
To avoid this attack, Samus grapples into the Queen's mouth, down her esophagus, and into the Queen's membrane. As the Queen struggles to get back up, Samus must damage her sufficiently before the Metroid repositions herself and begins to charge an extremely powerful variant of her fire breath. This causes the Metroid to land on her side, leaving her membrane and nucleus exposed to Samus' penetrating Plasma Beam. Once the crystals are destroyed, a cutscene will play, where the ship's propulsion system activates and throws both Samus and the Queen Metroid against the floor of the BOTTLE SHIP. The crystals on her neck can only be damaged by Plasma Beam and the Super Missiles (while they can be targeted by the Seeker Missile, the extra missiles will merely bounce off harmlessly, due to being normal missiles).

This fire breath also ignores SenseMove's invulnerability. She will also periodically breathe fire at the bounty huntress, lowering her energy to critical levels if touched. As the Queen gets more damaged, her speed lunge speed increases, often not giving enough time for Samus to leap out of the way.Īfter all six Metroid larvae are defeated, the Queen grows five bright purple crystals on her neck and begins charging at Samus. Otherwise, they are near impossible to dodge if Samus did not obtain the High Jump Boots in Phase 3. The Queen will also periodically launch a three-ball blast by spitting fireballs from her mouth that track Samus, though they can be destroyed with Missiles or with a Screw Attack. When the Queen opens her mouth during a long-necked attack, she can be briefly stunned in place with a Missile, leaving her open for more attacks. Upon Samus' arrival, the Queen will immediately roar and attack with her huge mandibles, which can be dodged simply by a well-timed jump.

Samus takes the opportunity to shoot directly at the Queen's unprotected membrane, seemingly hitting its nuclei, and quickly enters the creature's body through its throat before laying a Power Bomb to obliterate her. She then uses Concentration and prepares to fire at the charging Queen, before the ship's emergency brakes throw them onto the ground. Samus remembers the tragic deaths of Adam and Anthony and refuses to give up. However, she seems nearly impossible to defeat as she grows a second set of crystalline armor.

At first it seems that they just replenish 25HP to gaist, but in reality it also makes his fire-based attacks much more deadly.ĭuring the battle, the Queen deploys six Metroid larvae and later grows spiked crystalline plating on her head. Your confrontation with the sole living guardian besides Garr can be made simpler by getting rid of the two torches on either side of ryu.
