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Boss Fight - Dive Man
Damage Tables To Dive Buster 1:1:3 Skull Barrier 4 Dust Crusher 2 From Dive Contact Torpedo Spin Dive Missiles Dive Man's Attack Patterns Dive Man is Similar to Skull Man in that he can only do the...
MM4 Refight Route
Both refight routes follow some basic principles Reduce weapon swaps as much as possible (less pauses) Make use of soft weaknesses In stages, it is preferred to kill bosses in the middle of the room to reduce explosion lag. In refights, it is preferred to...
Vertical Screens
Screen 1 The vertical screens are where Balloon really shines over Rush Jet. There's various strategies that can be used. Damageless double balloons You place the first balloon to the right of the second spiky block, then place a balloon slightly above the...
Square Machine
Note - Square Machine damage produces a very flashy screen. Damage Table Buster 1:1:3 ? Dust 4 Square Behavior Square always only "comes together" when crossing the screen slowly. Otherwise, Square will progressively slow down, giving ...
Wily Himself
Damage Table Pharaoh Charged: 6 Ring 1 The Rest 0 Spawn Locations Courtesy of beco Strategy Hit with Pharaoh and don't die. Try for doubles. (To be completed properly later - Cab)
Chelney's Mega Man 4 Tutorial
An excellent video resource documenting the Mega Man 4 any% run is Chelney's tutorial : This tutorial only covers the 8 robots and all bosses
Room 1 - First half
Cossack 3 is an autoscroller, so there isn't much to explain that isn't in the videos. There are a few notes though. First, very simply, the screen does not begin scrolling until you move to the right past the spawn point. (?) Lag reduction strats One thing...
Screen 4 - Long Met Screen
One of the most difficult screens in the game to execute properly. We will go through various ways to clear this screen without taking any damage. For all the strats the beginning will be the exact same. 3 regular slides, bullet slide, then slide. This is aft...
Screen 6 - Underwater Screen
Take advantage of the walls and slide all the way up to them. Jump and shoot the Mets as needed. Be careful with the jumps and proceed as quickly as you can. As a reminder, you cannot jump out of slides underwater in Mega Man 4 Safe way - Damage boosting ...
Second Half
Still autoscrolling. Slide across the screen to trigger it. You want to spend as little time as possible on the floating platforms that sink when you stand on them - they generate lag. After the ring refill partway through the screen, switch to Pharaoh and h...
Boss - Cockroach Twins
This fight assumes holding a full charge with Pharaoh when you enter the room. Moonwalk Hold left when Mega Man enters, even in the air. This is for fun. Strategy The twins are weak to Pharaoh shot. The second spawns at the bottom of the screen when the fi...
Screen 5 - The Shortcut
There are two paths through this screen. Going to the top right is faster. Balloon There is a tight space to get a balloon jump and not bonk on the platform above. This is the fastest method as it does not have Rush's pause animation, but it can be tricky. ...
Dr. Cossack Himself - Cossack Catcher
Damage Table Buster 1:1:3 Dust Crusher 2 Wire 1 Buster Strat The Cossak Catcher has an interesting quirk - it stops moving if Mega Man slides. You can use this to essentially freeze the Cossak catcher in place, and work on optimizin...
Screens 1-4
Screen 1 Slide off the ledges to the right. You might wanna start charging here without releasing, see Stored Charge Mechanic for more information about it If you need the weapon refill (presumably for Pharaoh), switch to the weapon and hold right against th...
Screen 7 - Slinkies
Collect the E-Tank if desired, then drop down. Slide to the right, and use drill on the slinkies. Switch to buster at the end and proceed. 4 jump strat / Safe strat Simple, one jump, shot, jump then repeat. Faster strat This time we try to kill the sli...