Room 3 - Skeleton Joes (Checkpoint Room)

This room is the checkpoint room of the stage. It's one of the biggest run killers especially for new runners as it's very easy to get caught by the Up'n'Down enemies  if you dont pay attention or jump properly.

This room also features Skeleton Joes, which you also need to take care off.

Beginner way - the Bright strategy

The strategy here is simple you want to use Bright so you dont have to deal with the Up'n'Down enemies, the biggest downside is depending on where you fired your second stop you might have to wait less or longer at the end to menu. 

Also keep in mind that as long as you have Flash Stopper enabled you can slide off ledge without any fear, you also wanna despawn the last Skeleton Joe, this would be done in almost all strategies.

Thanks to this, you can avoid damage and reach the top faster. This can be done very easily by spawning the Joe and doing a little wiggle to the left.

Buster ways

Easy way

Now that you have to pay attention to all enemies you will need to jump quite high to dodge the Up'n'Downs. You also need to shoot the Skeleton Joes before going on the ledge or else you will bump into them.

Avoid killing the Skull Joes with Full Charge Shots to avoid drops. If you took damage on an earlier screen, a life drop will break your rhythm.

Common way

Doing high jumps and falling straight to shoot the Joes is a bit slow. You can optimize this by adding some slides out of ledges to make yourself jump lower.

You can also do a jump shoot to disable the Joes earlier so you dont have to wait. 

Faster strat

The current world record uses an alternative strategy that is a tiny bit faster on average than the common strat

Instead of despawning the last Joe :

• Jump to dodge the Up'n'Down 
• Fire one buster shot to disable the Joe
• Menu to Balloon as soon as the shot hit the Joe
• Place the balloon high so you can lend into it and go to the top

Fastest Recorded Room Time

The fastest recorded time is 15'42 by Chelney