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This covers the long disappearing block portion of Heat Man's stage. With Item 2 If you are playing Zipless, or did Air second, you will have item 2. Walk along the bottom up to the lava, then use item 2. Depending on how much energy remains, you may need to...

Akiteru's Pastebin https://pastebin.com/cnvAww69 Mega Man X5 ranking system documentation by Akiteru Done on USA version   POINTS TIERS   STAGE TIME: less than 1'00"00 - 8 points less than 2'00"00 - 4 points less than 5'00"00 - 2 points 5'00"00 or...

Late in Kraken's stage is a section with two of the colored gate switches over spikes. The speedrun can be seen skipping this through the wall using an invincibility trick. This requires damage boosting. Get on the right edge of the moving platform As soon...

Dynamo attacks twice in runs that play enough maverick stages - after 2 mavericks, and after 6. While Dynamo has a higher level and more attacks in the second encounter, he is trivially defeated by Zero in both instances. Fights with Zero Assuming a run thro...

Most of this screen is trivial - hold right and shoot enemies. The Item 3 Throw Section Switch to item 3 after walking off the high platform. Pause and switch to item 3 here - pausing itself (even without switching weapons) resets the falling speed so you re...

Regions The US and Japanese releases of this game play exactly the same, and both are accepted for runs. Text on the Japanese cart takes approximately 0:28 seconds longer than the US version. Much of this is locked in stone, such as the passageway before Dar...

That's it. Up canceling slides. In addition to the expected methods of slide canceling (back canceling and jumping out of slides), you can cancel slides with the up button. There are a few places this is useful throughout the run, though it is also almost req...

Mega Man's charge shot is replaced by firing his entire fist. Charge Shots A "half charge" is about 30-89 frames of holding B. A full charge is then 90+ frames. Half charges deal 2 damage, full charges 3. The fist after that returns to Mega Man, and the beh...

Pluto's Break Dash weapon works by charging. Uncharged fires a normal lemon 15-29 frames of charge is a very short dash that uses 0.5 energy 30-89 frames is a longer-but-still-short dash that uses 1 energy 90+ frames is a full charge long dash using 2 en...

This page is something of a troll, but it is true. Neptune > Mars > Venus > Jupiter > Saturn > Mercury > Pluto > Uranus > Terra > Neptune Bolded robots are in the second half of the game. As such, it is true you cannot use only weakness order. Other Weaknes...

Suggested Route is Neptune First Mercury Mars Venus Dark Moon Pluto Jupiter Saturn Uranus Route Rationale Neptune and Mercury have good early game weapons. Mercury's weapon does 2 points of damage a shot, and Mars is weak to Neptune. Venus coul...

Most text in this game can be mashed forward with any button, including the D-pad (up/down/left/right). As such an effective way of advancing text is to spin your thumb around the D-pad. Leaving the Shop Since the D-pad advances text, you can mash left/right...

The first few screens are on the top of a rising and falling sub. There are 2 helicopter enemies with 9 HP each, which is the focus of moving through this screen quickly. The strats for this screen rely on being able to follow the rise and fall of the sub. Yo...

This game has an opening Cutscene you can press start through. Most game timing allows soft resetting before timing, as the cutscene will not play on a soft reset. The stage select only respects left and right presses. Both screens of 4 start you in the top l...

Movement Patterns Mercury has two ways of moving across the room that depend on his remaining HP. As a note, a full meter has 19 HP. Even - slow hopping across the room Odd - the fast slide across the room Buster Fight In Mercury's stage, you fight with t...

This stage is all about moving fast, but also not taking damage. If you are playing Dinorex first, you need to achieve GA rank. Decent The first section of the stage falling and outrunning the flame throwers. Dashing off the ledges is largely enough to outru...

First 4 Robots From PJ on why the first four robots are what they are stage order is chosen to eliminate revisits and minimize buster usage on bosses, even though it means a pretty awful burst stage Freeze-Burst-Cloud-Junk: standardFreeze-Cloud(+19)-Junk-...

The two main categories being Any% and 100%. 100% collects all permanent upgrades, such as Protoman's Shield, the Energy Balancer, and the Exit Module. Any% Cloud Junk Freeze Burst Slash (use Ice) Spring Shade Turbo An alternate route would be t...