This is an overview of the current Black Knight Halberd (BKH) Dark Souls Remastered Any% route. Note, that this does not include any safety strategies for people learning the route.

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Route Notes

Note: Starting as Female will make the Wrong Warp more difficult as you cannot perform the spell swap from idle as a Female character.

Asylum

• Start as Male Thief with Black Firebombs
• Keep the Sword Hilt
• Kill Asylum Demon
• Skip pickups
• Get Estus and Darksign
• Pick up the 200 soul
• Leave Asylum

Basin Bonfire

• Dupe the 200 soul 99x
• At Petrus buy Force, Homeward and 2 Talismans
• Dupe the humanity 99x on the elevator
• Equip the talismans
• Pick up the 2k soul
• Upwarp on the NLR elevator
• Dupe the 2k soul 99x
• Take the bonfire and level 12ATT 20END 32STR 18DEX 12FTH
• Attune Force and Homeward

Wrong Warp 1

• Pick up the GCS and Farm the BKH
• Kill the Lizard
• At Andre prompt swap 9 Longswords
• Open the menu to buy longswords again
• Drop dupe -8 Twinkling Titanite
• Upgrade the BKH to +5
• Light the Parish Bonfire (don't rest)
• Homeward Wrong Warp

Quelaag

• Blighttown air rolls
• Kill Quelaag
• Ring the bell
• Darksign

Gargoyles

• Kill Gargoyles
• Ring the bell
• Darksign

Iron Golem

• Run through Sen's Fortress
• Quitout for the boulder
• Kill Iron Golem (R2 to stagger, R1 on the toe or R1 combo to fall)
• Fly to Anor Londo
• Skip the bonfire
• Pop a humanity/heal on the elevator

Ornstein and Smough

• Run through Anor Londo
• Kill Ornstein and Smough
• Kill Gwynevere and get the Lordvessel
• Darksign
• Warp to Firelink Shrine

Wrong Warp 2

• Place the Lordvessel
• Warp to Undead Parish
• Homeward Wrong Warp

Gwyn

• Kill Gwyn and quitout on riposte
• Load back in and skip the cutscene
• Final split is on the credits (not the cutscene!)