Benching before left atrium and quitting out after the lever saves about 0.5 on 1221. To accommodate for the missing soul, it requires 4 hits to be replaced - 2 in the last right atrium room, and 2 additional hits in balcony 2. I've supplied videos with every movement change and the optimal soul routing (in order)
This has been known to be faster on lp and Chinese runners have been doing it for a while, but was never fully timed/had legitimate soul routing on 1221 until now
Also, since I'm pretty sure there was never a legitimate strats post for this, it is 100% optimal on lp as well (and where this originates), but I am not sure the soul routing. I think you just dreamnail the 2 guys after the quitout before shrogo.
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