Sub 1:20 Hydra
Setup:
• The vents at Hydra are 8 ticks apart, and this method increases the chance of reaching the earliest vent cycles.
This way, Hydra will instantly get hit by the vent on next phases, increasing your DPS.
• This method requires you to Tbow Hydra the same tick as vent activates on P1 and P2, else this comp will not work. (Can be 1 tick late for P2)
*Downloading the Visual Metronome plugin from the plugin-hub and setting the tick count to 8 can be helpful with attacking Hydra as soon as the vents hit him.
• Movement is one of the most important part of a fast Hydra kill, watch the video example for how you should move inside the room during the kill, and for tile markers.
P1:
-Spawn range thrall before Hydra spawns
-5x Tbow
-[1x Blowpipe -> 1x Tbow]
-Tbow until P2
P2:
-5x Tbow
-[1x Blowpipe -> 1x Tbow]
-Tbow until P3
-Tank the lightning if needed, you’ll only get hit once. (Don’t tank if the kill is slow)
P3:
-Zaryte Crossbow spec (if the kill is slow, you can save this for the next kill)
-Tbow until P4
-Proc vengeance this phase, or on P4.
P4:
-Dragon knife spec (save this if you didn’t zaryte spec)
-Tbow until dead
• Blowpipe is only used to get Hydra’s HP closer to transition threshold. If Hydra is too close to this threshold (75% – 825hp / 50% – 550hp), skip the blowpipe and just Tbow instead.
• Save specs for next kills if your Tbow is noodling.
• Have a pre-veng before every kill. 2nd and 3rd venges should be used on P3 and P4.
• Anglerfish to 110-121hp before every kill.
• This method increases the odds for Sub 1:20, but in the end it comes down to Tbow RNG.
Setting up the perfect start:
Try to do a casual kill first, where your final Tbow to kill hydra happens 1 tick before the vent activates. You can do this at the end of every kill if your kill is slow.
Video example kill: