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Hornet Man
25 September 2008
S.A. Renegade
Moar liek whorenet man m i riet gaiz. Uh, right, so. This guy is very tough. I'd say he's Plug Man league hard. Fortunately he's not as cheap and unpredictable as Plug Man so he is a little bit easier.
His mode of attack is to run from one end of the room to the other, jump up, and send out 3 bees that will home in on you. Dodging these hornets without being damaged is very hard, so my recommendation is to kill them every single time. Realize that it only takes 2 shots from your mega buster to kill a bee. Here's what you want to do:
When Hornet Man jumps up, get somewhat near him. I'd say around halfway to 3/4ths of the platform. Learn the exact moment when he is about to shoot out his hornets. At that moment, make a short hop to the height of the bottom bee, and press the fire button twice quickly. This should kill it. When you land, very quickly make a full jump and fire twice very quickly on the middle bee. Now they should both be dead and they haven't even homed in on you yet. Now once you land, quickly start running back. If done correctly the top bee should home in on your ground position and fly to a location relatively close to the ground. Now you can jump and shoot it twice. They should all be dead now, and Hornet Man will only now start running across the room. You can shoot him as much as you want as he's running towards you, then jump over him and continue shooting him in the back as he's running away from you. When he jumps up repeat the procedure. This is the ideal pattern you should strive for.
Obviously it's not that easy, and you're bound to make a mistake at some point due to human error. Usually it involves missing with your shots and leaving a bee alive when you should have killed it. Or perhaps being too slow and making it so that the top bee homes in on your aerial position and flies to a location too high up for you to shoot it. When this happens, you'll be forced to dodge them.
For the purposes of bee dodging, you'll want to learn the exact time it takes for them to home in on your position and start flying. Generally speaking you don't want to be moving too much before they start flying. I recommend staying in a relatively stationary (yet safe. As in, not a centimeter away from them) position so that you know exactly where they will fly towards, and then move away only once they're about to. Regarding the specific example I mentioned of being too slow so that the top bee flies to a location too high up (which happens pretty often and isn't too dangerous), what you want to do is stand beneath it, and RIGHT as it's about to start flying, run towards Hornet Man. When the bee comes at you, quickly jump AWAY from Hornet Man and over the bee. It should fly towards the bottom and past the ground. Make sure to jump over Hornet Man after the bee makes its move. Once you do, it should be about to make its next move. You should be above it. Stay there. When it's just about to start flying jump to one side. It'll pass by you and be very high up. Now if it gives up at this point, Hornet Man will send out his next swarm. If it goes for another pass, dodge it like you did the first time. In this case Hornet Man will run across the room a second time, giving you some nice shooting opportunities.
If you leave several bees alive, you'll have your work cut out for you. Dodging them works more or less in the same way, except it's much harder and dangerous. You really should try not to be in this situation.
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