Super Metroid VARIA Randomizer, Solver and Trackers

Super Metroid VARIA Presets

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Techniques known:	36	Skill score:	191
Last updated:	N/A

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Hard rooms

X-Ray:
Gauntlet:

Hard rooms energy requirements

X-Ray

Item	Suit	easy	medium	hard	very hard	hardcore	mania
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Gauntlet

Item	Suit	easy	medium	hard	very hard	hardcore	mania
	Suitless \|
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Hellruns

Ice:
Main Upper Norfair:
Lower Norfair:

Hellruns energy requirements

Ice

easy	medium	hard	very hard	hardcore	mania

Upper Norfair

easy	medium	hard	very hard	hardcore	mania

Lower Norfair

Item		easy	medium	hard	very hard	hardcore	mania
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Bosses

Kraid:
Draygon:
Ridley:
Phantoon:
Mother Brain:

Basics

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Wall Jump		all	Kick-jump from wall: wall to wall, single wall climb
	Shinespark		all	With Speed Booster, press down to activate Shinespark. Then launch it in every possible direction, from ground or mid-air
	Mid-air Morph		all	Activate Morph Ball while jumping straight up (keep jump pressed) to reach high places in Morph Ball form without bomb jumping
	Crouch Jump		all	Jump higher by crouching before jumping
	Unequip items		all	Unequip Gravity suit to have more time to morph after jumping or unequip Hi-Jump Boots to limit jump height	Main Street, Spring Ball Room, West Ocean, Botwoon Energy Tank Room, Wrecked Ship Energy Tank Room

Used across the game

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Mockball		all	Morph from running without loosing momentum to get Early Super and Ice Beam	Early Supers Room, Ice Beam Gate Room
	Simple Short Charge		all	Activate SpeedBooster faster than normal by delaying run button input	Parlor and Alcatraz, Waterway Energy Tank Room, Landing Site, Crateria Keyhunter Room, Blue Brinstar Energy Tank Room, Crateria Super Room, Main Street, Golden Torizo's Room
	Infinite Bomb-Jump		all	To access certain locations without Hi-Jump or Space-Jump	Blue Brinstar Energy Tank Room, Bubble Mountain, Screw Attack Room, Mama Turtle Room, Plasma Room, Draygon's Room, Landing Site, Crocomire Escape, Post Crocomire Farming Room, Post Crocomire Jump Room, Warehouse Entrance, The Worst Room In The Game, Mt. Everest, The Moat, Red Brinstar Fireflea Room, Crab Hole, Cathedral Entrance, Red Tower, The Precious Room
	Green Gate Glitch		all	Open gates from other side to access Screw Attack and Crocomire	Green Hill Zone, Grapple Tutorial Room 3, Fast Ripper Room, Upper Norfair Farming Room, Crab Tunnel, Double Chamber
	Gravity-Jump		all	Super Hi-Jumps in water/lava using game's bug	Draygon's Room, The Moat, Lava Dive Room, Crab Hole, Mt. Everest, The Precious Room
	Get around Wall-Jump		all	Tricky Wall-Jumps where you have to get around the platform you want to Wall-Jump on using Hi-Jump boots	The Worst Room In The Game, Bubble Mountain, Plasma Room
	SpringBall-Jump		all	Do a SpringBall Jump from a jump to Access to Wrecked Ship Etank without anything else, Suitless Maridia navigation	Sponge Bath, East Ocean, Main Street, Crab Shaft, Pseudo Plasma Spark Room, Mama Turtle Room, The Precious Room, Spring Ball Room, East Sand Hole, Cathedral Entrance, Crocomire Escape, Post Crocomire Jump Room, Red Brinstar Fireflea Room, Lower Norfair Fireflea Room
	SpringBall-Jump from wall		all	Do a SpringBall jump after a Wall jump to exit Screw Attack area, climb Worst Room without Hi-Jump	Screw Attack Room, The Worst Room In The Game, Bubble Mountain, Mama Turtle Room, Plasma Room, Cathedral Entrance
	Tight Short Charge		all	Activate SpeedBooster really fast (3 taps or stutter 3)	Red Tower, Landing Site, Gauntlet Energy Tank Room, Plasma Room, Post Crocomire Jump Room, Crocomire Escape, Wasteland, Kraid Room

Crateria

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Alcatraz Escape		all	Escape from Bomb area using its entrance tunnel	Parlor and Alcatraz
	Hi-Jump Gauntlet Access		all	Access Gauntlet area using tricky Wall-Jumps	Landing Site
	Gauntlet Access w/o Hi-Jump		all	Access Gauntlet area using really tricky Wall-Jumps	Landing Site
	Gauntlet Minors Access		all	Access Gauntlet minors with SpeedBooster, 1 Etank and 1 Power Bomb pack	Landing Site, Gauntlet Entrance, Gauntlet Energy Tank Room
	Old Mother Brain with Speed		all	Access Old Mother Brain Missile pack location with just the Speed Booster	Climb, Pit Room

Brinstar

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Ceiling Damage Boost		all	Hit an enemy at the right time to get the item in Blue Brinstar Ceiling	Blue Brinstar Energy Tank Room
	Billy Mays access without Gravity or Space Jump		all	Jump through the door to get on the invisible platform	Blue Brinstar Boulder Room
	Early Kraid		all	Access Kraid area by Wall-Jumping	Warehouse Entrance
	Backdoor to Spore Spawn item		all	Break the Spore Spawn exit super block from Big Pink to access the item	Big Pink
	Reverse Gate Glitch		vanilla	Open wave gate in Pink Brinstar from bottom left corner with Hi-Jump	Pink Brinstar Hopper Room
	Reverse Gate Glitch w/o Hi-Jump		vanilla	Open wave gate in Pink Brinstar from bottom left corner without Hi-Jump	Pink Brinstar Hopper Room
	Mirrored Wave Gate Glitch		mirror	Open wave gate in Pink Brinstar by doing a GGG out of a wall jump	Pink Brinstar Hopper Room
	Red Tower Climb		all	Climb Red Tower without Ice Beam	Red Tower
	X-Ray Damage Boost		all	Get to X-Ray location without Space-Jump, Grapple (no energy requirements), Ice+Hi-Jump or Bombs (see Hard Room settings)	Red Brinstar Fireflea Room
	X-Ray Ice Climb		all	Get to X-Ray location with Ice beam and no Hi-Jump (see Hard Room settings for energy requirements)	Red Brinstar Fireflea Room
	Clip into the Tube with Morph		all	Clip through the Maridia tube with unmorphing and wiggling. Mostly useful in area rando.	Glass Tunnel
	Tube exit Gravity jump		all	Exit through the already broken tube with no items by gravity jumping from an adjacent room. Adjust direction just as you enter the tube room. Mostly useful in area rando.	Glass Tunnel
	Bomb-less Ron Popeil Missiles		all	Access the most behind missile in Green Brinstar Reserve with Morph and Screw Attack	Brinstar Reserve Tank Room
	Moondance		all	Access Etecoons area using moonfall shenanigans	Green Brinstar Main Shaft

Access

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Continuous Wall-Jump		all	Get over the Moat using CWJ	The Moat
	Diagonal Bomb-Jump		all	Get over The Moat using Bomb-Jumps	The Moat
	Mockball Wrecked Ship		all	Get over the moat using Mockball and Spring Ball	The Moat

Sponge Bath

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	SpongeBath Hi-Jump		all	Get through sponge bath room with Hi-Jump and Wall-Jumps	Sponge Bath
	SpongeBath Speed		all	Get through sponge bath room with Speed Booster and Wall-Jumps	Sponge Bath
	SpongeBath Bomb-Jump		all	Get through Sponge Bath room with Bomb-Jumps	Sponge Bath

Underwater movement without Gravity Suit

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Level 1		all	Make your way underwater with Hi-Jump, and Ice for freezing crabs and fishes or Spring Ball for spring ball jumps. Access Botwoon with grapple.	Main Street, Mt. Everest, Crab Shaft, Pseudo Plasma Spark Room, Aqueduct, Botwoon Hallway, Botwoon's Room, Botwoon Energy Tank Room, Crab Hole, Crab Tunnel, East Ocean
	Level 2		all	Level 1 + access Draygon's lair and do the Draygon fight (exiting Draygon are separate techniques)	Halfie Climb Room, Colosseum, The Precious Room, Draygon's Room, East Cactus Alley Room, West Cactus Alley Room
	Level 3		all	Level 2 and : no problem getting out of sand suitless, traverse mini-draygons area, wall jumps to access items in the left sand pit, access missile location in the right sand pit.	West Sand Hole, East Sand Hole, West Sand Hall, East Sand Hall

Clips

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Mochtroid Clip		all	Get to Botwoon with Ice Beam	Botwoon Hallway
	Puyo Clip		all	Get to Spring Ball with Gravity Suit and Ice Beam	Pants Room
	Puyo Clip with X-Ray		all	Get to Spring Ball with Gravity Suit, Ice Beam and X-Ray	Pants Room
	Snail Clip		all	Access Aqueduct Missile and Super Missile without SpeedBooster	Aqueduct
	Crystal Flash Clip		all	Use a Crystal Flash to clip through crumble blocks to get to Botwoon or Shaktool, using Gravity and Bombs	Botwoon Hallway, East Pants Room

Plasma Room

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Kill Plasma Pirates with Charge		all	Use pseudo-screw to kill the pirates in Plasma Beam room	Plasma Room
	Kill Plasma Pirates with Spark		all	Use shinesparks to kill the pirates in Plasma Beam room	Plasma Room

Jumps

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Mama Turtle E-Tank with High-Jump+Speed		all	Access Mama Turtle E-Tank with High-Jump and Speed Booster (and Morph or X-Ray to turn around without moving)	Mama Turtle Room
	Various Maridia wall jumps		all	Kinda tricky wall jumps to: access items in West Sand Hole without Spring Ball or Bombs, exit Spring Ball area without Hi Jump, exit Crab Hole with Gravity+Hi-Jump	West Sand Hole, Spring Ball Room, Crab Hole
	Mount Everest Gravity Jump		all	Access Mount Everest top door by doing a crouch+gravity jump in the last couple frames possible	Mt. Everest
	Access Watering Hole with Gravity and Morph		all	Wait for the Owtch to go under the sand, then do a quick run and jump into morph in the hole	Northwest Maridia Bug Room
	West Sand Hole Items with Morph		all	Once at the top of West Sand Hole, collect items without Spring Ball or Bombs/Power Bombs by performing some wiggling (turn-around cancel with angle) and tricky Alcatraz-like wall jumps. Note: in Mirrortroid flavor, the wiggling to access the Reserve location is not possible, thus will not be required.	West Sand Hole
	Mama Turtle Wall Jump Bomb Boost		all	Access Mama Turtle E-Tank by accurately placing a bomb or Power Bomb in mid-air following a wall jump, then using that bomb explosion to propel Samus forward. There is a timing component where the bomb is placed while rising then hit while falling, and a momentum component for maximizing horizontal distance.	Mama Turtle Room

Spring Ball Access

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Access Spring Ball location with Hi-Jump		all	With Gravity and Hi-Jump, jump to get through the grapple hole	Pants Room
	Access Spring Ball location with bomb jumps and spring ball		all	With Gravity, bounce on the sand and bomb jump up to get through the grapple hole	Pants Room
	Access Spring Ball location with bomb jumps only		all	With Gravity, bomb jump up from the sand to get through the grapple hole	Pants Room
	Access Spring Ball location with a spring ball jump		all	With Gravity, use a spring ball jump, either from the sand or a ledge to get through the grapple hole	Pants Room
	Access Spring Ball location with a Gravity jump		all	Do a tricky gravity jump from the sand and get through the grapple hole	Pants Room
	Access Spring Ball location with X-Ray climbing		all	Use inbounds X-Ray climbing to get past the grapple hole. Can be required suitless if suitless movement level 3 is enabled.	Pants Room
	Access Spring Ball location suitless with a flatley jump and Space Jump		all	Do a suitless flatley jump to get through the grapple hole, and get out of the water with Space Jump	Pants Room

Suitless Draygon Exit

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Exit Draygon room with the Grapple		all	Use Grapple to bounce them morph and demorph up to the platform	Draygon's Room
	Exit Draygon room or precious room with a shine spark		all	Doing a Crystal flash and being grabbed by Draygon gives a free shine spark	Draygon's Room
	Exit the Precious room with an Xray glitch		all	Use an XrayScope glitch to climb out of the Precious room	The Precious Room
	Exit the Precious room with a Gravity Jump		all	Jump through the exit door into the water in the next room to climb up with a Gravity Jump	The Precious Room, Colosseum

Obscure suitless stuff

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	West Sand Hole suitless Wall Jumps		all	Access items in West Sand Hole (aka Left Sand Pit) with just Hi-Jump	West Sand Hole
	Double SpringBall-Jump		all	With Hi-Jump boots do two SpringBall-Jumps in a row	Mt. Everest, Draygon's Room, Halfie Climb Room
	Mt. Everest without anything		all	Make your way through Mt. Everest with nothing but Ice and Hi-Jump	Mt. Everest
	Botwoon to Draygon with Ice		all	When past Botwoon, access Draygon using Hi-Jump and Ice only	Halfie Climb Room, Colosseum
	Suitless Crystal Flash Clip		all	Use a Crystal Flash to clip through crumble blocks to get to Botwoon or Shaktool	Botwoon Hallway, East Pants Room
	Cacatac Alley Underwater Wall Jump		all	Traverse East Cactus Alley Room left to right suitless, using space jump and an underwater wall jump	East Cactus Alley Room
	East Sand Hall Spring Ball jump		all	Cross East Sand Hall left to right with Hi-Jump and Spring Ball. On the left side of the raised platform, jump for max height. Lateral Midair Morph for horizontal momentum, and perform the springball jump the moment before touching the sandfall. Pause again to disable springball as soon as possible.	East Sand Hall
	West Sand Hall Insane Bomb Jump		all	Time a bomb to hit Samus when she is morphed, 1 pixel into the sand, inside a sandfall, and moving horizontally. There is a setup using a sand IBJ to get the right timing, and another setup using a very fast jump morph.	West Sand Hall
	Suitless Puyo Clip		all	Do the Puyo clip with Hi Jump and without Gravity	Pants Room
	Suitless Spring Ball item access with R-Jump		all	Use X-Ray to force a stand, clip into the ground slightly, hold Angle Up or Down before jumping, jump, release Angle Up/Down (can be done the frame before jump is pressed), and then Morph. Inputs can be buffered with a pause.	Spring Ball Room
	Escape Spring Ball item suitless with Space Jump		all	Mid-air morph after escaping water line with Space Jump. Look for the water being between the metal and green tiles.	Spring Ball Room

Main Upper Norfair

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Wall Jump to exit Cathedral		all	Use a delayed wall jump to exit Cathedral	Cathedral Entrance
	Frog speedway without speed		all	Traverse frog speedway from right to left, without Speed Booster, but with Wave and either Spazer or Plasma	Frog Speedway
	Ice Escape		all	Freeze the platforms and exit Ice Beam area without bombs	Ice Beam Acid Room
	Ice Escape without Ice		all	Ice escape without freezing the platforms	Ice Beam Acid Room
	Nova Boost		all	Use a D-Boost on the Sova to enter Cathedral	Cathedral Entrance

Bubble Mountain

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Bubble Mountain wall jump		all	Run from the save room and get up Bubble Mountain without Hi-Jump	Bubble Mountain
	Norfair Reserve Damage Boost		all	Use a D-Boost to reach Norfair Reserve area	Bubble Mountain
	Double Chamber wall jump		all	Climb up Double Chamber (pre-Wave Beam room) after entering through the bottom door	Double Chamber

Crocomire

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Crocomire Power Bombs with Ice Beam		all	Get the farm bugs up and freeze them to reach Crocomire Power Bombs	Post Crocomire Farming Room
	Crocomire Power Bombs Damage Boost		all	Use a D-Boost to reach Crocomire Power Bombs	Post Crocomire Farming Room
	Missile under Ice beam from Crocomire		all	Access missile pack under Ice beam location by reverse sparking Crocomire speedway	Crocomire Speedway

Access

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Lava Dive		all	Enter Lower Norfair with Varia and Hi-Jump	Lava Dive Room
	Hi-Jump less Lava Dive		all	Enter Lower Norfair with just the Varia suit	Lava Dive Room

Screw Attack

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Screw Attack Exit		all	Gain momentum with Hi-Jump and Speed Booster from Golden Torizo Energy Recharge room, then Wall Jump in Screw Attack room, destroying the ceiling with Screw Attack.	Screw Attack Room
	Screw Attack Exit without Screw		all	Destroy the ceiling, then jump from inside the door with Hi-Jump and Speed Booster to climb up in Screw Attack room	Screw Attack Room

Worst Room In The Game

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Worst Room Ice and Charge		all	Go through Worst Room In The Game JUST by freezing pirates	The Worst Room In The Game
	Worst Room insane wall jump		all	Do the frame+pixel perfect wall jump to get out Worst Room without Hi-Jump	The Worst Room In The Game

Other

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Firefleas Wall Jump		all	Get back up from bottom of firefleas without movement items or Ice Beam	Lower Norfair Fireflea Room
	Dodge Lower Norfair Enemies		all	Go through hard-hitting enemies in Lower Norfair without taking damage or killing them	Three Musketeers' Room, Wasteland, Red Kihunter Shaft, The Worst Room In The Game

Bosses

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Draygon Grapple Kill		all	Instant kill on Draygon with electric grapple	Draygon's Room
	Draygon Spark Kill		all	Kill Draygon using Speed Booster and shinesparks	Draygon's Room
	Microwave Draygon		all	Charge/Plasma/X-Ray glitch on Draygon	Draygon's Room
	Microwave Phantoon		all	Same as Draygon, with a few missiles to start	Phantoon's Room

Mini-Bosses

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Low Ammo Crocomire fight		all	Use drops to fight Crocomire with no charge and just 10 missiles, or 5 missiles/5 supers. With the technique disabled and no charge beam, VARIA requires 5000 damage worth of ammo.	Crocomire's Room
	Low Ammo/Health Botwoon fight		all	Fight Botwoon with no charge and just 3500 damage worth of ammo (Botwoon has 3000 HP). With the technique disabled, VARIA requires 6000 damage worth of ammo (if no charge beam) and 4 tanks of energy (with no suits).	Botwoon's Room
	Low Ammo/Health Golden Torizo		all	Fight GT with either charge beam or 5 supers and nothing else. Otherwise require either 30 supers or Charge+Plasma and 4 tanks of energy (with Varia).	Golden Torizo's Room

End Game

	Technique	Difficulty	Flavors	Description	Used in rooms
	Ice Zeb Skip		all	Skip the Zebetites with Ice beam	Mother Brain Room
	Speed Zeb Skip		all	Skip the Zebetites with a shinespark	Mother Brain Room

Snes Controller

Moonwalk