#lace 1 9

tech I yoinked from tas, it's rta viable, enjoy

Hitting Lace in the air can trick her into diving into the lava, giving you a dunk without needing to stagger her. This also makes it possible to do 3 dunks instead of 2 (I can't really tell if it's faster or not), and it also makes 2 dunks more consistent, since you don't have to worry about waiting for Lace to be near the edge for a stagger. The best place to do it seems to be the opener, where it's easy to set up if Lace picks the jump as her first move, but it is possible later in the fight as well.

1. You can nail slash lace 1 during the orb attack. The first clip is good in situations where you don't have silk or need some hits to get a landing silkspear. Its 2 free hits if you get them and you don't get punished if you miss it.
2. Pogo silkspear is harder to get but I just included it for anyone that wants to try and learn the timing for it, you can also get a landing spear or a turnaround when falling. You need to pogo at the top parts of the orb otherwise you fall in to the attack and just get hit, like pogoing a cog.

if you count hits and pogo spear lace on 11th hit when she is on the edge of platform, you can get a free silk spear on her before she dunks in lava, then silk spear (or nail if you dont have silk for silk spear) when she gets out of lava.

(i didnt hit the silk spear when she was jumping out of lava because only wanted to show the first silk spear and forgot about the second :d)

if you have enough silk for 2 silk spears when lace does her circle slash attack, you can silk spear her in the middle of it and then dash and pogo silk spear immediately after as soon as she finishes her circle slash attack.

this may result in you getting hit if she doesnt stagger or doesnt die after this, but its not a big deal since you dont need hp next split anyway (if you are confident that you wont fall into lava) and iframes after getting hit will allow you to attack lace for free for a short while so you still do more damage overall.

when you stagger lace in the lava, you can also hit her before she dunks

Lace 1's parry only activates if you hit her from the direction she's facing.
Does not work against Phantom or Lace 2

In later patches, she will continue to parry you while attacking if you slash too close to her (same with Lace 2)

1. Pogo dash turn around nail tech
2. Lace not parrying when hit from behind
3. Lace will parry hits if the nail's orange hitbox overlaps with the attack
4. Lace not parrying
5. Pogos don't get parried either

if you use dash attack for your 11th hits (i.e. the hit you stagger) you can instapear without lace getting back up

dashattack -> spear is very nice when lace is near the edge, esp right at the beginning because you can get a spear cancel off the wall