Oil Slider

Oil Slider (オイルスライダー) is Oil Man's Special Weapon from Mega Man Powered Up. It shoots out a blob of oil that flattens and can damage enemies. Aside from that, it could also be ridden by Mega Man like a snowboard. It automatically moves forward, and when there's enough speed, it can be used to attack enemies by jumping. Mega Man can get off the oil board by holding UP then jumping (which also allows Mega Man to double jump using it) or running into a wall of some sort, and it floats automatically in water. However, if Mega Man jumps onto it as it's floating, it can still be ridden like a snowboard as normal, and it will continue to float upwards even as Mega Man rides it, allowing him to ride it along the water's surface. Like many weapons with secondary effects in the series, the oil blob does little damage by itself, but the "oil sled" does much more, though Mega Man will likely take damage from anything that isn't immediately destroyed by it.

Oil Slider is Elec Man's weakness.

Damage Data Chart
Damage values in units in Mega Man Powered Up (New Style only).


 * For Oil Slider, the first number is damage done with the oil blob; the second number is damage done when hitting a boss while sliding on the oil sled.


 * For Copy Robot, the first set of numbers are listed assuming the player plays as Mega Man when not equipped with any Special Weapon. The second set of damage numbers is when Copy Mega Man is equipped with Thunder Beam, since his stats will match that of Elec Man's when using it.


 * An asterisk (*) indicates the weapon will cause a weakness reaction for that boss as well as inflicting damage.


 * For Wily Machine's two forms, using Oil Slider while he is currently using Thunder Beam will inflict four units of damage and knocks him back. Otherwise, it will inflict normal damage.



Other appearances
Oil Slider's only other appearance is in the Mega Man Archie Comic series. Although Mega Man himself never made use of the ability yet, Oil Man had used it to vandalize Light Labs while lying in wait for Roll to arrive home to abduct her as bait for the other six Robot Masters. He later used it on Mega Man after discovering his "slick trick" regarding having Agent Krantz rescue Roll while he fends off the (seemingly) reprogrammed six Robot Masters. After his joining Light Labs, he used his abilities for good.

In Issue 12, Oil Man used the Oil Slider, alongside the respective Special Weapons of Ice Man, Fire Man, and Elec Man, to take out some yellow Sniper Joes guarding the gates of Wily Castle 2, aided largely by Time Man's Time Slow ability.

Oil Man later made use of the Oil Slider's oil absorbing functions in Roll With It when aiding in rescuing several people from a ship that had run aground and was about to sink, alongside Roll, Quake Woman, and the then-recently activated Splash Woman, to absorb any spilt oil.