Rules
22/08/2023
General Rules
- A Hit is defined by a loss of health and/or stagger caused by an enemy.
- Hits from player triggered traps count. Environmental damage does not count as such (Static features as water, swamp, campfires are fine).
- While fall damage does not count, a death from falling or resetting your position after a black out scene will.
- Blocking an enemy counts as a hit, but a deflect does not.
- Major glitches are not allowed (Airswim, Snake Skips, any out of bound skips).
- Minor glitches are allowed (Early access to Mist noble and Ashina Castle roof skips).
- Quitouts are not allowed except in situations where it is completely safe in the vicinity of an idol being without aggro (red) or attention (yellow) marks (Quitouts after killing Fake Monk or Owl (- Father) to skip their dialogues are allowed since you are in the safety of an idol).
- Killing bosses/ads from outside of the boss arena is not allowed.
Specific Rules for Sekiro:
- Staggers from phase transitions are hits.
- Perfect Deflections are not considered hit although to tick damage (but no damage run is lost).
- Lighting reflections does not count as a hit (but no damage run is lost)
- Attacks that breaks your posture (stagger) when you make a perfect deflect, doesn’t count as a hit
- Poison, fire or fear damage taken from enemies is considered hit although not from environment (but no damage is lost)
- Divine Dragon’s gust/wind attack is a hit (except for the first gust when entering the fight as it’s unavoidable).
- Yashariku’s Sugar counts as damage taken
Protesis Only / Combat Arts Only
- You can do this run in NG+ with 999 emblems or external tool to have infinite emblems
- Do damage with other tool than protesis is not allowed, but staggers are allowed (you can also do protesis only, no items to avoid that)
List of Major glitches not allowed for Glitchless runs
- Any skip that allows to skip a boss (bull skip, gyoubu skip, doh skip, ape skip, ogre skip, etc)
- Airswim
- Folding monkeys skip
- Snake eyes skip
- Armored Warrior cheese
- O’rin cheese
- Lone shadow whistle cheese
- Double deathblow cheese
- True monk phase 1 stealth deathblow
- Prosthetics swapping (changing between prosthetics so fast that they stack the effects)
