Not really. Sure he gets upset, but he's clear-headed in combat to do the strategies that I mentioned before and I don't even think there's an instance of him just charging in with blind rage all Hulk-style. Also, why wouldn't Bass try to stomp Proto? He knows it's a straight up fight and he knows Proto is his enemy here so he wouldn't hold back. Like I said, he doesn't play games.
Proto Man is more likely to do so. Especially since Bass doesn’t even know about beat’s invincibility.
But... he was there.
Bass had an entirely different power up
I think that's true yeah, but the shield only covers straight forward projectiles. Weapons that have AoE or something like a freezing attack at Proto's feet or a screen nuke isn't going to help so the shield isn't as useful there. Besides, Bass likely knows to utilize unconventional weapons like that as opposed to just spamming weapons that can get easily get reflected since his whole game plan is going to revolve around getting past that shield as that's a big advantage against him.
The gameplay might not show it, but The Power Fighters was a teamwork based story.
Where was it a thing in MM&B?
It's one of Mega Man's upgrades in the game, kinda hard for Bass to miss it.
Beat has to arrive and drop the barrier on Proto Man.
It should be invincible itself as it's the thing that provides invincibility. Bass and Rock don't actually work together in the game it's either one of them
Beat doesn't wear it, he just carries it.
I mean, I don't think there's a single scene where they work together
Huh. Fair then.
If Bass doesn’t go treble boost I think Proto can handle him. While they aren’t exactly comparable to Treble , he can also gain support from the MM9 bees, also, treble primarily attacks by charging, and Proto has superior lifting strength so he could overpower him
Yeah, but that doesn't change anything.
Proto surely underestimated King too. And Bass fighting Rock even if serious isn't more concrete than Proto due to him being amped. He was overconfident, but that's his weakness in general.
Except he did. Like the devil in MM9 and Gemini Man in the arcade games.
Well he didn't fix himself you know
Regardless of the MM8 fight, Bass has fought Rock many other times seriously such as MM7, Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters, intro scene in MM8 without Evil Energy and probably some others I forgot. So Bass still fought Rock seriously in other instances without Evil Energy.
