Hades Paradox Cup Critical mode in

A pretty good run, with good RNG overall, still not perfect and with mistakes that could have been avoided. Sub 8'30 is definitely possible with these strats, but will require grinding. 8'33 is a reasonable objective.
167 mag at least is required for round 39
Photon debugger is required for the cerberus strat to work

A decent strength helps 14, 25 and for back-up strats to lose minimal amount of time like 10, 49 but no power boost still works
Obviously in such a short category just doing inputs as soon as possible saves time over the course of the full run, but besides that here are the main sources of time loss



2 : Very late on the input, lost 0.5 sec
7 : Not the perfect shadow RNG, lost ~2 sec (it is rare)
10 : Party members didn't give mp on round 9 which probably made me mistime inputs lost almost 2 sec
14 : I was still hesitating between moving forward slightly at the start or not and it's probably better overall not to move lost 1 or 2 sec ? Or maybe even better mega into magnet finishing leap so it makes 15 better
16 : bad timing on the thunder, lost 1 sec
19-20 : perfect RNG, both rounds pretty much decide if the run works or not
21 : no item from party members so slightly slow 22, lost 0.5
27 : no item from goofy can rarely gain almost 1 sec
28 : no fireball for the book on the right is required for a fast 28, so that was nice
31 : Can very rarely be 1 sec faster
33 : Not perfect but minimal time loss
35 : Messed up the menu timing, bit too early probably lost between 1 and 2 seconds
37 : I chose to do jump magnet instead of thunder to be safe, maybe lost a bit less than 1 sec
39 : Preset final to be faster but I messed up lost 0.5
42 : Had the 1 thunder which saves 1 second
49 : Leon wasn't close enough unfortunately, maybe there is a more consistent strat for all openings. Lost around 2 seconds
50 : I can hit the orb earlier, probably can be 0.5 faster