Pharaoh Shot is one of the best weapons in that game for sure, if not the best. I used it to fight Drill Man so I could get the Rush Jet early to make Ring Man's stage easier. Of course, it wasn't needed as direly as in Heat Man's or Magnet Man's stages, but hey, it's the Rush Jet for crying out loud.

But TBH, I never fought Pharaoh Man without the Flash Stopper, because I only played MM4 once. It's just so freaking cheap. Sure, it works on only one Robot Master, but for going through stages it's probably one of the best panic buttons in the series so far (and by so far I mean the six NES games).

At any rate, though, I managed to beat Burst Man by using an E-tank (I don't think I've ever seen one, but for some reason I had THREE), and Cloud Man was a complete joke with Danger Wrap (or, as I like to call it, what Bubble Lead should've been all along). It really WAS as harmless as Pharaoh Man with the Flash Stopper. Next up is Junk Man... I've heard that the Junk Shield is just plain junk instead of a miserable scrap heap like the previous shield weapons (to the questionable exception of the Leaf Shield, which did come in handy at times), but still nothing like that shield from MM9 which I forget the name of because I haven't played it yet.

...okay. The Junk Shield can take more than one hit like the Leaf Shield did (and unlike all the other previous shields). But unlike the Leaf Shield, I can move around with it. And unlike the Skull and Plant Barriers, I can use it for offense! Someone must've been impaled on a ceremonial pole for that oversight.

Part 33: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkhcb1FTa-A&fmt=18

Edit: EPIC WIN UP AHEAD.

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/058/2/3/WTH_it__s_a_ZOROARK__by_Figuritas.png

Edit 2: Part 34 up! Now with more wholesome 4Kids bashing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ULiXV_Se4U&fmt=18

Wanna bet some kids actually booted up their Pokémon copies, trying to evolve Arbok by any means imaginable?

ScrewAttack had a feature on the 10 worst Robot Masters, and #1 was Plant Man. While I can't disagree that Plant Man sucks... what was Top Man doing at #7? Lamest Robot Master, lamest weapon in the entire series (though there WERE easier fights than this one)... and then, while they go and openly mock Charge Kick and Top Spin, not a SINGLE WORD on the Plant Barrier, which rivals them in sheer uselessness. Heck, they bring up how the Power Stone sucks, then proceed to show a player attempting to kill something that's right in front of him with it! Jesus... the Power Stone has a niche, and it's killing something that's anywhere BUT straight ahead! Sure, there are weapons that do it much better in other games, like Rain Flush or Centaur Flash, but in Megaman 5, what were you going to use for that?

Yeah, Hard Knuckle eats several late bosses like popcorn. Sucks against enemies that like to move, but if you're a sitting duck (or Top Man) it'll make you pay.

And the Power Stone wouldn't have had much use had it been in most other games (especially 2, 4 and 6), but it reaches places no other weapon in MM5 can, and kills enemies long before they become a threat to you. Water Wave? Straight ahead. Star Crash? Straight ahead, Gyro Attack? Straight ahead. Napalm Bomb? On the floor in front of you. Crystal Eye? Unusable in most of the situations where I used the Power Stone. Gravity Hold? Good luck with THAT. Charge Kick? Surely you jest.

Edit: Oh dear... this is my lucky day. What do I mean by that? Once again, YouTube's being an ass, but I'll try and get the new video up tomorrow. This is truly awesome.

Edit 2: There we go. Mecha birdie go!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySOe1OpWLPY&fmt=18

Edit 3: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK

Go take a look at Chugga's latest video, and check out the related videos. Yeah, I'm so screwed.

And... did I just see fiery Quick Man lasers in Turbo Man's stage? Without any time-stopping device? Super. I get the feeling I'm gonna be stuck there for a long time! BTW, I'm totally in love with the Junk Shield. You sure the Jewel Satellite is better?

Umm, layout? I was referring to the fact that the two videos at the top of the list are MINE! That means Chugga fanboys are coming for me! Okay, maybe it's not that harsh, but I AM getting a spike in subscriptions, and I got insulted by some douche who clearly found my videos through Chugga's channel.

And TSF's telling me I have the only finished LP of Crystal... I'm having a hard time believing it, since it's so popular. I can sort of understand Ken's Labyrinth, since it's obscure, but Pokémon Crystal? Well, at any rate, this isn't going to last long! Only as long as Chugga takes to beat the game - which will probably NOT be 149 videos.

One of the reasons Chugga is not all the fanboys make him out to be:

He cuts out so much from the game in the name of 'professionalism'. His job isn't to entertain, like most LPers, but to make something that can be used as a walkthrough. (Kind of pointless given the effectiveness of text-based walkthroughs, but I suppose they'd be good for people who are too lazy to read.) I mean, look at Wind Waker. He sped up the Savage Labyrinth, not even commentating over the toughest fights. He skipped over almost ALL of the sailing, and rigidly structured everything he did in that game. In my opinion, that makes an LP less enjoyable. Now, he's going to do Crystal, but his LP will be infinitely inferior to yours for two reasons:

1. He skips all trainer battles.
2. He talks mostly about the game, which provides very little worth commentary-wise in the long run.

Now, his editing improves his work somewhat, but it still remains boring and uninteresting because of how seriously he takes it. He also treats his audience like children... Probably because that's what makes up 99% of his fanbase. You won't see him going into IVs, EVs, natures, or things like that.

Just curious, what were the IVs for that Skarm? I had seen it a couple days ago, and it made me ponder the unlikelihood of a wild poke having such awesome IVs. The only time I've ever caught something in the wild and not had it suck total ass was for a one-off legend or uber.

Yeah, agreed with you there, and it doesn't help that Skarm's movepool is mostly support and sucks for ingame.

While glancing at some serebii pages and having a vague memory twitched, I looked it up and noticed that the pokedex entries for HGSS are taken nearly verbatim from GSC, if the poke existed at that point. Someone decided "fuck this" when writing slightly altered entries for the 492 and took a little shortcut for the first half.

Speaking of missing MegaMan in relation to traction, it may interest you to know that one of the most annoying enemies in MM10 are slug-like Mets that shoot blobs of goo at you, which stick to you on contact and linger a long while. They do no damage whatsoever.

No, they just murder your traction. Whenever you move, you slide like crazy. Whenever you get hit, you slide backward like crazy. Forget about stopping. Naturally, these things infest areas with plenty of pits to fall into and plenty of enemies that are able to harass you from wherever you stand.

During the second half of the level, should you opt to take a lower underwater route, you get to deal not only with these things, but current that constantly pushes you anyway, which only magnifies the issue.

The fun doesn't end there. These enemies are reactive and won't pop up to let you kill them unless you don't shoot, which makes them duck under their helmets. To kill them you must bait a shot, let them fire, and quickly shoot the blob directly in front (it launches three, which fan out) then again to peg the Met before it ducks again.

They love to put these things in places you can't immediately reach, so they can effectively fire at you from angles while you make jumps and deal with enemies above them. Or below them, as their slug bodies allows them to cling to the ceiling and creep along it.

That said, you don't learn to hate these things until hard mode (on top of being put to better use in underwater areas, they're also added to a low-gravity environment full of those drill bits from mm2, which you'll slide and crash into if you aren't careful, among other things.)

Actually, there is. The Triple Blade will slice through their blobs and keep going, hopefully killing the Met as well. I've also found that if you know they're there and fire pre-emptively, you won't trigger their duck protection and they'll be killed that way also. The ones that aren't level with you are the ones that can be really hard to deal with.

Also, since I recently got annoyed with this and did something about it, apparently the customization menus for this site aren't all messed up and unusable any more, so you can go to the account section and disable all the various notifications you'll get for minor shit like responses to your topic and being quoted. Fiiiiiiiiiiiinally!