FactPile

Dark Light
Megaman X Vs Samus Aran
Megaman X Vs Samus Aran

Suggested by Envoy
Tough match to determine the winner in my opinion. For the sake of battle, it takes place on a neutral planet, contained to a 25 mile area. They are aware of the others presence, but must first find their opponent. X has all of his subtanks and upgrades, the same with Samus.

Who wins?

Rate This Post:

428 Comments
  • VincentValentine_117
    March 13, 2010
    #1

    @admin
    by all upgrades do you mean EVERY upgrade from every megaman x game?
    jw, cause if so then x has hadouken and shoryuuken (as they were upgrades in the games)

  • Serris0809
    March 13, 2010
    #2

    “he regains weapon energy as a part of his upgrades. the body armor grants him WE equal to the damage he takes/is supposed to take (i used cheats to test it and even if you don’t take damage you regain WE).”

    Can he have them both equipped at once? If he can, may I see a source?

    “and his giga attack is cannon”

    I wasn’t arguing the Giga Attack.

    “uhm, this is extremely backwards. since a nuke couldn’t harm zero and the other weapons could that means they are in fact STRONGER than a nuke (can we say OP?) and that would mean that his weapons would deal decent damage to samus.”

    Your statement/point in this isn’t very consistent. First, you try to state some kind of defense feat, but then you going to arguing firepower. I simply don’t follow.

    Again, Super Misssiles, Power Boms, and uncharged fully upgraded Stacked beam shots don’t scratch Samus, so I don’t see why anything in X’s arsenal that’s equivalent or below those weapons in firepower would hurt Samus either. If you’re going to argue a No-Limits Fallacy, then, to avoid that, I would simply say the majority of X’s weapons would only deal less thanl 1 Energy to Samus. Then, with the damage she does takes, reduce it by 475%. Overall, she’d be taking less than 0.0000000000000000000001 units of Energy from the majority of X’s weapons.

  • VincentValentine_117
    March 13, 2010
    #3

    @serris0809
    sorry, meant to say nova strike.
    and what i meant was that since most weapons harm zero or x and a nuke didn’t even phase zero that the weapons used to fight him must be stronger than a nuke, sorry if i worded it confusingly.
    and what do you mean both of them? you lost me….

  • theobserver
    March 13, 2010
    #4

    “So basically what you’re saying is that he’ll “track” her? Elaborate on this.”

    X and Zero have been able to show the ability to sense when a strong opponent is nearby. In MMX4 X was able to track down Cyber Peacock’s location in cyberspace and was able to “know” that Cyber Peacock was watching him throughout the whole thing(manifested with the set of cross hairs soon as X gets to a part of the stage; this was also shown in X2 in Magna Centipede’s stage). Cyberspace in the MMX universe hasn’t really be expanded upon but we know that in MMZ3, cyber space is a place where dead reploids are able to come back to life, where somehow, the elements of your attacks still work despite theoretically having no air or moisture whatsoever (Zero does a charged fire slash in cyber space, it burns things, Zero does the same fire slash in the real world, it still burns a section of a forest).
    I’m just trying to put two and two here. X can sense things based on their unique energy signatures(such as in X5 where he was able to sense where Sigma was despite his ever-evolving energy signature) and was able to track down an opponent while navigating through cyberspace.

  • theobserver
    March 13, 2010
    #5

    “Because this may be a non-factor depending on how fast he regain it due to Samus’ Stacked/Hyper Beam seeking, having continent busting strength, being spammed on a rapid fire rate, and traveling faster than 921.0278mph (Mach1.21).”

    Rapid fire weapons generally don’t have an effect on either X or the mavericks due to their defensive shields that activate as soon as they’re hit. Assuming Samus just spams the hyper beam, the only ones that will hit him are the ones outside of the defense barrier that X can extend with several upgrades. That, along with the SFM that heals him every few seconds, damage converters that turn damage into weapon energy and subtract from weapon energy accordingly and you have a pretty good defense against rapid fire weapons.

    “Also, where is it stated that X’s standard buster shots are plasma based?”

    http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Mega_Buster#X-Buster

  • VincentValentine_117
    March 13, 2010
    #6

    @theobserver
    thanks for the backup.

  • scenario
    March 13, 2010
    #7

    He means, can the item that transfers damage to WE and the item that recovers WE be used at the same time? What I’m currently wondering is how the Hyper Beam’s ammo draining ability will affect that.

    Also, Adam states in Fusion that the Plasma Beam might work because it was explicitly designed as an armor piercing weapon. He says it might work, but isn’t sure. It becomes obvious after gaining the Wave Beam, another explicitly piercing weapon, and shooting the SA-X with it that this was false. Two armor piercing weapons, plus the Power Beam, and the Wide Beam, which basically tripled the firepower, did not work against the SA-X. It was the combination with the Charge Beam, which multiplied damage even more and focused it, that a combonation of armor piercing plasma, armor piercing electricity, and kinetic force all multiplied by three was able to damage the basic Varia Suit at all.

    Adding in the Gravity, Dark, Light, P.E.D, Omega Fusion, and Hazard Shield mods would make Samus pretty much untouchable.

    Also, I’m still not convinced that Zero tanked a nuke at all. I see him defeat the Baby Elves, who tell him that the missile is about to hit. Zero then jumps off the missile while it is still in a horizontal position and has not yet begun to fall. Then, at the beginning of the next scene, Zero is barely able to stand up, and performs his ’severely damaged/almost dead’ animation that he only does at low health. Ciel has to teleport him away.

    “Samus’ charge attacks still take time while X’s can be instant. By the time she’s done charging one shot X would’ve shot her with at least 3 charged shots.”

    I meant this more as a defense against melee while airborne. While Samus is flying, she pretty much immune to anything non-melee. If she uses a charge combo in the air, X would have to deal with before he can attack. Of, course, given Samus’ air manueverability, it’s doubtfull he could hit her with a melee attack.

    “Samus shinesparks away, X teleports to her general area via her energy signature.”

    Seeing how close he gets when he teleports to bosses, I’d say Samus has enough time to heal. Really, I’ve never seen X teleport reliably or at will.

    “X is known to be powered by a microfusion reactor and when he was detonated in MMZ2 neither Zero or Elpizo were even phased. Nuclear explosions don’t even phase reploids so why should power bombs do anything to him at all?”

    Blast radius of Power Bombs > Blast Radius of X’s destruction.

    There’s also no gaurantee that it was a nuclear explosion, save that there was reactor involved. I’ve brought up Weavil’s 2 nuclear reactors before. There are Alimbic turrets and Psycho Bit robots that use the same reactor for their weapons, and whose explosions upon defeat do nothing. Alimbic Guardians contain 3 fusion generators just for their weapon systems. All I’m getting from this is that X is powered by a generator that is commonly used for relatively weak weapon systems in Metroid.

    We don’t even know how strong of an explosion X’s death was. We know it completely vaporized X’s body (which doesn’t bode well for him) and damaged his containment pod. On the other hand, everything not in contact with X was unharmed, leading me to believe that the blast radius was even smaller than it appeared. Whereas a Power Bomb in Metroid Fusion destroyed the entirety of the room it was set off in and a large portion of the room above.

    “Rapid fire weapons generally don’t have an effect on either X or the mavericks due to their defensive shields that activate as soon as they’re hit. Assuming Samus just spams the hyper beam, the only ones that will hit him are the ones outside of the defense barrier that X can extend with several upgrades.”

    Samus’ weapons also tend to hit multiple times, just like, say, the Nova Shot. With the Wide and Spazer beams, she hits with three shots at once. Since the Plasma and Wave beams pierce enemies and armor, they hit internally as well as externally.

  • Envoy
    March 14, 2010
    #8

    “She is corrupted in this match. This is an “everything goes” fight, and there’s no chronological preference to this either. There was also no statement in the opening post say she couldn’t. Really now, I see that as an attempt to “downplay” Samus by taking away her Phazon abilities.”
    There is always a “chronological preference” according to the rules:
    “Incarnations
    Current incarnations of characters are used unless otherwise specified.”

    “He means, can the item that transfers damage to WE and the item that recovers WE be used at the same time? What I’m currently wondering is how the Hyper Beam’s ammo draining ability will affect that.”
    The parts for the converters are from two diferent games, X5 and X8, the links are on the previous page.

    “I meant this more as a defense against melee while airborne. While Samus is flying, she pretty much immune to anything non-melee. If she uses a charge combo in the air, X would have to deal with before he can attack. Of, course, given Samus’ air manueverability, it’s doubtfull he could hit her with a melee attack.”

    He dosent have to worry either, once samus shoots, X will shoot to, any damage take will be converted, or healed from after the D.barier goes down, which stops samus’ rapid fire. Then hit samus with a spreader variant of his normal charge shot, and homming missles, at the same time.

    “Seeing how close he gets when he teleports to bosses, I’d say Samus has enough time to heal. Really, I’ve never seen X teleport reliably or at will.”
    Its in X8, switching from character to char. and teleporting wherever you like, basicaly the MMZ series portable trans server. Video on the previous page.

    “Because this may be a non-factor depending on how fast he regain it due to Samus’ Stacked/Hyper Beam seeking, having continent busting strength, being spammed on a rapid fire rate, and traveling faster than 921.0278mph (Mach1.21).”

    So wouldnt mach 5+ reaction speeds put the beams in the easy doging range.

    “There’s also no gaurantee that it was a nuclear explosion, save that there was reactor involved. I’ve brought up Weavil’s 2 nuclear reactors before. There are Alimbic turrets and Psycho Bit robots that use the same reactor for their weapons, and whose explosions upon defeat do nothing. Alimbic Guardians contain 3 fusion generators just for their weapon systems. All I’m getting from this is that X is powered by a generator that is commonly used for relatively weak weapon systems in Metroid.”
    Yet none of them toss meteors, freeze/slow time, run around freezing fire/lava at absolute zero…I could go on.X STILL has multi megaton defenses, some beastly physical strength, I’m repeating myself, check the last page, I’m tired.

  • orber
    March 14, 2010
    #9

    *There is always a “chronological preference” according to the rules:
    “Incarnations
    Current incarnations of characters are used unless otherwise specified.”*

    *Tough match to determine the winner in my opinion. For the sake of battle, it takes place on a neutral planet, contained to a 25 mile area. They are aware of the others presence, but must first find their opponent. X has all of his subtanks and upgrades, the same with Samus.*

    soo phazon and all other upgrades are still in play.if we can use the latest info from metroid other M samus can just engage hypermode making her self intangible to all but phazon weaponry and then use her recharging move she gets from other M.but due to the fact we don’t know the specifics of the this new healing move im not going to bet any money on this.

  • theobserver
    March 14, 2010
    #10

    “What I’m currently wondering is how the Hyper Beam’s ammo draining ability will affect that”

    Wait, since when could the Hyper Beam drain ammo?

    “Two armor piercing weapons, plus the Power Beam, and the Wide Beam, which basically tripled the firepower, did not work against the SA-X.”

    I guess I wasn’t really paying attention when someone stated in the thread that the SA-X defenses = Varia suit defenses. Using your logic, the impact from war wasps and the smaller Metroid enemies are actually GREATER than the Super Missile hit isn’t it? Their hits sure damage Samus yet the Super Missiles just bounce off the SA-X. That is just plain ridiculous. Someone stated earlier in this thread(I think the last page) that the Fusion Gravity suit is closer to defense to the original Varia.

    Now before you go about disproving me I’ll just point out that the X parasites have the ability to boost the offense and defensive capabilities of the hosts they inhabit so why can’t the same apply to the Varia suit? SA-X defenses =/= original Varia defenses. Now if you were to say that SA-X defenses = UAM 1 defenses times energy tanks then that would make much more sense than saying that the standard Varia can deflect Super Missiles to no effect.

    “Then, at the beginning of the next scene, Zero is barely able to stand up, and performs his ’severely damaged/almost dead’ animation that he only does at low health. Ciel has to teleport him away.”

    Omega was at the missile the entire time and he was fine. If anything Omega’s defenses are closer to X’s defenses than Zero’s fake body.

    “On the other hand, everything not in contact with X was unharmed, leading me to believe that the blast radius was even smaller than it appeared. ”

    Well this IS the place where X sealed the Dark Elf, the greatest threat in the whole MMX/Z series. Why wouldn’t he fortify it to withstand the standard core explosion? The place might not show it on the screen but the cutscene sure made it so that Zero was actually closer to X’s blast radius. If I were to compare X’s explosion to the standard Maverick explosion, then X’s should be more powerful. Elpizo had to jump out of the way while Zero was there the entire time. He was fine wasn’t he?

    There’s also the issue of Omega’s body detonating at the end of MMZ3. Now the MMZ complete works states that all three of the guardians died in that blast and that Zero only survived because the Mother Elf saved him. The ending to MM2: the power fighters showed that Bassnium(stated the most powerful energy on Earth), the energy that powered Bass was discovered by accident. When Wily went off to design Zero however he made sure to make him powered by an energy more powerful than Bassnium. Zero’s X1 death involved his detonation to destroy Vile’s ride armor. Vile was completely fine and X was in the general vicinity.

    My point is this: Zero’s energy > Bassnium > Nuclear energy(common in the classic era) This same explosion was responsible for the deaths of X’s 3 guardians yet each time Zero dies in the X series X is perfectly fine.

    “Seeing how close he gets when he teleports to bosses, I’d say Samus has enough time to heal. Really, I’ve never seen X teleport reliably or at will.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3JdA4dTu6g

    Here X and Zero state that the “feel” Sigma’s presence and here X teleports really close if not exactly in Sigma’s location. If X can sense the energy readings of his foes, then it makes sense that he can shoot through cover and still hit his enemies despite technically not being able to see them. The manual for X1 also states that X can hear in the ultrasonic range, so he’ll definitely know if Samus shinesparks away. Since Samus would be the only energy signature here, X would have no difficulty tracking her.

    @Envoy

    The original MM’s uncharged plasma shots were able to pierce through Heat Man’s 12000C withstanding armor so would that make his shots more powerful than Heat Man’s flames? Fast forward that to the X series, where X has the mark 17 version of the same buster technology and Samus is in for alot of hurt.

    =_= I’m also starting to get tired of stating again and again how X’s power grows from game to game. We’re using the current incarnations right? The last incarnation of X where he actually has his body is during the Elf Wars, which takes place about close to a hundred years after X8. Now we see in X7 that X is already starting to overshadow Zero’s power WITHOUT his armor and in X8 it really doesn’t need to be said that X IS more powerful than Zero. X7 and X8 take place months away from each other and see how X’s power has grown. Close to a hundred years should give him enough firepower to pierce through Samus’ stacked defenses.

    Before someone else yells “irrelevant conjecture” I’ll just point to X’s energy accumulation device, which can “generate the necessary energy to fit in X’s power”.

    http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Mega_Man_X_%28character%29
    Most of the info from this page comes from the manuals btw.

    I guess this would be a bit useless given that both our combatants have some edge in melee but I stated much earlier in this thread X’s strength but wasn’t able to give a damage quantifier. MMX3 however gives us some insight on X’s physical strength. The charged Triad Thunder involves X doing a ground pound, the impact of which is enough to destroy enemies within the reach of the screen whether they are on another floor or on the same ground. If that isn’t enough to kill them, the sparks that come afterward will.

  • theobserver
    March 14, 2010
    #11

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt9r8q3eLHs&feature=related
    skip to 3:57

    that’s the link for the Bassnium thing.

  • scenario
    March 14, 2010
    #12

    “There is always a “chronological preference” according to the rules:
    ‘Incarnations
    Current incarnations of characters are used unless otherwise specified.’”

    It was otherwise specified. The OP explicitly states ALL upgrades. This includes the P.E.D.

    “The parts for the converters are from two diferent games, X5 and X8, the links are on the previous page.”

    That doesn’t tell me anything. Like, at all. The Weapon Converter seems to be a temporary item, seeng as it is next to other temporary items. I need you to tell me how it works, and how the other items work. Can he use multiple Chip Upgrades at once? This sounds like a no-limits fallacy, and game mechanics.

    The D. Converter is the same. But how will they deal with the fact that the Hyper Beam has shown the ability to drain ammunition?

    “He dosent have to worry either, once samus shoots, X will shoot to, any damage take will be converted, or healed from after the D.barier goes down, which stops samus’ rapid fire. Then hit samus with a spreader variant of his normal charge shot, and homming missles, at the same time.”

    Once Samus shoots, she immediately goes back into Screw Attack and rams X before he can switch to a melee weapon. She’s more manueverable in the air, as well as faster, so X has no chance in an airborne duel. She might not even have to shoot, or shoot only while above him, due to his difficuty shooting up.

    “Its in X8, switching from character to char. and teleporting wherever you like, basicaly the MMZ series portable trans server. Video on the previous page.”

    That sounds like game mechanics. The video implies that both X and Axl were there the whole time, but just switching. It isn’t a reliable combat ability.

    “So wouldnt mach 5+ reaction speeds put the beams in the easy doging range.”

    Rock fights hypersonic foes, X has trouble with low supersonic.

    “Yet none of them toss meteors, freeze/slow time, run around freezing fire/lava at absolute zero…I could go on.X STILL has multi megaton defenses, some beastly physical strength, I’m repeating myself, check the last page, I’m tired.”

    You pretty much just proved my point. A nuclear fisson reactor just isn’t powerful enough to power Metroid weapons, whereas just one is enough to power X. The Battlehammer and X share the same power source. The Judicator (absolute zero) has a cold fusion reactor, too. Just one of Samus’ weapons could power X indefinitely.
    Or she could kill him with her superheated magma launcher, which contains its very own hydrogen reactor.

  • scenario
    March 14, 2010
    #13

    “Wait, since when could the Hyper Beam drain ammo?”

    Since its very first appearance. When Samus is hit, she loses her missiles, super missiles, and power bombs. When used against Mother Brain, she stops using certain attacks.

    “I guess I wasn’t really paying attention when someone stated in the thread that the SA-X defenses = Varia suit defenses. Using your logic, the impact from war wasps and the smaller Metroid enemies are actually GREATER than the Super Missile hit isn’t it? Their hits sure damage Samus yet the Super Missiles just bounce off the SA-X. That is just plain ridiculous. Someone stated earlier in this thread(I think the last page) that the Fusion Gravity suit is closer to defense to the original Varia. ”

    That’s game mechanics. There have to be threats to Samus for the game to be fun. The SA-X is not gameplay, but scripted events where Samus is unable to do anything to damage it. The SA-X uses the standard Varia Suit, so the Varia Suit, in canon, is able to tank such atacks without damage.

    “Now before you go about disproving me I’ll just point out that the X parasites have the ability to boost the offense and defensive capabilities of the hosts they inhabit so why can’t the same apply to the Varia suit? SA-X defenses =/= original Varia defenses. Now if you were to say that SA-X defenses = UAM 1 defenses times energy tanks then that would make much more sense than saying that the standard Varia can deflect Super Missiles to no effect.”

    That’s far from uniform, as several creatures, including Ridley himself, are made weaker by infection. Space Pirates can now take only one missile before dying, much less than in any other game. Hornoads are virtually unchanged, taking only 2 shots to dispatch in both Metroid 2 and Fusion. Some creatures gain abilities, some lose them, but most are perfect copies offense and defense wise.

    Regardless of this, Samus absorbed the SA-X and now has its defense in addition to her own.

    “Omega was at the missile the entire time and he was fine. If anything Omega’s defenses are closer to X’s defenses than Zero’s fake body.”

    And Zero’s fake body repeated proves to be at least equal to the original, if not better. Why is it so difficult to believe that a copy can be just as strong as the original? That’s the entire point of making a copy in the first place: to be the same as the original. At no point is it stated that Zero’s copied body is weaker than the original.

    “Here X and Zero state that the “feel” Sigma’s presence and here X teleports really close if not exactly in Sigma’s location. If X can sense the energy readings of his foes, then it makes sense that he can shoot through cover and still hit his enemies despite technically not being able to see them. The manual for X1 also states that X can hear in the ultrasonic range, so he’ll definitely know if Samus shinesparks away. Since Samus would be the only energy signature here, X would have no difficulty tracking her.”

    Yes, they can sense that Sigma is a few feet away. Maybe if they could do so from any respectable distance, this might be useful. As it stands, X might be able to sense if Samus is standing on top of him.

    “Before someone else yells “irrelevant conjecture” I’ll just point to X’s energy accumulation device, which can “generate the necessary energy to fit in X’s power”.”

    What does that even mean? It stores solar power to keep X’s energy. It doesn’t say it increases X’s power at all.

  • Envoy
    March 14, 2010
    #14

    “It was otherwise specified. The OP explicitly states ALL upgrades. This includes the P.E.D.”
    But phazon is not.

    “That doesn’t tell me anything. Like, at all. The Weapon Converter seems to be a temporary item, seeng as it is next to other temporary items. I need you to tell me how it works, and how the other items work. Can he use multiple Chip Upgrades at once? This sounds like a no-limits fallacy, and game mechanics.”
    http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/920754/34134
    Hit ctrl and “F” the copy [BOF2] into the pop up search bar.
    Its a part, and yes you can equip more than one.

    “Rock fights hypersonic foes, X has trouble with low supersonic.”
    Says you, since aparently its not enough for the game to say X>Megaman.

    “The D. Converter is the same. But how will they deal with the fact that the Hyper Beam has shown the ability to drain ammunition? ”
    They are not ammo, and SFM can restore X’s WE, if that counts as ammo.

    “And Zero’s fake body repeated proves to be at least equal to the original, if not better. Why is it so difficult to believe that a copy can be just as strong as the original? That’s the entire point of making a copy in the first place: to be the same as the original. At no point is it stated that Zero’s copied body is weaker than the original.”
    It wasnt the same as the original, faulty memory, no Z saber, no virus absorbtion, no air dash. Zero retained his cobat prowes and that alone, his fake body is as musch of a copy of the original as the gaurdians are of X.

    “Once Samus shoots, she immediately goes back into Screw Attack and rams X before he can switch to a melee weapon. She’s more manueverable in the air, as well as faster, so X has no chance in an airborne duel. She might not even have to shoot, or shoot only while above him, due to his difficuty shooting up.”
    What switch, both the giga attack and the Z saber has near no switch time. The Z saber only needs swing time. Saying X is incapable of lifting his arm and shooting is like saying link and Crono and pokemon trainer(exept when in battle) cant speak, or that Omega can only grunt.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcugNeUvC6M&feature=channel
    At the end of the video X poins the buster down and fires, he dosent do that in game, but he CAN do it, if he can point either of his arms in a direction he can fire it as well.
    “That sounds like game mechanics. The video implies that both X and Axl were there the whole time, but just switching. It isn’t a reliable combat ability.”
    So you didnt read nor see the parts where X and Axl left for HQ, then returned to Zero.

    “What does that even mean? It stores solar power to keep X’s energy. It doesn’t say it increases X’s power at all.”
    And it feeds that energy into the X buster, with some from his fission reactor.

    @theobserver
    Also some versions of the megabuster could fire through walls, like Samus’ plasma beam, some of X’s weapons do this too, it was kinda obvious that a great deal of these attacks would hurt samus easy. And yes, we use the last battle ready incarnation as the current.

    X could actualy scan and steal items from Samus with the analyzer force metal, and item missle from MMX:CM.

  • Serris0809
    March 14, 2010
    #15

    “Assuming Samus just spams the hyper beam, the only ones that will hit him are the ones outside of the defense barrier that X can extend with several upgrades.”

    I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. The Wave Beam. It has a “goes through walls” effect. It’s been seen to go through walls, defenses, energy, etc., etc. Also, the Wave Beam also has the ability to seek, so that means the Hyper Beam will seek since it stacks on top of it.

    “meant to say nova strike.”

    Can you please provide an argument for that? Because as far as I’m concerned the Nova Strikes that are acquired via codes are uncanon. Even in “everything goes” fights. There’s no legitimate chronological placement to those weapons. So thus, yielding them uncanon.

    “Current incarnations of characters are used unless otherwise specified.”

    Phazon corruption can be considered an “upgrade”. The Space Pirates considered it one.

    “So wouldnt mach 5+ reaction speeds put the beams in the easy doging range.”

    Perhaps. But the Hyper Beam still moves faster than X and still seeks targets. Also, what scenario said.

    “Weapon Converter”

    So, basically, instead of X losing health, he loses Weapon Energy instead? And the SFM restores Weapon Energy? Well, the Hyper Beam was seen to drain Samus’ shields (which is referenced as Energy), Missiles, Super Missiles, and Power Bombs. I don’t think reasonable to conclude that the Hyper Beam would have no chance at draining X’s “ammo” or ‘Weapon Energy’, because that would be a No-Limits Fallacy. So basically, X’s WE will be drained at a considerable rate due to the sheer strength of the Hyper Beam and it’s “energy draining” ability. And with a consecutive amount of hits, X will begin to lose health.

    “So you didnt read nor see the parts where X and Axl left for HQ, then returned to Zero.”

    I’d like to see this.

    “Then hit samus with a spreader variant of his normal charge shot, and homming missles, at the same time.”

    All of which virtually will cause no damage.

    What ranged “super weapons” does X has? Samus has Phazon, the Hyper Beam, Power Bombs, and the Omega Cannon.

  • scenario
    March 15, 2010
    #16

    “Its a part, and yes you can equip more than one.”

    Already read that last page. It’s a Metal, so how many can he equip and how do they work in general? The wiki is useless. Still pretty game mechanics, there, though.

    “Says you, since aparently its not enough for the game to say X>Megaman.”

    Yeah, he’s got higher potential, but doesn’t seem to have reached Rock’s level quite yet. Maybe in another hundred years.

    “They are not ammo, and SFM can restore X’s WE, if that counts as ammo.”

    Samus stores weapons as energy. She has a reserve of, let’s say, weapon energy, stored in her suit before it is converted to a physical object like a missile or bomb. When struck by the Hyper Beam, Samus loses this weapon energy very quickly. When used on Mother Brain, she seems to stop using certain weapons, like the blast she fires from her hands or her eye beam (different one.)

    I’ll let X have his ability to fire up, but Samus is still more manueverable and faster in the air. She would of course be limited in ranged attacks, but the Screw Attack covers melee quite well. With the chaotic movement the Space Jump has, it’ll be difficult for X to land a hit. Samus has air superiority.

    “So you didnt read nor see the parts where X and Axl left for HQ, then returned to Zero.”

    Didn’t seem like it was usable as a combat ability. He can teleport closer to allies, but always lands too far away from enemies.

    “And it feeds that energy into the X buster, with some from his fission reactor.”

    Yes, but does not increase his power at all.

  • OriginalA
    March 15, 2010
    #17

    X’s teleporter hasn’t shown the ability for site to site teleportation. On HQ to site or site to HQ. In either case it is to or from a locked possition (Mavrick Hunter HQ), and heavily restircts its usefulness in this match.

  • orber
    March 15, 2010
    #18

    *“It was otherwise specified. The OP explicitly states ALL upgrades. This includes the P.E.D.”
    But phazon is not.*

    are you saying here that samus got a PED upgrade but no phazon?thats not how it works.she got the PED and with that comes her 75% corrupted status.

  • theobserver
    March 15, 2010
    #19

    “acquired via codes are uncanon. ”

    The Ultimate Armor was canon via a scene in X5. It didn’t require codes or a new-game plus function. If you went in the last Zero stage as X you would come across a capsule where Dr. Light gives you the Ultimate Armor. Similarly when you fight X with Zero he’s seen to be wearing the ultimate armor. Heck, forward that to MMZ and you see Copy-X being able to execute a (despite weaker) Nova Strike. I don’t see why X shouldn’t be able to use this armor or that attack in this fight.

    “So, basically, instead of X losing health, he loses Weapon Energy instead? ”

    Does the Hyper beam drain weapons simultaneously in an instant? X might be drained of some of his weapons, but he still has much more where those came from and the SFM restores the energy just like it restores his health.

    “Already read that last page. It’s a Metal, so how many can he equip and how do they work in general? ”

    The last I read you could equip 4 at a time given that their erosion level is low enough for you not to turn Maverick. The SFM fragments can be combined with Neutralizer-30(Force metals)’s so they can both be equipped at the same time. As for the chip upgrades, X5 and X6 allows X to equip 4 chips for his main body, and 2 to 4 for each of his armor sets. I don’t know how the one for X8 works but yeah, it is possible for X to equip more than one chip. Couple that with the mix and match combinations he can have with his armors and X gets a different edge each time he switches.

    “I don’t think reasonable to conclude that the Hyper Beam would have no chance at draining X’s “ammo” or ‘Weapon Energy’, because that would be a No-Limits Fallacy. ”

    I believe the hyper beam will have the ability to drain X’s ammo however he has items that will restore his energy indefinitely and convert his damage hits to weapon energy. Armor systems like the Force armor and the Giga armor also are able to convert health energy to energy that can be used for Giga attacks.

    “The Wave Beam. It has a “goes through walls” effect.”

    Most of X’s weapons have the same effect. The storm tornado for example is able to rip through enemies and destroy them even when behind a solid wall. The charged X-buster shot also has variants that can go through walls easily. I believe Acrosurge stated something about some of X’s attacks being able to rip through matter such as the Ray Arrow.

    “Yes, they can sense that Sigma is a few feet away. Maybe if they could do so from any respectable distance, this might be useful. As it stands, X might be able to sense if Samus is standing on top of him.”

    Yet X teleported at his exact location and Zero found his way there. Earlier X stated that Sigma attacked him. If X can only do Base to site teleportation then would it make sense that Sigma attacked him from Hunter HQ? Surely not since Hunter HQ is all the way at Earth and Sigma was at the colony the entire time. Similarly that should be the reason X and Zero can track down bosses from jungles, deserts, etc. with no trouble save the smaller troops.

  • OriginalA
    March 15, 2010
    #20

    Mother Brain’s Hyper Beam drained health and weapons simultaniously per second. Samus’s Hyper Beam does all the damage in a single instant, so it probably drains weapon energy in that same instant.

  • theobserver
    March 16, 2010
    #21

    “The SA-X is not gameplay, but scripted events where Samus is unable to do anything to damage it.”

    Well that’s just swell because there’s the scripted X vs Vile fight where X, no matter what his upgrades or weapons (not even the almighty Hadouken), could do a thing to scratch Vile’s Ride Armor other than push it a few meters away. It took Zero’s detonation to actually vaporize this armor(Zero’s energy explanation in posts 10 and 11 of this page) and at the time, Zero was the only hunter capable of taking down Sigma. Moments later X was able to destroy Sigma, who was the most technologically superior and skilled reploid at the time(and proves to be so for each consecutive incarnation).

    Forwarded to X3 X can take down Vile with his upgraded ride armor easily despite not being able to scratch a vastly inferior model 2 games back.

    Scripted event number 2. The missile in Overdrive Ostrich’s stage. Turns out the missile there is a neutron missile and X wasn’t phased a single bit despite a direct-hit detonation. His successfully scanned data dating a hundred years allowed humans to survive multi-megaton nuclear missile explosions.

    Scripted event 3: After Zero’s death X regained energy. Vile comments on this as “absorbing energy”. This was done with no difference to the subtanks whatsoever (I checked). X’s inferior copy from MMZ can also execute something like this.

    http://www.themmnetwork.com/wiki/index.php?title=Overdrive_Ostrich

    Now I don’t really know how to explain how X can increase his offense and defense that’s more for the creators to say but I did get some quotes from Dr. Light in one of the videos/scenes from MHX:

    “They might view your limitless evolutionary potential as something to be feared.”
    “I’ve given you the ability to worry, to grow, and to evolve as you fight”

    Plus there’s Cyber Peacock’s evaluation on X:
    CP:”His potential….is limitless?!…Not possible”
    X: “Who are you? Why are you doing this to me?”
    CP: “I was ordered to test your abilities. It’s quite simple”

    X’s defenses have been stated again and again and again throughout this whole thing but I suppose the obvious should just be said: X can survive nuclear explosions, tank blank holes that can collapse entire cities on several occasions(Gravity Beetle and Gravity Antonion), react to enemies that move so fast it looks like they’re teleporting (Boomer Kuwanger), react to supersonic foes if not move like them, and so on.

    Samus’ doomsday weapons would be the only threat that I’m seeing against him. As far as I’ve seen, the impact from a super missile is enough to shake an entire screen and knock off enemies that are crawling upside down. X’s ground punch from the charged Triad Thunder not only shakes the whole screen but destroys all the enemies (armored) unfortunate enough to be in its range. X should be able to tank something weaker than his own punch, after all, Vile’s Ride Armor that should be superior in strength often does this and X’s first incarnation can survive multiple hits from that.

    The way I see the scenario, Samus shoots the Hyper Beam — X gets damaged in WE only due to the converters(this would mean double the weapon drain) but since there’s at least two forces counter-acting the drain (SFM 75% weapon heal every few seconds and the D. Converter amongst other things) the process wouldn’t be as fast as you guys picture it to be. The fact that X gets to keep all his weapon tank upgrades means that his weapons bars and capacity must be HUGE and numerous enough for him to still use his weapons despite the drain. The X buster should be unaffected by this drain after all, Mother Brain got to keep her main shots didn’t she?

    Samus using Phazon would be more of a risk since apparently she’s in 75% corrupted mode. This would only result in hypermode being shorter in duration before she risks corruption. X’s solution? Charged Chameleon sting, Mach Dash, etc.

    Omega Cannon? Sure it spews out radiation that Samus’ scanners can’t decipher but X tanked a direct hit from a neutron missile/ERW, the radiation from which can ionize its targets. Then again the Omega Cannon is slow moving so meh.

    Samus’ charged variants for the weapons(don’t know what to call them)? X switches to an armor equipped with a Reverse Force metal and the damage ends up healing him since Samus has to unstack everything else.

    I’m not very good at science so someone who knows the answer to this please tell me. Are planets with a lower diameter and higher mass supposed to generate higher amounts of gravity? I did a comparison of Zebes’ diameter and mass in tons and compared it to Earth’s. While Earth’s diameter is greater, Zebes has a greater mass. Someone please explain this.

    Other M’s intro as amazing as it is points to another question. What the heck happened to Samus’ Gravity Suit when she was fighting Mother Brain? Cutscenes show which of Samus’ suits are remaining(The ones in Metroid Prime for example) yet at the intro of each game she just reverts to her standard Varia or normal Power Suit. How many of her suits are canon? I just know I’m gonna be bashed for even asking that =_= but before you do, please take it easy.

  • OriginalA
    March 16, 2010
    #22

    Zebes is roughly 800 times more massive than Earth. It would take considerably more energy to shake a screen size on Zebes than to do the same thing on Earth.

    And yes, lower diameter and higher mass does mean higher gravity.If Zebes has compaable mass to Earth, than its gravity would be Earthlike (probably less than 2g but greater than 1g). Zebes however is well over 100 times as massive as Earth and it is smaller. That means that things on Zebes are pulling 100s of Gs just by being able to exist on that planet.

    All her suits are canon. They just like to squeeze her back into the Varia suit because it is her trademark suit since Metroid II: Return of Samus. It IS her look. Just like how Megaman X reverts back to his base form in nearly every game despite all of the armor upgrades he got in the previous game; that is his look. As a side note, in Super Metroid it is possible to disable any upgrade previously obtained including suit upgrades. She could have had the Gravity Suit turned off, and considering that it takes glitching the game in order to get out of Maridia (which may or may not still involve the Gravity Suit) she definiately grabbed it during that mission.

  • Serris0809
    March 16, 2010
    #23

    “Samus shoots the Hyper Beam — X gets damaged in WE only due to the converters(this would mean double the weapon drain) but since there’s at least two forces counter-acting the drain (SFM 75% weapon heal every few seconds and the D. Converter amongst other things) the process wouldn’t be as fast as you guys picture it to be.”

    The are also two forces acting with the Hyper Beam. It’s sheer firepower and it’s energy draining ability. I’m sure he’ll be losing WE at a considerable rate. Lets not forget it seeks and will bypass any barrier X throws up.

    “X’s solution? Charged Chameleon sting, Mach Dash, etc. ”

    Phazon has been known to hit intangible targets in the past. Yes, the Chozo Ghost. Personally, the way I see it, the Charged Chameleon Sting needs to be dropped in regards with the Hyper Beam, Stacked Beam, Power Beam, and Phazon.

    “Samus’ doomsday weapons would be the only threat that I’m seeing against him.”

    Same goes for X. What ranged “doomdsday weapons” does X have?

  • Serris0809
    March 16, 2010
    #24

    “Mach Dash”

    This move sucks for the most parts. It doesn’t even propel X faster than Mach1. Why would Samus have a difficult time hitting someone that slow?

  • theobserver
    March 16, 2010
    #25

    “Lets not forget it seeks and will bypass any barrier X throws up.”

    Her wave beam from Metroid Prime is included in this hyper beam right? That one is the one that can actually seek though it can’t pass through walls. It’s seeking ability is also limited to Samus’ lock-on capability which Meta-Ridley is capable of getting out of due to his speed(or maybe it’s because he flew out of range *shrugs*). I’m just using reference from the Metroid Prime Trilogy version of MP. ANY barrier? Sounds like a no-limits fallacy. The wave beam may be able to pierce through walls but she needs the plasma beam to be able to pierce through foes. With the stacked beam this should be no problem but X’s defensive barriers(referenced in-game and manifested as the longer invincibility period) should be able to work here just fine. Let’s not forget, X’s regular charged shot has the same ability to pierce through barriers and multiple foes at a time yet I’m not claiming that it can “pierce any barrier” that Samus can put up. Bosses themselves have this barrier so why should X’s barriers not work?

    “Phazon has been known to hit intangible targets in the past. Yes, the Chozo Ghost. ”
    That’s them when they were having visions of Phazon. Last time I checked, X wasn’t psychic. Honestly the only instance that the Power Beam has been able to hit the intangible were the Chozo Ghosts. Hunter Ing also have that but the only reason they are even hit by the power beam is because they revert back to their tangible state when the power beam isn’t charged. Charge the power beam and they’ll go back to their intangible forms and the shot phases right through them. Same goes with Phantoon. The power beam can’t hit him while he’s in intangible mode. I don’t see why Chameleon Sting should get be affected by the Power Beam when only one of the 3 intangible foes Samus fought could be hit by it.

    “This move sucks for the most parts. It doesn’t even propel X faster than Mach1. Why would Samus have a difficult time hitting someone that slow?”

    When has she ever hit/reacted to anyone at that speed? Without her speed boosted shots I mean.

    “What ranged “doomdsday weapons” does X have?”

    That’s still up for debate amongst MM fans. Personally I’d go for something along the lines of the black hole generated by the charged Magnet Mine, the Shining laser whose range can’t even be seen past the screen, the Tri-thunder which sends high electromagnetic energy(can’t find the output for now though it is capable of running across the ground as sparks before dissipating) hurdling towards you or the W-shredder which sends a tornado moving across the ground, ignores terrain, and has about the same if not greater damage capability as the Storm Tornado.

  • Envoy
    March 17, 2010
    #26

    “I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. The Wave Beam. It has a “goes through walls” effect. It’s been seen to go through walls, defenses, energy, etc., etc. Also, the Wave Beam also has the ability to seek, so that means the Hyper Beam will seek since it stacks on top of it.”

    1)The D.barier has blocked other weapons that hava a go through walls effect.
    2)Saying all beams stack isnt true, the wave beam you used dosent stack with anything.

    “Phazon corruption can be considered an “upgrade”. The Space Pirates considered it one.”

    The space pirates grew into the elite and omega pirates, in samus’ case, it made her throw up.

    “So, basically, instead of X losing health, he loses Weapon Energy instead? And the SFM restores Weapon Energy? Well, the Hyper Beam was seen to drain Samus’ shields (which is referenced as Energy), Missiles, Super Missiles, and Power Bombs. I don’t think reasonable to conclude that the Hyper Beam would have no chance at draining X’s “ammo” or ‘Weapon Energy’, because that would be a No-Limits Fallacy. So basically, X’s WE will be drained at a considerable rate due to the sheer strength of the Hyper Beam and it’s “energy draining” ability. And with a consecutive amount of hits, X will begin to lose health.”

    A) Samus hyper beam is inferior to Mother’s, one hit from her will not decrease X’s WE to zero.
    B)X has multiple WE bars, one for each weapon and his natural one that regens every few seconds, ALL of these are refilled by the SFM, one for every special weapon. 8 bosses, 8 weapons, 8 gauges, per game. With his natural gauge he gets a total of 65 bars with one getting refilled by 15%, and all being filled to 100% every 20-30 seconds or so. She HAS to kill him before the regen, which is imposible.
    C)To find the energy drain you shouldtake ther max drain(samus with all of her tanks) and se how much it does in one second, my guess would put it a 5 points per sec, as it seemed around the same speed of dark ather’s poison.

    “All of which virtually will cause no damage.”

    The charged spreader is ALWAYS a critical hit, while the missles are a charge shot.

    “What ranged “super weapons” does X has? Samus has Phazon, the Hyper Beam, Power Bombs, and the Omega Cannon.”

    Phazon=no
    Hyper beam=k
    Powerbombs=KK
    Omegacannon= dosent stack, it just replaces, so wouldnt it replace the MPH and MP1-2 beams?

    “Yeah, he’s got higher potential, but doesn’t seem to have reached Rock’s level quite yet. Maybe in another hundred years.”

    Megaman, at best, was around for 100 years, X was around for 200+ years.

    “Samus stores weapons as energy. She has a reserve of, let’s say, weapon energy, stored in her suit before it is converted to a physical object like a missile or bomb. When struck by the Hyper Beam, Samus loses this weapon energy very quickly. When used on Mother Brain, she seems to stop using certain weapons, like the blast she fires from her hands or her eye beam (different one.)”

    I. MB was drained by a metriod prior, it took a weapon, it could have take the others to heal samus.
    II. MB could have just stopped using weaker weapons as Samus was now a credbile threat.
    III. Samus could have zero missles/bombs and 1 point of energy in her shields,but she would still fire fine.
    IV. MB’s hyper beam’s continuous ray of fire exausted samus physicaly, byt executing a rapid drain it put her in a state of shock, unable to fire, or even stand.

    “I’ll let X have his ability to fire up, but Samus is still more manueverable and faster in the air. She would of course be limited in ranged attacks, but the Screw Attack covers melee quite well. With the chaotic movement the Space Jump has, it’ll be difficult for X to land a hit. Samus has air superiority.”

    X has the ability to fire fully charged shots at the same rate of his smaller ones. He has both wide range and homming weapons, ofensive and defensive, I dont see the dificulty, unless you’re leaving something out.

    “X’s teleporter hasn’t shown the ability for site to site teleportation. On HQ to site or site to HQ. In either case it is to or from a locked possition (Mavrick Hunter HQ), and heavily restircts its usefulness in this match.”

    He telleported right to sigma in the intro level of X5.

    “Phazon has been known to hit intangible targets in the past. Yes, the Chozo Ghost. Personally, the way I see it, the Charged Chameleon Sting needs to be dropped in regards with the Hyper Beam, Stacked Beam, Power Beam, and Phazon.”

    1) power beam hasnt hit every intangible in metriod.
    2) X’s intangibility is different from the chozo ghosts’ X goes through ALL beams and enemies with his, why shoul the power beam hit when it dosent hit every intangible?
    3)Hyper and stacked beams dont hit intangibles, power beam hits some, and samus dosent have phazon though.

    “This move sucks for the most parts. It doesn’t even propel X faster than Mach1. Why would Samus have a difficult time hitting someone that slow?”

    Because X sees her and the beams moving pitifully slow, alowing for a well-timed dodge.

    @theobserver
    Since it came up, do you have any source on the speed of X’s dash, or is it just called the “mach dash”?

  • OriginalA
    March 17, 2010
    #27

    “II. MB could have just stopped using weaker weapons as Samus was now a credbile threat.”

    This is wrong. The weapons that Mother Brain no longer uses after the Metroid attack are her most powerful ones. It is her weaker weapons that she uses against Samus while Samus has the Hyper Beam.

  • scenario
    March 17, 2010
    #28

    “Well that’s just swell because there’s the scripted X vs Vile fight where X, no matter what his upgrades or weapons (not even the almighty Hadouken), could do a thing to scratch Vile’s Ride Armor other than push it a few meters away. It took Zero’s detonation to actually vaporize this armor(Zero’s energy explanation in posts 10 and 11 of this page) and at the time, Zero was the only hunter capable of taking down Sigma. ”

    Odd that Zero was able to blow the arm off of that Ride Armor with a single buster shot. How does Zero survive a self-destruct, anyway? The wiki says he overloaded his Z-Buster, in which case Bassium is moot.

    “Scripted event number 2. The missile in Overdrive Ostrich’s stage. Turns out the missile there is a neutron missile and X wasn’t phased a single bit despite a direct-hit detonation.”

    Turns out that nuetron bombs are among the weakest types, and modern tanks can stand up to them. Nuetron bombs kill through radiation exposure, and destroys living tissue. It’s no surprise X can take it.

    “Samus using Phazon would be more of a risk since apparently she’s in 75% corrupted mode. This would only result in hypermode being shorter in duration before she risks corruption. X’s solution? Charged Chameleon sting, Mach Dash, etc. ”

    She has 10 seconds of invincibility before getting corrupted, regardless of her phazon level. After that, there’s 20 more seconds before the auto vent kicks in, and Samus can vent by firing her weapons anyway. More damage to her means more ammo, and hyper missiles drain it pretty quickly.

    “Omega Cannon? Sure it spews out radiation that Samus’ scanners can’t decipher but X tanked a direct hit from a neutron missile/ERW, the radiation from which can ionize its targets. Then again the Omega Cannon is slow moving so meh.”

    They can decipher it, it’s gamma radiation. It’s just so powerful that the scans can’t measure it. They can measure phazon radiation. It killed Gorea, the guy who drained planets of life and absorbed every weapon fired at him. It took the sacrifice of an extremely powerful psychic species to seal him. Really, they’re extinct because the strain of holding him killed the race.

    It’s really not that slow, and has a huge blast radius.

    “Honestly the only instance that the Power Beam has been able to hit the intangible were the Chozo Ghosts. Hunter Ing also have that but the only reason they are even hit by the power beam is because they revert back to their tangible state when the power beam isn’t charged. Charge the power beam and they’ll go back to their intangible forms and the shot phases right through them. Same goes with Phantoon. The power beam can’t hit him while he’s in intangible mode. I don’t see why Chameleon Sting should get be affected by the Power Beam when only one of the 3 intangible foes Samus fought could be hit by it.”

    This is what the visors are for. Chozo Ghosts, Hunter Ing, Dark Commandos, etc. can all be struck at any time, including phased out, when the right visor is equipped. Phantoon didn’t have a visor used against him.

    “When has she ever hit/reacted to anyone at that speed? Without her speed boosted shots I mean.”

    Oh, the irony. The creature you’re looking for is called Serris. It’s a super fast sea serpent (infected by X) that uses the shinespark against Samus. When Samus defeats it, she gets the Speed Booster.

    “The space pirates grew into the elite and omega pirates, in samus’ case, it made her throw up.”

    Then consider the Phazon Suit, and the effects it might have stacked onto the P.E.D.

    ” Samus hyper beam is inferior to Mother’s, one hit from her will not decrease X’s WE to zero.”

    Assumption. Through both damage and drain, it’s entirely possible.

    “To find the energy drain you shouldtake ther max drain(samus with all of her tanks) and se how much it does in one second, my guess would put it a 5 points per sec, as it seemed around the same speed of dark ather’s poison.”

    1 second of exposure took out 50 power bombs and 2 energy tanks.

    “Phazon=no”

    What? Phazon rips things apart on the atomic level. It absolutely rapes bosses, too, so I don’t see why it doesn’t count. A Hyper Missile could cause some major damage.

    “Omegacannon= dosent stack, it just replaces, so wouldnt it replace the MPH and MP1-2 beams?”

    Doesn’t replace the power beam or missiles, just the sub weapons. I don’t see why it’d replace the stack.

    “I. MB was drained by a metriod prior, it took a weapon, it could have take the others to heal samus.”

    Doubtful. The Hyper Beam was only transferred to Samus upon the Metroid’s death.

    “III. Samus could have zero missles/bombs and 1 point of energy in her shields,but she would still fire fine.”

    This is incorrect. It’s impossible to low % run Super Metroid because Mother Brain will kill you if you don’t have enough energy tanks.

    “IV. MB’s hyper beam’s continuous ray of fire exausted samus physicaly, byt executing a rapid drain it put her in a state of shock, unable to fire, or even stand.”

    This only lends credit to the energy drain. When Samus uses it, it is entirely possible to kill Mother Brain before she can counterattack, due to the stun and knockback.

    “X has the ability to fire fully charged shots at the same rate of his smaller ones. He has both wide range and homming weapons, ofensive and defensive, I dont see the dificulty, unless you’re leaving something out.”

    The Screw Attack destroys physical ranged weapons and phases through energy based ones.

    On intangibility, I already covered it with visors.

Leave a Reply:



By submitting a comment here you grant this site a perpetual license to reproduce your words and name/web site in attribution. Please try to keep the language on the clean side - for the most part, you can say what you want and use an * instead of a key vowel, and we'll know what you meant to say. Thanks!


«   |   »
Categories
Heads Up Recent Posts Latest Comments Most Popular Topics Polls

What's more important in a console game?

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...