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Bring a Mella on-camera while moonwalking, to set it up to move upward at the maximum rate (about 4 pixels per swoop). Guide it to a horizontal position inside the left wall below the Power Bomb blocks. When it is high enough, freeze it as it retreats from a near-vertical swoop. Get into position on the ledge below the Power Bomb blocks and wait for the Mella to thaw. Freeze the it inside the wall as it continues its retreat upward, by jumping and firing a downward shot. Run into the wall to clip into it. Crouch and destroy the Mella by shooting up (by holding angle up and angle down) Then X-Ray climb above the Power Bomb blocks.

Requires:

{
  "notable": "Mella Wall Ice Clip X-Ray Climb"
}
"canManipulateMellas"
"canWallIceClip"
"canXRayClimb"

It can help to moonwalk towards a Mella that has never been on screen, so that it starts swooping immediately as it first enters the screen. This will make it so that when Samus is below it, it will always swoop and go up slightly compared to the previous swoop. Once it is close to the right height, move away so it stops swooping, freeze it and quickly try the clip, if it doesn't work, quickly leave and try again.

Entrance condition:

{
  "comeInWithGMode": {
    "mode": "indirect",
    "morphed": false
  },
  "comesThroughToilet": "any"
}

Requires:

"canManipulateMellas"
{
  "or": [
    "h_canPreciseIceClip",
    "h_canHighPixelIceClip"
  ]
}
{
  "or": [
    "Morph",
    "canInsaneJump",
    {
      "enemyDamage": {
        "enemy": "Mella",
        "type": "contact",
        "hits": 1
      }
    }
  ]
}

Exit condition:

{
  "leaveWithGMode": {
    "morphed": false
  }
}

Bypasses door shell: true

Dev note: This is only for indirect G-Mode, because it is trivial while in direct, and would use a different strat.

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Freeze a Mella at a precise distance below the door in order to crouch-jump up and clip through the door shell. The pixel window is larger and higher with Morph and an X-Ray stand-up, in which case a standing jump is used. It can help to moonwalk towards a Mella that has never been on screen, so that it starts swooping immediately as it first enters the screen. This will make it so that when Samus is below it, it will always swoop and go up slightly compared to the previous swoop. Once it is close to the right height, move away so it stops swooping, freeze it and quickly try the clip, if it doesn't work, quickly leave and try again.

Requires:

"canManipulateMellas"
"h_canIceClip"
{
  "or": [
    "Morph",
    "canInsaneJump",
    {
      "enemyDamage": {
        "enemy": "Mella",
        "type": "contact",
        "hits": 1
      }
    }
  ]
}

Bypasses door shell: true

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Lure a Mella from the right by breaking the speed blocks or using Morph. Then you need to manipulate it to go high enough to be used as a stepping stone once frozen.

Requires:

"canTrickyUseFrozenEnemies"
"canManipulateMellas"
{
  "or": [
    "canTrickyDodgeEnemies",
    {
      "enemyDamage": {
        "enemy": "Mella",
        "type": "contact",
        "hits": 2
      }
    }
  ]
}
{
  "or": [
    {
      "obstaclesCleared": [
        "B"
      ]
    },
    "Morph"
  ]
}

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Lure a Mella from the right by breaking the speed blocks or using Morph. Then manipulate it to go high enough to be used in the left doorway. Raise the Mella up to just below the door's ledge and then climb up to the door. Reposition the Mella once towards the door, and before it finishes moving, stand in the doorframe so that the next Mella movement will hit Samus. If it drops below the camera it will be necessary to go back down and raise it again.

Requires:

"canManipulateMellas"
"canCameraManip"
"canBePatient"
"canTrickyJump"
{
  "or": [
    "SpaceJump",
    "canTrickyUseFrozenEnemies",
    {
      "and": [
        "HiJump",
        "canSpringBallJumpMidAir"
      ]
    },
    {
      "and": [
        "HiJump",
        "SpeedBooster",
        "canWalljump"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
{
  "or": [
    "canTrickyDodgeEnemies",
    {
      "enemyDamage": {
        "enemy": "Mella",
        "type": "contact",
        "hits": 2
      }
    }
  ]
}
{
  "or": [
    {
      "obstaclesCleared": [
        "B"
      ]
    },
    "Morph"
  ]
}

Exit condition:

{
  "leaveWithGModeSetup": {}
}

Unlocks doors:

{"types":["ammo"],"requires":[]}

Lure a Mella from the right by breaking the speed blocks or using Morph. Then manipulate it to go high enough to be used as a stepping stone once frozen. Without movement items it may be necessary to continue manipulating it from above, jumping and aiming down to freeze it.

Requires:

"canTrickyUseFrozenEnemies"
"canManipulateMellas"
{
  "or": [
    {
      "and": [
        "canBePatient",
        "canWalljump"
      ]
    },
    "canBeVeryPatient"
  ]
}
{
  "or": [
    "canTrickyDodgeEnemies",
    {
      "enemyDamage": {
        "enemy": "Mella",
        "type": "contact",
        "hits": 2
      }
    }
  ]
}
{
  "or": [
    {
      "obstaclesCleared": [
        "B"
      ]
    },
    "Morph"
  ]
}

Lure a Mella from the right by breaking the speed blocks or using Morph. Then you need to manipulate it to go high enough to be used as a stepping stone once frozen.

Requires:

"canManipulateMellas"
"canTrickyUseFrozenEnemies"
"HiJump"
{
  "or": [
    "canTrickyDodgeEnemies",
    {
      "enemyDamage": {
        "enemy": "Mella",
        "type": "contact",
        "hits": 2
      }
    }
  ]
}
{
  "or": [
    {
      "obstaclesCleared": [
        "B"
      ]
    },
    "Morph"
  ]
}

Freeze the Mella at a precise location in order to jump through the crumble block, then wall jump up the long channel and mid-air morph to get out. One normalized way to do this: Kill the first two Mellas, moonwalk to the right until the third Mella just barely goes off-camera, fire a shot, and move left to scroll the Mella back on-camera just before the shot would despawn, in order to freeze it at a specific height. While it is frozen, kill the remaining Mellas, and press against the wall of Speed blocks. Perform an action that changes Samus' pose (e.g., press an angle button, jump, or crouch/uncrouch) in order to be able to moonwalk from that position. Moonwalk backwards 5 pixels, then jump straight up, and continue holding jump while pressing right, to perform a buffered turn-around spin jump to the right. If executed correctly, the Mella will move horizontally left and will be at a good height to be able to freeze and clip through the crumble block with a crouch jump. Get on top of the Mella with a mid-air morph, position under the crumble block, then unmorph for the crouch jump. Quickly spin-jump to re-enter the shaft after breaking the crumble block. Tip: if Samus moonwalks back further than 5 pixels, press against the Speed blocks again before trying to moonwalk back again, to avoid possibly getting bad subpixels.

Requires:

{
  "notable": "Mella Ice Clip"
}
"Morph"
"canMoonwalk"
"canManipulateMellas"
"h_canPreciseIceClip"
{
  "or": [
    "canConsecutiveWalljump",
    {
      "and": [
        "HiJump",
        "canWalljump"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Dev note: The manipulation can also work with moonwalking back between 6 and 10 pixels, but depending on the exact position the bug may move at a shallow angle rather than exactly horizontally; in this case, the bug should be frozen a bit early (i.e. further right), to ensure it does not re-enter its idle animation where its height would become unpredictable. FIXME: Investigate if there is a normalized setup for freezing in the high-pixel position. FIXME: A freestyle version (or alternative normalized setup?) of the strat could be added, to avoid the canMoonwalk requirement, using X-Ray or a very precise freeze to get up.

It can help to moonwalk towards a Mella that has never been on screen, so that it starts swooping immediately as it first enters the screen. This will make it so that when Samus is below it, it will always swoop and go up slightly compared to the previous swoop. Once it is close to the right height, move away so it stops swooping, freeze it and quickly try the clip, if it doesn't work, quickly leave and try again.

Requires:

"canEnterGMode"
"canManipulateMellas"
{
  "or": [
    "h_canPreciseIceClip",
    "h_canHighPixelIceClip"
  ]
}
{
  "or": [
    "Morph",
    "canInsaneJump",
    {
      "enemyDamage": {
        "enemy": "Mella",
        "type": "contact",
        "hits": 1
      }
    }
  ]
}

Exit condition:

{
  "leaveWithGMode": {
    "morphed": false
  }
}

Bypasses door shell: true

Requires:

"canBeVeryPatient"
"canManipulateMellas"

Exit condition:

{
  "leaveWithGModeSetup": {}
}

Dev note: FIXME Add details on how this works and check if it actually requires canBeVeryPatient.