Ground Hunter

"Fires mini Stingray drones that race across the ground. Effective against enemies on walls and floors. Push down while the Stingray drones are flying to command them to fall."

- In-game text

Ground Hunter (グランドハンター) is the Special Weapon that X obtains from defeating Jet Stingray in Mega Man X4. In normal fire, X fires a small stingray-like robot that travels across the ground and down walls. By pushing DOWN on the D-pad, the drone will instead drop straight down from X's buster and continue moving along the ground - the drone will otherwise float diagonally downwards to the ground when DOWN is not pressed. Ground Hunters can only travel downwards on walls regardless of whether they were fired at a wall or if they simply followed the terrain to a 90° angle. Up to three Ground Hunters can be present on the screen at a time. When charged, X fires a large energy stingray drone that goes straight across the screen. By pressing UP or DOWN on the D-pad, the stingray will even produce small energy shots in its wake above and below it.

Ground Hunter is Slash Beast's weakness and is effective against Sigma's disfigured head form in the battle against him. 

Similar Weapons

 * Search Snake from Mega Man 3

Counterpart to this Weapon

 * Hienkyaku