Early Ice Beam

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A well known sequence break to obtain Ice Beam without collecting spider ball or wave beam.

It consists of wallcrawling from Gathering Hall to Reflecting Pool Access.

Any%

Used to avoid traveling through Crossway and enables skipping the Chozo Ghosts fight in Hall of the Elders.

100%

Used to obtain Ice Beam before fighting Flaahgra.

Performed immediately after collecting morph ball bombs.

Enabling exiting Research Core via the ice door after thermal visor and immediately collecting plasma beam.

Low%

While not currently used in RTA low% runs it does save time when executed optimally in a no-space-jump setting.

Used in the current low% TAS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYRCdEJdK_o