Dust Crusher

Dust Crusher (ダストクラッシャー), also known as Dust Crasher in Mega Man: The Power Battle, is Dust Man's Special Weapon. It takes the form of a bomb encased in a ball of scrap metal, that explodes and splits into four pieces of shrapnel (diagonally) when it hits something solid.

Dust Crusher is Skull Man's weakness, but Skull Man is immune to it when his Skull Barrier is up. It is also the weakness of the Square Machine and Cossack Catcher, and can deal a moderate amount of damage against Dive Man.

Damage Data Chart
Known damage values in units for Mega Man 4.

Capacity
In Mega Man 4 and Mega Man III, one shot uses 1 weapon energy unit. With a full weapon energy gauge, Mega Man can use Dust Crusher 28 times in Mega Man 4 and 19 times in Mega Man III.

Bosses weak against Dust Crusher

 * Mega Man 4: Skull Man, Dive Man, Square Machine and Cossack Catcher
 * Mega Man III: Skull Man, Dive Man
 * Mega Man: The Power Battle: Magnet Man, Wily Machine

Other media
Mega Man uses Dust Crusher in episode 5 of the Mega Man animated series. However, it was radically changed from the version used in the games- instead of being a thrown weapon, it took the form of the Vacuum on Dust Man's head attaching to the shrunken Mega Man's back, giving him the power to push and pull things towards him.

Trivia

 * Dust Crusher shares its name with an enemy from Mega Man 7, but they're not related.

Similar Weapons

 * Silk Shot from Mega Man X2 and Mega Man Xtreme