Mega Man leads with going through various weapons to try to find a weakness or whatever his most efficient weapon has to be in taking down enemies. He's also prone to dodging attacks, and combined with the fact that Lance is almost always stationary on the ground to the point where he struggles to dodge enemies on a similar speed to him without his jet, he's more likely to be hit. Also, if Mega Man dies, he can come back with spare bodies. Given how he can carry 99 of them, you'd need to kill him that amount of times to for him to die for good. And if Lance dies at any point, the battle will just reset back to the beginning where Rock will have his 99 lives as if nothing happened.
Which is hard for him to do on the ground against someone on the same speed as him and with a good aim. And yes Lance has his skills, but they've all been shown to be dodgeable.
Mega Man is the type to switch to the most efficient weapons for all the enemies and forms he faces, so this isn't much of an issue for him.
Not the first time Mega Man has had to deal with more than one opponent in battle, especially since he has some AoE attacks to handle just that. Hell, with how the Neon Valkyrie functions, it acts similar to many Wily Machines that Mega Man fights regularly.
Because he never at any point gets his jet in that game. Combined with the fact that EBF5 is a reboot to the entire series, even if he got his memory of the past games back, it still doesn't change the fact that he doesn't have his jet.
Which again, are dodgeable. And depending on what armors and weapons Lance has on, it's going to change his resistances, which could potentially leave him vulnerable to moves like Flash Stopper, Time Stopper, Gravity Hold (Which doubles as BFR that the player controlling Lance can't reset from), Spark Shock, and even getting transmuted into a 1-Up with the M-Tank (Which Lance can never resist no matter what armor he has on).
Fair on the instant death part. But like I said, they dodgeable to which Mega Man's entire strategy is to find patterns when avoiding attacks proficiently. Also, Mega Man has fought and taken hits from magic users before (In the form of Magic Man).
AoE attacks that have been shown to be dodgeable in the game. I have never neglected those. Fair point on the antimatter flux, but Mega Man has had experience dealing with explosive users. As much as scanning Mega Man is useful for Lance, Mega Man has been used to fighting opponents who know him.
More specifically, gravity pushing him down/lifting him up. He's never been shown to resist having his gravitational direction reversed upside down. And it's possible for him to still get affected by the attack if he's not wearing the gear that resists said attack, and speaking which, Magic Card allows Mega Man to grab items, so he has the potential to disarm Lance with it. As for Flash Stopper, it emits a light bright enough to stun enemies, and also layered since Bright Man using that weapon has been shown to affect Mega Man with it despite how he could take hits and still move from Spark Man's Spark Shock which can immobilize enemies.
He's got the Speed Gear to enhance his own speed when needed, and if Lance isn't wearing any stun resistant gear, he can be affected by time-based weapons.
If you never bothered to read:
Lance can't give his equipment to his Valkyrie. And even then, Mega Man has plenty of weapons that don't do any elemental damage.
Which can, of course, be stolen by Mega Man through the use of Grab Buster or Magic Card. And even then, not only has Mega Man fought opponents faster than him (IE. Quick Man), but he can make himself on par with Lance's evasion boost with either the speed gear or AoE attacks.
No I mean Lance's Valkyrie by default has those resistances as stated in his EBF2 key.
I knew that, I thought you were referring to Lance giving his equipment to his tank to stack the resistances based on the poor wording, lmao.
No
What I meant was that he could just hide behind the tank when Mega Man uses Fire and/or Air Manipulation, so he'll be free to use his equipment for other effects/resistances.
Except in the actual game, he never even tries that. He's instead standing next to it all the time, never going behind it.
Fair enough, except Mega Man will eventually begin to realize what these items are capable of doing to the point where he will try to stop him from using these.
An omnidirectional flash
He does fight in the tank during his boss fights, so I think hiding in it is an option.
No, in all of his bossfights in EBF5, he fights aside it, not on it like he did in EBF2.
Permanently. Also, it's worked on flying enemies, so...
Isn't it NLF to assume that it would still remain in effect even after they already left the atmosphere?
No it isn't, they just aren't seen come back lmao.
Except he is being controlled by the player here. What the player can't actually do however is make him dodge in battle (As this is EBF5 Lance, not BH2 Lance), it's completely random and most of the time against someone on the same speed as him he just can't do it.
I've also mentioned that being another status Rock doesn't resist, but not only is this temporary, but he's been used to fighting buster only on certain occasions.
Dodging in battle is an automatic response in the game isn't it? So Lance can/does dodge without the player's input.
Which is why I said he dodges at complete random and that he struggles to dodge the attacks of someone on the same speed as him.
Again, I literally said that the disabling is dodgeable, and even then it's temporary. And if Mega Man dies the first time when he comes face to face with that skill, he will know how to dodge it.
Lance's evasion boost should allow him to dodge pretty consistently.
And Mega Man's Speed Gear allows for the same effect. Plus, if he notices Lance taking out a can of energy drink and he's already experienced it before, nothing stops him from just stealing the can with Grab Buster/Magic Card.
