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Slash Screen 5 - Dino Bot
King Gojulus The next screen has some spike pits and a big dinosaur stomping up behind you. There are two main strats. Get onto the top right platform and switch to your weapon. Danger Wrap When the dino walks up, hold down and mash Y to drop bombs. If it...
Slash Screen 6 - Frogs and maybe Beat
Frogs Shoot slide frogs, jump (and shoot) when needed. Get to the next screen Beat Beat is entirely optional for any% and a recommended skip. Beat is REQUIRED for 100% Use scorch wheel while touching the leaves of the trees. One of the last trees will reve...
Slash Screen 7 - Eggs
Slide through as much of the screen as possible, including sliding through 3 of the 4 eggs. Only the 3 egg gets avoided entirely at optimal pace.
Spring Man
Boyoyon Paradise
Spring Screen 1 & 2
Screen 1 Is just an intro just slide to the left and move on Screen 2 A lot of early Spring is a choice between using Junk to progress at the cost of lag, or using other weapons that are faster but potentially needing aim.
Jacob Boss - Vile
Vile has the same attacks here as he has for most of the game, with an added Super / Desperation attack. That and you can actually see his life meter. As with all Vile encounters, he is weak against Ice, but use of Zero's D-Glaive or X's improved half charges...
Vile Locations
Most stages have at least one room with a required challenge. One of those rooms is potentially a Vile fight room. Since these rooms vary in length for whatever lies within, and most bosses are defeated using base character attacks and not weakness weapons, t...
X8 Weapon Notes
Some of Zero's attacks change based on the melee weapon he is using. For example With the Glaive, the Bamboo Panda lunge attack becomes a flurry of stabs The Shadow Mantis spin with the Knuckle is reminiscent of Ryu's Hurricane Kick Shadow's weapon is s...
X8 Weakness Order
While neither route focuses on weaknesses, it's valuable to know the weaknesses as a backup. Most Mavericks are stunned for prolong periods by their weakness, making it a valuable backup strat when using X if Zero is unavailable. Weakness Loop Gigabolt (g...
Mantis - Spotlight Room
This section requires the use of Axl and Lightning to acquire Zero's Glaive weapon This section does not render properly in some copies of the PC release, making the spotlights invisible. There are spotlights in this section. If you get caught, security wall...
Gravity Antonion
This stage is Third in the route in order to create a Vile appearance. If done in a non-Vile appearance, there is a crushing block and spike puzzle that is extremely slow and a little tricky.
MMX Intro - The Bees
The two helecopters in the highway (colloquially known as "The Bees") must be defeated to advance. Since it takes time to mash them down, and you need a source of damage to lose HP before the end of the stage, AND you want to be on the right edge of the screen...
Chill Penguin
Unless you're intentionally not getting boots, always do Penguin first.
Flame Mammoth
Do this stage after Chill Penguin to freeze the factory floor. If you have not done Chill Penguin, which is really only if you're intentionally doing Penguin Last, this stage is very different.
Flame Mammoth - Upgrades
The threee colelctables in this stage are all close (ish) to each other after the first drop. The Buster Capsule Requires the boots, and the helmet. The Sub Tank The sub tank is in the top left of the big room immediately after the Buster Upgrade. While it...
Route Information
Naturally your route depends on the category Any% - Beat the game (at the time of writing, this assumes All Stages) regardless of the number of items collected 100% - Beat the game collecting 8 Heart Tanks, 4 sub tanks, all 4 armor upgrades (boots, helmet,...
Stage Environment Changes
There are 3 stages that impact 3 other stages in Mega Man X. Typically it is to the player's advantage to impact the second stage. Defeating Chill Penguin causes Flame Mamoth's stage to freeze over. Flame before Penguin means the factory is hot and active, ...
Penguin Heart Tank Revisit
Routing Information If you're reading this page by page, this is the soonest you can collect the Chill penguin heart tank. It requires flame mammoth's weapon. It is not required for any%, and it can be collected at any time before the Hadoken revisit for 100%...