Without that heavy suit, Zero Suit Samus becomes one of the lighter characters in the game - she now has some of the best jumps in the game and increased ground speed as well. Her recovery is good, aided by the height of her jumps and her ability to grab the edge with her Plasma Whip.

Basically. A lot of Samus mains can also tell you that the character in general is also just confusingly designed with a kit that doesn't work. Well ZSS has a much better punish game and kill setups. She also has more pressure and much crazier punishs and combos leading to punish kills with her down throw.

In Metroid: Other M, the Zero Suit is capable of materializing the Power Suit from within itself. She is 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) and 90 kilograms (200 lb) while wearing the Power Suit. The Super Metroid Nintendo's Player's Guide describes Samus as 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall and weighs 198 pounds (90 kg) without her Power Suit.

In Metroid: Volume 1, Samus is 3 years old during the K-2L attack and 14 years old when she leaves Zebes and joins the Galactic Federation Police; the final chapters of Metroid: Volume 2 leading into her Zero Mission are set an unspecified "few years later" and therefore could take place during her late teens or early ...