to get past the second half of the Dry Canyon wallglide.

On top of that, a squeeze proxy was found *today* using the thief in Dry Canyon that pretty consistently skips the *first* half of the Dry Canyon wallglide, and can even be used to send Spyro high enough to skip the wallglide entirely. Wafflewizard was the first to put these together and claim a $100 bounty I've had out for anyone who could perform the DC wallglide RTA, or find and perform an RTA viable skip for it.

So, in the last 2 days, new skips were found in Dry Canyon and Metalhead, a potentially entirely new movement tech was found, and this strat is looking very promising to be expanded on further. Vortex strat finding is in a very good place right now.