Pretty much most of multi-hitting chips are OP. Slap Attack+, Double Point on any of them and they will become boss killer. In BN5, Knight Soul + DrillArm is one of the earliest accessible combos to kill bosses.
@@CabeliotCometier Proto Soul with VarSword and NeoVar is pretty damn busted as well. Proto Soul Step NeoVar DualLife (even the name of this combo seems insane lmao) is just cracked.
AirHockey folders are great for boss fights, and against DarkSoul variants, I think this is completely fair. Those guys will spam the same Gigachip 3 times and act like that's normal
Hands-down my favorite chip in the entire series. I was never really good at strategizing, meaning I really have no idea how to build a great chip folder, but chaining four air hockeys together was something even my stupid 12-year-old brain could figure out. Sure, it was cheap - but also so very satisfying to blast a chain of air hockeys right through your enemy and see their HP quickly counting down. This was at a time where I didn't even know about Super Armor yet, so I legitimately required this as a strategy to S-Rank any of the bosses.
airhockey don't need no stink'n _strategy._ Lol, in all seriousness any truely great chip folder is likely to feature that chip anyway so you're part of the way there regardless.
@@Tega0079 It makes one wonder if the devs knew that Air Hockey would be so broken that they purposely made all but one of the final bosses have virtually no floor to prevent its use (or rather abuse). The only final boss Air Hockey can be used on since its introduction is Gregar. Small wonder those viruses went extinct after BN4.
@@silverbladeslash5151 As after BN4, Airhockey was reduced to being a sort of legacy chip, by that I mean those Battle Chips from past games with the grey'd display art for the Battle Chips that don't have any additional versions after the ones you get, and that it's respectful virus being completely gone, forcing you to get them from other means, such as Higsby's bargain bin of Battle Chips if I recall correctly. It's been a very long time since I played any Battle Network game, but I plan to play them once the BN Legacy Collection releases next year
@@LegendKillerRAB My fist is the divine chip! Blossom , o fallen seed, and draw upon they hidden code!! Grant unto thee the power of the glorious 'Mother of Air Hockey'!
Nothing unbalanced about max Karma MegaMan using one Air Hockey 3 to multi-hit for obscene damage and also get a free Full Synchro without even countering.
"MegaMan Battle Network is a Perfectly Balanced Game with No Exploits", says SpiffMan.EXE as he shows off a folder of nothing but AreaGrabs and AirHockeys.
The cool thing is Air Hockey is also pretty fun and sometimes useful, even before crazy scaling with +30's etc., it's just a good general chip that pivots well into a crazy powerful folder (Note: For some reason, it also breaks guards. No need to wait around for stoneskin enemies or get around shielding entities etc., it's an MVP)
@@Gnurklesquimp2 Air Hockey has always had the Break-Elemental type, so that explains why it goes through guards. I recently started using it more often in the Legacy Collection and I gotta say, it's so much more fun to try out every different chip and find new ways to adapt and play with what you've got.
@@ShintaTakama Yep, I often change up the folder just to see how it fares in certain places, I very often find new interactions and nuances. It's especially cool cause it's all rng, so it's nice to be able to rely on many different things Ohh yeah, I know it's got the element, I just said ''for some reason'' cause it's already so strong without that, this just makes it so convenient/consistent too
I never did until I enabled cheats to quickly grind chips. It would have taken dozens of hours to get multiple decent chip folders at different points in the game playing legit. Enable 1-shot kill on random mobs I have already defeated and now I am actually able to strategize in building my folders. I do hope for any possible sequel they make chip acquisitions much more convenient and easy. The game is more fun when you can go for different coherent builds throughout the campaign.
DS Navis utilize chips you have in your folder, and programs you have equipped on your NC. For example, If you put air shoes or fast barrier on, the dark soul navis will have them as well. This can be especially funny if you're playing blue moon, as the NC removal effect of its namesake giga chip works on them (and you if they hit you with it).
I played this game when I came out at immediately spotted how broken airhoc was. What a great chip. I needed something cheap after using area grab meteors in BN3. This might even be stronger.
If you wanna break BN3 even worse, you can favorite Time Bomb with a few mem up, and then load up on dmg +20 * for the few viruses with more than 300 HP. That's how I cheese'd all of the Virus encounters to the end as a little tyke, even the Omega virus gauntlet fights fall in 3 seconds if you stay in the right row during the count down.
@@silverhetch3383 See, what I'm saying here is that double damage doesn't mean much when MetalMan just leaves. Air Hockey is effective because it stuns the enemy in place, but a Navi with super armor is effectively going to take 1 or two hits before RNGing off to some other location. This becomes more of a problem with higher level version of MetalMan, since his movement is faster.
I'm still pissed at how much post-game content is locked behind multiplayer. It's like an early glimpse at all the wacky disc-locked-content hijinks Capcom gets up to later.
You're mistaking with Battle Network 3. From Battle Network 4 onward, every opposite version exclusive chips were considered "secret" chips in your version and therefore not required for 100% In my current file of Red Sun, I have the symbols for beating the game, getting all souls, having all standard and giga chips, and defeating Bass Omega I'm just missing the symbol for Mega Chips and Program advances, and I never touched multiplayer.
@@repeekyraidcero Accurate seeing how that other critter franchise has had Smogon as its main multiplayer hub for the longest time, and the fastest way of making blood feud enemies short of actual murder is trying to enjoy yourself on any competitive platform run by Smogon.
The absolute worst area of the game. I can excuse Dark Megaman for using the same chips in your folder, but the other dark navis being able to use them as well was plain awful
@@BeansWhoGame Aka "Pure agony." Excluding the combat, MMBN4's everything else was really bad. The stories were literally written by school children as part of the (then) 20th anniversary for Mega Man and the pacing of the game is bad even by MMBN standards. Playing through all that god-awful minigames alone shaved a couple years off my life, I swear.
@@atmosdwagon4656 BN4 was the only game where I brought the Cannon chips to the final boss because of how badly your power progressed through the story. I haven't played it in ~10 years but I still remember that.
If you think this is bad, just wait till MegaMan finds out that he can actually step on the blue panels. I mean are you telling me he can't? Sword just got 10 percent better.
Broh when I was kid I only used the advance program of Yoyos in BN5 in order to get the S Rank in the postgame, I never saw the air hockey potencial haha
I always remembered Air Hockey being the best chips in the game lol Not even a competition besides maybe dark chips which I was too scared of a child to use back then
The search man fight I was like "why go to menu he is a buster shot to defeat" then sees it does invisible "wow what an asshole" and yet does nothing!!
