Why Do Dark Souls 3 Speedrunners Use Assassin?

Why Do Dark Souls 3 Speedrunners Use Assassin?

Dark Souls 3 speedrunners always use the starting class assassin. There are a few reasons why to start with the assassin class. It makes the start of the speedrun too convenient to pass up.

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[tray]

Even for glitchless, just imagine getting cat ring but from the start. It’s just a no brainer

[HashiramaSells]

Then theres me starting a new DS3 save with knight class for the 3rd or 4th time 😂😂

[Trap-chan]

Seeing estus cancel after a year of retiring DS3 PvP gave me PTSD.

[jankaigailus]

I Always thought they picked Assassin because He has the highest Soul level

[vasudean]

*Me who picked it for a character* Aw yeah. To be fair, I didn't know of the glitches, I just liked the kind of movement Hush gave me.

[Steve_beef]

You really went for the cursed wooden boss's nutz

[therac]

Keep in mind some glitches only work on older patches

[gameglitchr]

It's to be lore accurate. Everyone knows the most important thing to a speedrunner is ensuring that the canon ending is unlocked and that all the pieces of lore fit in nicely.

The main character, mr. Dark Souls 3, is canonically an assassin, as there are three Black Hand assassins that exist in Lothric, but in the game, you'll only ever encounter two, meaning that you're the third. Also each of the ashen ones who got resurrected to kill the lords of cinder have some sort of deep, personal tie to exactly one of them, Andre (I forget the name, the one with Horace the hushed) has beef with Aldrich, Seigfried was old friends with Yhorm, the crestfallen knight guy is a defector from the abyss watchers, and you the player are the final lack hand assassin of prince lothric.

That's the real reason speedrunners choose assassin

[nullnull]

Im gonna have to take a break from the Sellsword Winblade build to take a crack at this thing

[OmegaBlue-gbbu]

Knew instantly why because even though I never watch speedruns of DS3, it's the same reason why I pick it.

[bishcp]

I love how the tone of this clip makes it sound like you just got caught with your hand in the cookie jar.

[daith_izumi]

Speedrunners reasoning: the spell Spook


My reasoning: It looks and sounds cool

[Late_KnightGaming]

Not to mention the great all around starting stats with all but one in the double digits and a high dex to allow a large range of good weapons early

[pera_hub]

The music in the background making me ascend

[miguelnascimento]

Good to see that speedrunning made another class viable at least. Souls games are weird with classes since only a few of them have use and DS3 is the apex of this I believe. For a non speedrunning build only 2 classes are worth it, Knight for dex, str and quality builds and pyromancer for faith or int builds.

[SJ.]

You just made me nostalgic of this game. 😢

[isaachostetler]

It's also good if you're doing an int/dex build instead of pure int. It's not by any means a bad class, it's just a specialized one. It bears a lot of similarities to the "Prisoner" starting class in ER. It's a whole helluva lot better than the Thief and Deprived still, that's for sure. Lol

[leoneyamada]

Assassin is low-key the best even for just normal play because you can ignore so much hassle and do shortcuts with spook.... Like all the way until the tree boss there are so many spots to use spook to save souls or avoid battles with annoying enemies... It really changes your path as new routes become available that you never even knew existed... You can run past SO MUCH of the start of the game and head straight into mid game for much higher soul gain.... Then you can immediately get the sell sword twin blades and suddenly your game becomes a lot easier ....

[darksoulsvet]

I’ve never seen someone use spook to duplicate items in a speedrun.

[Dreadfulwretch]

Thanks for the info. Gonna have to try that next play though.