Mega Man X4/Walkthrough

Game Flow

The main game is played in the following order:

• Start Sky Lagoon as the intro stage.
• Return to base and get to choose Maverick stages in any order.
• After completing any four stages, the player is forced to visit Memorial Hall.
• After defeating all Maverick bosses, complete Space Port, and Final Weapon (twice in different parts).

Notes

A couple of notes to note about:

• Like all Mega Man X games, you can re-visit the 8 standard levels at almost any point.
• Certain Hearts, Tanks, and Upgrades may require re-visits to obtain them.
• The Volcano is the only location where you can bring the Ride Armor to fight the boss.
• The Rising Fire and Ryuenijin are the only weapon required to complete the game.

Here is the rundown on item locations before you select your levels of completion:

Location Maverick	Heart Location	Items	Weakness	Gained Weapon
Jungle Web Spider	Area 2 Need Rising Fire or Ryuenjin	Leg Upgrade	Twin Slasher Shippuuga	Lightning Web Raijingeki
Cyber Space Cyber Peacock	Area 1 Get an S on 1st race Soul Body or Kuuenzan recommended	E-Tank Reserve (Area 1) Get an S on 2nd race Head Upgrade (Area 1) Get an S on 3rd race	Soul Body Ryuenjin	Aiming Laser Rakuhouha
Air Force Storm Owl	Area 1 Use the Ride Armor to quickly get it	Arms Upgrades (Area 2) need Lightning Web	Aiming Laser Rakuhouha	Double Cyclone Tenkuuha
Volcano Magma Dragoon	Area 2	Armor Upgrade (Area 2) Need Head Upgrade & Twin Slasher	Double Cyclone Raijingeki	Rising Fire Ryuenjin
Marine Base Jet Stingray	Area 1	Sub-Tank (Area 2)	Frost Tower Hyouretsuzan	Ground Hunter Hienkyaku
Bio Lab Split Mushroom	Area 2 use falling platforms to quickly get it above	None	Lightning Web Raijingeki	Soul Body Kuuenzan
Military Train Slash Beast	Area 2 Use Ride Armor to break blocks	None	Ground Hunter Raijingeki	Twin Slashers Shippuuga
Snow Base Frost Walrus	Area 1 Need Rising Fire or Ryuenjin	EX-Tank need Lightning Web W-tank Break the ice	Rising Fire Ryuenjin	Frost Tower Hyouretsuzan

Suggested order

Before checking below, please check above on the chart.

As X

The levels can be chosen in order and there are a lot of ways to accomplish the completion at the easiest ways possible. keep in mind the following:

• The Jungle has the Leg Upgrade that brings advantage to mobility.
• Be cautious of defeating the 4th Maverick of your choice. After you complete 4 of the 8 stages, not only will you be unable to select levels, but you are forced into a boss fight with no walls and must defeat it to proceed. Its weakness is Frost Tower.

Maverick	Notes
Magma Dragoon	Get the heart. Use the Ride Armor to defeat boss.
Web Spider	Get the Leg upgrade. Use Rising Fire to get heart. Carefully fight this boss.
Split Mushroom	Get the heart quickly. Use Lightning Web on boss.
Frost Walrus	Get the heart (Use Rising Fire). Get the EX-Tank (Use Lightning Web). Use Rising Fire on boss.
INTERMISSION	Use Frost Tower on boss. Use the leg upgrade to dodge its attacks.
Cyber Peacock	Get an S Rank on the levels, using Soul Body. You should get the Heart, Energy Upgrade, and Head Upgrade if successful. Use Soul Body on the boss.
Storm Owl	Get the heart quickly with the Ride Armor. Get the Arms Upgrades (use Lightning Web). Use Aiming Laser on the boss.
Jet Stingray	Get the heart and Sub-Tank on higher areas of the levels. Use Frost Tower on the boss.
Slash Beast	Get the heart using Ride Armor. Use Ground Hunter on the boss.
RE-VISITS	Go back to Volcano to get the Armor upgrade (use a charged Twin Slasher). Revisit any other missing items. Refill your tanks, lives, and Nova Strike gauges at Snow Base.

As Zero

Two of Zero's "weapons" actually are skills that deal no damage, therefore the Maverick order has to be different.

The regular Z-saber deals slightly more damage to Web Spider than to most other Mavericks, while Slash Beast is the hardest boss, even with all other powerups.

This order may be challenging since you need to defeat Magma Dragoon first, which is hard even with Ride Armor. However, it also ensures that the stages do not need to be re-visited (or up to once, in case two of the hearts are too hard to get without Kuuenbu).

In case someone is trying a "No miss" run, starting with Marine Base (Jet Stingray) is also good, since it is a bike stage and easier to crush into walls.

Maverick	Weakness	Items	Re-visit
Magma Dragoon	Raijingeki	(Heart)	-
Web Spider	Shippuga	Heart (need Ryuenjin)	-
Split Mushroom	Raijingeki	(Heart)	-
Cyber Peacock	Ryuenjin	Heart, Sub-Tank (easier with Kuuenbu)	-
Storm Owl	Rakuhouha	Heart	-
Frost Walrus	Ryuenjin	Heart (need Ryuenjin), W-tank, EX-Tank (need Kuuenbu)	-
Jet Stingray	Hyouretsuzan	Heart, Sub-Tank	-
Slash Beast	(Raijingeki)	Heart	-