Armos Clip

First Armos Clip (Obsoleted by Lever clip below)

Armos Clip is a trick that involves using an Armos to push Link through a small gap. Although this can be done without manipulation, it requires thorough understanding of how Armos move. Manipulating the Armos improves consistency and has the added benefit of manipulating a kinstone drop which may be important depending on what kinstone route you are using and which backups you need for your current run.

Armos Clip can be performed twice in the any% run, but is generally recommended to learn the second Armos Clip first as it saves about 8s compared to only about 2-4s for the first clip.

First Armos Clip (Obsoleted by Lever clip below)

An Armos Clip can be performed upon first entering FoW. When entering the dungeon, immediately save and quit. Your equips should be either Sword and Bombs (Bomb Manip, requires more menuing) or Sword and Boots (Sword Manip, should be equipped after doing Peahat Clip in Castor Wilds).

First Armos Clip With Sword

First Armos Clip With Bombs

REPRODUCTIONS STEPS

Getting to the Armos room (Sword Manip)

6 rolls in the first room.
Hold B to mash the Ezlo text, then do 2 rolls.
Roll through the Spark while being close to the pit to avoid activating the Stalfos. Then, pick up the middle skull and throw it to kill the Stalfos. Pull the lever and roll through the Spark. Roll one more time to leave the room.
4 rolls in the fourth room.
Roll once through the Silver Chu.

Armos room

Do not roll before the Armos. Simply walk in the path shown. Make sure only the left skull gets activated.
When the Armos begins to move towards Link, slash it twice.
Walk down and then left (but not diagonally down) and position yourself down-left of the other Armos as shown in the video.
Roll down once as the Armos approaches you.
Once the Armos is in this position, roll left and hold left to clip.

REPRODUCTIONS STEPS

Getting to the Armos room (Bomb Manip)

6 rolls in the first room.
Hold B to mash the Ezlo text, then do 2 rolls.
Roll through the Spark while being close to the pit to avoid activating the Stalfos. Then, pick up the middle skull and throw it to kill the Stalfos. Pull the lever and roll through the Spark. Roll one more time to leave the room.
4 rolls in the fourth room.
Roll once through the Silver Chu and once more to exit the room.

Armos room

Roll left twice.
Roll up once to activate the armos. Make sure only the left skull gets activated.
Roll left once.
Place a bomb, pick it up, walk a bit up (not too far up, you should not be touching the wall), and throw it to the Armos, hitting it twice.
Walk down and then left (but not diagonally down) and position yourself down-left of the other Armos as shown in the video.
When the Armos turns left towards Link, walk down to avoid getting hit.
When the Armos touches the left wall(next to the portal), roll down once.
Once the Armos is in this position, roll left and hold left to clip.

Lever Clip

Discovered by Toadswoot. RTA setup by VlackSR, Myth197 and NyanCato

The Armos can instead be manipulated to clip us inside of the stationary armos, from this position we can pull the lever without even having to shrink. After we have pulled the lever to drop the key, we can then kill the armos to drop a GP kinstone if required.

Lever Clip Manipulation w/ GP kinstone

vlackSR - Armos skip + GP Full setupWatch vlackSR's clip titled "Armos skip + GP Full setup"

REPRODUCTIONS STEPS

Getting to the Armos room

6 rolls in the first room.
Hold B to mash the Ezlo text, then do 2 rolls.
Roll through the Spark while being close to the pit to avoid activating the Stalfos. Then, pick up the middle skull and throw it to kill the Stalfos. Pull the lever and roll through the Spark. Roll one more time to leave the room.
4 rolls in the fourth room.
Roll once through the Silver Chu and then once more into the doorway.

Armos room

Walk up slighty and then Dash left through the door, stopping inline with the left most skull. Then roll up towards the Armos Make sure BOTH the skulls gets activated. As the Armos is activating roll left.
Walk left to just below the left edge of stationary armos, slash and hold the sword then walk up so you slide around the bottom left edge of the armos. Walk up as high as possible then release the sword before it charges a spin.
Watch the spear of the moving armos and start charging a dash when it reaches the visual cue in the image on the left (anywhere on the green line)
While charging the boots hold Down + Left until you bonk against the wall then release. Hold Right while in the bonking animation.
Holding Right as link lands should clip him inside the stationary armos. Do a sword slash, then during the sword animation press up and do another slash to make link face up without getting pushed out of the armos. Don't keep up held or link will get pushed out of the armos.
While link is facing up, hold R to grab the lever then hold down to activate the small key. Make sure to do all the steps after landing from the bonk quickly or you will get hit by the armos while pulling the lever.

Kinstone Manipulation

Hold B and mash the text once the key drop animation is over. Hold Left at the end of the text box to deactivate the armos.
Once link is against the left wall, dash up to the top and release boots before you bonk. Slash to charge a spin and move right to activate the armos while it charges, release the spin while next to the Armos to drop a GP kinstone.
Alternatively a R> kinstone can be obtained by doing the same manipulation but with 4 dashes instead of 1.

Second Armos Clip

The second Armos Clip can be performed after obtaining the Mole Mitts. After obtaining the mitts, equip Mole Mitts and Bombs, then save and quit. Note a variant of this manipulation exists that skips the red kinstone chest while remaining at the same RNG value on entering

Second Armos Clip with Kinstone Chest

REPRODUCTIONS STEPS

Getting to the Armos room

6 rolls in the first room.
2 rolls in the second room.
2 rolls in the third room.
4 rolls in the fourth room.
Dig to the left.
Get hit by the Spark once.
Open the red kinstone chest.
- Look for the extra sparkle in the bottom right.
  - No extra sparkle
  - Extra sparkle
Roll twice if you get the extra sparkle, or 3 times if you did not.

Armos room

Roll left three times.
Roll up once to activate the armos. Make sure only the left skull gets activated.
Roll left once.
Place a bomb, pick it up, walk a bit up (not too far up, you should not be touching the wall), and throw it to the Armos, hitting it twice.
Walk down and then left (but not diagonally down) and position yourself down-left of the other Armos as shown in the video.
Roll down once as the Armos approaches you then one more time when the Armos touches the left wall (by the portal).
Once the Armos is in this position, roll left and hold left to clip.

Backups

Manipless Armos Movement

If the Armos does not move in the expected way, then RNG was not at the correct value which means that the manipulation has failed. This means you cannot get the kinstone from killing the Armos, however you can still make the armos move into the correct spot to perform the clip.

After activating the armos and then moving to the bottom left area, the armos will follow. As it gets close to you then move onto region 1 to trigger the Armos to sit. The Armos will sit in 1 of 4 regions:

Tiles above the block (Best)
Middle column of tiles (3rd Best)
Adjacent to the Hole (2nd Best)
Adjacent to the bottom wall (Worst)

Region 1

If the Armos stops in area 1 then you can activate it, stand against the right hand side of the push block, and then attempt to roll into the corner to clip when the armos reaches the right spot.

Region 3

If the Armos is in region 3, stand in region 2 next to the armos and walk into it to activate it. As it activates you want to tap left slightly to get close to the border of region 1 and 2, the armos should then run into you and knock you into region 1 while also deactivating itself and sitting in region 1. Continue the steps in region 1 to do the clip.

Region 2

If it lands here then you want to stand in region 1 next to the armos and walk into it to activate it, as it activates you want to sword slash it ONCE. The armos should get up, walk one tile to the right and sit down in region 3, you can then continue the steps from region 3.

Region 4

If it stops in region 4 you have to activate the armos and then stand high in region 2 or 3 to get it to start heading towards you before rolling into region 1 to deactivate the armos, it may stop anywhere from this point so continue the steps from wherever it lands.

Clip Backup

With all of the manips shown on this page, if the Armos moves to the correct position (next to the pushable block that Link is clipped through) , but you do not get clipped, a backup can be performed by reactivating the Armos. In this case, follow the steps below to perform a backup clip.

Walk above the Armos
Walk down to activate the Armos, then walk up a bit to avoid damage
Once the Armos is activated, roll down once (into the armos) and spam the roll button while continuing to hold down
Note: If perfoming a kinstone manip after the clip, you will have to adjust your actions to make up for the extra rolls from the backup. See the any% Green Kinstone Routes page for more info.

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