Overview
Hello there fellow gamers, im glad to introduce you the Mega Man X Legacy Collection Guide. With this guide i will try to help you finishing X challenge on normal difficulty (best weapons to choose, which strategy works better and which bosses are the ones to kill first).-First of all i highly recommend finishing Mega Man X-X6 to know how bosses work, which are their weaknesses and how to fight them in a 1 VS 1 situation.-This guide is created based on the strategy used to do X challenge. Everything is tested and revised.-This guide contains spoilers from the game, so be aware of this fact before reading it.-The X challenge have really hard stages so this guide is meant to make them possible and affordable.
Stage 1
Recommended weapons : (Rising Fire , Spike Ball , Ground Hunter)
Stage 1 – 1 Chill Penguin / Frost Walrus
First I highly recommend killing frost walrus because he can give you a lot of trouble (he`s really big and hard to dodge sometimes) so we focus on him first. To do that use charged version rising fire (better if you hit penguin with that to). It should take 3-4 flame uppercuts to bring him to phase 2. In this phase he will stand in place on left side or on right side and he`s gonna try to attack you with projectiles or he will summon stalactites from above. Just run close to him and finish him with the basic rising fire attack.
If you do this trick correctly you should have more than half your hp for chill penguin which is the easiest boss in mega man X1 so you should know what to do.
Stage 1 – 2 Wheel Gator / Bubble Crab
I like to mention on each stage in x challenge you have 3 lives so you can say its 1 life per single fight (your hp does not replenish between fight on normal and high difficulty)
but if you did previous strategy really good you should have now more than half hp for this fight.
First we gonna focus on bubble crab. wheel gator can be really problematic by how mobile he is but he mostly will be swimming in oil so we can ignore hes projectiles and focus on crab while that happen.
The best strategy that I know is just jump above him this will force him to drop hes bubble shield and jump to pierce you with hes pliers simply dash away or jump away from wall (depend what water level is cuz bubble crab will be change it constantly in fight ) so quickly land and use ex spike ball this will do same amount of damage what hes weakness but I think is little easier and more safe to use (you can easy charge it while being in air before you land) keep use this tactic until you wont will be used charged version anymore so simply use basic version to finish him or use buster if that necessary (remember only one spike ball can be on screen) if you are quick enough you should still be able to finish wheel gator on same health bar without dying that you have from previous fight. If your hp at the beggining of this fight is less than half I recommend you die and try again with full hp.
Stage 1 – 3 Slash Beast / Crescent Grizzly
(Even if Grizzly is weak to spike ball we don`t need that cuz we have ground hunter)
First I recommend you die to start with full hp regardless of hp you have currently unless this is your last life then you have to try with current hp.
Just like in stage 1 – 1 we gonna try to ignore grizzly if possible in phase one his basic attack is slow jump forward that is always predictable and slow enough to run under him.
Start the fight by hitting slash beast with ground hunter to stun him and force him to do charge attack to wall simply jump over it (while hitting him again) and hit him again when he lands.
This will stun him again so he will charge again and so on until he dies.
After that you just have to fight with Crescent grizzly 1vs1.
Stage 2
Recommended Weapons (ice shotgun (or spining blade) , goo shaver , aiming laser)
Stage 2 – 1 Storm Eagle / Storm Owl
This fight is really easy if you have Aiming Laser (you might even be able to finish this without taking any damage if you can aim quickly and you can dodge eagle).
All you have to do is hit Owl with Aiming Laser as soon as he`s in range. If you are doing this correctly the only thing you need to pay attention to is not getting damaged too much by Eagles dive attack. You will need to save as much hp as possible for the next round.
Stage 2 – 2 Spiral Pegasus / Neon Tiger
For this fight you definitely need shotgun ice , cuz this will deal high damage for Pegasus and a little damage to neon tiger at same time. Best tactic is to jump over Pegasus while hitting him as much as possible as soon as his i frames go away (every 3 sec.) When you get him to phase 2 and he starts dashing around focus on Tiger with shotgun ice and after Pegasus charges you should be able to finish him and fight with Neon Tiger 1vs1 with descent hp still.
(or there is secend strategy : ignore pegasus and kill tiger with hes weakness , if you not bring pegasus to phaze 2 this strategy might better for you but i like shotgun more personality because it can deal damage both bosses in same time )
Stage 2 – 3 Volt Kraken / Shield Sheldon
This fight is very hard so for sure i recommend to die so you can start with full hp.
Strategy is to hit Volt Kraken with ex goo shaver you should have enough ammo to kill him with only charge shots but if he gets too close you can use basic shots to stun him and get distance needed to hit him with charge attack. Shield Sheldon looks like he might be hard to beat even alone but hes weakness does not really do much its just deal more damage than normal mega buster (it cant even hit him through hes shells) so just simply duck when he`s throwing shields and use the basic charge shot. You can also hit him with ex goo shaver cuz you should have enough ammo to do 1 or 2 ex attacks with this weapon.
Stage 3
Recomended weapons (Frost tower , Soul body , Ray Splasher)
Stage 3 – 1 Spark Mandrill / Bubble Crab
Even though Ice Shotgun is the weakness of Spark Mandrill and can freeze him in place, Frost Tower is better for a couple reasons (only ex attack.)
– Not only you don`t have to aim but also hit box your attack is ultra big.
-You can not only kill spark mandrill if you hit him couple times twice with one ex attack but also if you doing trick with Bubble Crab that I was talking about before in stage one you can get him to less than half hp with that. Even if you will not kill Mandrill with your Frost Tower he should have little bit hp left so you can easy finish him with mega buster and kill Crab having about 80% hp.
Stage 3 – 2 Cyber Peacock / Tunnel Rhino
This fight is more like already 1vs1 because if you keep hitting cyber peacock with soul body he will be keeps teleporting around without even being tread Rhino however is way more annoying here so just focus on dodging and damaging him while hitting Peacock meanwhile.
Stage 3 – 3 Dr. Doppler / Godkarmachine O Inary
This fight looks like it might be really difficult but its not that bad as you might think.
Ex ray splasher will do massive damage for Godkarmachine O Inary (Dr. Doppler however does not take any damage because he will be keep regenerating himself, but that`s ok he`s really easy to beat alone) just focus on dodging while ex ray splasher will do all job for you.
After you defeat Godkarmachine O Inarry you can fight with Dr. Doppler, however I do not recommend to use charge buster here because your charged shots stays on Doppler body enough to heal him after you deal damage so just use basic shots it will take long but its not hard.
Stage 4
Recomended weapons (Double Cyclose , Ground Fire , Frost Shield)
Stage 4 – 1 Magma Dragoon / Neon Tiger
This fight is you have to mostly focus on dodging neon tiger .
start fight with hitting magma dragoon with regular double cycle this will force him to jump to other side of platform where you can hit him again after hitting him 4 times with basic version use ex double cyclone for rest of fight you should have enough ammo to finish him off like that.
Stage 4 – 2 Spike Rosered / Wire Sponge
Strategy is almost the same what in previous fight because charged version ground fire works exactly the same like charged version double cyclone, but this time start fight already with ex ground fire and keep hitting Rosered until he dies. Then spend rest ground fire ammo for Wire Sponge in 1 vs 1 fight.
Stage 4 – 3 Storm Eagle / Toxic Seahorse
This fight looks exactly the same like fight with toxic seahorse in x3 when you using frost shield.
Just use forest shield to kill toxic seahorse as quickly as possible and ignore Eagle while you trying doing that because this time he cant even throw you off he can just push you into seahorse but that`s not big of deal.
Stage 5
Recommended weapons (Magma Blade , Gravity Well , Crescent Shot)
Stage 5 – 1 Spiral Pegasus / Dark Necrobat
This fight is easy but spiral Pegasus can throw you off the stage with the knockback that you get after he hits you. Especially when he charges in second phase where he goes from bottom to up, so be careful. All that you have to do is use Ex Gravity well all the time. Just jump over Pegasus to not be hit by his charge and use it while being airborne (and jump over Necrobat if he`s on bottom if he`s on up you can`t even jump into him so don`t worry about it). Gravity well will stun both and freeze them in place while doing damage. (It also destroys the bats that Necrobat will spawn).
Stage 5 – 2 Morph moth / Blizzard Wolfang
Strategy here is pretty similar to previous with use only ex magma blade but remember 2 things :
– You need to stay undamaged for about 3 sec before projectiles spawn on screen.
– Projectiles appears on same height as you are currently in fight so be sure you are in middle are slightly above ground this should hit wolf and moth in same time pretty hard. (You can easy win this fight with hp from previous fight).
Stage 5 – 3 Tidal Whale / Jet Stingray
(This fight also can be finished with hp that you have from previous 2 fight if you are good enough but you can die to have full hp for start if you wish, extra lives are not counted for score at the end).
Using Ex Crescent shot will give you a shield that deals high damage for whale and can protect you from Jet Stingrays projectiles. If you are too far away and can`t hit Whale with the shield just use regular Crescent Shot to stun him and destroy all blocks that he shoots at you. When you get him to the second phase ignore Stingray and focus on killing him as quickly as you can because he will change sides where he is from right to left and he will try to push you into the spikes on the wall.
Stage 6
Recomended weapons (Wing Spiral , Frost Tower , Gravity Well)
Stage 6 – 1 Blaze Heatnix / Blast Hornet
Because in x3 blast hornet was originally weak to gravity well , this fight is even easier than the one with Pegasus and Necrobat. Again use only ex version gravity well (only in airborne because it takes longer to use bomb and makes you vulnerable longer when you trying to use it on ground) and you might be even able to finish this fight without taking any damage.
Stage 6 – 2 Blizzard Wolfang / Burn Dinorex
This fight is one of hardest fight in x challenge because (I recommend starting with full hp).
all what you need to do is hit dinorex with ex wing spiral, but you have to remember he has really long time of i frames after taking damage, you can hit him when he land after jumping at you which he does everytime after taking damage with hes weakness (similar to magma dragoon reaction to hitting him with double cyclone do not try hit him to quick.
After you kill him you should have almost half hp to kill wolf which alone is not that bad (just don`t bring him to phase 2 while dinorex is still alive).
Stage 6 – 3 Colonel / General
Focus on killing Colonel first. Just put Frost Tower in place where he`s standing while he`s shooting at you or try to hit him with ex attack but it might be hard. General is really slow and easy to dodge so you can ignore him.
Stage 7
Recomended weapons (Yammar Option , Lightning Web , Electic Spark)
Stage 7 – 1 Armored Armadillo / Rainy Turtloid
This fight is really easy, cuz with ex Electric Spark can destroy both crystals on Turtloid shell with single ex shot. It will also damage Armadillo really hard so just keep using ex Electric Spark until Armadillo dies and kill Turtloid with just buster after that (cuz you need your special weapons later).
Stage 7 – 2 Neon Tiger / Chill Penguin
(Is good to start this fight with full hp).
For this one there are to weapons that you can use spinning blade is original weakness of Neon Tiger and it force him to jump between 2 walls constantly, but I don`t recommend that cuz chill penguin going to be on the floor almost the entire time so you most likely will take really high damage just trying to dodge tiger.
For me better is to use ex Yammar option because you don`t have to aim with this and you can focus on dodging both tiger and penguin they take decent damage and you should have enough ammo to kill at least one of these so this is more like endurance fight where you have to dodge as much as you can.
Stage 7 – 3 Split Mushroom / Infinite Majinion
(again we need full hp for this time)
Trick is to hit split mushroom with ex lightning web and destroy all bubbles that Majinion spawns with ex electric sparks in same time. ( I want to mention every time when you dying you have little bit more ammo than you had ,so you should have just enough electric spark to make this fight really possible). Just don`t use ex spark when you don`t need it use it only to clear screen.
Stage 8
Recomended weapons (Ray Arrow , Ground Dash , Magma Blade)
Stage 8 – 1 Spiral Pegasus / Blaze Heatnix
This is very hard fight (regardless of what weapon you choose), first we definitely have to kill Heatnix because he`s big issue here to do that use only ex ground dash (because basic ground dash attack is so slow and it has such terrible range it will be probably destroyed before even hit Heatnix) don`t try to fight with Pegasus just try to stay on platforms and have a hope Heatnix will not summon lava from top screen because that`s what makes you take damage from Pegasus all time.
Stage 8 – 2 Dark Necroback / Blizzard Wolfang
It is good to have full hp for this fight (but you can do this strategy with having just half).
Just like in stage where was fight Wolfgang and Moth, this fight is almost the same.
Necrobat just like moth takes nice damage from ex magma blade but once again you have to remember to stay undamaged in place for about 3 sec to use it (and don`t forget control heights).
Stage 8 – 3 Morph Moth / Commander Yammark
This fight is really easy all what you have to do is use ex ray arrow until Yammark will die.
after that (if you have still some ammo use Magma Blade for Moth) just kill his friend in 1 vs 1 fight.
Stage 9
Recomended weapons (Meteor Rain , Ice Burst (or ice shotgun) , Double Cyclone)
This stage is really difficult and is hard to give any strategy especialy in last stage
Stage 9 – 1 Rainy Turtloid / Spark Mandrill
I recommend first take down big boy here because he`s big trouble.
Best way to do so is destroy gems on his shell with Ice Burst and then him with basic version of Ice Burst, if you are good enough you can kill him before he get back his gems (or if you can handle him, you can pick shotgun and kill mandrill first and use charge buster to take down big guy). If you follow this strategy you should half (or more) hp to kill Mandrill.
Stage 9 – 2 Storm Eagle / Metal Shark Player
This is really easy fight just use ex Meteor Rain to stun Metal Shark player and deal decent damage for Eagle and then just simply finish eagle (you might be able to finish this fight with hp from previous encounter).
Stage 9 – 3 Iris / Double
This is the hardest fight in x challenge (for me harder than even hidden fight that happen after this one, accessible only on hard difficulty)
I don`t know is there is actual strategy how to beat this fight but the best what i can recommend is to use ex double cyclone to hit double just ignore Iris and try dodge as much as possible and just go full damage on him don`t try to use basic shot double cyclone because double will spawn blades and drones around every time he taking damage with hes weakness. But there is possibility to quickly destroy these with ex Double Cycle if you are on correct height you can destroy these and hurt double in same time which is what you must do. After Double dies, Iris will summon colonel to help but that part (with a little bit of practice) you can easily do without taking damage just be careful.
Place diamond in right place and stay on wall or use hover to not be hit by laser. Also pay attention where lightning appears when Colonel appears and good luck.
