• Run needs to be done according to the Team Hitless rules
• Runs may not contain modded NSFW content
• Main menu MUST be shown in your submission recording to check for illegal mods. For pantheon 5 runs, the pause menu can be shown instead.
• A hit is ANY instance of damage and also falling off the map in dream sections.
• Blocking damage with Baldur Shell, the Dreamshield and Carefree Melody is a hit. For damageless, you may not lower health from max for any reason, but Baldur shell, Carefree Melody and Dreamshield are permitted.
• Intentional self-inflicted environmental damage is permitted to set up Fury of the Fallen, but you must either audibly state that you are going to take damage to set up Fury, or perform some action, like looking up and down 3 times. Moreover, you can only take damage to spikes or acid (NEVER an enemy), you can’t use the resulting iframes to bypass enemies etc, and you can’t use the damage to warp to another location (eg. Queen’s Gardens damage warp) and you can’t take this damage while having aggro from an enemy or when having a hit probability.
• Major glitches are FORBIDDEN in any category.
• Quitouts to port to the last bench are allowed unless you have aggroed any enemy (bomb-throwing Sporgs included; eg. you cannot quitout if a Sporg is about to throw a bomb, it can be active but not attacking). Quitouts are allowed if you have aggro from an enemy but you can’t be hit in any case (eg. when picking the tram pass while Carver Hatchers are outside of the broken tram) or if softlocked by a boss scream (eg. Vengefly King dying while screaming in Greenpath). Quitouts are mandatory if accidentally going out of bounds from the map.
• Visual mods (such as skins) and No Death are ALLOWED but any other mod, including Debug mod, will make the run invalid.
• Every patch from the 1.2 above is ALLOWED.
• When running a Nail Only run using spells to deal damage to enemies is FORBIDDEN. The only exception to this rule is for killing the Elder Baldurs in Ancestral Mound, at the Greenpath’s entrance and guarding Baldur Shell in Howling Cliffs. Using spells for movement and to interact with breakable environment is ALLOWED.
• What’s a skip? A skip is an action realized by the player to reach a place in the same loaded room that you wouldn’t have been able to without the clearest environmentally indicated progression skills and items. Quitouts are also treated as skips. Enemy pogos outside of the following list, background object pogos, precise movement or techniques without the environmentally indicated progression skills and items needed will be treated as skips (you can find some examples here).
  List of Skills and Items:
  • Mothwing Cloak
  • Shade Cloak
  • Crystal Heart
  • Mantis Claw
  • Monarch Wings
  • Isma’s Tear
  • Pogoing spikes and immortal armored enemy backs (eg. Goams, Garpedes, Wingsmoulds)
  • Breakable Floors and Walls
  • King’s Brand
  • Elegant Key
  • Levers (1.2.2.1)
• What’s an upgrade? An upgrade is an action that upgrades your nail, your spells or that increases your soul (vessels), your life (masks) or charm capacity (notches). New abilities such as Monarch Wings, Isma’s Tear or Shade Cloak are not considered upgrades.

To ensure a smooth verification process by our verifiers, we recommend not covering the following HUD elements. This is particularly important to help the verifier when there is an ambiguous situation, especially during boss fights.

• Health and soul
• Top left corner for mods