Don't MAKE me come down these stairs
Okay, I went back and grabbed all of the throwable weapons and they didn't do much for me, so I'm going to say the hell with it. My decision is to keep playing it and using Fangs and hope I get lucky.
Creator has 200,000 HP in total and uses Transform at 35,000, 70,000, 105,000, and 140,000 HP. Before the first 35,000 he has no weakness to speak of, but all fangs do a little over 5,000 damage to him. And as for the last 60,000 HP, I haven't yet found that he's been weak against Fire, Ice, or Lightning. That leaves the middle three intervals. For a perfect run, he'd have to be weak against one of the three elements during each of those three intervals (I haven't found that they repeat, either), I would have to guess which one without screwing up.
Creator's attacks are a mixed bag for a speedrun. The ones that don't heal him take more time for him to use, and vice versa. The best actions he can take are Metastasis (hurts him for 3000 in about 4 seconds), and black magic spells (I've seen him use Quake, Thundara and Pig) except for Flare (6 seconds) and White Magic Holy (6 seconds). Fuse is quick (less than 3 seconds) but it heals him. The others are just too long, especially Explode, which takes 7.5 seconds for him to execute. This makes him the only boss in the entire speedrun worth slowing. So to add to that perfect run described above, I would have to use Five Star Crimson Palm and it would have to slow Creator on the first hit.
So as one can see, there are a lot of qualifiers to get a "perfect" creator battle. And how much time would I save if this all went beautifully? Perhaps a minute, maybe a minute and a half. It hardly seems worth it...
The best time I've gotten is 1:59. It's safe to say that 1:55 won't happen. The best I could possibly hope for would be 1:57, I think, but that is if everything goes perfectly (including killing Creator's first form in 6 hits, which happens about 50% of the time).
Creator has 200,000 HP in total and uses Transform at 35,000, 70,000, 105,000, and 140,000 HP. Before the first 35,000 he has no weakness to speak of, but all fangs do a little over 5,000 damage to him. And as for the last 60,000 HP, I haven't yet found that he's been weak against Fire, Ice, or Lightning. That leaves the middle three intervals. For a perfect run, he'd have to be weak against one of the three elements during each of those three intervals (I haven't found that they repeat, either), I would have to guess which one without screwing up.
Creator's attacks are a mixed bag for a speedrun. The ones that don't heal him take more time for him to use, and vice versa. The best actions he can take are Metastasis (hurts him for 3000 in about 4 seconds), and black magic spells (I've seen him use Quake, Thundara and Pig) except for Flare (6 seconds) and White Magic Holy (6 seconds). Fuse is quick (less than 3 seconds) but it heals him. The others are just too long, especially Explode, which takes 7.5 seconds for him to execute. This makes him the only boss in the entire speedrun worth slowing. So to add to that perfect run described above, I would have to use Five Star Crimson Palm and it would have to slow Creator on the first hit.
So as one can see, there are a lot of qualifiers to get a "perfect" creator battle. And how much time would I save if this all went beautifully? Perhaps a minute, maybe a minute and a half. It hardly seems worth it...
The best time I've gotten is 1:59. It's safe to say that 1:55 won't happen. The best I could possibly hope for would be 1:57, I think, but that is if everything goes perfectly (including killing Creator's first form in 6 hits, which happens about 50% of the time).