Help on AWS
8 years ago
United States

I am have major problems with the Aws and acid worm skip.I can do it once in a blue moon but I want to be consistent at the aws trick. I watched dragonfangs video about it but I still cant do it at all. I try to practice it over and over but im unable to do it at all when im trying to speedrun the game.

Missouri, USA

There is a few alternatives you can try I think the videos will speak for themselves

, this is the one i use except i dont pause buffer it,

These are the two most viable. I ran into the same issue and didn't think about an alternative until JRP mentioned a pause buffered strat during a race, but yeah here are two alternate strats that accomplish the same thing the second video is the easiest way to get AWS in my opinion

United States

When i also have problems with getting out of morphball and trying to grab the ledge to the next block. I dont know if the ledge grab is like a few frames to grab it.

United Kingdom

If you have problems with grabbing the ledges, you are most likely pressing up too early. You can't unmorph until there is an entire block of space above samus. I don't know what the exact frame window is but once you figure out the timing it's very consistent.

Unfortunately AWS itself is a lot less consistent. The most popular method is the four-bomb one seen in some of the top any% videos. Really the best advice I can give is keep practicing!

So I've been messing around with AWS lately and I discovered that you can essentially glide over the boxes where you normally have to power grip by mashing jump with boost ball. I haven't been able to find a consistant way of doing it yet, but was wondering if the comunity knew about it.

I've noticed that the faster I mash, the more consistant it is though.

United Kingdom

That's a known strat for TAS zz9p, it is faster than power gripping if you can do it without pausing to set up the springball. It seems too hard to do both quickly and consistently, but feel free to prove me wrong!