fireb0rn reacts to World's First 'Hitless' Any Radiance Clear

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This is the world's first Radiant Any Radiance clear without Carefree Melody. This isn't technically "hitless" due to Baldur Shell hits, but would more accurately be called "no unintentional hits" or something, but I wasn't sure how to fit that into the title. Either way, it's definitely a huge step up from the damageless Radiant clears done with Carefree Melody in the past! Huge shoutouts to Darkcaoslegends for completing this awesome challenge.

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Hollow Knight OST
Hollow Knight Gods & Nightmares OST

▶ CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
2:12 Reaction & Analysis - Starting Phases
4:16 Reaction & Analysis - Platform Phase
5:30 Reaction & Analysis - Climb Phase
7:50 Reaction & Analysis - Final Phase
9:16 Outro & Charms

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[simonegentili]

Hollow Knight fandom not long ago:
"haha we made an impossible boss"
Hollow Knight fandom now:
"So I beat an impossible boss hitless"

[Ani]

that dash cancel...holy shit, the awareness to know exactly where is safe relative to his position AND the skill to execute it, let alone knowing it exists?? INSANE

[aliasd]

I swear, if they don’t release silksong soon, someone is going to beat any radiance with all bindings hitless

[xPizzaBox]

You did a good job explaining the strat but one clarification I wanna make cuz I think it's really cool is the baldur flickering isn't spammed but it's timed with the laser repositioning (it repositions every 30 frames) since baldur isn't 100% safe when flickering you absolutely have to be on rhythm

[darkcaoslegends]

Hey fireb0rn! Thank you so much!!!

Just to clarify about 1:27, i never used the mod to make sure carefree would save me on first hit, but i also dont stack it, so i just went for radiant clears and if it saved, then it was a lucky run :D
That is also why i decided to play without carefree, since it almost never was saving me when i really needed lol.

Amazing video as always!! Keep up this good work <3

[cysipy]

okay, ive heard of the "dash cancel" before in one of your old tutorials on speedrunning, ive never seen any practical use for it, but i find it hilarious that dark was able to apply it in such a high speed fight like this one, blows my mind

[Noxious_T]

I think the orb disappearing at 8:00 was because even though the abyss wasn't loaded in yet, the box for it was still activated, since if you look at the placement of the abyss later, it's about the same place as where the orb disappeared.

edit: darnit my grammar and spelling needs to git gud

[jlgren]

In case no one else mentioned it yet, it's the normal despawn point for the orb. You just normally can't see because it's covered by void. Here the void hadn't risen far enough yet.

[DomPotatoes]

Unfortunately, Darkcaoslegends is a little late. The first no-hit was completed by an expert player known as TAS. They're an incredible player

[bigpapa]

Team cherry is just trying to see how far the hollow knight community will go before they release silksong. It’s been done for months but they enjoy our slow descent into insanity.

[mr.occular]

my first thought when I saw the title I only half read it and I thought
"hitless any radiance... it must be by a tas... right?

...right?"

[xPizzaBox]

Insane to see darkcaos finally do it huge props to him!

[HelenSB]

Shoutouts to Caos for completeing such an insane challenge, and to Pizza and Benji (Spoon) for coming up with the strat!

[mariofanlve]

When you screw up so badly at making an impossible boss that someone beats it hitless

[flukemunga]

I found a very clear cut in the footage


It is clear that fire has spliced his reaction, I will not stand for this.

[strikerguitarist]

It’s crazy that in just a year the “unbeatable boss” can now be beat without being hit at all. I don’t know what the rules are for Baldur shell. Wouldn’t that be similar to care free melody? Or is it getting a pass because it’s almost essential to use baldur shell to beat any rad without thousands more attempts just to get to the final phase? Also that dash cancel… How do people come up with that stuff? When I saw that my jaw dropped for a good 10 seconds

[ashtinpeaks]

8:34 if orbs go off screen they despawn so at that time the screen was shrunk when he got to the platform thus killing the orb. At least my assumption from orbs dying at top and left in phase 6.

My thoughts on carefree real fast. it is just a time saver modding it in. Otherwise you would need to spend a shit ton of time after every fight to get it back or use save states to keep it.

You could in theory get the perfect rng for carefree and then back up your save and relosd it manually but no one wants to do that every time they are hit to anyrad.

[HerOwnKnife]

I just imagine a new player seeing any radiance for the first time and thinking its the actual final boss in the game instead of regular radiance

[aceckerty_]

This is crazy, I have to agree, it's amazing how fast they went so fast from just being barely able to complete this fight, to doing it hitless.

[charliedanub]

Yo no way! Always cool to see people beating insane bosses.