Boss Kill Locations

In Mega Man 4, the boss fanfare and weapon get animation do not trigger until all bubbles leave the screen. This means the location of your kill can affect your stage time by up to 2 seconds.

In the case of Dive Man, this includes Mega Man's periodic Air Bubble. You can jump to make it spawn higher up, but remember a new one spawns right after it despawns at the top.

The closer you kill a robot to the center of the screen (true center at that), the more time you save. Depending on the robot master, this means you should be drawing the robot master to the center of the screen if possible.

Bright, Skull, Dive, and Toad are easy to manipulate to a specific position. Ring can also be killed in the center but is a higher degree of difficulty than the other 4. High level strategies for these bosses take this kill position into consideration.

Pharaoh, Drill, and Dust are jerks who will do whatever they want. In all cases, if you can kill, get the kill. Don't wait for them to move.


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Created 20 July 2024 19:55:34 by mrcab55
Updated 20 July 2024 20:10:26 by mrcab55