Mega Man X2 Walkthrough

Walkthrough from Mega Man X2.

Fastest Route For Item Collection
This is the fastest route to collect all of the 16 items in the game. Each step assumes you are defeating the boss at the end of that stage unless otherwise specified or they have already been defeated. It is recommended to die to exit Overdrive Ostrich's stage on the first visit as he may be too difficult for some players and his weakness will not yet have been acquired.


 * 1) Wire Sponge's stage. Acquire heart and energy tank.  (2 / 16 items)
 * 2) Wheel Gator's stage. (None)
 * 3) Overdrive Ostrich's stage. Acquire heart and Air Dash.  (Die to exit stage)  (4 / 16 items)
 * 4) Bubble Crab's stage. Acquire heart.  (5 / 16 items)
 * 5) Flame Stag's stage. Acquire heart and energy tank.  (7 / 16 items)
 * 6) Wheel Gator's stage. Acquire heart and X-Buster.  (9 / 16 items)
 * 7) Bubble Crab's stage. Acquire energy tank.  (10 / 16 items)
 * 8) Morph Moth's stage. Acquire armor upgrade.  (11 / 16 items)
 * 9) Magna Centipede's stage. Acquire heart and energy tank.  (13 / 16 items)
 * 10) Crystal Snail's stage. Acquire heart and helmet scanner.  (15 / 16 items)
 * 11) Morph Moth's stage. Acquire heart.  (16 / 16 items)
 * 12) Overdrive Ostrich's stage. (None)

Dinosaur Tank: Wheel Gator
You MUST have the buster parts, leg parts, and Speed burner to do this. Get to the highest point you can before the spike wall. Charge up fully and get the Speed Burner ready. Jump as high as you can on the ledge, quickly air dash, then burn dash (fully charged Speed Burner) and hope you get it without dieing.

Volcanic Zone: Flame Stag
Charge fully before doing this. If you're fast enough you can dash triangle-jump the walls to avoid the lava and get to the heart tank by a fully charged blast (maybe a little more shots after) to the door enemy, grab the heart tank, and keep going up and out.

Weather Control: Wire Sponge

 * Heart Tank: Right at the beginning of the stage walljump up the left wall and in the top-corner by the cieling there's a small hidden passage with a Heart Tank.
 * Sub-Tank: When you reach the first weather-control orb that summons rain, there are vertical platforms that go up and down above a bed of spikes. Jump on the first vertical platform, then jump to the wall to the left (the building that holds the weather-control orb) then walljump to the wall on the right, climb that wall until you reach the top, then head right. You'll see an extra life, it's safe to pick this up as long as you jump back up to the platform you came from, jump the gap to the right and proceed moving to the right and you'll find the Sub-Tank.

Part 1: Violen
The only real difference between this fight and the one prior is that now Violen summons blocks that appear in random spots in the room you fight him in. These blocks can either help you or hinder you when Violen unleashes his mace ball attack. As for battle strategy, Bubble Splash is the weapon he is weak to. But due to it's short range, you would probably be better off just hitting him with super-charged X-Buster shots (hit him with the double X-Buster shot for extra damage).

Part 2: Serges
Fighting Serges isn't as difficult as some would make it seem (that is if you know what to do). First, destroy the 4 turrets at the front of his machine. One Silk Shot should take out a single turret, thus making Serges move the machine closer to you. Once all four turrets are down, Serges will be exposed and you can hit him now. Sonic Slicer is the weapon to use on Serges, but it will be hard to land hits with simple shots as the Slicer takes a second to reach full speed and Serges is always moving around. A good way to avoid damage and hit the X-Hunter is to jump down onto the exposed piece of the machine where the turret wall used to be. Standing here will give you a better chance at avoiding Serges' attacks and land more effective hits. While down there, charge up the Sonic Slicer and unleash the blade rain on him. They do much more damage than single shots of the Slicer and if you stand in the right spot, you'll almost always land a hit.

Part 3: Agile
The easiest way to kill agile is to charge up the magnetic mine and jump up and fire it at him, it will move through him slowly doing max damage, dodge his attacks by dash jumping over the holes in the floor.

Part 4: Teleporters
The fouth x hunter stage is the classic megaman stage where you fight all the first bosses over again. You can fight them in any order you want.

Return to Central Computer (Final Battle)
This is the same stage as Magna Centipede's stage (except the music is from the intro stage, if you listen carefully)! So for the walkthrough, refer to the first visit. The stage is the same until you reach where Chop Register was. If you didn't get the Zero Parts, you'll face... ZERO! Zero is HARD. He fires charged and normal Z-Buster shots, slashes with his Z-Saber, does Z-Impact, where he slams his saber into the ground, which causes debris to spray. Worst of all, he blocks every weapon! He can only be hit when he fires his buster or has his back to the screen. You only need to deplete his energy column until he has 1 bar left, then you win. If you collected all the Zero Parts, there will be a black Zero instead, which Zero destroys. Either way, he'll destroy a section of the floor, and he tells X to go after Sigma, while he tries to destroy the Central Computer. Drop into the hole and when you hit the bottom, the fight with Sigma will begin. Sigma will somtimes dash at you, then slash with his claws. He'll also fire electric shots. They home in to where X is located. Luckily, they only need to lock on to X, so scatter the shots. It's best to stay away from Sigma and fire at him with charge shots or with Sonic Slicer that is his weakness. When he's low on health, he'll gain a new attack: Nightshade Electric Spark. This acts exactly like the Electric Spark's charge shot from Mega Man X1. Stay on the top to avoid this. When Sigma's defeated, it's not over yet. Sigma finally reveals his true form: the Sigma Virus. In this form, Sigma is a giant wireframe version of his head. You'll notice that this form of Sigma does not have a energy column, so this is more like a miniboss fight. There is, however, a way to find out how much health he has left: His color. When he's green, Sigma has eather full health or he has lost very little health. Sigma goes from green to light blue to dark blue to orange to red and finally to dark red. Sigma reflects almost all weapons, except for the Strike Chain, the Shoryuken (which you can use if you want to be cheap), and Level 3 or higher X-Buster shots. He'll use Viral Laser, where he fires a laser straight down. He also uses Viral Summon Shot, where he fires blue wireframe orbs that become eather Scrivers, Tiranoses, or Fisherns. When he's red or dark red, he'll use his ultimate attack: Error and Delete. He'll appear on X and drain X's health. Keep dashing when he disapears to avoid this. Sigma takes 56 hits in his virus form. Now watch the ending.