White 2 Routes A breakdown of all the new strats in White 2 Any% Grotto Candy: Grotto Candy involves manipping a Rare Candy in the grotto on Route 6. This saves time over the older route which talks to 3 clown across Castelia to pick up a Rare Candy. This net saves 25 seconds but with the pros/cons laid out here: + Can lead Pignite into Burgh and kill Swadloon (saves leading Drilbur into Burgh to immediately swap to Pignite, swapping Drilbur to first is now done after Burgh. Drilbur still needs to see Dwebble/Leavanny to get enough XP. + Skip talking to all the clowns (including the really slow one that you have to go up the elevator for) - Charles fight takes an extra turn, and the strat is as follows: - Turn 1: Metal Claw Archen, X Atk w/ Pidove, Shift - Turn 2/3: Slash Sigi (93% w/ Protein, 81% w/o) - Turn 4+: (Heal if necessary), Dig Tirtouga - You only get a menu to use the Protein if you have to heal Para in Elesa's gym outside of battle, as the candy menu after Elesa is skipped. - Small detour to get the Candy (need an extra repel from Aspertia shopping too). - Rood's Herdier hits like a truck (range to 2HKO you, Take Down Turn 1 is really bad). - Rood's Swoobat is a 1/16 (down from 10/16) - Needing a seed w/ a grotto candy makes searching requirements much stricter (less seeds available on the same day as your Tepig) Chaining Repels from Bike Menu in Castelia: If you use the Repel on the bike menu, it takes 3 to get to Drilbur. This saves 2 seconds but to get the extra repels you need to buy more repels in Aspertia to cover it. You also need a Drilbur that you can go repeless from start to end of manip. Trainer Skip: Trainer skip is the process of skipping any required fight between fighting Marlon and entering the Frigate outside of Seaside Cave by spawning phenomenon to block their vision. This requires a S+Q manip typically done inside the Humilau gym. This manip if executed well saves approximately 13 seconds compared to a run that fights Swimmer Harold and 19 compared to a run that hits the female spinning swimmer. Failing this strat costs a lot of time. If you get comfortable enough with movement on Route 21, this is one of the safer strats to go for. The missing XP/EVs only change the Scrafty in Ambush double, dropping it to ~10/16 form the standard 11-12/16. The saved EQ/IH make it so you can get Colress Elixir more consistently. Trainer Skip + Ground Gem: This incorporates the above strat of skipping the aforementioned required trainers, but before spawning a cloud to skip the ranger, you spawn a cloud to pick up a Ground Gem. This can be equipped before fighting Marshal in the E4 to OHKO the Conkeldurr with Earthquake. This is generally beneficial for safety if you deposit Pidove in Humilau Center as part of the Humilau shopping route, meaning you have one backup Poke to handle Speed drops/deaths from either Throh or Sawk. Grabbing and equipping the Ground Gem loses time over the best Marshal fights, but will on average save time over the 'typical' Marshal fights you'll get where you take at least 1 death/swap. Humilau Center: Buying less heals lets you buy just barely enough Super Repels in the Nimbasa center to get through Frigate 2, skipping the Driftveil Center. Here you can buy plenty of Full Restores and Super Repels to finish the run. Optionally, you can dump Pidove in the box at this time, saving Hall of Fame time and having to sack it in Giant Chasm assuming it didn't die during the Marlon fight. Cutting the necessary sack and HoF time saves roughly 20 seconds. The shopping route on its own saves roughly 2. It takes 13 Super Repels to get to the end of Frigate 2, meaning you can keep the chain going despite using your last repel if you line it up well enough. This shopping route also lets you skip the Max Elixir before Lacunosa and the Elixir on Route 7 since you can PC heal now during the Drayden -> End section where having these two are necessary. You must still pick up one Elixir in Frigate 3 to finish the E4. If you don't perform Trainer skip, you will need a PP Up from Reversal Mountain or the docks on PWT (preferred for no extra phenomenon risk) to make it from Drayden heal to Humilau Center. Lucky Egg Unequip: After Frigate 2, you can unequip the lucky egg on the fly back to Himulau in attempt to save time by not getting extra levels/xp than what is absolutely necessary. This saves ~20sec if everything optimal happens, but with the added risk: - Ghetsis Eelektross becomes a range (14-15/16) - Starmie in Victory Road becomes 15-16/16 - Skipping Swords Dance on Ambush Double is /highly/ not recommended (it already wasn't). - The range to kill all White Kyurem with a Neutral Nature is 90% (down from 99%) - The range to kill White Kyurem if it has +DEF averages out to 54% (down from 81%) - Doing Marshal 3rd, Conkeldurr has a 71% (79% w/ 2 Protein) chance to die to IH + EQ - Doing Marshal 4th, Conkeldur has a 96.88% (100% w/ 2 Protein) chance to die to IH + EQ - EQ x2 always kills Conk regardless of order, but the IH flinch chance is too good to pass up as any death/revive is much slower than flinch - Musharna and Gothitelle are ranges on Caitlin if at +4 and Musharna uses Reflect with IH, EQ instead - Hydreigon is a favorable range to put you at lower HP than Haxorus' Earthquake min roll, would have to heal on Aggron - Otherwise you are barely above minroll range for Haxorus. Most of the time it will DD, but there's always a chance you get EQ. Taking a death on Hax is GG. Driftveil Market: Instead of shopping at Driftveil for Max Repels to finish the run, buy all the Super Repels you need in Nimbasa Center to get to the end and instead go to Driftveil Market to buy Energy Roots, Powders, and Revival Herbs. Revival Herbs are helpful for the fights where you typically need 2 Pokemon to revive Excadrill up to full to get back into the fight typically (Undella Rival, Marlon). This is only best considered for Challenge Mode where Humilau Center is much harder to perform without a top-end run due to the strain on healing items you have. Early Driftveil Center: To finish the game, you only need 16 max repels (17 if Trainer Skip) if you drop them in Opelucid. Therefore, shopping can technically be done after Clay instead of after PWT to save 4 tiles. Idk the shopping for this yet to be efficient. Buying only 16 Max Repels skips the final yes/no prompt during the E4 to reuse a repel.