Talk:Genocide Route/@comment-7221318-20151009103120

This and the Genocide Route mentioned on the Neutral Route page are conflicting. They should not have the same name as they are clearly different. Near Genocide makes sense, but this should be confused with a No Mercy Route, because those are clearly different.

I can and have used mercy to get bosses to drop their guard and still maintained my Genocide run. In fact, that's how I started my initial run by sparing Toriel until she let down her guard, then taking her out in one blow. She laughed and said I was no different, or something to that effect and my character still started counting the number of monsters left.

So clearly, "no mercy" is an incorrect description. I've also accidentally spared a couple of enemies, but so long as I continued to hunt them down it did not seem to effect my Genocide run.