Topic: Nitro Man's weakness (MM10)

Didn't want to hijack another MM10 thread to ask this (quickly resolvable) question...and before anyone tells me to just look up a list of weaknesses, I'd rather not, as I'm trying to figure them out for myself and don't want to be spoiled.

Therefore please do not discuss other weaknesses in this thread! kthx!!

Anyway...I was fighting Nitro Man yesterday, trying out several weapons on him to see what worked best. I used the Thunder Wool, and though hitting him directly with it didn't do much, he took a lot of damage as he rolled through the lighting strikes. (Especially since he'd roll through the same strike two or three times if I got lucky.) But I kept dying before the wool would finish him off.

Eventually I tried the Chill Spike instead for some reason, and it killed him easily.

My question is this: does anyone happen to know if both are equally damaging to him? The Thunder Wool was doing a great job against him...it was just hard to stay alive long enough to see it through. Do the bosses in this game have dual weaknesses, or was I imagining the damage done as being comparable to the Chill Spike?

You're imagining thing. CHill Spike does more damege. Only if you lay it out in spike tracks though. If you drop the "snowball" directly on him it doesn't hurt him much. No dual weaknesses.

agreed.

Thanks JayArr. It seemed like the lightning strike was really nailing him, but it's hard to concentrate on exactly how much energy is being deducted when you're also trying to stay alive.

Thanks man.

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The real question I want to know is, what is the Giant Crab's weakness in Wily's Stage 2? I can be beat him on normal or Hard mode with the pea shooter, but every other weapon i tried didn't do much damage at all. I ended up using Blade man's weapon.

The Chill Spike definitely. When he charges at you, make sure you throw the spikes on the floor. When he runs over it, it does considerable damage.

Sheep man's weapon, but it's hard to hit with. Commando Man's weapon does good damage as well, send the missile into his mouth, and the explosion should hit both eyes.

Thanks, I'll try those next time around. Blade Man's weapon served me very well though; I ended up taking almost no damage the second time through. The blade can hit both eyes at once, so if you get into a good position and keep mashing the button, it'll take him down quickly, weakness or not.

Now I've got to memorize patterns for the *******ng Block Devil. Arrrrgh.

I just tried thunder wool against nitro man, today and after he raced through two lightnings, he looses a heavy chunk of health!
i am afraid that Chill spike still works best, but I'll try to see whether other rm's behave similar to thunder wool

Thunder Wool is equally powerful against all robot masters. Pump Man included, though given that it also destroys his shield, it has further uses against him too.

Commando Man's weapon is strangely ineffective against Blade Man, even though everyone says to use that weapon on him.
Sorta related, I beat Magma Man in MM9 with the Plug Ball.

You don't hit him with the missile, but with the shockwave blast it creates when it hits the ground/wall