Rotation Commentary Notes

ROTATION COMMENTARY NOTES
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Route:

Early game --> "down" red tower straight to high jump --> Phantoon (collect pb's along the way) --> Draygon (will farm to full in 'below botwoon etank room') --> Ridley (collect ice/wave along the way) --> Kraid --> Tourian.

Detailed Route:

1. Morph Ball
2. Missile
3. Etank (Blue Brinstar)
4. Missile #2 (Blue Brinstar)
5. Bombs
BOMB TORIZO
6. Etank #2 (Terminator)
7. Super Missiles
8. Missile #3 (Charge Missile)
9. Charge Beam
10. Etank #3 (High Jump)
11. High Jump
12. Missile #4 (High Jump)
13. Power Bombs
14. Missile #5 (Moat)
PHANTOON
15. Super Missile #2 (Wrecked Ship)
16. Gravity Suit
17. Super Missile #3 (Aqueduct)
18. Etank #4 (Botwoon)
DRAYGON (I will farm to full or almost full before Draygon. Usually takes 5-10 seconds but makes for a very fast and low-risk Draygon fight)
19. Space Jump (ideally want 6 supers after cac alley, 5 is acceptable, 4 means I have to missile the wave beam door)
20. Plasma Beam
21. Ice Beam
22. Wave Beam (Skip Wave Missiles) (need at least 2 supers + 4 pb's + approx 1.5 etanks worth of health to get through ln)
23. Etank #5 (Fireflea)
RIDLEY
24. Etank #6 (Ridley)
KRAID (Skip Varia Suit)
25. Etank #7 (Kraid)
MOTHER BRAIN

Total: 25%
Boss Order: PDRK

Additional Notes:

1. 7 etanks. Skipping 2 would probably lose time due to having to collect varia / no standup / having to adjust strats to save health particularly in ln.

2. Kraid is last because don't collect wave + ice until second norfair visit, these save time in Kraid's lair. It also allows me to refill supers from mini kraid for tourian. KQK uses lag reduction on spikes --> charge icewaveplasma and 1 missile. Kraids body is background layer 2, this is why his body is shown on entrance. The rest of his body / arm etc are sprites. The shots cannot go past the scroll in the room hence why I don't hero shot the door and have to space jump above it.

3. Don't collect ice straight after hj because a) ice creates a lot of lag b) 1 shot kill enemies rather than 2 c) it's really not useful except for tourian + damage to ridley/mb. There's a few late-game time saves using ice to avoid falling down but very few mid-game.

4. Collect hj before Phantoon because Wrecked Ship escape without hj is stupid. (underwater walljumping / infinite bomb jumping required + dangerous attic). It also gives me hj etank for ws as a bonus.

5. Route now involves a lot of door transition fixes. Sometimes I'm jumping to opposite sides of the door and this can seem inoptimal. This is also why I do a little wiggle above certain doors on the floor. I'm turning around to avoid a transition.

My 43:28 PB is the exact route / strats i'll be using. Any queries message me.