Untapped Potential

What things haven’t been used to their full potential? These are NOT bugged things, it's things that are currently possible to do, but haven’t been used in a proper run for a time save. Ideally, this section becomes empty as these strats get used in world record runs or discredited.

Intentional 4/3 element shields:

it is possible to do shields in 4 or 3 elements instead of 5, potentially saving several hundred milliseconds if it could be reliably done in a run.

Nova AG:

As noted in the squad section of the guide, Nova is an option to clear the first leg phase. This has not been used for a time save so far.

Example (click to play/pause):

Archlanding:

An alternative to the Nova strat is doing an archlanding to take out the archgun early, utilizing a rock along the way to Lake spawn to trigger the Archgun call.

Here is an example using Volt (click to play/pause):