Super Punch Out!! - Mad Clown [0'09'03]

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It's been nearly 15 years since Mad Clown has had a legitimate strategy improvement, which is amazing. Strategies in this game don't really get obsoleted that often, with the next most recent improvements being from McHazard all the way back in 2014 on Muscle, Heike, Narcis, and Rick, so this is quite the treat.

Later on that day, McHazard showed up and found a large strategy adjustment that ends up getting you the same exact time with the exact same luck, but removes the delayed rapid jab in Lixunis's strategy, making it fully buffered, which makes it far less annoying for runners to hit. I decided to shift gears and go for this new phase 1.

This fight starts with you pressing nothing for the first frame, and then pressing "Up" and "Y" to throw a left jab on the next frame. Follow up from that left jab with two more buffered left jabs, with Mad Clown hopefully standing still without random retaliations and not randomly blocking for the first 2 of these 3 jabs. From there, Clown will throw a hook on your right side, and you'll need to do a delayed right jab to counter it.

Once the hook is countered, you'll have to do land a left jab on the first frame AFTER Clown's stun ends, which is a very awkward timing. I opted to do a pseudo buffer by timing a quick duck shortly after I visually see Clown's sprite change into his stunned sprite, then buffer 2 left jabs out of it and also and hope they both land without him randomly blocking, or doing random retaliations during them.

Once they land, Clown will attempt to throw another hook, to which you will have to buffer rapid jabs by pressing A, letting go when you see your character start his super, then repressing it. That rapid jab will hit him out of that animation, and make him instantly go dizzy. Since rapid jabs made him dizzy, the buffer strategy needs to be different than the one in the 9"05 run. Hold left, and don't let go until your character centers himself, then press "Left" then "Up" in rapid succession, along with "A" to throw an uppercut to knock Clown down.

Clown opens phase 2 by either doing a taunt where he's pointing to his stomach, which means he'll retaliate when you attempt to throw a punch, or he'll randomly dodge a punch being thrown at him. Start by pressing nothing on the first frame the fight starts back up, then press "Up" + "A" to throw an uppercut. Once that lands, Clown will do a jab, that you just need to counter with a right jab, and then buffer another uppercut for knockdown 2.

If you got this far, then congratulations, because you've effectively finished the fight! For phase 3, Mad Clown will always open with "Show Time", which involves him throwing really fast jabs that people usually block. But since Clown always opens with jabs on your right, you can easily counter them by buffering a right jab as soon as the phase begins! Because of how fast phase 2 was, he'll come back with so little health that he'll instantly go right back down when the jab lands.

Anyways, thanks for watching!

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I recently started speedrunning this game and started to try and find new strategy’s to beat the tas times on fights like narcis but I gave up because I thought there will never be any more improvements to any times, but this has given me a new hope!

budrowconye

Mad Clown, getting up: I can still beat ya! I can stil-
Mac: *knocks him down for the TKO with a single punch*

ShadowdaHedgie

I like the paragraphs of stuff zallard puts in the description

Genjink

I see you're running from Narcis by going backwards through the fights.

But seriously great job.

rasmusdegn

the fact that he’s still running this game is incredible

xXTraytonXx

Wow, what a time save! 😏

Joking aside, this strat looked pretty hard, so congrats on the WR!

goldflowergamer

Zallard is gunning to be the Matt Turk of SPO.

condor

I'm so glad I was able to watch this live! I was afraid he was going to turn into Narcis 2.0, lol.

CirceIsHere

So I guess that Narcis Prince's strategy isn't the only one that uses the rapid uppercut...

jacobyoshi

yo a new super punch out time save? that’s pretty crazy

Jisatsu

“duurrruuuooohh?”
-Mad Clown (and Bear Hugger)

conntoons_

He's a mad clown because he knows it showtime.

Triblecobbs

This reminds me of the Dorktown episode on Rickey Henderson. They open by talking about how baseball has pretty much been optimized by this point. Even with the best that modern science has to offer, the career home run record has only increased by 12% since before WWII and by 1% since “Rocky” and “Star Wars” debuted.

That seems to be where these games are. At this point it’s really unlikely anybody’s going to shatter a Punch-Out record. Instead we have dozens of people collectively putting in months of work to shave a frame or two off of each fight. That’s dedication.

Magic_beans_