14% xChargeless
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14% xChargeless is one of the fourteen in-bounds 14% categories that are currently humanly possible. A total of 14 items are picked up during the entire run and focuses on using the X-Ray Scope and Power Bombs for level progression.
Current runs of this category use L+R Walljumping to breach the water pre-colosseum. This is not required: A spark may be generated in Below Botwoon Energy Tank using R-mode which can be converted to a blue suit and carried through the Botwoon hallways to spark up this room instead.
Prerequisites
To finish this run, you need to know how to:
- Mockball
- Shinespark
- Infinite bomb jump
- Continuous walljump and/or horizontal bomb jump over the moat
- R-Mode pre-botwoon clip
- Navigate Maridia without Gravity Suit, Hi-Jump Boots, or Ice Beam
- Lava dive without Gravity Suit or Hi-Jump Boots (G-Mode entry of Lower Norfair can be done instead)
- X-Ray climb
- Elevator Crystal Flash
- Draygon ammo underflow
Collected Items
- Morphing Ball
- Bombs
- X-Ray Scope (to escape Draygon's entry chamber and to clip pre-Botwoon)
- Varia Suit (to survive MB2's rainbow beam)
- 1 Energy Tanks (Various - 1E2R or 2E1R) (to survive MB2's rainbow beam)
- 2 Reserve Tank (to survive MB2's rainbow beam)
- 2 Missile Packs (Awakening and Moat) (to open red doors, Crystal Flash, and defeat MB1)
- 2 Super Missile Packs (Early and Wrecked Ship (Left)) (to open green doors, Crystal Flash, and defeat MB1)
- 3 Power Bomb Packs (Red Brinstar Elevator (Lower), Red Brinstar Elevator (Upper), Landing Site) (to open orange doors and Crystal Flash)