LowMAD 3HP by MichaelK in 4:04:48
Two days after the discovery of heart skips, MichaelK already had a 3-heart Low% Mirror run completed. He posted his splits on Jun 21, 2019.
The order of dungeons changed slightly from the past version as Misery Mire was moved ahead of Thieves Town, and Skull Woods was delayed until after Thieves Town. Similar to the new Low% NMG, early Mire allows us to collect Cane of Somaria for easier heart deletion.
Palace of Darkness was still an early dungeon, so how was King Helmasaur's heart container deleted? Possibly like this:
On Jun 20, MichaelK and Pinkus had worked out methods to skip the Helma heart without using Somaria. In MichaelK's method, Link places his last two bombs, lamps twice, and then dash buffers twice with the second one on a same-frame contact with the heart. While technically possible, the technique requires extreme precision.
If we had the Master Sword, we could set index and then fire 6 arrows, sword beam, and dash dust. Pinkus found this strat to be free for Low% NMG. However, in LowAD, we don't have the sword until after collecting the hammer.
Could Helma be defeated later, after collecting Somaria? From MichaelK's splits, we can see that the Darkness split is skipped (shown with a -), so maybe that is what happened.
Dungeon order:
Eastern Escape Darkness Desert Hera Agahnim Mire Thieves SkullĀ Swamp Ice T-Rock G-Tower
After completing this run, MichaelK figured out how to skip more items using new ancilla glitches that were in a legal gray area (much like Tree Warp) in No EG/DG/WW.
