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Anyone else play Sprint?

I've won Sonja, Menkaure, 10 Runes, and Fedhas using HEWz of Veh and Line using TrFi of Qaz. I'm working on Zig and Pits now. Anyone have any advice, suggestions, tips they want to share for those or any other Sprint map?

zig: chei is auto-win, qazlal probably is too, jiyva is also fun for constant full heals and 500 messages after every action
pits: no-one plays this
line: dumb and not worth it
meat: easiest win is probably to scum Ds for nightstalker and start as Wr for the scroll; there are rings of see invisible on the edges of the map

Qazlal works well for both of those maps.

A fun Pit sprint strategy you can try is worshipping fedhas, setting up a field of oklobs in the middle of the map, and luring things over there.

pitsprint it the best sprint!

anyway, ezmode is FoFi^Qaz/Chei

Same combo is good for linesprint as well, which is easy until you get to the extented portion

Zigsprint I've won using shield of the gong, GDA, and evocables, with makhleb. It is an extremely fun playstyle. Linesprint makhleb melee is good, I found linesprint to be entertaining personally (though I will warn you, the orb run in linesprint is incredibly painfully tedious).

Also, if you want to see what people have done, it is possible to query sequell about sprint games and look at logs like you would for regular games, it is just a little fiddly about map names. I think the best way to do it is to use mapdesc rather than just map, so something like '!lg * sprint mapdesc=~Ziggurat' gets the last zigsprint game, '!hs * sprint mapdesc=~Ziggurat -log' gets the highest-scoring zigsprint log (which is this game by rast, no idea if that's doable any more with nemelex changes). Etc.

Edit: also, `!lg * won sprint mapdesc=~Ziggurat s=char,god ?: n>20`

gets you:


Which seems pretty consistent with what people have said so far. Note that Op is so viable in zigsprint specifically because of super easy access to rings. Wouldn't have guessed dith, though.

ohhh never thought to play Op in sprint

they're kinda squishy but dem rings

So his experience goes where?

Thanks for the tips. Qaz gets me far in Zig (20-24), but I'm not seeing Chei so much. But then again, I hate Chei, so maybe I'm not using him right. What's the approach here?


This is pure gold.

i hate chei too but all you have to do to win zigsprint with chei is get 5* then spam slouch every level

Zig sprint is the easies of them all. Choose a high invo apt race like Ds or HO (HO is probably slightly easier), worship Qazlal, get really good defenses, and max invo first, and nuke everything with disaster area. The woship Qaz/max invo strat works well enough that I was able to beat zig sprint as FeMo.

What happens in zigsprint 25-27 that makes Qaz stop working for you?