So, You don't want to be a bear? Tiger is also not suited for You and balanced is too lame? Welcome to my little school of turtle! This simple guide should help You achieve "Win under 100 days" title as well as pleasure of watching your opponents slowly losing faith and strength!

All You need to do, is to accept all the green orbs in your life. All You need to promise, is to never go another orb color to go higher than your green. Either You are perfect or not me.


I want to give special thanks to:

- Binh Vo @EmptyBlade from Youtube, as their skill order was very close to my own and worked even better than the one I came up
- FugitiveUnknown for "Right from Day one Tutorial"
- BoredZero for Triple SSS guide.
- Everybody else who made Turtle and Bear guides (Sorry Tigers...)

1. Wake up
2. Answer the phone, tell Frank to go to hell with his calls and proceed.
3. Pushup, eat a soda, be reasonable sim and check newspaper.
4. Don't use cash on travel to your job..

The moment You step oustide pallet town, You will encounter a random Bobo, no pokeball this time, so prepare to be smashed.
The game will randomly select a few skills for You and this is where everything begins.
Bobo Fight allow You to check what pre-skills You get, what You need is Dodge + Any Attack, but Kick is most ideal.

5. Dodge is mandatory, Any attack will do (Kick for best results)
6. You Died. Restart if no Dodge.
7. Strong Arms is the best trait. (Only Tigers don't pick it really)
8. Spend your entire cash on frozen pizzas.
9. Visit Mick and eat. (Hunger Bar is below 50% and cash is under 10$)

You can use Mick to eat 2 more times.

10. Enter gym and politely decline Silver offer. (Doesn't matter much, saves some HP)
11. Eat 2-3 pizzas, go to Apu shop and learn about Casey Pizzaplex. (2 Pizzas not always unlock this)
12. Unlock your primary job. You will never want to use construction site. Pizza is love and life. (Especially that it unlocks a sidestory with extra skill points to gain).

Construction site will give You 20$ more per bar, but You lose time or cash on going around town and is less flexible for a quick buck. Stamina and Strenght points are too rare to be of any benefit. Later on, You can unlock yet another job that beats those two, even if temporarly.

13. Work, sleep and eat frozen pizzas. You need around 75% energy bar and 100% to fully utilize gym. Never allow your character to finish sleeping. Click to wake up before You oversleep or lose time.
14. Use only gym. 10$ might look like a lot, but gains are too great in comparison to everything else.

For example, You need 150$ for a Speedbag, which is the best training tool for agility, but it equals to 15 visits on gym! And You need to switch between gym machines to fully utilize everything. So even if You buy next one like Treadmill for $200, You spend already cash worth of 35 gym visits! Let's not mention, that You need to train somewhere, before You can afford that and there's also $150 possible robber trigger. You don't want that.

As for food, Apu shop provides 4 things:
Meat, Soda, Energy Drink and Fronen Pizza.
Meat is 20$ and regenerate 10 health, 1 happiness and 40 food.
Soda is 6$ and regenerate 1 happiness and 9 food. It means 3 happiness and 27 food with 2$ leftover.
Frozen pizza is $9 and regenerate 10 health, 1 happiness and 17 food. For 18$ is regenerate 20 health, 2 happiness and 34 food. With 2$ leftover, we get almost double of meat and Soda doesn't compare at all.
Meat can be used occassionally, but frozen pizza are also your main source of HP regeneration other than bed. More efficient on top of that.


Finishing words. You want to earn 60$-90$ per Casidy job, use it 15$-20$ spend on Silver training/sparring. $10 to enter gym and rest is food and travel. Here's also second time You should use Mick to eat. Most people prefer 3rd as well, but I leave the 3rd one to a possible f-up, as alternative of eating trash burger is bad and Roy is far from being unlocked.

Starting where previous section ended, You want to ideally earn 60$-90$ per Casidy run, from which, You need to spend 25$ to 30$ on gym alone (Silver + Entry), which might easly be increased to 40$-45$ (Silver on Entry, Gym time, Silver on exit). Your fridge can hold up to 7 pizzas, which is 63$, which gives us... 108$ in total! Not counting traveling expenses, which is no more than 1-3$ per use.

You want to know where to get the rest of the cash? Easy. Win the gym leaderboard fights and hangar fights. It means even more pressure on winning those or else, You will have to cut corners somewhere on time or on skill points or training points. You don't want that, do You?

My travel rules are simple: If I have money to spare, I won't pay more than 3$ to travel. If it's 4$ or more, it's better to use time instead, to be efficient. You want to be more efficient? Use teleporting to your advantage! If You recall some events, You know where they will teleport You to and gym fight / hangar fight always teleport You to them, which means free travel, no cost or time spend! It's great way to save some spare. Never wait for final day to run out and be teleported to gym. Losing abilities on day change is terrible thing.

7 pizzas in fridge = 2-3 before sleep. 4-5 After sleep, if there's extra leftover one, use it for work later.
Finally, it's time for the training routine. Our most important stat is STAmina. AGIlity is next, STRength is last. STR and AGI will swap later on, while STA will be irrelevant. Best training routine is right side gym:
1. Treadmill - STA (also our main source of STA)
2. Skipping Rope - AGI + STA
3. Squats - STR + STA
Train on a machine until You see a "half" orb, then switch to another. Each loop will be shorter unless You add 4th machine to routine.
After 2 loops of Treadmill -> Skipping Rope -> Squats, if You still have energy, either use Tire or Speed Bag for little in between loop. Especially when You have LOVE buff.


Stat checkpoints are:
2-1-3 (At least 2-1-2 to win handpad training for 15$)
2-2-5
2-3-9
2-3-11
3-3-13

At this point, You need to have skill Meat Runner III purchased and You stop training STA for the rest of the run. If You manage to get 11-12 points in STA with sufficient skill points, consider purchasing STA potion, if You lost somewhere and Silver told You about the doc.

Here You will switch instead to use a routine of Bench Press -> Dip Station -> Speed Bag with Squats as 4th extra after 2nd loop. If You used Dip Station as last, start next session from Bench Press and vice versa. Speed Bag is a must.

5-4-13
7-5-13
10-7-13
12-9-13

Here, in both my test runs I had time to push stats little further more, mostly due to few lost fights.

Last checkpoint should be done BEFORE or EXACTLY AT Russia / Prison, but bear in mind that Russia have poor AGI training. After coming back to town, You will not train anymore or just enough to save a full stat point. Use basement gym in that case.
Your only objective will be to fight for progress and cash, Throw party for fame and play in a movie / beat other gang families for fame and cash. More on it later.
10-6-13 is the lowest You should be in order to win last 2 fights with comfort.
There's an extra checkpoint of 13-10-15, but it matters only for Suit / Fame endurance fights, where You want to win all 6 for biggest gains.

Time to revail the path to glory. Those are the skills You will use and unlock in order to become the greatest turtle of them all!


Skill purchase order:
Kick ---> Tactics Learner ---> High Punch -> Meat Runner ---> Skip Attacks ---> Backhand Punch --->Good Sneakers ---> Way of the Turtle

Combat set:
Dodge + Starting Attack ---> Dodge + Kick ---> Dodge + High Punch
Here starts the "worst" part for all. Juggling skills. From now on, if You get below 65 stamina on round end, You will want to swap Dodge for "Skip Attack". Why 65? To not risk getting knocked out during combat. Swap is A MUST if You're below 50 stamina. Between 65 to 50 is your gamble to make. So:

Paw Punch ---> Energizer ---> Iron Curtain ---> Backbreaker ---> Shining Knight ---> Huckle Bone Blow ---> Stamina Focus

Dodge/Skip Attack + High Punch ---> Dodge/Skip Attack + Paw Punch
After unlocking Stamina Focus, we will have to juggle another skill. Skip Attack for Energizer, same principle as before.
Dodge + Energizer/Skip Attack + Paw Punch

Meat Runner III ---> Spear ---> Infinite Energy
Here comes the best part, no more juggling. Time to switch to Dodge + Iron Curtain + Spear and enjoy our first fruits of our training.

Brawler ---> Fine Block ---> Headbutt ---> Hard Block ---> Bear Hug ---> Anger Train
With at least stats of 3-3-13 it is time to replace Dodge and our final build will be:
Brawler + Iron Curtain + Spear and it will last for rest of the game.

With stat of 10-6-13, the only opponent You could lose to would be 6th endurance fighter/ninja/pirate/whatever, nothing else.

Strength of 2 is important, because if 1, it is possible to DRAW or LOSE the first handpad training. Happened twice during testing. You don't want to raise it to 3 for long, because energy drain during combat will help to shot You down. The more STR, more energy attacking skill takes. It does matter. Also it increases the number of times You need to juggle your skill.

If You miss managed somewhere and are out of food - with my guide, You have still one more try with Mick to get back into game. If You still failed, there's a spoiled burger in front of bar in trashcan. If You again messed up, re-burger yourself or go for Roy if unlocked. You really want to avoid the trash-burger.

Story fork doesn't matter here. Most of the time, You will finish faster Path of a Fighter and hangar fights will be only a nice cash and skillpoint bonus overtime. Getting rid of injury might kick You out of loop, but this way You can unlock china town.

Street fights are the easiest one to score and provide a nice bonus of skillpoints. You need to do them, in order to unlock Trevor brother quest, that grants You 5 energy restoration potions and Bobo fight. Bobo in return, if You work for him, allows You to earn 100$ every 3rd time several times. Best is: his job doesn't take your time. At best it costs only traveling expanses on map. Very important for getting rid of muggers (and disabling Bobo's quest story.)

Training with Roy vs Sparing?
Sparing is better, gives You skill points, which is more important, but if he's still alive when You unlock what You need, use him for training.
To convince Roy to spar/train with You:
"Fix" his engine until he says something like "great that you are helping me" and then drink beer, until he says something like "decent beer huh?". Most of the time, after second text bubble, he will spar / train. If You failed somewhere, he will say something like "great but i need to fix my car" or "you need some balance, sit and drink".
Consider if spending more or less half day on Roy is worth it.

Adrian will follow You no matter what happens or how much You neglect her. Just be ready to spend money on LOVE buff.

Crocodiles are also a neat bonus skill points, but fighting first one around 2-2-5 stat, You will not fight another one till 2-3-9 or such and 3 skill slots unlocked. I used them more as a backup skill point when I needed.

Dark First events will throw You off from your routine, unskippable case usages. Unless... You lose a fight on purpouse to stop them in one place.

In Russia/Prison, there's not much to say. Go straight into fight, use all machines once, sleep, eat, repeat until all fights are done. Sleeping here is more important for health regeneration.

After coming back and unlocking mansion / gang hideout, I usually go for potion if Doc is unlocked or I overtrained and complete 6 endurance fight for highest skill point / cash / fame gain. You need to win only once 6 times, to keep You rolling in throwing parties, fighting in a movie up to 4th guy and fighting in gang/boxing fame matches until You manage to fight the number one.

Potions might save some of your time if You messed up on the way up, but there's also a possibility of debuff. So, consider.

If You did everything alright and didn't fail much, You will finish in 55-70 days. There's a lot of room for error.

Thanks for reading my guide and I hope it got You thru. You can complete most of the achievements this way, minus hardcore and revenge on Bobo questline.

Technically You can squish Bobo questline in this, but You will leave yourself a very small space for error if You're aiming for under 100 days, as Bobo questline alone takes 12-15 days at least, it demands You to be under 17 STA+STR+AGI summed together and carry from 150-250$ on You while traveling, on top of that, You cannot finish 5th street fight as it will disable the quest as well.

Hardcore runs are too much RNG and can't say it's reliable to use this guide for that. My test run ended on 104 day, because I didn't abuse exit on loss, made some errors and game was very unfair. For example: I beat "Mecha" Don twice without an effort, then after reloading save, lost to him very hard on same day and same stats. There were couple of more fights like that.

There are obviously better and more optimized run strategies, heck even my own has some space for it, but wanted to share my "notes" anyway, because, why not? There's a potential to end in ~50 days if done without errors, so good enough for me. There's also some space for experimenting, as I finished my 2nd test run with 70 skill points unused and few more than mentioned unlocked.

Enjoy! :)