Overview
Helpful guide to those that want to improve times on the map ABC’s and 123’s in Hot Lava
Overview
This guide will presume that you already possess the knowledge and skills to BHOP and strafe consistently, if you are struggling with this or aren’t as consistent as you’d like to be, a very informative video by YouTuber Joshuazilk goes over the strafing and bhopping techniques in a noob-friendly way.Other than that, you should be able to get all the skips listed in the guide if you can follow the steps!
Skip 1
I call this skip the “Cafeteria skip”, for said skip, you have to maintain a speed of at least 1.2 +. After you’ve got the speed, you’re going to want to bounce off the trash can and immediately after this, strafe around onto the rock directly to the left where the Red Hazard is
As you land on the rock BHOP into the cafeteria and land on the table in front of you,
then BHOP again to your right and land at the far table to completely pass the balloon bouncing section finishing the skip
Below is a short video I made of me performing the aforementioned skip…
Skip 2
For this skip, you’re going to be hopping up onto a platform to pass the hallway section.
Firstly, come around as normal and when you see it – hop onto the first drinking fountain on your right and stop
Then align yourself with the back of the fountain you previously landed on and look towards the platform in front of you
Finally, start moving forward and immediately hit jump (you don’t want to go to the edge of the fountain as you jump, jump earlier than you think you should). Once landed, turn around and climb the pipe
Again, a video of me doing the skip…
Skip 3
This skip, which I will call the “Art room skip” is a bit trickier than the others so far.
To begin, enter the art room after the previous skip and hop onto the table on your left, then BHOP onto the stool in front of you and onto the table to the stool’s right
Then, the tricky part comes, you’re going to gently BHOP up the boxes and then onto the top of the artist’s easel where you’ll BHOP off towards the door
After you’ve made that atrocious jump, BHOP off the box to your right and into the doorway to finish the skip
You already know the drill…
Skip 4
For this next skip, make sure you’re bouncing as high as possible by hitting space as you land on the trampoline or you will not make the skip.
Start by entering the gym as you would normally, and when you get to the double trampoline section, bounce off the first one with little forward momentum as you’re going to come back to it later
Then do a 180 and bounce right back off of the same trampoline with heavy forward momentum towards the way you just came
while in the air make your way to the beam that will be in front of you and land on it to complete the skip
yadda yadda yadda, video…
Final skip
This “skip” is actually two combined to make it easier.
Right after the last skip after you climb the ladder, run down the thin pole till the blue mat on the right is almost perpendicular to you and make a strafe jump onto it
Then, follow the track as normal until you get to the next checkpoint area, instead of going forward towards it, take a right off the ledge and fall
Land upon the trampoline for that sweet boost height and fly your way to the second story of the wooden platform just ahead of you
Last video…
End
Thank you all so much for reading my guide, and yes, I know there are faster ways to complete the map. This guide is more for the people who are just trying to get results quickly with some fairly simple skips.
Feel free to post your times using these skips in the comments section if you want, my best using these was as of making this guide 2.10.89, good luck beating it!
And to Joshuazilk, if you want me to remove your video from the guide just message me on steam, and I’ll be more than happy to take it down (nice vid btw).
THANKS AGAIN!