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Hippoplatter (referred to in Nintendo Power as the "Hippo Launcher") is a mini-boss enemy of Mega Man 4. There are two of them in Ring Man's stage. Hippoplatter shoots homing missiles at you, and you need to shoot the rings to make the platform come down to you, but the rings quickly regenerate. For one of the two, use Flash Stopper to stop the missiles and buy some breathing room; for the other, use Rain Flush to strike the hippo AND the missiles at the same time. Pharaoh Shot also does a good job of destroying the missiles without using any energy, while the projectile can hit the hippo without destroying any rings. From Mega Man IV, two of them show up in Stone Man's level alone.