The Speedrun that gets Master Sword in 17 mins 

Thank you for watching everyone! It was so much fun working with these Incredible people over the years to make this story happen. Happy i could give everyone a recap of this "one of a kind" Speedrun!

Fun fact: Limcube actually changed his accent to German for this video because it's faster.

This entire video is just “BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE”, and I’m all for it

I love the idea of Sheikah building trials from 10,000 years ago so no one would take their powers and link wakes up and is like "gimmie 20 minutes".

It's so crazy to hear that BTBs and shrine clips are barely older than windbombs. When I started caring about BotW speedruns, I thought they had been known for forever lol

I love how EMS in BOTW was initially tought as impossible, only to require simply sleeping at a campfire to pull it off(literally, heheh) years later, Speedruners and Glitchhunters always find a way.

Legend of Link is the REAL legend here. Props to him for finding all these glitches

I'm glad you all credited the glitch hunters in this one, seems like they really pulled of some miracles here

This really captures all the craziness that botw glitches have offered over the years, I'm so used to them now it's just like "oh link can fly across the map in a different way now lol" but this speedrun progression really puts it into perspective, in an epic fashion.

hi i'm lunoplasty. i wasn't expecting to be in this video as the category & game have evolved so much since i last ran, not to mention my potato-quality stream setup. nice work on the video! at the time, i thought Master Sword would be a really fun race category with many different options for routing. for my own route (google doc still saved to this day), i wanted to let runners tackle shrines and a dungeon, without needing to commit to the extensive "all shrines" or "all dungeons" categories, as many shrines feature wild solutions that were hard or impossible to show off in other categories at the time. this brought back some memories! maybe i'll dust off my wii u gamepad...

If I ever see someone yell at random deer in the forest, I‘ll assume he‘s a speedrunner

I can't believe it's already outdated :)

I remember the thing that got me interested in speedrunning was the excitement about barrier skip finally being discovered in Wind Waker HD (Wind Waker being a special game from my childhood, so it caught my attention.) For me personally, the hunt for the Great Plateau skip feels like the modern version of that old Holy Grail. I'm sure you'll find it someday, and it's going to be amazing when it happens!

I like to imagine sleeping at the campfire gives Link a burst of strength to just casually pull the master sword out of the pedestal

I just love how much glitchhunters work together. The fact that one simple glitch can cause a chain of many other glitches is so interesting.

Such a fun video! It felt super hyped whenever there was a "cut, fade-to-black, _BUT THEN..."_ to the point I was audibly cheering when the last few strats were being introduced and explained. I liked the narrator's accent as well.

it’s so cool how glitch hunters and speed runners work together to break the game as much as possible to complete it faster, it’s probably my favourite part about speed running

How many glitches and exploits will we discover until ACE gets discovered, if it even could have ACE? This game is so broken, we can do things that were originally thought to be emulator only like keeping the Bow of Light with no Final Boss issues, Infinite Jump, flying anywhere at high speed and no stamina consumption, etc., yet we can't warp to the credits. Edit: Corrected a typo.

It's crazy to me that this game has been out for over 4 years now

Hey I recognize this guy’s voice! It’s Limcube, the guy who taught everyone how to speedrun BOTW. Thanks for giving me something to do during quarantine

"The Breath of the Wild community found their own unique way to get the Master Sword early, and that seemed like it would be the fastest they could get it" >12 minutes left in the video

I really love the screen that the speedrun ends on, just looking up at the sky and trees like that. A cozy ending.

Speedrunners: "This speedrun seems a bit hard to do..." Link, the literal protagonist of the game: _"I've come to grant you knowledge."_

Best part about the new speedrun strat is the beautiful finish screen LUL

Yes, a new Lowest percent video I love hearing about random game their speedruns

It's a shame that The Great Plateau's Invisible barrier is so damn tough.

Can we give a shout out to LegendofLink. The dude has massively helped multiple communities like WWHD and BoTW and is an all around super chill dude. I have fortunately had the chance to talk to him a bit through various Twitch chats and he really is a dope member of these speedrunning communities that we all love.

4:00 “And he told us this,” *ad plays*

By taking a picture in front of the aparatus, while activating it at the same time, deleting the picture, holding an item and watching a memory... I wonder why this took a while to discover. But I love these glitches that you get by some obscure combination of random actions!

I'm pretty sure that "over a year before the game's release" is the earliest that a glitch that's useful in speedrunning has ever been found. If I'm wrong please @ me.

I love these kinds of videos. Not only is it super interesting to see how runs evolved and what crazy glitches were discovered, they also show me new amazing speedrunners I haven't know before. This channel is a bliss

I find it quite funny how LegendOfLinkk kept returning to this category to find new strats, but the deer still messed things up! Very good video!! This is a very interesting category!

i feel like you were smiling during the entirety of this video, especially when you mentioned legend of link, dudes amazing

Great video guys! I've always been a massive fan of BOTW speedruns. Watching the history on how the runs evolved over time, with the insane work of these glitch hunters (HOW DO THEY EVEN FIND THESE, WTF?!?), is both impressive and a little nostalgic. Goes to show a glimpse at how well this game is going to age. 10 years from now, the glitches and runs performed today will be just as nostalgic.

I love this channel and I’m SO excited to see that you guys brought in the amazing Limcube to talk about BotW! Great video Lim - I hope this channel finds more ways to feature your expertise and explanations in the future!

7:58 Wait, the Master Sword is referred to as "Sword of (the) Legend" in french? That makes a shocking amount of sense.

I’m not a speed runner but I love these sorts of breakdowns. It’s wonderful to see people perfect the process. This is what humans were went to do. Problem solve and find the best solution. “All of life and physics is striving to have the most accurate answer the the question at hand.” Thanks for sharing and thanks for your efforts in pushing people forward. :-)

neat how it is not just one strat, but the speedrun includes many parts found by different people

Deku Tree: "Link, to reclaim the Master Sword you first have to regain your strength." Link: (Takes a nap and picks it up effortlessly) Deku Tree: "What the nuts"

Limcubes voice is so calming

Ayo, legendoflinkk! Awesome glitch hunter, didn’t realize he figured out how to grab the Master Sword as a normal item, that’s crazy! I really appreciate that the glitchhunters are always given credit here, their work is inspiring and if they deserve some praise for building an understanding of many unintended mechanics and exploits. Edit: Holy cow, forgot about the campfire strat, Bot_W is also insane.

Love Lowest% videos. Always so interesting and cool

Superb video man, absolutely love watching these

I subscribed before you said you were showing more glitches, amazing channel, and the fact that you add so many details I just LOVE this. When I was younger (well two years ago) when I played BOTW I wanted the sword quicker and I did the horse glitch as shown in the video and before to mentioned it I was all like " when is he going to mention that one thing I did?" and then I saw it and the nostalgia ran back to me. Thank you for making this video, it is great in everyway and you are fine about the low quality. Have a good day sir😊

The very existence of Apparatus Storage will forever confuse me just because it was discovered. It's such a bizarre sequence of steps that I just can't imagine finding it.

Great video limcube! And props to the editor, amazing story telling and use of music.

Great video! That's one of the coolest category progressions I've ever seen.

Man, all the progress that was made getting this record to where it was. Admittedly, for all the luck involved at the mid-point, I bet the early days were pretty interesting. Now, it's simply just beat Great Plateau, get a bundle of wood, fly to the mastersword, sleep at a campfire, run's done. Still, a neat video! Once again, thanks for uploading, & here's looking forward to the next Lowest Percent!

Honestly, I think the biggest thing is still that great plateau killbox, especially since we don't need the glider for speed travel either.

Can I just say that I love all of these speedrun history lessons

Great video!! So glad that Lowest Percent is back :D

Love how the improvements just kept coming. Such ingenuity!

Oh this channel never disappoints! Awesome video, Limcube!

I just want to say that I really love this channel. You all are entertaining, informative and know how to make a video that makes you keep watching. :)

A new Lowest Percent! After nearly 3 months, it's finally here! Thanks so much for uploading! Will probably comment more later!

I find it so funny how such a dreaded and inconsistent glitch was worked around by just looking up and taking a nap.

Amazing video! Breath of the Wild needs more wr history vids, the history of its speedrunning is very entertaining.

Stellar video! Breath of the Wild glitch history is so fascinating and the Master Sword is just one of the little things that show how REALLY broken the game is if you really look. I remember seeing Bot__W's tweet about the campfire + Master Sword and being in so much disbelief I went to look if they did any other thing to make it happen, but nope! It was wild. Breath of the Wild is a one of a kind game.

Thanks for bringing Limcube onto the channel for a video. He did a good job

Great video, great recap of the category. I got way more enjoyment than expected from this video. :)

When you think lowest percent is a dead channel but then they post another amazing video :D

I cannot believe that stasis launching was found before the game even came out, thats nuts.

I knew Limcube was doing this one before I even clicked on the video. I love your content man and everything Lowest Percent are doing as well!

Finally with a new video! I love this channel, continue uploading this amazing content!

Never, EVER say, "This time can't get any lower, this category is dead." It is never true. People even said it about SMB1, and they were wrong. There is always more to the onion.

In love with this channel! Every video is so interesting, and I love hearing about games I like and how broken they can be 🤣🤣🤣

i just rewatched some of your videos yesterday and now i am blessed with a new upload . rng bless

Hey Lowest Percent! I'm absolutely loving the videos, and it's super interesting to see inside the world of speed running! However, it would be really cool to see more speedruns from other games... As in, not just Nintendo games!

Lowest Percent lives! I was worried it was doomed, similar to how many co-op channels do. Keep up the good work, friends

This and Summoning Salt are the two most goated speedrun history channels

Awesome video! I would never dream of using any glitches but I find this absolutely fascinating!

Amazing video!! 👏🏽 thank you for documenting this history!

Botw speedrunners truly are amazing at what they do. It’s almost quite unbelievable really. Seriously. If it wasn’t for the video proof. I wouldn’t believe it.

Now I want the speedrun that saves Marin from being trapped as a seagull forever in 19 mins.

wow, this is incredible. i'm not even interest in speedrunning, but that history of the speedrun communauty around BOTW, giving a new life is heartwarming and touching.

Even though I've never really cared about speedruns before, I've been binging a ton of videos from this channel recently. There's just something about the way they tell these stories that makes you really invested, and I think that's pretty cool

I was waiting for a limcube vid

I like how there's Genshin Impact music in a video about BOTW speedrunning

Very interesting evolution of strats, great explanations

awesome to see a video by limcube on this channel. love the content, you did amazing

Shoutout to that Chinese guy who BOMBED his social credit score by cheating at video games for the good of the speedrunning community

Someday speedrunners are gonna find a way to beat the game from title screen

link gets to wake up to a really lovely view from his nap before effortlessly just picking up the master sword while in the middle of laying down

bro this video was super entertaining, good work

I love how the date this was posted another WR got verified

i love this guy and he needs to do the VO for more videos on here. voice like butter yo

Finally I can watch more from this channel

This is amazing - great work from all the BotW speed runners

i didn't know i was watching summoning salt

I was waiting for the ending way of getting the sword and I was like oh I forget people didn’t know this before 🙃😂

Amazing documentary, I really enjoyed it!

I love the reveal mid video where we realize that the clip of the wrong warp was at the mastersword the whole time.

Incredible video! I really like how Bot__W is the source of every single EMS glitch

LIM!!!! Yesssss, finally 😍

Love these speedrun history videos!

Now we just need a no master sword run.

This threw me off for a second. There's a RU-vidr doing a minimalist 100% run of BotW. This is where you do only the minimum required actions (with the minimum inventory) to get 100% completion on the map. I saw the channel name, and actually thought he'd released a video early. (They normally release on Sundays). It's not exactly a speedrun, as avoiding events and dragging items rather than putting them in your inventory takes time. The goal is just to prove what is absolutely necessary to get 100%. Too many people think you need to, say, actually defeat all the dungeons and shrines or complete all the quests, but you don't It's primarily Korok seeds and finding all map locations (including shrines). And, yes, I decided to comment because I thought more people might try the run. I won't mention the RU-vidr's name so I'm not spamming. It's just something I thought people might be interested in. I'd also just love it if someone did a glitched run of minimalist 100%. For his purposes, the other guy is going glitchless, to prove you don't need glitches to do it. But, with glitches, maybe it could be a speedrun category instead of a multi-month-a-thon.

I didn't realize there was a run this crazy in this game. Thanks for explaining it :)

One little piece of misinformation: "BTB" obviously stands for "bounce that boy".

Why does this sound so german? Bin ich verrückt? I am not crazy, am I?