List of Tech by Difficulty

Basic

Wall jumps

• shinesparks
• simple uses of frozen enemies
• shinespark chaining
• gate glitching (with beams)
• navigating heated rooms without Varia (but only with plenty of extra energy)

Medium

1-tap shortcharge

• infinite bomb jumps
• sequences of 3 or more wall jumps
• underwater movement tech such as crouch jumps
• down grabs
• Gravity jumps.

Hard: Stutter 2-tap

• mockballs
• damage boosts
• gate glitching (with missiles)
• cross-room jumps from air to water rooms
• trickier climbing on enemies
• mid-air Spring Ball jumps (2 consecutive or less)
• ice clips assisted by Morph.

Very Hard

Stutter 3-tap

• complex shinespark setups
• stutter water shortcharges
• speedballs
• temporary blue suit
• Spring Ball jumps off of walls
• Flatley jumps
• grapple jumps
• Crystal Flash
• evading Metroids
• mid-air Spring Ball jumps (3 consecutive or more)
• using a turn-around to jump around a corner.

Expert

Stutter 4-tap

• double bomb jumping
• CWJ
• Baby Metroid skip
• double Spring Ball jumps
• crystal flash clips
• precise ice clips
• temporary blue chains
• pause abusing
• grapple jumps.

Extreme

• Double-stutter 4-tap
• underwater wall jumps
• crazy crab climbs
• moonfalls between frozen enemies.

Insane

Triple-stutter 4-tap

• Taco Tank
• moondances
• crossing Colosseum with no movement items
• very slow & tricky crab climbs.