NintendoCapriSun plays Mega Man 4 - Part 5 of 10

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Ring Man

(continued)

Once you beat the second hippo, the rainbow platforms now have a completely different look. As a matter of fact, they don't look like rainbows at all. They'll all disappear from right to left, too, so jump either on the center of it or close to the center as you can, and jump to the other end.

You'll fight another ring monster before taking on Ring Man.

Ring Man throws a Ring Boomerang, then waits for it to return to him before jumping up and throwing another one. When he hits the ground, he runs to the right and starts the attack pattern over, and he'll run to the left after the second time. He'll then alternate between running right and running left. This is yet another easy attack pattern, which adds to the haphazard "level is harder than the boss" pattern that the game seems to have. 

You can destroy him with charged-up Pharaoh Shots, but you can just as easily beat him with the Mega Buster.

Beating Ring Man gives you the Ring Boomerang.

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The slinky robot slowly moves towards you.

The thick snow slows you down tremendously, so jump through it to get through the level faster.

When you make it to the rooftop, you'll be dealing with the Skull Joes from Skull Man's stage as well as the little robots that come out of the pits from Dust Man's stage, and to top it off you'll also be dealing with ice floor physics.

The second vertical climb will require Rush Coil, and you'll have to time your climbs on the ladder near the end so that the crushing robots that roam up and down the ladders near the end don't close on you.

The boss in the first section is some giant moth robot thing. The fireballs fire right to where you are when the fireball is launched, so it has a tracking ability that can easily be exploited. You can stay all the way to the left and fire at the flashing light where the fireballs come from with either the Ring Boomerang or charged Mega Buster shots, but just be careful with those fireballs and jump later than usual when the boss is right next to you.

If you die against this boss, you'll start back at the rooftop section before the second vertical climb complete with all those ladders. That's horseshit.