thought i'd start a thread for big 20 advice here for anyone who doesn't have discord, but if you do have discord you should join our server and get advice there. here's an earth tutorial i made a long time ago for JSR when he ran godzilla for his AVGN Trials. i think it could be helpful for people to get started, but it's a little outdated. i'll list a few "updates" below. it looks like the big 20 rules require the enemy monsters to be killed, so you'll want to use old school godzilla strategy, not the newer mothra strategy which skips the fights.
-you don't have to kill mothra first. but it's good to do it early so you don't have to move the "cursor" farther on the map.
-you can hit both of moguera's hitboxes at once with a tail slap if you hop a little while slapping.this doesn't wok with gezora because she has only one hitbox.
-in the "brain tree" screen, you can jump up high to make the metroids fly high then you can duck under them. this is faster than using a breath weapon to avoid knockbacks because the breath weapon causes lag.
-kicking slows you down a little bit on side scrolling screen, so you should probably do it less than i did it in this video. but i wouldn't go so far as to tell you to never kick. it can still be handy.
added a variable to the individual planets leaderboard to specific which monster was used. since the big20 rules require you to kill the enemy kaiju, you'll want to use godzilla, but the top strats use mothra, but skips fights. this way you can compare your runs against godzilla runs only.
