Super useful visual cue/alignment for this no-shade cloak version of collector scream skip. Line up the knight's right horn with the handle on the 2nd jar (doesn't have to be exact.)
Important note for this setup is that your initial dash has to be neutral, and only input right after the dash starts. 2nd dash is slightly delayed and you can't be too low or too high.
5.2-.3 timesave. Sticky ceiling is precise but not too bad with practice, might be worse in runs.
8labbed the flukenest extra quick kill we can do go for in 106% at least now (with twister + dwielder + flukes + shaman). basically 1x <0.8 fluke first, then 6x flukes with a dnail at whichever point youre comfortable with, make absolutely sure to not overshoot any of your post-dnail flukes, and end with a ddark. this was unironically 90%< consistent when I performed the inputs correctly, where the only irregularity was how the first cast bounced.
there are 2 risks you have to be aware of for this:
1: if too much of the first cast hits you have to adapt and either miss some of your pre-dnail flukes on purpose, or simply accept a slower kill and do one less fluke during the early control.
2: if you have any flukes laying around after your casts when you're supposed to ddark: be very careful about ddarking. this is why you want to be completely inside collector basically during your casts. thats what the "failed" video demonstrates here.
Here is all the boss battles in 112 and 107 where flukenest has been found to be either optimal or viable/ preferable over the non flukes alternative. I will first post the unambiguously optimal fights and then post the ones which may come to preference.
Nosk: Good RNG fight saves 10 seconds over non flukes combsob. Bad rng isn't super punishing as nosk has a lot of attacks where he can get multihit, you shouldn't be losing more than 5 seconds. If he goes into the ceiling instantly you can shriek as usual.
The charm loadout is: Shaman stone, spell twister and flukenest, needs overcharming.
Collector: There is a completely consistent quickkill which has been posted in strats before. Additionally, flukes will instakill collector out of the final phase. In total this is seven seconds of timesave over perfect shriek only fight.
Charm loadout is shaman stone, flukenest and dreamwielder. Charm switch optimally at tram bench or at oro bench for a safety heal.
Watcher Knights: Saves 5 seconds on average over optimal shriek fight. Each watcher dies in three fluke casts, so you can kill them before they even attack. To make up for the lack of twister i have come up with a couple of strats to gather soul (showcased in video). Its still optimal to throw the chandelier down, and the fight needs to be started with full soul.
Charm loadout doesnt change from collector.
7A variant of ely's collector quick kill that is a lot more lenient, as you don't need to hit all of the last fluke. Do the same thing but wait a bit in between the first three shrieks, as you need two of them to hit all four times. If you do it right, collector should stagger without the nail hit, then continue the same way.
(Ignore the infinite soul; the dream nails provide enough. Also, you should probably get an extra dnail in before the last fluke as to have soul for the next section.)
8With flukes you can get a consistent instakill on collector before he can jump. The sequence is: scream kip, two flukes, dreamnail, three shrieks, nail hit, dreamnail, two shrieks and one fluke
The damage is incredibly tight and its really easy to miss one or two flukes or some hits of shriek, so to make the strat safer you can prefluke where collector will spawn. You do this by dashing, jumping, fluke, dashing before shade cloak is refreshed and then dashing again where you normally would.
An alternative method of scream skip that only uses cdash and a walljump. Check this for cues: https://discord.com/channels/772964112908156938/836364889604751450/910120787955052564
14Consistent scream skip for elegy% or any other category that has to fight collector without shade cloak but with the dash.
5https://youtu.be/C_u5NWznCsI consistent collector scream skip setup (use background objects to time the dashes)
Original post by Ax2u