Hollow Knight speedruns are much harder than you think 

I regret to inform you this is exactly as hard as I’d expect it to be

I'll be honest I've never ever thought a Hollow Knight speedrun would be easy

Hollow Knight speedrunner here- really cool to see how you took the time and effort to learn strategies and inform yourself about the games you run! It becomes particularly noticable when watching you do a run of a game i’m familiar with. Also 112% APB speedrun when 👀say the word and i will teach you lol

As an og hollow knight player having played for like 3-4 years, you did suprisingly well on this like really good job. Hollow knight is a metroidvania and really hard to speedrun because of how large it is so just awesome job all around (plus you are goated)

I remember when this channel was relatively small and people still were always asking to speedrun this game. So glad he finally did it!

It's strange watching an Eazy video and actually knowing the strats before he does them lmfao

Didn’t talk to elderbug, run invalid

Hey! Awesome to see someone running my favorite game! You mentioned not knowing how the Uumuu AI works, so I thought I'd give you a short summary: For the first cycle (when Uumuu initially spawns), it's going to give you 3 attacks. After the third attack, it'll check how much distance it's traveled, and if it's more than a certain amount (which I believe is RNG), it'll move slowly and Quirrel will slash it to expose its core. If it's traveled less than the required distance, it'll queue up another attack (we just call them "extras"). After an extra, Quirrel is guaranteed to slash Uumuu to expose its core. Note that Quirrel slashing Uumuu doesn't actually damage it. Any subsequent cycles work the same way, except that Uumuu will make the check for an extra attack after 2 attacks instead of 3. Fun fact: with optimal any% equipment, a 2 cycle is the minimum number of cycles required for a kill. It's super cool to see top-level runners fight Uumuu. They have setups and planned reactions for every single attack pattern, so I would highly recommend checking them out if you haven't already!

Woah this game looks really awesome! They should make a sequel and not release it until 4 years after announcing it

“To witness a WR, one must endure the harshest punishment.”

Eazy, it is genuinely inspiring to watch your videos. I have only ever completed one speedrun in my life (pokemon emerald, it took me 6:39 minutes), but watching you go from speedrunning flash games to legitimately putting fantastic runs for competitive games up on leaderboards with nothing but your grit, deterministic attitude and relentless optimism makes me want to sink some hours into my favorite games and get a run or two approved on the leaderboards. Keep it up dude, thanks for the great (and consistent!) content.

I'm really impressed by the tricks you learned for this game since I struggled so much to do even the easiest ones and never got to speedrun the whole game before! Mad respect!

This is a legendary game The speedrun strats are insane!

What a pleasant surprise! Hollow Knight speedrunner and longtime fan here, really happy to see you enjoying the speedrun! Love the explanations of the run and entertaining commentary! If you ever are looking for more HK speedrun content, Steel Soul runs (my personal favorite) are really high stakes and fun, and Path of Pain is a really challenging, more platforming oriented category!

Big time hollow knight fan here, seeing you do such skillful and difficult speedruns every once a while makes me respect you a lot. You're amazing and keep up the good work!

I always watch these videos wondering how close to the top speedruns you put the effort to get, and as a HK enjoyer, that's actually pretty good for a beginner, congrats man

It's a bit longer, but it would be so awesome to see you do a 112% run. Great video, easy! Also, for anyone wondering, HK is such an awesome game, and you should definitely play it.

Hollow Knight Speedrunner here: quick tip, switch to Chinese in the game menu, it makes mashing a lot faster. There’s of course a lot of other stuff you should do, like double dash mantis pogo, blue lake wcs, pogo cycle wk, optimal cdash cycle, Uumuu extra attack recovery and optimal Uumuu damage cycles, QGA and QG route, proper stalking devout strats, faster THK, etc., but that’s the main starter tip :) Second most important suggestion is to learn QGA and QG route, then practice the bosses (especially WK and Uumuu).

I do wanna say that the version that Eazy is using actually a previous patch. Patch 1221. It allows a few glitches and is the most optimal for speedrunning. The current patch has a separate category on the leaderboard.

I'm so happy to see you do a speedrun of Hollow Knight. I've been watching your videos for a while now and this is one of my favorite games! Love your videos and love the game, Keep up the great work!

IM SO GLAD YOU FINALLY PLAYED THIS edit: i believe the one fireball baldur at greenpath is because when you go offscreen the vengeful spirit hitbox gets stuck in the baldur hitbox edit 2: in the watcher knights fight, you can fireball them as they roll to the other side of the arena, getting triple hits

I was waiting for him to speedrun Hollow Knight. It’s such a good game and I’m excited other people are still coming to the game

I think this is the first time you've covered a game that I already knew the speedruns for. Kind of crazy how much work and tim goes into one of these.

Glad to see this game getting some love, I speedrun the pantheons (boss rushes) and it's great seeing people speedrun the game!

I once spent an entire month learning the route and practicing this speedrun, and the amount of time and effort that goes into being able to do this run is insane. Congrats on the good time, it’s better then the ones I got! Also, if you want to speedrun something even harder then Hollow Knight, speedrun Celeste.

this could not have come at a better time for me because I've just really gotten into hollow knight, almost finished it and I've been watching a lot of speedruns. I know it wasn't on purpose but thanks, eazy

ive been waiting for this FOR YEARS this is ur best video. i love how i know the strats you r gonna do in the speedrun lol

i love this speedrun. the hollow knight speedruning community is very fun to follow and it’s cool to see you do it. i also regret to inform you that the watcher knights can be cheesed with pogo. idk if it’s at all faster though lol

Im so glad you are speedrunning this. My favorite game EVER!

This is awesome that Speezy did a Hollow Knight Speedrun. Oh also a really good tip! Wayward Compass is one of the best charms in the game extremely op

As a hollow knight player I can say that he made the watcher knights look way easier than they are in game Fun fact: The false knight is a maggot who stole one of the five great knight’s armor

I love the run for this game. I'm happy you ran it and uploaded it!

I'm so frickin' happy- This is one of my favorite games and I am absolutely taking this as a sign to play Hollow Knight on my tv tonight. Also, based on the video time (barely a minute in), you did *really* good with the time! E - 19:20 - "Where we can now buy the Lumafly Lantern, which is incredibly important for a later part of the game." - Me out here thinking Eazy was gonna do Dark Deepnest

This was a great watch. I really hope Eazy does a true ending speed run

Playing this normally was so difficult but amazing to experience, mad respect for speedrunners.

I loved this game. I love seeing Fireb0rn speedrun it too. Glad to see you play it as well. Not sure how long you practiced but you nailed alot of hard skips. Good on you Speezy! Also, love the videos dude

I swear to GOD hollow knight is my all-time favorite game and i just cannot believe youre finnaly speedrunning it! This is one of my favorite speedrun channels and ive always wanted to see him do this game

I love how he didn't visit more than half the areas in the game. Please do a true ending speedrun

Seeing you speedrun my all-time favorite game was amazing!!

We need a series of you playing this whole game out and getting 112%

OMG YES THANK YOU I HAVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS VIDEO Seriously tho HK is the best metroidvania I have ever played it’s mapped out so well, and ofc the speedruns (and boss rushes too) are insane fun as well

Absolutely love this game, glad to see you speed running Hollow Knight. The skill ceiling for speed running this game is insane.

Eazy speedrunning Hollow Knight is a dream come true :) A true ending speedrun or a current patch one would be interesting to see! (Or even better, low% true ending)

A week ago, I was hoping one you'd do a speed run of Hollow Knight and god am I happy you did. Fantastic video as always!

This is the one speed run where I already know all the tricks…I finally feel like a speedrunner now!

Little did you know, I already knew. Alas, I was convinced this masterpiece was, indeed, very hard to speedrun. Harder than expected, even

I love this game so much i'm happy you finally speedrunned it

ive consumed so much hollow knight speedrun content that i noticed all the little optimizations that speezy didnt go for lmaoo im still very glad that he speedran it, very awesome game both to play and run! props to team cherry and the speedrunning community!

Wow this is great! I tried speed running this, but after three hours and getting all the upgrades I never got to beat the hollow knight.

Great job, man. The strats for this game are pretty crazy, and there are some incredibly difficult maneuvers that can shave time off quickly. Best of luck, my dude. :D

im kinda surprised you got so many cuts right in this run so proud of ya man, i have seen pro spreedrunners of this game mess up some of the poggos so many times so watching you do them so easily is kinda funny to me great video as always lol

Pretty good explanation. Would be a nice place to start if I ever decide to get into HK speedrunning

I’ve been playing this game and I can’t believe this man has finished this game in under an hour

Hollow knight speedrun is really really hard, it took a lot of precisions and a lot of time to memorize and master its pathings in order to get a flawless run. You did a terrific job at this one, considering you're speedrunning every other game now and then, this is an insanely good run..

man, knowing the exact name of every strat as they’re done,and when names are said weird is so funky

4:25 That Elder Baldur dies to a single Vengeful Spirit because in early versions, VG was becoming suspended for a moment after leaving the screen - this meant that it was able to deal several "ticks" of damage during that time. And the set-up with approaching and then retreating from the Elder Baldur loaded it in but then placed it just beyond the visibility border to take advantage of that.

its a little bit weird seeing hk speedrun in english

He has to do the hardest things! We all love you spezzy!!

so gald you did this speed run so cool to see you play this!

learned this route a couple months ago and finally got my first sub 40 minute time after trying casually for a while. Love this run! Shade skips are really hard T-T

Haven't watched the video yet but I am excited! I absolutely love hollow knight. Prolly top 10 in my list right now

This video really make me appreciate how much effort you put into your videos. Hollow Knight speed runs aren’t an easy thing and despite a pretty unlucky Uumuu fight and no QGA, you completed a run which is super impressive! Also I’m now wondering if you do live commentary or not? I can’t tell because I can’t imagine being able to do all the things you do while talking over the top. Either way gg on the victory and I hope you have a great day!

I’ve wanted him to give this a go for a long time, very respectable performance, that e pogo was probably the cleanest thing in the run but for someone who starts a game maybe beat it on there own time learn the run and just give it there best go this was a solid run

Neat fact with the watcherknights, if you vengeful spirit one whille its doing the basic roll attck it will take multiple times the amount of vengeful spirites

I just wanted to thank you even though I know no one will see this comment thank you easyspeezy you show me my new favorite game I have played for about 220-230 hours and am currently working on my second 112% playthourgh on controller this time

This is actually one of the few games that I watch speedruns of. Nice to finally see you try it. And I hope that the god gamer himself, Fireborn, does a reaction to this. Would love to see his opinion.

Finally, I’ve been waiting for this video for way too long to come out. I need to speedrun it myself 💀

Yooooooo I’ve been waiting for a hollow knight speedrun from you forever!

Don’t we all love a daily dose of watching EazySpeezy?❤️

This was unexpected, but such a pleasant surprise! This game is incredibly made and I'm excited to see what you think of it!

This is the most speedrun like speedrun I've seen on this channel, and it actually felt like one

i love hollow knight and see you speedrunning its so cool!

Bro please spedrun dead cells

15:30 Yes. Yes we do. Also well done on getting most of the skips first try!

This is a really nice video to use as a guide

YES IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!

Thank you for speedrunning one of my favorite games

the best video u made so far hollowknight is my favorite game and ur my favorite youtuber

I love your speed runs I still need to end pantheon five to get finished with the game thou

Can’t wait to see EZ do the Any Radiance 3.0 speedrun

I’ve been waiting for this for so long!

I used to speedrun this (not trying for leaderboard, just for some PBs) and would do newest version, 0 glitches. My fastest time was right on the 2 hour mark despite dying 2 times to soul master, and never using the exit reload strat. seeing this game beaten so quickly is just satisfying

Hollowknight is one of my favriote games glad to see you speedrun it

Yes finally I have been waiting for this

I love how during your runs you also give little summaries of the games plot

This game has always reminded me of another game I've wanted to see you Speedrun, Skul: The Hero Slayer. Idk why, it just has.

The vengeful spirit skip to Hornet is nice to know. Ever since my first play through I used the Squit just below to pogo up to here ledge because I didn’t know you were supposed to go down and around.

its fun because i started playing this game and the day after you posted a speedrun on it

This game is so nostalgic for me, I almost started crying in the city if tears

Nice job on this run! A great phone game to speedrun is Swordigo. I would love to see you play that game.

Finally a speezy video where I know everything and more about the speedrun than speezy

FINALLY!!! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR HOLLOW KNIGHT SPEEDRUN :D

yo this is awesome really happy to see a hollow knight run on here, I have a 35:15 rn but aiming for 33

Full disclosure too, since I don't think I saw it mentioned in the video, the speedrun usually uses an earlier patch, as some of the tricks in the speedrun have been patched out. Just in case you tried to do something you saw in the video and it wasn't working. Most notably, off the top of my head, I believe "inventory drop" and "explosion pogo" were patched out for the current version

Eyy!!! congrats on finding the absolute gem that is hollow knight. Ngl, with how much content it gives and how good it is, it really could be worth 60$ instead of 15. but also, congrats on not going insane playing it :D (this game taught me patience. the later was destroy my switch after dieing a bunch, so its a good thing to)

Hollow knight is my favorite game and I love it and I’m glad to see that u speedrun it :)

Now I’m waiting for an ori and the blind forest speed run!! That’ll be sick.

Well I didn’t expect eazy to do this run, mainly because of a few really really difficult strata like QGA so I want really surprised when eazy skipped out on doing them.

I have been waiting for this speedrun by my favorite speedrunner

I’ve been waiting for this sense 2021 summer my guy