Standard

Here will be listed what is allowed or banned in the Standard racing ruleset, along with examples, an explanation, or a justification where necessary. This ruleset is subject to change based on the community feedback and the will of the Chamber of Sages.

Allowed

• Any accidental glitch which does not grant the player an advantage is okay
• Any technique required by the settings of the randomizer is allowed
• Savewarping
• Deathwarping
• Voiding to reset Link’s position
• Jumpslashing while mid-air for more distance
• Jumpslashing against walls for recoil
• Attacking to collect or hit an object on the other side of collision
• Power Crouch Stabbing
• Broken Deku Stick
• Damaging Volvagia’s second hitbox
• Crossing the Haunted Wasteland without Longshot or Hover Boots
• Rolling from blue switches to open doors
• Momentary Antigravity
  • EG: B1 Skip in Deku Tree, going to the alcove in Forest Temple Block Room
• Cucco Jump in Zora’s River or Gerudo Valley
  • NB: Entering Gerudo's Fortress as child is banned unless otherwise in logic per the settings
• Damage Buffering
• Invincibility Frame Abuse
  • This includes passing through flame walls and opening flaming chests
• Backflip over Mido in the Lost Woods as Adult
• Flame Storage
• Schrodinger’s Chain
  • This is the act of culling the drawbridge to the castle so that it no longer updates its collision. It's also gotten the affectionate name "cat chain" by the community.
• Twisted sidehops/backflips
• Recoil Jump
  • This is the act of shielding damage midair to reset Link's animation, usually in order to grab a ledge
• Ground Jump
  • NB: it is disallowed to Ground Jump off of the fake ground created by the Hover Boots
• Hookshotless Gerudo Training Grounds
• Hookshot extension
  • See below for a caveat
• Passing through the back side of one-sided collision
  • EG: the bottom of the bridge in Kokiri Forest, Darunia’s door, Song of Time block in Forest, Impa’s House ledge
• Backflipping through the spikes in the spike room of Shadow Temple
• Getting grabbed or thrown into collectibles such as GS tokens or Silver Rupees
• Swimming with Iron Boots
• Opening underwater chests while wearing Iron Boots and completing the Diving in the Lab with Iron Boots

Banned

• “Crazy Dance” or other variants in Spirit Temple
  • This is the crossing of the interior statue in Spirit Temple by child Link to reach the adult side of the temple.
• Crossing the Gerudo Bridge without Longshot, Epona, or Requiem of Spirit
  • NB: unless settings make it otherwise necessary, such as Entrance Randomizer
• Child in Gerudo Fortress
  • NB: unless settings make it otherwise necessary, such as Entrance Randomizer
• Opening Shadow Temple without Din's Fire
  • NB: There is a trick that puts this in logic. If that trick is enabled, this is allowed.
• Culling cyclindrical hitboxes in order to circumvent their collision
  • EG: Hookshoting/Longshoting through boulders, shooting arrows through culled red ice, etc.
• Pause buffering to prevent timers from ending minigames
• Damage boosting
• Ground Jump while in mid-air (as with Hover Boots)
• Infinite Sword Glitch
• All forms of Superslide
• Hoverboosting
  • Equipping hover boots on a specific frame of an instance of damage in order to conserve momentum and avoid friction
• Recoil Boosting
  • Equipping hover boots on a specific frame of an instance of recoil in order to conserve momentum and avoid friction
• Megajumping
• Megafliping
• Megasidehoping
• Weirdshoting
• Hookshot Jump
• Extended Antigravity
• Low Gravity Glitch
• Seamwalking
• Being Out of Bounds
  • Defined as: any area which is beyond the boundary walls of the map such as an outer seam, or any area which is exposed to the lowest void plane in the map
• Touching misplaced or accidentally exposed loading zones
  • EG: early Jabu, Trials Skip, Market shops at night
• Passing through collision from the front
  • IE: all forms of clipping
• Cutscene diving to sink into water
  • NB: This includes with Navi and Cuccos
• Using restricted items
  • EG: Farore’s Wind in the overworld, or Ocarina in boss rooms
• Item Manipulation
  • This is an umbrella term covering the glitches Bottle Adventure (BA), Reverse Bottle Adventure (RBA), and Get Item Manipulation (GIM)
• Equip Swap
• Action Swap
  • NB: This includes using the explosion limit to Ground Jump
• Ocarina Items
• Bottle Duplication
• Gold Skulltula Token/Heart Piece Duplication
• Collection delay
  • EG: early Eyeball Frog or Gold Scale.
  • NB: Delay happens naturally in many shops if you buy quickly, this is ok
• Something except for a Sword on B
  • NB: This excludes normal circumstances like riding Epona or playing minigames
• Down A, Return A, and Blank A
• Causing a switch to remain pressed longer than it should
• Wrong Warp
• Void Warp
• Entrance Point Glitch
• Actor Glitch
• Bongo Bongo quick kill
• Bombing (0,0,0) to kill unloaded actors
• Unloading actors which should clearly be loaded
  • EG: King Zora’s ice, graves in the graveyard, Gold Gauntlet monoliths
• Being in unloaded areas
• Dying to achieve anything other than a deathwarp or health refill (
  • EG: Jabu “Slimy Thing” skip
• Walking while talking
• Z-Slide
• A-Slide
• SRM (Stale Reference Manipulation)
• Retaining the Master Sword in Phase 1 of the Ganon Fight
• Platform exclusive tricks