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Spoilers ahoy

So, emperor ing.  Seems like a long fight....well, here is how you make it end really really fast.

Form 1: Marlboro look-a-like

1) Morph.  Then wait for the tentacles to spin around close to you.  Time it just right and drop a powerbomb.  You instantly kill 80% to all the tentacles in one shot.  Use missiles or charged light for the rest.  The tentacles must be close for the p-bomb to hit.  So you have to time it just right.

2) Charge up lightbeam as the core begins to expose itself.  Using very good timing, drop a Sunburst(charged light beam combo) into the core.  You instantly knock 1/3 its health off.  Now follow up with some charged light and you get its health below 50%.

3) Repeat steps 1 and 2 one more time and form 1 dies(ie in 2 cores).

Form 2: Cocoon

1) Use remaining p-bombs and morph ball bombs to quickly take this one out.  Its cake.

Form 3: Ing-Prime

1) Keep your distance and use annihilator regular shots when its mouth is open.  They will seek into its mouth exceedingly well(1 or 2 in 10 shots will miss) and do a great deal of damage to this form.

2) When low on ammo(you'll run out of light first) use charged dark beams to the mouth to make it spew out ammo all over the place.  Collect the ammo then repeat.

Form 3 goes down in about 150 to 200 annihilator shots...which fire very fast.

Dark  Samus 3: Ugly phase

Use annihilator yet again to rapidly drop its health to 75%.

Dark Samus 4: Super Powered Ugly

In this phase, when it is flying around, use annihilator to force it into "DBZ" mode.  Then, switch to power beam.  Keep the power beam charged and constantly circle DS4. 

When DS's phazon bubble expands, it will unleash little phazon snowflakes.  Collect 3 with your charge beam, then nail DS.  Repeat as necessary.

Tada, two very fast boss fights.  If you get th etiming down just right, it might be possible to beat Emperor Ing faster than Dark Samus(ie in about 5 minutes).
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What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.
I'm gonna have to keep these in mind...  Are they useful for hard mode?
Crap, Solr. o_O

I tried those methods and only had a bit of trouble with the first phase due to my non-1337-ness at setting PBombs just right, but the rest of that strat works like a charm.

-Tim
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I'm gonna have to keep these in mind...  Are they useful for hard mode?


Havn't tried hard mode yet, so I can't say if the pbombs will work especially well for the first part, and you obviously will do less damage.  But they should still apply.
According to Millzy a perfectly timed super missile can force
dark samus 4 instantly back into bubble mode.  So, if that works out right, it would be even faster.  So potentially the fastest way for DS would be:

Annihilator till it goes into bubble mode the first time
Charge beam for the snowflakes
Then super missile to make it go into bubble mode again.
On the emperor ing (first form) I find it easier to just shoot the tenticles with the lgiht beam (uncharged) because all it takes is one shot to destroy one. waiting for them all to spin around might take up valuable time, and even then you mgiht not land the power-bomb right. Not that its a bad idea, but it could be hard for people who are still new to the game.
Emperor Ing has handed my ass to me about three times now (Hard Mode). :(

-Tim
when emperor ing is in his cocoon form i think that the only way to puncture those hole things is when the tentacles are out. i'm pretty sure you have to time it so when you see those bubbles coming out of the holes you lay a couple of bombs.

and yes, when DS4 gets out of her bubble stage, and you hit her with a super missile, she gets back into the middle and gets back into the bubble. every time (if it connects).
Update to the strat

Courtasy of Sparky:

You can kill the core in Form 1 in one round using super missiles.  This works on Hard mode as well(you need 4 for hard).

So current strat is:

Form 1 - PB the tentacles > super missile the core to kill form 1 in a few short seconds

Form 2 - Pbomb/bomb to take it out

Form 3 - regular annihilator it to death.

The advantage in normal, is so long as you have 2 or 3 ammo expansions, you can get to form 3 with full light/dark ammo.  Giving you enough to kill it with annihilator without needing refills.

For hard, however, form 3 is the challenge.  It apparantly takes double the ammo, so you'll still need refills.

But, for normal any% speed runs, it may be optimal to pick up an expansion or 2 on the route so you can get an optimal speed emperor kill

Edit:

Also for the final phase of the dark samus fight, there is a wall with no phazon on it.  When Samus goes into "bubble" mode, just back up against that wall and face her.  Just do single dashes left and right to avoid the damaging big snowflakes, and at that distance you can easily collect the phazon snowflakes to shoot her every time.  Plus you don't have to worry about backing up into the Phazon.
Quote from Tim:
Emperor Ing has handed my ass to me about three times now (Hard Mode). :(

-Tim


Yeah, does anyone else think that the Emperor is VERY VERY difficult on Hard mode? (Mind you, I only have 7 energy tanks...)

I did find out that the Annihilator is a must on Hard when facing the first part of him (At least fo me): I can't get very far without using it on the "Eye" (However, that stupid laser thing he has during that segment has gotten me TOO many times... )

Basically, I feel that he's VERY cheap and VERY annoying. Right about now, I'd go for a low% Metroid Prime battle anyday...