Flashy Boots has no real downsides, despite it being a cursed item.

[Sédrio]

Flashy Boots

Allows you to triple dash but lowers your overall movement speed.

Basically, you can triple dash at lightning fast speeds but your running speed is cut in half, or just about. There are no downsides in picking these boots, if anything it can really clutch during boss battles where they throw a lot of stuff at you. Just hold A in one direction, or zig-zag around to dodge them, and BAM, you avoided everything and you can launch your counter-attack with relative ease. You can avoid every single attacks with this due to how small the time between dodges is. You can dodge three times in 1 second with this relic-- insane. This relic is actually the reason why I managed to beat the final boss so easily, his attacks are fast but Flashy Boots can deal with them easily.

This relic is less effective against regular enemies, particularly wizards and groups of warriors since you can't dodge through attacks so their homing purple flames ruins you if you're not careful and spearman are a real butt, but bosses don't stand a chance with this relic since their attacks can only hit you if you're not paying attention just a little bit.

So please, tune down this overpowered relic by keeping the triple dodge but make it so it's slightly faster than a regular dodge, or make it so running is slowed to a crawl. THEN it would be balanced and fair since you'd be going for dodges as you main movement.

[matthew.2401]

The Silver Spinning Top is my favorite cursed relic. Hardly OP, but I pick it up immediately when I find it. Moving slow is a pain, but it's just so useful.

[VoidInsanity]

Everytime I see one of theese topics I can't help but facepalm. Being able to dodge 3x in a row is one of the weakest cursed item effects the game has when several of the other ones allow you to walk into a boss at the start of a fight and kill them within seconds. My record for Master Sura atm is 36 Seconds because of how much better the other relics are.

The actual OP items in the game enable you to not even worry about dodging, Flash boots is not one of them.

[Sédrio]

Originally posted by VoidInsanity:

Everytime I see one of theese topics I can't help but facepalm. Being able to dodge 3x in a row is one of the weakest cursed item effects the game has when several of the other ones allow you to walk into a boss at the start of a fight and kill them within seconds. My record for Master Sura atm is 36 Seconds because of how much better the other relics are.

The actual OP items in the game enable you to not even worry about dodging, Flash boots is not one of them.

And the item that increases your dodging skill tremendously enable you to not worry about having the tippity-top best loadout; you simply have to dodge, easily I might add, and deal damage at your own pace. Both your loadout and this relic are overpowered in different ways. Dealing high damage is the best way to beat a run, I get that, but Flashy Boots makes boss fights that much easier to deal with and to learn their abilities. It's really easy to dodge Ice Queen's Tier 3 Snowflake barrages or Master Sutra's void grab when you can dodge everything in a second.

And my main point of this thread was to say how Flashy Boots has no downsides at all. Moving fast without any downsides is amazing but overpowered, but at least it is very fun to play with.

also triple dodge makes you as fast as Master Sutra's dodges and it's like an anime fight and that's amazing

[VoidInsanity]

Originally posted by Bean Boi:

And the item that increases your dodging skill tremendously enable you to not worry about having the tippity-top best loadout;

If I find one of 3 cursed items I can walk into bosses with my starting loadout and they die before they get an attack off, this includes master Sura. That kinda stuff is OP, Flashy boots is not even close.

[jep]

I get what the OP was saying. They're just saying they don't fit the thematic of the "cursed" relics very well. Even if it isn't really actually as badass as other relics, it's doesn't really have much of a "curse" to it.

[Sédrio]

Originally posted by VoidInsanity:

If I find one of 3 cursed items I can walk into bosses with my starting loadout and they die before they get an attack off, this includes master Sura. That kinda stuff is OP, Flashy boots is not even close.

Right, you're repeating yourself now. I didn't say Flashy Boots is the best item in the game, nor did I say it was the most overpowered item ever. I didn't diminish any other overpowered items at all. You're making me repeat myself, but oh well, I am merely saying that Flashy Boots is overpowered in terms of movement -- you can avoid every single attack without breaking a sweat, even with the slow running speed which does not matter in terms of downsides.

Flashy Boots changes your playstyle into a dodging frenzy, and a damn good one at that. Sure, getting relics that kills bosses insanely fast is the better option but if you did not find those yet you got the Flashy Boots, at least you can compete with the same effectiveness with those insane dodges.

[VoidInsanity]

Originally posted by Bean Boi:

I am merely saying that Flashy Boots is overpowered in terms of movement -- you can avoid every single attack without breaking a sweat, even with the slow running speed which does not matter in terms of downsides.

Which is the whole point of the item and not Overpowered at all and it does matter since you can attack while moving, you can't attack while dodging.

[Compliant]

I don't know, I think they're a fun game changer without being an instant win. I wouldn't say it's stronger than other relics by too big a margin. They make me fall into holes or make mistakes when I shouldn't have...but...I actually agree that their downside isn't downsidey enough. I don't think it's a big deal, though...I'm more bothered by the cursed items with downsides that are too large.

[Horrow]

Originally posted by jep:

I get what the OP was saying. They're just saying they don't fit the thematic of the "cursed" relics very well. Even if it isn't really actually as badass as other relics, it's doesn't really have much of a "curse" to it.

Its probably because what you're getting out of it (Triple dash) is honestly not that strong. In fact, I personally don't even find it strong. Is triple dash 'good'? I guess, lol.

If I had to rank this relic, it would be somewhere down in the bottom. Getting damage and cooldowns is so much better than triple dash.

[jep]

"The Frogurt is also cursed."

[Sédrio]

Originally posted by Horrow:

Its probably because what you're getting out of it (Triple dash) is honestly not that strong. In fact, I personally don't even find it strong. Is triple dash 'good'? I guess, lol.

If I had to rank this relic, it would be somewhere down in the bottom. Getting damage and cooldowns is so much better than triple dash.

Flashy Boots is probably the most fun I've had in this game so far, and that includes me destroying Master Sura's first form quite easily. Moving around with this relic is incredibly fun. I'm sure there are better relic, haven't gotten around to that point yet, but moving fast has always been a plus in most games, specifically Metroidvanias and Mobas.

And during Master Sura's second form, he dodges quite fast as well so you can match his speed and it feels like a heated anime battle and I find that awesome.