Hey! Joeshmocoolstuff here.
Welcome to the no minions, no weather pains solo Toadstool speedrun.
Some of you might have seen my speedrun of original Toadstool
back when the big guy had over 150,000 health and would retreat after 5 minutes.
Well, the developers predictably nerfed Toadstool by cutting its health by 2/3rds and removing the time limit.
I was kinda bummed at first.
I don't know if you've played final fantasy 7, but...
There are these hidden optional bosses - Emerald and Ruby weapon
who are both orders of magnitude more difficult than anything else.
Overshadowing even the final boss.
And require that you throw everything you have into the fight.
I always wanted something like that for Don't Starve.
And original Toadstool checked the box for the ridiculously overpowered optional super boss.
But, after giving it more consideration, the new Toadstool IS a more interesting and fun fight.
Maybe those silly devs actually know what they're doing!
So Toadstool's AI was reworked so that it's not quite as dumb as it was before.
And it now gains a variable amount of armor based on the number of sporecaps that are present around it.
The armor value can be as high as 80% which means that your effects would be 1/5th as effective.
So knocking down the sporecaps is imperative if you want to kill the Toadstool in any sort of timely manner.
That's why the weather pain is such a convenience for a solo Toadstool fight.
Because you can quickly down all of the sporecaps down in a few seconds - all by yourself.
But of course, with speedruns you don't always have the luxury of endgame gear like weather pains.
Specifically because you need moose goose or mossling feathers in order to craft it.
And giants don't spawn within the first 20 days.
I probably would forgo weather pains anyway, even if they were available to me.
Having bunnymen, or something similarly capable of dishing out obscene amounts of damage was sort of a necessity when you're dealing with a 5 minute time limit.
But now that they've nerfed Toadstool, I'm going to impose some limitations on myself to make things more interesting.
So no bunnymen, no rock lobsters.
As my regular viewers know, imposing limitations is something that I usually do.
Yeah, I mean, I could get solo records if I just hide in  a bush.
or close my eyes and hold the attack key.
but where's the fun in that?
Not that I think using weather pains for a solo toad fight is cheese, by the way.
Anyone who can kill Toadstool by themselves with weather pains has some major skill, without a doubt.
This is probably my favorite overall run so far.
Of course, there is inevitably some resource collection because, ya know, you kind of need grass and twigs to do anything.
But there's also a ton of combat throughout.
I know from my analytics from previous runs that most people skip right to the boss fight at the end.
which is understandable! But I do recommend the full run this time.
It's a good one.
enjoy!
