The 10 Best Metroid Weapons And Power Ups

From rockets and missiles to speed boosts and morph balls, Samus has some of the coolest tech in gaming. For this list, we’ll be examining the most powerful, useful, and iconic offensive and utility upgrades and features used by Samus Aran in the “Metroid” Franchise. Our list includes the Grapple Beam, Plasma Beam, Space Jump, Varia Suit, Screw Attack and more! If there’s an upgrade that our list could be upgraded by including, please tell us in the comments!

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[twotailedavenger]

I was honestly expecting to see the Ice Beam on this list, as it's Samus' main weapon against the series' titular enemy.

[gustavonunez]

My top 10 per category (some aren't complete yet)

Beams:
- Ice
- Charge
- Plasma
- Wave
- Wide
- Spazer
+ Phazon
+ Light
+ Dark
+ Annihilator

Missiles:
- Normal Missiles
- Super Missiles
- Ice Missiles
- Diffusion Missiles

Misc.
- Jump abilities (Hi Jump Boots, Space Jump Boots...)
- Morphing Ball abilities (Jump Ball, Bomb, Spider Ball...)
- Suits (Varia, Gravity...)
- Screw Atrack
- Speed Booster
- Grapple Beam
- X-Ray Scope
+ Visors (X-Ray, Infrared...)

[BlitzBlacktail]

The annihilator beam is such a metal name for a weapon. Its also very underrated even in its own game. The ammo is just a mask, the thing almost never runs out of ammo in regular mobbing around.

[crimsonshadow]

an honorable mention: all the beams from Metroid Prime Hunters (specifically when utilized in multiplayer)

the Volt Driver can home in on enemies and when used by Kanden it causes an EMP blast that distorts the enemy's view for a brif second

The Battlehammer causes splash damage and is useful for pushing enemies off platforms due to it's high knockback

The imerialist is a railgun style beam that when paired with Trace can allow the user to gain active camouflage when standing still and has a high chance of landing a critical hit

The Judicator allows the user to fire three bolts at once in a spread and when used by Noxus can freeze enemies for a short amount of time

The magmaul is essentially just a grenade launcher that deals splash damage, however when used by Spire it can inflict fire damage for a short period of time

and last but certainly not least, the shock coil. a beam that fires a continuous stream of electricity that when paired with Sylux can leach energy from an enemy to refill the player's own energy

[gadrielvanorion]

I have a better list
No actual order yet cuz I'm on my phone, so just 10

1- Gravity suit cuz it opens everything
And I will be more specific
The difference from I can go to warm areas vs I can move freely in water and lava is just a different kind of difference.
2- Super missiles / their combo attacks with beams from super or prime games
3- wave beam, it goes through walls
4- speed booster cuz gotta go fast, this is where men become boys
5- scan visor prime series
6- spiderball cuz it's low-key a cool idea
7- power bombs cuz fuck yes, a nuke
8- screw attack, cuz screw anything alive
9- ball boost of the prime games, cuz having a booster in morphball is genius and I wish we had this in 2d, this is no shinespark, it's almost better
10- flash shift, or what it's called, from dread. This ability has to become standard from now till ever in every Metroid game.
It's just THAT good

[JoseMartinez-sduo]

I don’t care if prime 4 didn’t come out yet Metroid dread already made me happy enough

[chrispork]

3:06
Correction: Metroid: Other M is the only 3D Metroid game to feature the Speed Booster. The Metroid Prime series only has the Boost Ball as a substitute.

[jimboswamps]

This game is going to rock my world!!!!

[jasondavidstapleton]

after all these years i didn't know prime was a girl

[BenjaminDenverstone]

My favorite "power up" from the Metroid games is the Space Jump. Having the ability to jump unlimited is the best.

[snapclub]

Aww, the ice beam didn’t make it onto the list. 😞

[OledOwner]

I've never played any metroid game on the switch/lite or 2ds I'll try to play the ones on the switch/lite online membership also can't wait to get dread and superstars once i have some eshop cards

[ytwav.]

That 2nd part of the video is Metro Fusion not Zero Mission

[Markmanthree]

Light suit, because riding light waves is awesome

[ndflatt]

How does the grapple beam end up on the same list as the space jump? Once you get the space jump you’ll never use the grapple beam again.

[x-celsius]

I love power bombs. The weapon is literally just a portable nuclear warhead, and in games like super and fusion you get like 50 or something (i think its 50 in super and 72 in fusion??? why??)


Also when i first played metroid prime, i literally nicknamed the plasma beam "the overkill beam", and for good reason too.

[yokailoi]

Grapple beam is actually useless in super. You can shinespark or wall jump everything. Dread also does not have much use except areas that leave you stuck by a block. Shouldn't be on the list.

[RevanSecura]

first of all you forgot to mention that in the Metroid Prime games the Space Jump isn't as god-tier as the 2D games it's reduced to a simple double jump powerup. and here's my honorable mention
the Gravity Suit- it's just as famous as the Varia Suit but it goes one step further by allowing you to walk underwater uninhibited.

[kylemeyer]

I don't know why dreads power bomb and omega cannon didn't make it. They are way cooler than missiles and varia suit