Rip’s Valiant Speedrun

Riptide

After following along with @Cantona59 and their valiant speedrun, I decided to attempt my own run since I’ve got some time on my hands for the next few weeks.

I don’t have a time goal because I’ve never done this kind of thing before, we’ll see how I stack up to @Cantona59

Nemesis_17

Awesome dude! These are always so fun to watch and to play through. Wish you the best of luck.

Riptide

Day One Update

Title: PROVEN





So far I have explored up to Act 3.2.3.

4* Fury from the beginning objectives is going to come in clutch throughout act 4. None of my other 4*s look too promising, but it shouldn’t be too many days before I move on to 5 and 6*s I hope.

My 3* Kushala has been a blast, I don’t have her on my main, but she’s dope!

At this point I’m out of energy refills… debating buying some with units. Might run some incursions in the meantime.

Any tips for my energy crisis?

Riptide

Nemesis_17 said:

Awesome dude! These are always so fun to watch and to play through. Wish you the best of luck.

Thank you! It’s always neat to get to use some champs that I don’t usually

Nightheart

Good luck I'm bookmarking this thread so I can come and see how you are doing

Nemesis_17

Riptide said:

Nemesis_17 said:

Awesome dude! These are always so fun to watch and to play through. Wish you the best of luck.

Thank you! It’s always neat to get to use some champs that I don’t usually

Fr. I finished wrapping up a paragon speedrun a couple weeks ago and early on it was very fun using & learning different champs. I got a lucky 5* apoc day 1 who I used for a while and never played on the main. Unfortunately he was one of my few unique pills as later on in the run I managed to pull the exact champs I have ranked on my main lmao.

Also for your energy crisis, early game spending units is really the only way. Once you beat 6.1 though, pick up the chapter completion bundle. Iirc it’s like 900ish units and has 20 refills plus a hell of a lot of revives and potions. All of the 6.1-7.4 chapter completion bundles have some insane value, with more refills then you’ll ever need. So I’d plan on picking those up when you get there, but until 6.1 you basically just have to buy refills.

Riptide

Nightheart said:

Good luck I'm bookmarking this thread so I can come and see how you are doing

Appreciate it!

Riptide

Nemesis_17 said:

Riptide said:

Nemesis_17 said:

Awesome dude! These are always so fun to watch and to play through. Wish you the best of luck.

Thank you! It’s always neat to get to use some champs that I don’t usually

Fr. I finished wrapping up a paragon speedrun a couple weeks ago and early on it was very fun using & learning different champs. I got a lucky 5* apoc day 1 who I used for a while and never played on the main. Unfortunately he was one of my few unique pills as later on in the run I managed to pull the exact champs I have ranked on my main lmao.

Also for your energy crisis, early game spending units is really the only way. Once you beat 6.1 though, pick up the chapter completion bundle. Iirc it’s like 900ish units and has 20 refills plus a hell of a lot of revives and potions. All of the 6.1-7.4 chapter completion bundles have some insane value, with more refills then you’ll ever need. So I’d plan on picking those up when you get there, but until 6.1 you basically just have to buy refills.

Thanks for the tip!

willrun4adonut

Good luck. I'll always be cheering for you after helping me out with advice for the Ikaris SoP with Prof X.

Riptide

willrun4adonut said:

Good luck. I'll always be cheering for you after helping me out with advice for the Ikaris SoP with Prof X.

Always love checking out your posts mate!

Cantona59

Riptide said:

Day One Update

Title: PROVEN





So far I have explored up to Act 3.2.3.

4* Fury from the beginning objectives is going to come in clutch throughout act 4. None of my other 4*s look too promising, but it shouldn’t be too many days before I move on to 5 and 6*s I hope.

My 3* Kushala has been a blast, I don’t have her on my main, but she’s dope!

At this point I’m out of energy refills… debating buying some with units. Might run some incursions in the meantime.

Any tips for my energy crisis?

Buy the refills, you earn 90% of the units back from exploring act 3 and pushing into act 5/6 where it’s 25-35 units per quest completion

Cantona59

Interested to see how you do!
You better not beat me though I don’t want to do the speed run again this soon 😂

Riptide

Cantona59 said:

Interested to see how you do!
You better not beat me though I don’t want to do the speed run again this soon 😂

I doubt it, you’re the master!

captain_rogers

Good luck. Also don't forget to record and stream this stuff on youtube and twitch. Who knows, this may gives you some beer money

captain_rogers

Also I read the title as "RIP valiant speedrun" and thought someone went for a run and failed, lol

Riptide

captain_rogers said:

Good luck. Also don't forget to record and stream this stuff on youtube and twitch. Who knows, this may gives you some beer money

I’ve been thinking of doing some YT progress vids…

Riptide

Day Two Update

Title: CONQUEROR




Today I finished exploring act 3, and completed act 4. 4* Fury still MVP

I got my first 4 5*s, 1 from shards, 1 from act 4 completion, and 2 from the SQ cavs. Was really hoping for a 6* lol. Super excited about venompool, he’s one of my favorite champs!

I also did all 4 paths in the SQ, the cavs were dope with 5*s, plus the 4* awakening ge for Fury will come in handy later!

The plan is to aim for act 5 completion tomorrow!

Nightheart

Riptide said:

Day Two Update

Title: CONQUEROR




Today I finished exploring act 3, and completed act 4. 4* Fury still MVP

I got my first 4 5*s, 1 from shards, 1 from act 4 completion, and 2 from the SQ cavs. Was really hoping for a 6* lol. Super excited about venompool, he’s one of my favorite champs!

I also did all 4 paths in the SQ, the cavs were dope with 5*s, plus the 4* awakening ge for Fury will come in handy later!

The plan is to aim for act 5 completion tomorrow!

Keep up the good work 🤘👌

SagaChampion

Another wow Speed run

Best wishes 😸

Nemesis_17

Riptide said:

Day Two Update

Title: CONQUEROR




Today I finished exploring act 3, and completed act 4. 4* Fury still MVP

I got my first 4 5*s, 1 from shards, 1 from act 4 completion, and 2 from the SQ cavs. Was really hoping for a 6* lol. Super excited about venompool, he’s one of my favorite champs!

I also did all 4 paths in the SQ, the cavs were dope with 5*s, plus the 4* awakening ge for Fury will come in handy later!

The plan is to aim for act 5 completion tomorrow!

Looking good so far! FYI you’re gonna really love that overseer pull, you just got yourself a 6.2.2 sinister counter, arguably the most niche fight in act 6. Dupe would be helpful to ramp him faster but you can absolutely do it unawakened too. That’s a big weight off your shoulders. Of course you might get a better sinister counter by the time you get there, but you at least have the fight covered.

Riptide

Nemesis_17 said:

Riptide said:

Day Two Update

Title: CONQUEROR




Today I finished exploring act 3, and completed act 4. 4* Fury still MVP

I got my first 4 5*s, 1 from shards, 1 from act 4 completion, and 2 from the SQ cavs. Was really hoping for a 6* lol. Super excited about venompool, he’s one of my favorite champs!

I also did all 4 paths in the SQ, the cavs were dope with 5*s, plus the 4* awakening ge for Fury will come in handy later!

The plan is to aim for act 5 completion tomorrow!

Looking good so far! FYI you’re gonna really love that overseer pull, you just got yourself a 6.2.2 sinister counter, arguably the most niche fight in act 6. Dupe would be helpful to ramp him faster but you can absolutely do it unawakened too. That’s a big weight off your shoulders. Of course you might get a better sinister counter by the time you get there, but you at least have the fight covered.

Oooh good point!

FrostGiantLord

Great pace man! While you're probably not going to beat @Cantona59 at this rate, you'll still probably fall within the 1-2 month mark. Looking forward to more updates!

Real_Madrid_76_2

At this place, you'll surpass me too. I'm jealous 😂. I just was happy that I finished act 7 yesterday on my mini account and then I suddenly saw your post today man

jj_jj_9

Good luck!!

Riptide

FrostGiantLord said:

Great pace man! While you're probably not going to beat @Cantona59 at this rate, you'll still probably fall within the 1-2 month mark. Looking forward to more updates!

Oh yeah, definitely not expecting to beat them 😂

Riptide

Day Three Update

Title: UNCOLLECTED




I made it through all of act 5 today! 4* Fury still carrying the team, but some of my 5*s are starting to com win handy now. Spent maybe 10 revives, mostly in 5.4. I don’t have a good mephisto counter ranked, so he was rough. Venompool nearly soloed the final ultron boss, he’s amazing!

Overseer has been a blast to learn, I kinda wanna rank him on my main now lol

My biggest problem now is gold. I ran through 20 zones of incursions to hit all the milestones, but I’m still too low to rank any more. Not sure how 6.1 will go with a 4* and a 5* R3.

(Side note: The updated rewards from earlier acts are great with crystals and rank up gems, but I have no gold to use them)

SagaChampion

To be continued ? I'm excited

Nemesis_17

Solid progress man. You’re getting some sneakily nice pulls. 5* wagneto is going to be really nice for his prefights in act 6, and because he’s a 5* you can still bring him in act 8. I wish I had a great solution for your gold problem. I was able to take advantage of the poolie event for gold and iso but that’s no longer an option. Act 6 also doesn’t give much gold until you beat the whole thing. My only idea is to do some side quest for mysterium to buy the gold bundle. At least to maybe give enough for the next 2 days until incursions resets.

Also I’m mad I didn’t remember this yesterday, but you can buy the 10 nightcrawler runestones with mysterium from the trader’s outpost, and pickup a free 5* nightcrawler. Or you could hold the runestones for 150 7* shards each later, but who knows when that deal will be made available, I personally wouldn’t go that route.

Riptide

Nemesis_17 said:

Solid progress man. You’re getting some sneakily nice pulls. 5* wagneto is going to be really nice for his prefights in act 6, and because he’s a 5* you can still bring him in act 8. I wish I had a great solution for your gold problem. I was able to take advantage of the poolie event for gold and iso but that’s no longer an option. Act 6 also doesn’t give much gold until you beat the whole thing. My only idea is to do some side quest for mysterium to buy the gold bundle. At least to maybe give enough for the next 2 days until incursions resets.

Also I’m mad I didn’t remember this yesterday, but you can buy the 10 nightcrawler runestones with mysterium from the trader’s outpost, and pickup a free 5* nightcrawler. Or you could hold the runestones for 150 7* shards each later, but who knows when that deal will be made available, I personally wouldn’t go that route.

Thanks again for the advice!

Grabbed Wags from the Act 5 nexus, was super excited

Cantona59

Wow that wags pull is insane! He solves one of the minor problems of the run which is debating buying stupefy for longer stuns
I feel you on the gold issue too, only other thing I can recommend is grabbing it from the side quest store, or even selling some catalysts

winterthur

Join AQ, get Glory, buy bricks, sell for Gold.