Slash Claw

"Mega Man: The Slash Claw cuts things apart, doesn't it? Dr. Light: Yes, but it has limited range."

- Mega Man and Dr. Light

Slash Claw (スラッシュクロー) is Slash Man's Special Weapon. It allows Mega Man to swing his arm to generate a crescent-shaped beam of energy straight forward. It is a short range weapon, but the slashes are very effective against smaller enemies. This is Spring Man's weakness; hitting him with this weapon causes him to fall to pieces and prevents him from using his Wild Coil. It is also the weakness of Guts Man G and HannyaNED² in its source game (and does 2 points of damage to Junk Man), Shade Man and the Wily Machine in Mega Man: The Power Battle, and Cut Man in Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters.

In Mega Man 10, the Weapons Archive blocks in the first Wily Castle stage uses the Slash Claw when it uploads Slash Man's data file.

Damage Data Chart
Known damage values in units for Mega Man 7.


 * For Guts Man G, reflecting a rock using Slash Claw does 4 units of damage (as opposed to 2 if used directly).

Bosses weak against Slash Claw

 * Spring Man: Mega Man 7
 * Guts Man G: Mega Man 7
 * HannyaNED²: Mega Man 7
 * Shade Man: Mega Man: The Power Battle
 * Wily Machine: Mega Man: The Power Battle
 * Cut Man: Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U
The Slash Claw is used by Mega Man in the fighting game, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U as his back aerial attack. Mega Man turns around and quickly slashes opponents behind him with it, hitting them three times and inflicting 5% in the first hit, 4% in the second and 3% in the third, for a total of 11% if all hits land on the opponent. The last hit sends opponents back. One of Mega Man's alternate color swaps in this game also resembles his color swap for the Slash Claw in Mega Man 7.

Trivia

 * Cut Man's weakness to the Slash Claw in Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters is ironic, as he is a cutter-based Robot Master.