Phantom Grab

Also Known As

• Magic Carpet
• Booty Grab
• Neymar's Magic Platform Phantom Carpet Boeing UFO Grab Ride 77747™

What Is This?

In Mega Man X, if an item is collected off the Kwanger boomerang, during the same frame a new item enters the screen, the new item spawns on the boomerang. This has a few known applications.

1. "Magic Carpet" : Most famously in Storm Eagle's stage, you can collect the heart tank at ground level, and (re)spawn the first track platform at the same time. This puts the platform on the boomerang, letting X fly through the stage. by jumping off the platform, only for the boomerang to bring it back.
2. In "Chameleon Third", you farm a health or weapon drop to collect while bringing the heart tank onto the screen, negating the need to cross the chasm to it by any method.
3. "Booty Grab" - In Armadillo's stage, you can use a health or weapon drop to phantom gram the sub tank after the first decent into the stage. You theoretically have 2 attempts at this in 100%, since you will revisit the stage
4. Flame Mammoth heart tank - while it is not difficult to collect the heart tank anyway, phantom grabbing it is faster.