This stage is interesting cuz you don't get to see most of it in the Normal run.
A lot of its beef lies in the Tokens, the remaining rooms are pretty fast to clear with Rush Bike.
Token 1 is right in the starting room, there's a ladder up to a little gauntlet. Thankfull you can shortcut half of it with clever Electro Cable usage to get beneath a platform and nab the Token from behind.
Token 2 is down a ladder in the ground, and very easy to grab with Bike rather than doing a bubble ride all the way across the room.
Token 3 is by the big room, if you go right into a side room. This room feels rather slow to Bike because of all the ledges we barely can't make but it's probably still the best option. The only problem is there is no nearby checkpoint to Ctrl+R to, the next best one is above the big room and going there, then back down seems like it'd take more time than riding the pipeway.
The big Coil Tornado up the spike shaft is very tight, you have to delay for quite a bit to not hit the second Gordo and weave between the spikes, then go right all the way around the topmost ones. The longer you delay the easier but it's never free.
Afterwards, I go right to trigger the checkpoint and immediately double back to Token 4. This enables me to Ctrl+R when I grab the Token to save the way back.
This is a rare instance of this since two-way transitions aren't too common.
Then in the room after you have to slow yourself down to not drop into a little pit once and continue to jump across, which I'd very often mess up.
Token 5 is in a very complicated side room. Well, it's supposed to be a lot of up and down but if you're willing to take some damage you can Magnet Beam most of it since the spikes aren't lethal. How convenient there are all those 1-tile gaps in the spikes.
And then the final screen. Those last three bubbles, they're mean. Since you can't jump out of a bubble on Rush Bike, if you get caught that means you're forced to dismount, which is very slow in that area. And the jump across all three is far from easy.
Finally, there's Bubble Crab. His weaknesses are Ice Wall and Bait Bobber, but unfortunately they give him nearly 2 seconds of IFrames on hit.
Thunder Beam, however, gives 0 IFrames on him, and while its base damage is 1, if fired from a distance it can hit up to three times, and it's very spammable with swap cancelling.
That makes it a very difficult and execution-heavy fight though. But it's one I greatly enjoy.
This run beats the previous fastest time of 5:30.569 by Luigi by about 3 minutes. There really is a lot of beef to the Token rooms on a normal play, but with weapons you can drastically speed them up if desired.
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