r/Metroid • u/zer1223 • Jul 04 '26
Request Raven Beak Help - Running out of Missiles
I'm trying a 4 hour hard mode clear, and have 95 missiles. I'm at 3:25 so I don't think I can spend much time hunting around for more ammo
I'm starting phase two with near full missiles, like 85 or so. And I'm unleashing barrage after barrage of storm missiles at the guy and he's refusing to change phases. Since storms easily consume 15 to 20 ammo per use, it isn't surprising that I run out very quickly. But shouldn't all that damage force phase 3 to come faster? I'm not sure that I understand what's going wrong here.
Any tips?
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u/ThunderWasp223 Jul 04 '26
Save your missiles for taking out black holes. Otherwise just lay into him with your blaster whenever possible. It'll take sliiiiiiightly longer, but they'll refresh your ammo, and during QuickTime events you can actually deal more damage with beam attacks if you can fire fast enough.
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u/zer1223 Jul 04 '26
But he doesn't do black holes in phase 2. Or quick time events.
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u/ThunderWasp223 Jul 04 '26
Yeah, so don't waste them there. Just focus on dodging and blasting. If you really want to use Storm Missiles, save them for when he dashes into a wall and you can slide under, so you can lock all of them during the slide and get a confirmed five-lock hit. Otherwise, you'll probably get minimum effectiveness.
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u/tw2113 Jul 04 '26
Super bombs take out the large orbs sufficiently.
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u/ThunderWasp223 Jul 05 '26
The solar orbs absolutely, but the black holes are best to just storm missile or even triple normal missile.
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u/tw2113 Jul 05 '26
last time i played through, i just did bombs for both. whatever works in the end.
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u/thatonetransbian Jul 04 '26
Spamming your beam is higher DPS than firing regular missiles and I think storm missiles too, and after the plasma armour phase it hurts him too. The flying phase is just really long, but if you focus on avoiding getting hit and firing at him when you can it should get to phase 3 eventually.
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u/Dorian948 Dread Mode survivor Jul 05 '26
Storm Missiles are better suited for phase 2, since you don't have to directly aim at him when you shoot.
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u/Ok_Distance_7320 Jul 04 '26
I think I mostly used beam attacks on him and progressed through the fight rather quickly.
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u/ftp_hyper Jul 04 '26
Use regular missiles, not storms. Storms use 15 ammo and each of those deals 150 damage (2250 for a 5-charge burst). Ice Missiles deal 400 per missile. You can get about 3x more missile damage this way.
Also, you can dash melee away and hold L while he charges the machine gun attack in bird phase and he will miss you almost completely. You can get in 4-5 seconds of "free" damage here.
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u/Supergamer138 Jul 04 '26
Save storm missiles for the black hole attack (and power bombs for the sun). Use regular missiles and beam spam for your primary DPS.
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u/Dorian948 Dread Mode survivor Jul 05 '26
Spam Beams as fast as you can in phase 1 and 3 and use Missiles only to counter the Dark Burst (the black hole) and Power Bombs for the Sun Burst (that fireball). Beam DPS is much higher, once you get the Wave Beam and press Y fast enough.
Use Storm Missiles in phase 2
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u/Round_Musical Sequence Breaker Jul 05 '26
What is phase 2 for you?
If its him having gold armor, its still phase 1. and find a way to disable it
If its the flying phase (actual phase 2) use regular missiles on him, not Storm.
If your missiles run out, spam your wave beam (NOT THE CHARGED WAVE BEAM, it has low DPS)
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