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This is pretty simple really. Samus still has the grav suit, which includes her helmet and an X Ray visor. Ravenholm is essentially you typical FPS maze, only in the open air. So she can see through the walls and Gordons team cannot. It completely shuts down any guerilla war advantage Gordons team might possess. Her Nova gun is extremely damaging and should have no trouble piercing walls as it pierces Phazon and phazon related materials and is twice as powerful as her standard plasma. She has a further array of new abilities with her new powers from dread but she really doesn't even need them here.

She can also direct K Rool on where to aim with the gunship from a decent distance.

Even if by some miracle Samus should go down, Kredits gives gives K Rool the ability to do a literal sneak attack with the gunship after Gordon and co must surely be pretty close to dead. At bare minimum the opening salvo here is likely to be Samus and K Rool launching a bombardment on a foe that is trying but failing to ambush them.

I think there are maybe a few miracle "Everything goes right for Gordons team, everything goes badly badly for Samus" runs of this match where samus struggles but almost none where she and K rool lose.