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This stage is the lower stage on the right side of the select screen. This stage is a bit unique for being more vertical than most stages. It's a tower, and you'll be spending a lot of time climbing walls and moving upwards. Start by climbing the ladders and making your way up to the first new enemy of the stage.

Hoganmer


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This is one of the trickier regular enemies in the game. He spends most of his time blocking your shots with his shield, only opening himself to attack when he sees you're within range of his ball and chain and drops his shield to throw the spiked ball at you. The ball itself also blocks shots, so aim carefully. He can throw his weapon at an angle or straight in front of him, so be careful. You'll also run into another new enemy here.

Dodge Blaster


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These attach to walls and will fire slow-moving shots at you. They'll do their best to dodge your fire, so shoot at them when they're shooting at you. They'll have a harder time dodging your large charged shots.

Keep moving up until you reach a horizontally scrolling section.

Sine Faller


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This is... basically a Jamminger with less interesting behaviour. It will appear from above and zig zag down towards you. It has low health and it's no big deal.

Keep going right and you'll soon encounter some laser beams. The lasers themselves don't hurt you. They're sensors that will cause the nearby turrets to fire directly at you if you trip them. They're active for a few moments before briefly blinking out. Use that opening to get past without tripping them, or dash jump past the horizontally oriented ones. You can grab on to the turrets without taking damage, so feel free to put them to use as platforms.

After this section, you'll reach another section with ladders and some Tortoises. Deal with them as you proceed and you'll soon reach an area with an elevator and lots of spikes. This place is dangerous. The spikes on the walls won't necessarily one-shot you, but they'll do a lot of damage if you touch them. Your main objective here is to avoid getting crushed between the elevators and the spiked platforms as you move upwards, because that will kill you no matter how much health you have. You also have some Jammingers to deal with, but you're better off just dodging them rather than shooting them. You'll move up past them before they can regroup and come after you. Hang in there.

After the elevator section, you'll have to ascend the tower from the outside. Platforms will move in and out of the walls. Use them to make your way up, but beware of the turret enemies on them.

Slide Cannon


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These things are pretty simple. Each of the moving platforms in this area has one. They'll shoot you if you're standing on the platform before you kill them, so take them out quickly. Charged shots work well.

Ladder Yadder


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These guys move up and down ladders. They're not much of a threat but you'll have to destroy them if you want to use their ladders.

Continue upwards past the platforms and up the ladders and you'll find something you can't get yet.

Heart Tank


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This Heart Tank is unique because you need the weapon of the boss of the level it's in before you can collect it. When you return here with the Boomerang Cutter, simply fire one at it to retrieve it.

Head inside to find some Dodge Blasters and Turn Cannons on flying platforms. After you destroy the Turn Cannons, you can ride on their platforms. Put them to use and you'll eventually reach the boss' room at the top of the tower.

Boomer Kuwanger


Mega Man X screenshot - Boomer Kuwanger

This guy is sneaky, always dashing and teleporting around. We can beat him, though.

The Hard Way

He can dash left and right as well as teleport. If he runs into you while dashing, he'll toss you towards the ceiling to damage you. He throws the boomerang on the top of his head at you, too. It travels at an arc and returns to him, as boomerangs do. Time your shots to hit him after he appears after teleporting, since you can't hit him in the middle of a teleport. It takes a moment for him to completely appear in a spot so he's easy to avoid direct contact with. Climb the walls and dash jump to land across from him, then turn back at him and release a charged shot and get back on the wall and repeat until he's dead. He's actually not that hard to beat with the X Buster.

The Easy Way

Climb up to the ceiling and keep your distance while firing homing torpedoes. You don't even really have to aim them. They'll hit him eventually. If he gets too close and throws his boomerang, dash jump to the other side of the room.

You'll get a pretty handy weapon for beating him.

Boomerang Cutter

It's a boomerang! It doesn't have the longest range but it travels at an arc. (Upwards if you're on the ground or ascending in a jump, or downwards if you're descending from a jump.) It can be used to retrieve items. If a Boomerang Cutter doesn't hit an enemy, it will return to X and go right back into his weapon energy meter. If you charge it with the arm upgrade, four small boomerangs will fly out at an arc in four directions.

What's Next?


Head right back into the level and get that Heart Tank. You can exit any level you've already cleared from the pause menu, keeping any collectibles you've found, so there's no need to complete the whole level again. Then return to Spark Mandrill's stage and get the Sub Tank that was out of reach. Also collect the Heart Tank there if you were having trouble pulling off the dash wall jump.

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