Dark Samus 3 & 4
Dark Samus 3 & 4 Strategy
By Solr_Flare
Contributors: Solr_Flare, a multitude of others
Dark Samus 3:
Weapon of Choice: Annihilator
1) To get from DS3 to DS4, you must first take off 1/4 of DS's life bar.
2) The ideal weapon to use is Annihilator as it does significant damage. But if you are out of one or both ammo types, any other beam/charged beam will work. Annihilator regular shots can drop her to 75% health in about 10 seconds though.
3) Be sure not to attempt to damage her when she has a glowing "blue shield" around her, as you will not be able to hit her. Easiest is when she is stealthed and only visable via the echo visor.
Added by Prime Hunter
Also, when Dark Samus goes into the floating mode where she fires the phazon-like beam at you, I found that you can pretty much stand under her and not get hit by this: Easier to do than trying to dogde it in my opinion
Dark Samus 4
Weapon of Choice: Charged Power Beam, Super Missiles
1) DS has two different phases in this form: "Bubble mode" and "Not in Bubble mode"
2) Bubble Mode consists of 2 different attacks
- giant blue/white homing phazon particles that she randomly shoots
- small blue/white snowflakes that she shoots out of the top of the bubble towards you whenever her bubble expands
3) When she is in bubble mode, there is one wall in the room that does not have phazon against it. Back yourself up against the wall to give yourself room.
4) Begin charging your power beam while she is in bubble mode. Use dash jumps to the left and right to easily dodge the large phazon particles she shoots at you.
5) When she unleashes the "snowflakes" in bubble mode, you must suck 3 in like a vaccuum with your charging power beam.
6) Once you have 3 snowflakes sucked in, your charge will glow blue and sparkle. Quickly shoot that at Dark Samus to damage her lifebar.
7) Eventually her bubble will shrink and she will float to the ground. The instant she begins to stand up from her crouch, fire a Super missile at close range. This will instantly force her back into bubble mode.
8) Should you miss with the super missile when she lands, damage from any beam(annihilator prefered) can force her back into bubble mode again.
Now repeat this until you finally beat her. It takes approximately 5 to 6 snowflake powered charge beams in bubble mode to finish her on normal difficulty.
Added by Prime Hunter
When she is in the "bubble" mode, I also noticed that if you move inward towards her when she fires the large phazon particles (You need to be pretty close to her for this to work), you can easily avoid them. Just be sure to move back off a bit after it hits. This is so that when she expands the bubble for the "snowflakes", the expansion doesn't collide with you.
And one minor note here: When she fires the snowflakes out at you, be sure to manually aim at them instead of continuing to lock onto Dark Samus: Trust me on this one...
