The Ultimate Armor's BIGGEST Weakness! The Degradation Theory | Mega Editorial

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  @ColeFam · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

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• CR

  @Crow_Rising · 3 years ago

  I like the Degradation Theory idea for one specific lore reason: Copy X from the Zero series. Copy X also uses his own unique version of the Ultimate Armor, and the idea of the Ultimate Armor being incomplete and insufficient for prolonged use fits very thematically with Copy X himself as an inferior copy of X who only grows more and more corrupt and tyrannical with time. Copy X is reckless and values power above all, so it&apos;s very fitting that he would use the thing that would give him as much power as possible, even at extreme cost over time.

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• NI

  @niclaswa5408 · 3 years ago

  The true big weakness is that the devs never came up with anything other secret upgrade in any entry afterwards

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• PU

  @Pulmonox · 3 years ago (edited)

  My personal theory is that all the armors, heart-tanks, and sub-tanks eventually naturally integrate themselves with X&apos;s system, providing permanent upgrades to his natural base form with some losses in overall functionality (mostly just granting basic offensive and defensive boosts). &nbsp;My evidence for this was:<br><br>-X&apos;s ability to dash after X2.<br>-The constantly changing nature of the Charge Short (including more pink each successive game until becoming golden between X1-X4)<br><br>The only reason it didn&apos;t FEEL like X was being upgraded was because Weapons and Armor tech was increasing at a phenomenal rate during the Maverick wars. &nbsp;There is also evidence of this in Zero. In X1 Zero states &quot;You may even become as powerful as I am&quot; but even with the upgraded buster, X could still not damage Vile&apos;s Ride Armor whereas Zero took an arm off it with a half-charged shot.<br><br>It is not until X3 where X achieves this. His health is finally equivalent to Zero&apos;s (after collecting the game&apos;s heart tanks) and he can finally damage and destroy even Vile&apos;s upgraded Ride Armor even in his base form without any upgrades at all. After X3, even Zero now has to collect upgrades to maintain pace with weapons tech as he has to collect heart and E-tanks as a playable character from that point on alongside X.<br><br>This DOES come into a bit of a snag after X4 however, where there are fewer changes to X&apos;s base form between games and Armors start to reappear in different games. I chalk this up to Alia having discovered a means to prevent the natural integration of the Armors to preserve more of their functionality for longer, although it&apos;s not a perfect preservation. I can even excuse the Ultimate Armor as being purposefully designed by Dr. Light NOT to integrate itself with X&apos;s system due to it&apos;s experimental properties perhaps as a means to prevent any potential negative effects it might have on X or even simply because Light himself feared what X could become with such a permanent upgrade, but most likely the Nova Strike power source could&apos;ve severely messed with X&apos;s innate power core.<br><br>This actually still fits with your theory here as EVERY armor from game-to-game tends to lose some functionality so it&apos;s possible that all the armors degrade in time to either become a natural part of X or simply expire due to Dr. Light&apos;s hesitation to unleash a potentially uncontrollable disaster upon the world as he feared in the intro scene to the very first game.<br><br>Edit: Some Grammar and Spelling corrections.

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• PR

  @prometheusmodelow8322 · 3 years ago

  To me the dialogue from Light indicates that the blue Ultimate Armor is in fact the most stable and completed Ultimate Armor, he doesn&apos;t say it is incomplete in X5 but he does mention that in X4, in X5 he only warns X to not get lazy because of the armor&apos;s power, the purple tone of the X4 armor is indicative of it&apos;s volatile power and it&apos;s incomplete nature, this is also something that is echoed in the X4 manga where the power of the Ultimate Armor corrupts X and turns him unhinged and violent.

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• PI

  @Pimientoist · 3 years ago

  I like to belive that the armor was getting weaker over time. Or was getting damaged beyond repairs. Just like how Alia barely got the Falcon Armor to work again.

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• JR

  @jruler93 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m pretty sure the changing palette of the Ultimate Armor is supposed to just be stylistic, but the idea that it&apos;s degrading from exhaustive use over the course of three games is an interesting take that I&apos;d never considered before.

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• DI

  @diegogarz9470 · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s a great theory. But it appears that the Ultimate Armor X4 is an incomplete armor. we must remember that Dr. Light said to X that this armor was unstable. &nbsp;So the X5 version is a complete version of this one, the X6 version is kinda interesting cause it appears that it&apos;s black because the armor was damaged in the combat between Zero and X. And of course, Alia repairs it. &nbsp;(And yes you are right it is the same Armor, the Compendium of Rockman X confirms it). &nbsp;By the way, nice video. :yougotthis:

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• KO

  @kolkagaming1234 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I feel like when the ultimate Armor was losing it’s colour over time, the Maverick hunter’s remodelled his armour to look White and Blue to avoid it losing its colour.

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• NA

  @narvaliuscore9094 · 3 years ago

  perhaps X was going into a phase, and that&apos;s why the darker colors XD

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• BE

  @benedict6962 · 3 years ago

  Dr. Light: Don&apos;t use this with a clouded mind.<br><br>Manga X: Let&apos;s use this with a clouded mind.<br><br>General: X, I&apos;m confiscating your armor.

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• PL

  @plain1150 · 2 years ago

  In my opinion I think it&apos;s like a safety mechanism that Dr.Light made just in case someone stole it or if X turn rogue and maybe there is no one who know how to recharge the armor

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