44 Insane Tricks in Spelunky 2 (Speedruns, Scoreruns, Skips, and more) 

really sick video!! well worth the effort put into it all. if people are struggling with any of these tricks, here's a few extra pointers for ones i could find: 1:24 - this strat is especially easy to pull off when a salad sister or other subroom occupies the bottom layer of the level. you can always safely teleport from the bottom layer directly into the bm! 3:24 - never jump before telefragging tiamat. it's the usual muscle memory when speedrunning, but jumping actually puts you in a much worse position for this kill. 4:26 - be careful of any extra crush traps in the subroom. why is this in the game 4:38 - to add to xana's stars challenge arrow idea, you can also get an arrow by sacrificing a rock on the city of gold altar if you have 16 or more favor. chuck it at a body and it'll be a blunt arrow you can use to self-sac at 1hp. 5:28 - you'll only have to aggro a sister to prevent them from spawning for the rest of the run. 6:22 - be careful of gold and gems (unlike xana here smh) as they can unintentionally trigger extra powder kegs and ruin the strategy. make sure to not mimic xana and place outside, then inside (ty cloiss). 7:07 - make sure to teleport as low as you can to avoid overshooting and dying in the ceiling. bombing the vault is important so you won't potentially die on the way back! 7:29 - if you're struggling with dropmattocking, i've found that walking makes this trick much easier than doing it while sprinting. 9:22 - this is the worst trick ever. you can use 2 bombs under the idol to create a higher gap to place a rope in and wait for some extra time. 12:39 - if you're struggling to get this kill, be sure to *not* place the bombs at the left edge of the pillar. placing in the center makes the bomb cascade connect more consistently, as the final bomb will explode closer to tiamat. 12:55 - if the landmine kills anything other than tiamat, you will lose pacifist. be quick! 14:00 - this strat is also an excellent means of doing hundun for low% no gold, since normal floorstrats constantly rain gold upon the player. if you get unlucky like xana did in his clip, and gold is right under the tube, you can rope to ride the leftmost tube onto the spikes, which i'm fairly certain can never have gold on them. 17:23 - do not jump before placing this rope, as it will cause you to bonk your head when placing your next rope to escape. if you're lucky, a tiki trap can spawn 2 tiles away from the pole you climb (in this clip, the tiki trap on the right would work) which will prevent the pole from being destroyed, allowing you to save your first rope. 19:30 - keep in mind that the abyss on certain levels will not be the same! for example, on the black market, the main level is doubled in size to accommodate the back layer, so you'll have to either kill sad in the black market itself, or the terrain outside it. 20:59 - telescanning is wild, but also situational. don't telescan on every level, since some levels are better to just explore. the best levels to telescan are large levels with colors that contrast bubbles (like temple, dwelling, and sunken city). be careful of anything in the horizontal loop -- telescanning is safest in the vertical loop, as shown in xana's clip!

The Kapala difficulty meter is great

When killing the sad ghost it's important to note the "splat" sound effect which indicates that the ghost was successfully killed.

It’s insane how far this game has come, there’s probably still thousands of tricks undiscovered

6:30 worth noting that if there's gold in the exterior 2 sections it fling into the TNT, causing it to go off too early and kill you

Most of these I didn’t know about (I’m a noob, I know) so it was super interesting to watch through this and learn more about the game. You can definitely see how much love and effort you put in to this video. Thank you ❤️

Yo perfect timing my friend just got the game ima send this to him

God bless you my dude, just saw the first 17 min. of it and this labor of love fucking kicks ass! So far I've really loved that ledged-hired-hand-sleep-hold trick and Vlad bombing ones most of all! I gotta go work now, you keep at it and live long, hard, thick, prosperous, and spread the love:)

It's been a trip learning all this stuff in this incredible game, can't wait to see where this community goes.

A labour of love. Thanks for all you do to keep this community going. It wouldn't be the same without you

Awesome video, super cool to see all these strategies explained clearly in one place. Well done!

Great vid man after watching this a few days ago I only was at ice caves but now I have a few wins and I’m going for other endings thanks for the help keep being awesome!

Thank you so much I have been taking a break as I have just beaten hundun and done a couple attempts at getting to cosmic ocean but after seeing this I can muster up some motivation to try the impossible.

I'm not sure that anything can convince me to feel safe using the teleporter but you made a noble effort

It's super useful to have all this in one video tbh, thank you!

13:43 you forgot the climbing gloves. This is an AWESOME you tube video, as always. I loved learning new things about the game. You rock xanagear. And you NAILED that bubble skip!

Enjoyed the video a lot and Im sure to enjoy it in future times since Im 100% sure that I'll revisit this to try all the hard skips Im not implementing yet. Rn I have only gotten Qilin's skip with vlad cape kinda consistent (althought using some more ropes to get myself over the wall directly instead of walking over the first spark traps which I'll try next time), and obviously the classic death skip with paste on the 2 ropes. Thanks for this amazing video, and thanks to all the Spelunky 2 community for being so amazing, I hope we all keep enjoying this game as much as it deserves it ^^

Amazing video. I'll definetively be coming back to this one

Thank you for the help. Fantastic watch.

Awesome content as always bro, keep it up!

Amazing vid. nice work!

Thanks for the video xana!

Good stuff as always Xana!

Amazing work! Thanks for the video!!

bro im new to spelunky 2 and the intro to this video is getting me so hype, going to be such a great watch

Hello xana, i love your videos, i absolutely love this tricks!

Really good tricks subscribed 😊

S tier video bro! 😎 Im only 12 and i have pulled off 5 SC runs and trying to get to CO, this video is definitely going to help because i forgot some of these tricks! Btw i subbed! ❤👍

thanks for the tips bro

New to spelunky series but I love ur yt vids they helped me alot.

Thank you, this is awesome. I'll be sending every Spleunker I know to this video.

Thanks Xana, you make a spelunky 2 tips vid right after I took a break from spelunky 2 so I could play Neo The World Ends With You.

Awesome video thank you very much

9:24 - You can also just teleport up without using a rope if you have climbing gloves, but if you don't, just pray you don't get squashed.

Thank you for putting this! Now I can go to eggplant world and get new characters thank you!

This’ll come in handy. Thanks

Great video, gonna try out that temple low% olmec strat

I know that this video is older,but for newer players 4 bomb skip has a much easier line up now. If u jump towards the idol and go into the gap above it will always line you up as long as you don’t move once lined up. If you are struggling to understand then there’s a video by pastryperson that shows it off well.

YO THIS IS AWESOME!

Great video man

kapala being a measurement is great

Great video, keep in mund thay for low% temple hard you can save an extra stomp but with require another rope or rock

Finally someone who knows about the mattock steal that i always use to go to vlad cuz im bad

This is really cool! I'm going to have a lot of things to try out! Can't wait for 2.6 update on console haha ;)

I've found that you could steal the shop keeper's shotgun with the rope rob by quickly picking it up, as long as there's not a locked room in the shop, because you would pick up the key dropped by the shopkeeper, and not the shotgun

XanaGear ? More like XanaGoat

Alternate video description: Xana boasting his very impressive telepack skills. Great video!

glad to see all of your recent effort pay off, awesome video

great video!

You help the comiunity so well! Thanks (i speak spanish)

great video! now we also need a tutorial of how to play the game in the way it was "intended" because I am forgetting how to get to CO without a skip.

I love those" now you can see how I line up my hands here" then proceed to do it so fuckin fast I have to rewind it 20 time and frame by frame to see it.....still a great video😅

At 5:28 you don't actually have to kill them. You only have to anger them.

Nice video! Just wish there was quillback backlayer skip, it's my favorite skip

These tips are great, maybe finally I can escape the dwelling!

Hey XanaGear! This is an insane video that showed me things I didn't even know about especially that full ghost kill on ice caves, but I was wondering how you had a game overlay for your controller. I am planning on being able to stream this game eventually and I would want to know how you get it on OBS and such. Keep up the great content Xana, and thank you.

The first tech, rope rob, you can steal the shopkeepers shotgun quickly too

One thing i have found helps me is setting off the dart trap on the top right of vlads castle and then baiting vlad over before jumping into the crevice in the very top right and whiping him when he comes to me, it has never once failed me and its what i always use when fighting vlad and it takes no resources

If you can't do olmec skip (or want to get anch normally) the easiest way I found to beat him is when he is in his hover phase. Place a rope in the middle and all the way to the left of the arena and bait him into throwing bombs 3 times then hit his hover pads. (Keep doing this until he is in a pit he can't get out of)

Wow. Amazing videos. It’s awesome watching speedrunners getting better and better. Also does nobody know about the vlad telefrag kill that’s 100% consistent. I don’t think I’ve seen it done by anyone but myself.

This video will be the magnum opus of spelunky 2 content.

The outro was just inspiring

Great video, though I was kind of hoping to see the low% quillback back layer skip where he digs down after rolling. I cant find how to do it anywhere else :(

Thank you :)

13:32 An easier way I've been doing it, is to stand on the fourth item in the shop, backwhip + jump at the same time, then stomp on the shopkeepers head.

heck yeah good stuff

very cool

I'm suprized no one noticed the falling penguin at 20:35

Great video, but what about the frame perfect Jelly skip?

Good video :)

ty !

Commenting because it was actually a good video

Any tips for doing the last checkpoint for the ice level? Im a casual and im having a hard time doing it

Gimme tips on getting thru Volcana. So many times I get killed by bs I can’t control.

Bro you forgot my favorite strat of giving the caveman a shotgun

Очень круто! Надо будет пробовать всё это повторить, спасибо 👍

6:25 Hey Zanagear I know this is a small thing but can u clarfy that u need to look up when u paste the bomb on the wall? Because i have done it where i didnt look up and lost a jetpack and an ankh

Great master, please tell me. how many hours of training and games do you need to pass the game ? I have played for about 500 hours while my record is 7-30. How long did it take you to pass 7-99?

In no paste death skip, search it up, theres a way to aline the bombs easily

The whip rob...why can't you just back whip jump while walking away? Style points I guess, maybe faster too but I'm unsure.

I've only gotten to the sea area what the heck is going on in this game I knew there was gonna be some nutso stuff like spelunky 1 but nothing to this extent now I gotta play the game more

9:24 - Can also be done with a teleporter

Great job! Im 12 and this will help me pull of my second SC run ❤ droped a sub! 😃

I am literally just trying to get passed level 4. This is the only game that actually pissed me off.

Great video. It covers every one I can remember And 6:12 is really sick

Huzzah! Finally got time to finish this vid. Indeed! Got nothing more to say though :P

Jesus Christ it almost has been a full year huh…

is this the spelunky bible now?

Liked and subscibbed.

20:34 WITNESS MEEEEE!!!

They should have called the telascan the telescope because you scope things out

I found a way to slow down the falling ball in ice caves lol

i was expecting bubble skip to be web gun difficulty

i wonder when spelunky 3 will release

0:35 hey there I am

19:59 2tryhard4me 🤣🤣

Now I can't see the kapala anyway HAHA

Hey Xana! Didn't see you since I left titch. I know a trick you don't know. If you activate a hover pack in right moment you can land on spikes! Other than that I would say your video lacks that Ice caves skip where you fall from the ledge instead of going through yetis.

Your telling me, I can get the mattock every run but noe I cant get the clone gun/elixir?

i could probably beat Co 500 times before i kill big happy