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Magma Man
25 September 2008
S.A. Renegade
Magma Man isn't that hard if you're just trying to kill him. But if you're trying to no damage run him he's absolutely HORRENDOUS. By far and away the hardest and most bullshit robot master in the game.
He only has one attack, and it's firing his flame weapon. But it fires 3 shots and is incredibly fast and unpredictable. Also note that he only fires when he's in the middle of a jump.
Look at the shape of the battlefield. It's very uneven and pretty unique. There's a single platform with the lowest elevation right smack in the middle. We'll call this the pit. Then the two platforms adjacent to it will be called the inner platforms, the ones after it the middle platforms and the ones after that the outer platforms. Throughout the fight, you will want to stay EXCLUSIVELY on the pit and inner platforms. This is the safest place you can be in and where we will implement our strategy.
Obviously there is one problem. You do not start here. You start on the left outer platform. You will have to walk over to the pit. Now let me tell you, doing this without taking damage is VERY hard to do. You don't know where Magma Man will shoot his flames, and you don't know where he will jump to. It's very likely that you'll be hit when you try to make your way down. If you still want to try and not get hit, I'd recommend dropping down to the middle platform as soon as you can, then doing a short hop to jump over one of the flames Magma Man will now shoot at you (which may or may not be heading to your spot on the platform. Like I said, he's mad unpredictable), then quickly drop down to the inner platform and hope he drops down to the pit. Yes, that's right, hope. This doesn't always work out how you want it to. He might jump and land right on the platform you're currently on. In any case, if it does work out, and you managed to do it quickly, you can jump over his head and on the other interior platform. If you didn't do it quickly, you might want to stay where you are and just hope that he jumps over your head and lands on the middle platform.
But whatever. Now that you're safely positioned on the key area, you can be in much greater control over the battle. Here's how the strategy goes:
If Magma Man is standing on an interior platform, you should stand on the OTHER interior platform. Watch him. Here he can do one of two things. He can either jump down on the pit, or jump on the platform you're currently standing on.
If he decides to jump to the interior platform you're on, you'll know because he will make a huge jump as opposed to a short hop. In this instance, you'll want to quickly move to the OTHER interior platform. i.e: the one he was in before he made the jump. You can do this one of two ways. The safest way is to drop down to the pit and then hop on over to it. The faster way is to jump over the pit and land on it. But you can't jump too high or you'll hit Magma Man when he's going past you. Anyway, now you've safely traded places, and he will, again, have to choose between the two decisions I mentioned earlier.
If he decides to jump down to the pit, you will know because, well, he will make a short hop and fall on the pit. Don't worry, the flame shot won't hit you. Now that he's there, you need to very quickly jump over his head and land on the other inner platform. Make sure that you're close to him when you make the jump so that you clear the distance without touching him. Depending on how fast you are, he will now jump to either of the two middle platforms. It doesn't matter which one he chooses. If you made the jump correctly neither decision should result in you being damaged. That being said, him jumping over you is the slightly more dangerous one of the two.
Now, when he's standing on one of the middle platforms what you want to do is quickly drop down to the pit. The reason for this is that when he makes his next jump and shoots, a flame may or may not fall directly on the inner platform you're standing on (that's right. May or MAY NOT. Told you he was unpredictable). So we're going to drop down on the pit just to be on the safe side. Now from here Magma Man can do one of two things. He may either hop down to the inner platform closest to him, in which case you should jump on the other inner platform, or he may do a huge jump aimed right at the pit you're currently standing on. In which case you should jump over to either one of the inner platform. Whatever move he makes, this now puts you in one of the situations I've already described above and we've come full circle.
That should about cover the strategy. If you do the right moves and do them correctly you shouldn't be taking any damage at all. Of course, like always, this is much easier said than done and will require quite a bit of practice. Watch my video to see how it all goes down.
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