Some Feats For Samus From The Canon Manga And Zero Mission.
1. Jumps a good 15-40 meters high up in the air on Zebes, the jump being massively superhuman with its gravity being 1.26g vs earth’s 1g. ( The highest recorded max vertical jump with a running start is 53cm or 4 ft, 5 inches by Darius Clark.)
This feat alone puts her physical strength outside of the power suit easily 10x stronger than a regular human. As below 👇
A human with 10x strength would be able to vertically jump roughly 5 to 6 meters (16 to 20 feet) high, assuming body weight stays the same. Apparently it’s actually closer to 50-75x stronger for Samus’s jump strength as an adult.
She would be able to lift, at base strength levels of 2-3.5 tons as a teen as shown above. And 5-7 tons as an adult without the power suit.
Teen Samus without Power Suit with hysterical Strength **Lifting & Grappling Force:**
**3.5 to 6 tons** of explosive, lower-body lifting capacity. **Punching Force:** **2.0 to 3.5 tons** of focused, upper-body striking force. **Kicking Force:** **4.0 to 7.5 tons** of concentrated kinetic impact force
Adult Samus without Power Suit with hysterical strength **Lifting & Grappling Force:**
**8.5 to 12 tons** of maximum biological hydraulic output. **Punching Force:** **5.0 to 8.5 tons** of bone-crushing punching force. **Kicking Force:** **13 to 20 tons** of earth-shattering kinetic impact force.
(At least from this single feat above)
2. Jumps off a cliff at an even younger age as a child after the augmentations and walks it off literally.
3. Takes a blow from the back of her head without her power suit’s helmet on from Ridley.
4. Survives the crash of her gunship in her Zero Suit in Metroid Zero Mission.
I would say the reason why she had to sneak around Space Pirates in Zero Mission is more because of their ranged and more powerful weapons. Also melee in Metroid only really showed up in Metroid Other M, and was expanded on in Samus Returns, and Metroid Dread. Where they could showcase more what Samus could actually do at least in physical combat with counters. I think the Chozo DNA arguments from Raven Beak definitely gives a bigger ratio to Samus in terms of super powered strength and durability than most give it credit for.